# Elastic causes very high disk usage with minimal data

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-causes-very-high-disk-usage-with-minimal-data/310384>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 22, 2022, 10:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-causes-very-high-disk-usage-with-minimal-data/310384 "2022-07-22T10:20:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![DavidTurner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/davidturner/32/22453_2.png) [@DavidTurner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DavidTurner)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2022, 12:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-causes-very-high-disk-usage-with-minimal-data/310384/2 "2022-07-22T12:13:56Z")

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This coincides with another user's post from a couple of weeks back:

> [@Elastic cluster destroyes SSD's?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-cluster-destroyes-ssds/308985):
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> I'm using Elastic 7.17.3 in a 3 Node Cluster on Windows - we have Redis as a ingest and cache database and running logstash to transfer daten from redis to the cluster - so far so good. Now i'm encoutering issues like destroyed SSD drives every now and then ... we've had the cluster no running for almost 2 years, then one SSD got corrupted and was done - we replaced it, another one went down 2 month later ... and then the climax - two nodes went down within a day ... so far so not soo good ... …

No idea what's going on here, sorry, Elasticsearch isn't directly interacting with the `$LogFile` or `$Mft` files so it's unclear why they're seeing so much churn. I've asked some of our Windows experts to take a look.

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