# Limit with number of path.data? **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [March 16, 2017, 7:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limit-with-number-of-path-data/78802 "2017-03-16T07:26:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![YuWatanabe](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/yuwatanabe/32/13259_2.png) [@YuWatanabe](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/YuWatanabe)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2017, 7:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limit-with-number-of-path-data/78802/1 "2017-03-16T07:26:33Z")
Hello I have 24 NL-SAS disk drives with 4TB per disk. This will sum up to _96 TB_ but after doing some studying with cluster sizing, I understood allocating 96 TB per data path will not be a good idea. So, my choices will be, 1. Split the RAID groups (RAID 0 or RAID 1+0) into smaller size between 4 TB - 6TB. 2. One big RAID 1+0 but splitting the partition using lvm. Each volume size will be 4 TB - 6 TB. In either case , I will need to create multiple [data path](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.2/modules-node.html#data-path) but **would there be any limit with the number of paths**? Any advice is appreciated! ---
**Author:** ![YuWatanabe](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/yuwatanabe/32/13259_2.png) [@YuWatanabe](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/YuWatanabe)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2017, 11:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limit-with-number-of-path-data/78802/2 "2017-03-21T23:03:55Z")
I appreciate if I could get some advice with this topic. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 11:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limit-with-number-of-path-data/78802/3 "2017-04-18T23:03:56Z")
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