# How does the elasticsearch expand capacity and shrink capacity？

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-does-the-elasticsearch-expand-capacity-and-shrink-capacity/99396>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 5, 2017, 9:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-does-the-elasticsearch-expand-capacity-and-shrink-capacity/99396 "2017-09-05T09:39:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2017, 10:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-does-the-elasticsearch-expand-capacity-and-shrink-capacity/99396/10 "2017-09-05T10:46:33Z")

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It looks like you corrected it to TB. What is the use case? What type of data do you have? The reason I am asking this is that it impacts how you best manage your data.

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