# ES - Windows Multi Cluster Advice **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [August 24, 2020, 11:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-windows-multi-cluster-advice/246106 "2020-08-24T11:23:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![defalt](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/defalt/32/71379_2.png) [@defalt](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/defalt)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 7:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-windows-multi-cluster-advice/246106/4 "2020-08-25T07:26:24Z")
> [@iccMe](#): > > would then use and see the same data This is not what elasticsearch is intended for and I think its not possible. > [@iccMe](#): > > attach an extra 1TB storage drive to save and replicate the data for each node Yes. Why do you have a problem with this approach? The good thing with elasticsearch is the data redundancy, if one of your harddrives dies you will have 2 other drives that still hold all the indices. > [@iccMe](#): > > any 'gotcha's' Elasticsearch works fine on windows and I had no problems with it. The only tricky thing that I couldnt get to work was starting it as a service. I tried all tutorials that I could fine but the cluster wouldn't connect. Now I use The NSSM (Non sucking serice manager) and it works perfectly. > [@iccMe](#): > > Linux in production if it works much better with Elasticsearch I asked the same question some time ago. They both work very well: > [@Are there any benefits of running elasticsearch in linux and not windows?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/are-there-any-benefits-of-running-elasticsearch-in-linux-and-not-windows/244675): > > I was wondering if there are any significant performance differences between Linux, Windows and Docker. Thanks for your answers. Cheers, _defalt_ --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-windows-multi-cluster-advice/246106)._