## Erasure code sizing guide

### Toy Setups

Capacity constrained environments, MinIO will work but not recommended for production.

| servers | drives (per node) | stripe_size | parity chosen (default) | tolerance for reads (servers) | tolerance for writes (servers) |
|--------:|------------------:|------------:|------------------------:|------------------------------:|-------------------------------:|
|       1 |                 1 |           1 |                       0 |                             0 |                              0 |
|       1 |                 4 |           4 |                       2 |                             0 |                              0 |
|       4 |                 1 |           4 |                       2 |                             2 |                              3 |
|       5 |                 1 |           5 |                       2 |                             2 |                              2 |
|       6 |                 1 |           6 |                       3 |                             3 |                              4 |
|       7 |                 1 |           7 |                       3 |                             3 |                              3 |

### Minimum System Configuration for Production

| servers | drives (per node) | stripe_size | parity chosen (default) | tolerance for reads (servers) | tolerance for writes (servers) |
|--------:|------------------:|------------:|------------------------:|------------------------------:|-------------------------------:|
|       4 |                 2 |           8 |                       4 |                             2 |                              1 |
|       5 |                 2 |          10 |                       4 |                             2 |                              2 |
|       6 |                 2 |          12 |                       4 |                             2 |                              2 |
|       7 |                 2 |          14 |                       4 |                             2 |                              2 |
|       8 |                 1 |           8 |                       4 |                             4 |                              3 |
|       8 |                 2 |          16 |                       4 |                             2 |                              2 |
|       9 |                 2 |           9 |                       4 |                             4 |                              4 |
|      10 |                 2 |          10 |                       4 |                             4 |                              4 |
|      11 |                 2 |          11 |                       4 |                             4 |                              4 |
|      12 |                 2 |          12 |                       4 |                             4 |                              4 |
|      13 |                 2 |          13 |                       4 |                             4 |                              4 |
|      14 |                 2 |          14 |                       4 |                             4 |                              4 |
|      15 |                 2 |          15 |                       4 |                             4 |                              4 |
|      16 |                 2 |          16 |                       4 |                             4 |                              4 |