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Thresholds and Limits
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This page reflects limits and thresholds that apply to MinIO.

Refer to the :ref:`hardware <minio-hardware-checklist>` and :ref:`software <minio-software-checklists>` for related recommendations and requirements.

S3 API Limits
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   * - Item
     - Specification 

   * - Maximum object size
     - 50 TiB

   * - Minimum object size
     - 0 B

   * - Maximum object size per PUT operation
     - | 5 TiB for non-multipart upload
       | 50 TiB for multipart upload

   * - Maximum number of parts per upload
     - 10,000

   * - Part size range
     - 5 MiB to 5 GiB. Last part can be 0 B to 5 GiB

   * - Maximum number of parts returned per list parts request
     - 10,000

   * - Maximum number of objects returned per list objects request
     - 1,000

   * - Maximum number of multipart uploads returned per list multipart uploads request
     - 1,000

   * - Maximum length for bucket names
     - 63

   * - Maximum length for object names
     - 1024

   * - Maximum length for each ``/`` separated object name segment
     - 255

   * - Maximum number of object versions for a unique object
     - 10000 (Configurable)

Erasure Code Limits
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   * - Item
     - Specification 

   * - Maximum number of servers per cluster
     - no limit

   * - Minimum number of servers
     - 1

   * - Minimum number of drives per server when server count is 1
     - 1 (for |SNSD| deployments, which do not provide additional reliability or availability)

   * - Minimum number of drives per server when server count is 2 or more
     - 1

   * - Maximum number of drives per server
     - no limit

   * - Read quorum
     - :math:`N/2`

   * - Write quorum
     - :math:`(N/2)+1`

Object Name Limitations
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Filesystem and Operating System Restrictions
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Object Names in MinIO are restricted primarily by the local operating system and filesystem.
Windows and some other operating systems restrict file systems with certain special characters, such as ``^``, ``*``, ``|``, ``\``, ``/``, ``&``, ``"``, or ``;``.

This list is not exhaustive and may not apply to your operating system and filesystem combination.

Consult your operating system vendor or filesystem documentation for a comprehensive list for your situation.

MinIO recommends using LInux operating system with an XFS based filesystem for production workloads.

Conflicting Objects
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Applications must assign non-conflicting, unique keys for all objects.
This includes avoiding creating objects where the name can collide with that of a parent or sibling object.
MinIO returns an empty set for LIST operations at the location of the collision.

For example, the following operations create a namespace conflicts

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   PUT data/invoices/2024/january/vendors.csv
   PUT data/invoices/2024/january <- collides with existing object prefix

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   PUT data/invoices/2024/january
   PUT data/invoices/2024/january/vendors.csv <- collides with existing object

While you can perform GET or HEAD operations against these objects, the name collision causes LIST operations to return an empty result set at the ``/invoices/2024/january`` path.