# How can we store large scale data with 32GB RAM / 30TB disk on machine **URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-we-store-large-scale-data-with-32gb-ram-30tb-disk-on-machine/84501 **Category:** Elasticsearch **Created:** [May 4, 2017, 8:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-we-store-large-scale-data-with-32gb-ram-30tb-disk-on-machine/84501 "2017-05-04T08:05:45Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 3
### Author: ![hellokitty](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/hellokitty/32/29959_2.png) [@hellokitty](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hellokitty) #### Post date: [May 4, 2017, 8:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-we-store-large-scale-data-with-32gb-ram-30tb-disk-on-machine/84501/3 "2017-05-04T08:34:14Z")
Yeah, I had try some cases to solve my problem, include set each shards to the tens of GB in size. I found that: in my case, one shard with 70GB in size, the shard may cost about 470 MB term\_memory. So if I used all of 32GB RAM, means that I can store about 32GB/470MB=68 shards. 68 shards can only store 70GB\*68=4.7TB 😢 --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-we-store-large-scale-data-with-32gb-ram-30tb-disk-on-machine/84501)._