# Shards and replicas in Elasticsearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shards-and-replicas-in-elasticsearch/101115>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 20, 2017, 7:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shards-and-replicas-in-elasticsearch/101115 "2017-09-20T07:12:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![johnybashqa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/35a633/32.png) [@johnybashqa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/johnybashqa)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2017, 7:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shards-and-replicas-in-elasticsearch/101115/1 "2017-09-20T07:12:05Z")

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I am endeavoring to comprehend what shard and copy is in [Elasticsearch](https://tekslate.com/elasticsearch-training), however I don't figure out how to comprehend it. In the event that I download Elasticsearch and run the content, at that point from what I know I have begun a bunch with a solitary hub. Presently this hub (my PC) have 5 shards (?) and a few imitations (?).

What are they, do I have 5 copies of the record? In the event that so why? I could require some clarification

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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:** [September 20, 2017, 7:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shards-and-replicas-in-elasticsearch/101115/2 "2017-09-20T07:21:26Z")

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> [@johnybashqa](#):
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> What are they, do I have 5 copies of the record

You have an index that is broken into 5 parts. Those 5 parts will only live on your laptop.  
If you had another laptop and then joined that one to the cluster on your existing laptop, then those shards would be spread around.

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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:** [October 18, 2017, 7:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shards-and-replicas-in-elasticsearch/101115/3 "2017-10-18T07:33:55Z")

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