# Elastic cluster destroyes SSD's? **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [July 6, 2022, 7:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-cluster-destroyes-ssds/308985 "2022-07-06T07:07:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 13
**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, 12:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-cluster-destroyes-ssds/308985/13 "2022-07-22T12:11:49Z")
Another user reports the same kind of thing here: > [@Elastic causes very high disk usage with minimal data](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-causes-very-high-disk-usage-with-minimal-data/310384): > > Hello, as my other post explained our 3 Node cluster fried 2 SSDs in 4 hours. We are currently investigating what really happened. Our System: 3 Nodes, Elastic 7.17.3, Kibana 7.17.3, Every node has a 2TB SSD and 32GB of Ram, Node 1 Receives all the Data and moves it to the rest. The Drives are ONLY used by Elastic, nothing else is stored on them. Elastic has 16GB of ram for itself, no other tasks are running on the machines. The machines are physical, not virtual. We now have the cluster bac… No idea what's going on here tho, Elasticsearch isn't doing anything to directly cause this level of write traffic. --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-cluster-destroyes-ssds/308985)._