# No of shards for 500mb index?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-of-shards-for-500mb-index/184963>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 10, 2019, 10:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-of-shards-for-500mb-index/184963 "2019-06-10T10:02:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Gosforth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f08c70/32.png) [@Gosforth](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Gosforth)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2019, 10:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-of-shards-for-500mb-index/184963/1 "2019-06-10T10:02:31Z")

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Default 5 shards and 1 replica is OK or I should decrease no of shards for such indices?  
I have about 50 such indices on one host (1 cluster).  
Regards

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2019, 10:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-of-shards-for-500mb-index/184963/2 "2019-06-10T10:11:27Z")

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Use 1, with 1 replica.

The default in 7.X is 1, you should upgrade 🙂

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**Author:** ![Gosforth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f08c70/32.png) [@Gosforth](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Gosforth)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2019, 11:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-of-shards-for-500mb-index/184963/3 "2019-06-10T11:17:56Z")

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Thank you very much for this suggestion!

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2019, 11:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-of-shards-for-500mb-index/184963/4 "2019-07-08T11:17:56Z")

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Closed on July 8, 2019, 11:17am UTC

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