From bf62ba57cf897b8c10d02f65be3a9ab8831a8172 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Harshavardhana Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 11:35:53 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] docs: Update minimum drives in erasure docs. --- docs/erasure/README.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/erasure/README.md b/docs/erasure/README.md index ad7f54808..fe915d32b 100644 --- a/docs/erasure/README.md +++ b/docs/erasure/README.md @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Minio's erasure coded backend uses high speed [BLAKE2](https://blog.minio.io/acc Minio server runs on a variety of hardware, operating systems and virtual/container environments. -Minio erasure code backend is limited by design to a minimum of 6 drives and a maximum of 16 drives. The hard limit of 16 drives comes from operational experience. Failure domain becomes too large beyond 16 drives. If you need to scale beyond 16 drives, you may run multiple instances of Minio server on different ports. +Minio erasure code backend is limited by design to a minimum of 4 drives and a maximum of 16 drives. The hard limit of 16 drives comes from operational experience. Failure domain becomes too large beyond 16 drives. If you need to scale beyond 16 drives, you may run multiple instances of Minio server on different ports. #### Reference Physical Hardware: