diff --git a/cmd/auth-rpc-client.go b/cmd/auth-rpc-client.go
index 0df2f5286..74c7815b6 100644
--- a/cmd/auth-rpc-client.go
+++ b/cmd/auth-rpc-client.go
@@ -35,6 +35,19 @@ type authConfig struct {
 	secureConn       bool   // Make TLS connection to RPC server or not.
 	serviceName      string // Service name of auth server.
 	disableReconnect bool   // Disable reconnect on failure or not.
+
+	/// Retry configurable values.
+
+	// Each retry unit multiplicative, measured in time.Duration.
+	// This is the basic unit used for calculating backoffs.
+	retryUnit time.Duration
+	// Maximum retry duration i.e A caller would wait no more than this
+	// duration to continue their loop.
+	retryCap time.Duration
+
+	// Maximum retries an call authRPC client would do for a failed
+	// RPC call.
+	retryAttemptThreshold int
 }
 
 // AuthRPCClient is a authenticated RPC client which does authentication before doing Call().
@@ -47,6 +60,18 @@ type AuthRPCClient struct {
 
 // newAuthRPCClient - returns a JWT based authenticated (go) rpc client, which does automatic reconnect.
 func newAuthRPCClient(config authConfig) *AuthRPCClient {
+	// Check if retry params are set properly if not default them.
+	emptyDuration := time.Duration(int64(0))
+	if config.retryUnit == emptyDuration {
+		config.retryUnit = defaultRetryUnit
+	}
+	if config.retryCap == emptyDuration {
+		config.retryCap = defaultRetryCap
+	}
+	if config.retryAttemptThreshold == 0 {
+		config.retryAttemptThreshold = globalAuthRPCRetryThreshold
+	}
+
 	return &AuthRPCClient{
 		rpcClient: newRPCClient(config.serverAddr, config.serviceEndpoint, config.secureConn),
 		config:    config,
@@ -105,9 +130,13 @@ func (authClient *AuthRPCClient) Call(serviceMethod string, args interface {
 	SetAuthToken(authToken string)
 	SetRequestTime(requestTime time.Time)
 }, reply interface{}) (err error) {
+
+	// Done channel is used to close any lingering retry routine, as soon
+	// as this function returns.
 	doneCh := make(chan struct{})
 	defer close(doneCh)
-	for i := range newRetryTimer(time.Second, 30*time.Second, MaxJitter, doneCh) {
+
+	for i := range newRetryTimer(authClient.config.retryUnit, authClient.config.retryCap, doneCh) {
 		if err = authClient.call(serviceMethod, args, reply); err == rpc.ErrShutdown {
 			// As connection at server side is closed, close the rpc client.
 			authClient.Close()
@@ -115,7 +144,7 @@ func (authClient *AuthRPCClient) Call(serviceMethod string, args interface {
 			// Retry if reconnect is not disabled.
 			if !authClient.config.disableReconnect {
 				// Retry until threshold reaches.
-				if i < globalAuthRPCRetryThreshold {
+				if i < authClient.config.retryAttemptThreshold {
 					continue
 				}
 			}
diff --git a/cmd/prepare-storage.go b/cmd/prepare-storage.go
index 36bb20a1e..839474484 100644
--- a/cmd/prepare-storage.go
+++ b/cmd/prepare-storage.go
@@ -198,10 +198,11 @@ func retryFormattingXLDisks(firstDisk bool, endpoints []*url.URL, storageDisks [
 		return errInvalidArgument
 	}
 
-	// Create a done channel to control 'ListObjects' go routine.
-	doneCh := make(chan struct{}, 1)
+	// Done channel is used to close any lingering retry routine, as soon
+	// as this function returns.
+	doneCh := make(chan struct{})
 
-	// Indicate to our routine to exit cleanly upon return.
+	// Indicate to our retry routine to exit cleanly, upon this function return.
 	defer close(doneCh)
 
 	// prepare getElapsedTime() to calculate elapsed time since we started trying formatting disks.
@@ -212,7 +213,7 @@ func retryFormattingXLDisks(firstDisk bool, endpoints []*url.URL, storageDisks [
 	}
 
 	// Wait on the jitter retry loop.
-	retryTimerCh := newRetryTimer(time.Second, time.Second*30, MaxJitter, doneCh)
+	retryTimerCh := newRetryTimerSimple(doneCh)
 	for {
 		select {
 		case retryCount := <-retryTimerCh:
diff --git a/cmd/retry-storage.go b/cmd/retry-storage.go
index 23a7526a3..f30170ed8 100644
--- a/cmd/retry-storage.go
+++ b/cmd/retry-storage.go
@@ -220,9 +220,12 @@ func (f retryStorage) reInit() (err error) {
 	// Close the underlying connection.
 	f.remoteStorage.Close() // Error here is purposefully ignored.
 
+	// Done channel is used to close any lingering retry routine, as soon
+	// as this function returns.
 	doneCh := make(chan struct{})
 	defer close(doneCh)
-	for i := range newRetryTimer(f.retryUnit, f.retryCap, MaxJitter, doneCh) {
+
+	for i := range newRetryTimer(f.retryUnit, f.retryCap, doneCh) {
 		// Initialize and make a new login attempt.
 		err = f.remoteStorage.Init()
 		if err != nil {
diff --git a/cmd/retry.go b/cmd/retry.go
index 79d0b5f4d..5e42182c6 100644
--- a/cmd/retry.go
+++ b/cmd/retry.go
@@ -48,7 +48,8 @@ func (r *lockedRandSource) Seed(seed int64) {
 // MaxJitter will randomize over the full exponential backoff time
 const MaxJitter = 1.0
 
-// NoJitter disables the use of jitter for randomizing the exponential backoff time
+// NoJitter disables the use of jitter for randomizing the
+// exponential backoff time
 const NoJitter = 0.0
 
 // Global random source for fetching random values.
@@ -56,9 +57,11 @@ var globalRandomSource = rand.New(&lockedRandSource{
 	src: rand.NewSource(time.Now().UTC().UnixNano()),
 })
 
-// newRetryTimer creates a timer with exponentially increasing delays
-// until the maximum retry attempts are reached.
-func newRetryTimer(unit time.Duration, cap time.Duration, jitter float64, doneCh chan struct{}) <-chan int {
+// newRetryTimerJitter creates a timer with exponentially increasing delays
+// until the maximum retry attempts are reached. - this function is a fully
+// configurable version, meant for only advanced use cases. For the most part
+// one should use newRetryTimerSimple and newRetryTimer.
+func newRetryTimerWithJitter(unit time.Duration, cap time.Duration, jitter float64, doneCh chan struct{}) <-chan int {
 	attemptCh := make(chan int)
 
 	// normalize jitter to the range [0, 1.0]
@@ -113,5 +116,27 @@ func newRetryTimer(unit time.Duration, cap time.Duration, jitter float64, doneCh
 
 		}
 	}()
+
+	// Start reading..
 	return attemptCh
 }
+
+// Default retry constants.
+var (
+	defaultRetryUnit = time.Second      // 1 second.
+	defaultRetryCap  = 30 * time.Second // 30 seconds.
+)
+
+// newRetryTimer creates a timer with exponentially increasing delays
+// until the maximum retry attempts are reached. - this function provides
+// resulting retry values to be of maximum jitter.
+func newRetryTimer(unit time.Duration, cap time.Duration, doneCh chan struct{}) <-chan int {
+	return newRetryTimerWithJitter(unit, cap, MaxJitter, doneCh)
+}
+
+// newRetryTimerSimple creates a timer with exponentially increasing delays
+// until the maximum retry attempts are reached. - this function is a
+// simpler version with all default values.
+func newRetryTimerSimple(doneCh chan struct{}) <-chan int {
+	return newRetryTimerWithJitter(defaultRetryUnit, defaultRetryCap, MaxJitter, doneCh)
+}
diff --git a/cmd/retry_test.go b/cmd/retry_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0b9614001
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cmd/retry_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+/*
+ * Minio Cloud Storage, (C) 2016 Minio, Inc.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package cmd
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+)
+
+// Tests for retry timer.
+func TestRetryTimerSimple(t *testing.T) {
+	doneCh := make(chan struct{})
+	attemptCh := newRetryTimerSimple(doneCh)
+	i := <-attemptCh
+	if i != 0 {
+		close(doneCh)
+		t.Fatalf("Invalid attempt counter returned should be 0, found %d instead", i)
+	}
+	i = <-attemptCh
+	if i <= 0 {
+		close(doneCh)
+		t.Fatalf("Invalid attempt counter returned should be greater than 0, found %d instead", i)
+	}
+	close(doneCh)
+	_, ok := <-attemptCh
+	if ok {
+		t.Fatal("Attempt counter should be closed")
+	}
+}
+
+// Test retry time with no jitter.
+func TestRetryTimerWithNoJitter(t *testing.T) {
+	doneCh := make(chan struct{})
+	// No jitter
+	attemptCh := newRetryTimerWithJitter(time.Millisecond, 5*time.Millisecond, NoJitter, doneCh)
+	i := <-attemptCh
+	if i != 0 {
+		close(doneCh)
+		t.Fatalf("Invalid attempt counter returned should be 0, found %d instead", i)
+	}
+	// Loop through the maximum possible attempt.
+	for i = range attemptCh {
+		if i == 30 {
+			close(doneCh)
+		}
+	}
+	_, ok := <-attemptCh
+	if ok {
+		t.Fatal("Attempt counter should be closed")
+	}
+}
+
+// Test retry time with Jitter greater than MaxJitter.
+func TestRetryTimerWithJitter(t *testing.T) {
+	doneCh := make(chan struct{})
+	// Jitter will be set back to 1.0
+	attemptCh := newRetryTimerWithJitter(defaultRetryUnit, defaultRetryCap, 2.0, doneCh)
+	i := <-attemptCh
+	if i != 0 {
+		close(doneCh)
+		t.Fatalf("Invalid attempt counter returned should be 0, found %d instead", i)
+	}
+	close(doneCh)
+	_, ok := <-attemptCh
+	if ok {
+		t.Fatal("Attempt counter should be closed")
+	}
+}