If one or more drives are offline at the start of a PutObject or NewMultipartUpload operation the object will have additional data protection bits added automatically to provide additional safety for these objects.

### High availability

A stand-alone MinIO server would go down if the server hosting the drives goes offline. In contrast, a distributed MinIO setup with _m_ servers and _n_ drives will have your data safe as long as _m/2_ servers or _m*n_/2 or more drives are online.

two parity drives, 100 MiB file takes only approximately 114 MiB.

Below is a list of data/parity drives and corresponding _approximate_ storage space usage on a 16 drive MinIO deployment. The field _storage
usage ratio_ is simply the drive space used by the file after erasure-encoding, divided by actual file size.

| Total Drives (N) | Data Drives (D) | Parity Drives (P) | Storage Usage Ratio |

drives.  Therefore, the number of drives you present must be a multiple of one of these numbers.  Each object is written to a single erasure-coding set.

Minio uses the largest possible EC set size which divides into the number of drives given. For example, *18 drives* are configured as *2 sets of 9 drives*, and *24 drives* are configured as *2 sets of 12 drives*.  This is true for scenarios when running MinIO as a standalone erasure coded deployment. In [distributed setup however node (affinity)...

				Name:    v.Name,
				Deleted: v.Created,
			})
		}
	}

	return buckets, nil
}

func cloneDrives(drives map[string]StorageAPI) []StorageAPI {
	copyDrives := make([]StorageAPI, 0, len(drives))
	for _, drive := range drives {
		copyDrives = append(copyDrives, drive)
	}
	return copyDrives
}

func getBucketInfoLocal(ctx context.Context, bucket string, opts BucketOptions) (BucketInfo, error) {

			// Bucket or prefix/directory not found
			hr.Before.Drives[i] = madmin.HealDriveInfo{Endpoint: drive, State: madmin.DriveStateMissing}
			hr.After.Drives[i] = madmin.HealDriveInfo{Endpoint: drive, State: madmin.DriveStateMissing}
		default:
			hr.Before.Drives[i] = madmin.HealDriveInfo{Endpoint: drive, State: madmin.DriveStateCorrupt}
			hr.After.Drives[i] = madmin.HealDriveInfo{Endpoint: drive, State: madmin.DriveStateCorrupt}
		}
	}

- We limited the number of drives to 16 for erasure set because, erasure code shards more than 16 can become chatty and do not have any performance advantages. Additionally since 16 drive erasure set gives you tolerance of 8 drives per object by default which is plenty in any practical scenario.

		"Count of offline drives in the cluster")
	healthDrivesOnlineCountMD = NewGaugeMD(healthDrivesOnlineCount,
		"Count of online drives in the cluster")
	healthDrivesCountMD = NewGaugeMD(healthDrivesCount,
		"Count of all drives in the cluster")
)

// loadClusterHealthDriveMetrics - `MetricsLoaderFn` for cluster storage drive metrics
// such as online, offline and total drives.

}

func (m *MetricValues) setDriveBasicMetrics(drive madmin.Disk, labels []string) {
	m.Set(driveUsedBytes, float64(drive.UsedSpace), labels...)
	m.Set(driveFreeBytes, float64(drive.AvailableSpace), labels...)
	m.Set(driveTotalBytes, float64(drive.TotalSpace), labels...)
	m.Set(driveUsedInodes, float64(drive.UsedInodes), labels...)
	m.Set(driveFreeInodes, float64(drive.FreeInodes), labels...)

### 1.2 Host Multiple Tenants on Multiple Drives (Erasure Code)

Use the following commands to host 3 tenants on multiple drives:

```sh
minio server --address :9001 /disk{1...4}/data/tenant1
minio server --address :9002 /disk{1...4}/data/tenant2
minio server --address :9003 /disk{1...4}/data/tenant3
```

If one or more drives are offline at the start of a PutObject or NewMultipartUpload operation the object will have additional data
protection bits added automatically to provide the regular safety for these objects up to 50% of the number of drives.
This will allow normal write operations to take place on systems that exceed the write tolerance.