Minio in distributed mode lets you pool multiple drives (even on different machines) into a single object storage server. As drives are distributed across several nodes, distributed Minio can withstand multiple node failures and yet ensure full data protection.
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### High availability
A stand-alone Minio server would go down if the server hosting the disks goes offline. In contrast, a distributed Minio setup with _n_ disks will have your data safe as long as _n/2_ or more disks are online. You'll need a minimum of _(n/2 + 1)_([Quorum](https://github.com/minio/dsync#lock-process)) disks to create new objects though.
A stand-alone Minio server would go down if the server hosting the disks goes offline. In contrast, a distributed Minio setup with _n_ disks will have your data safe as long as _n/2_ or more disks are online. You'll need a minimum of _(n/2 + 1)_[Quorum](https://github.com/minio/dsync#lock-process) disks to create new objects though.
For example, a 8 nodes distributed Minio setup, with 1 disk per node would stay put, even if upto 4 nodes are offline. But, you'll need atleast 5 nodes online to create new objects.
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Example 1: Start distributed Minio instance with 1 drive each on 8 nodes, by running this command on all the 8 nodes.
```
$ export MINIO_ACCESS_KEY=<ACCESS_KEY>
$ export MINIO_SECRET_KEY=<SECRET_KEY>
$ minio server http://192.168.1.11/export1 http://192.168.1.12/export2
![Distributed Minio, 8 nodes with 1 disk each](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/minio/minio/master/docs/screenshots/Architecture-diagram_distributed_8.png)