# Recommanded shards size includes replicas or not?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recommanded-shards-size-includes-replicas-or-not/285203
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [September 27, 2021, 8:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recommanded-shards-size-includes-replicas-or-not/285203 "2021-09-27T08:20:43Z")
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### Author:  [@Travis](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Travis)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2021, 8:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recommanded-shards-size-includes-replicas-or-not/285203/1 "2021-09-27T08:20:43Z")
Hello,
Documentation says : _Aim for shard sizes between 10GB and 50GB_ but does not specifiy if it concerns only primary or primary AND replicas
I mean, I have an index of 200GB and wants 1 replica. So total index size will be 400GB.
Formula will be 400GB/50 or 200GB/50 ?
In the first case, I would set 4 primary shards and 1 replica (8 shards per inex), and in the second case I would set 2 primaries and 1 replica (4 shards per index)
Thanks !
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### Author:  [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2021, 8:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recommanded-shards-size-includes-replicas-or-not/285203/2 "2021-09-27T08:22:43Z")
It is the size of each individual shard so you would base this on primary shard size.
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### Author:  [@Travis](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Travis)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2021, 9:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recommanded-shards-size-includes-replicas-or-not/285203/3 "2021-09-27T09:03:19Z")
Perfect. Thanks @Christian_Dahlqvist
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2021, 9:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recommanded-shards-size-includes-replicas-or-not/285203/4 "2021-10-25T09:03:53Z")
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