# Simple persistence question **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [July 23, 2013, 1:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/simple-persistence-question/12900 "2013-07-23T13:18:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Henrik\_Lynggaard\_Han](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4491bb/32.png) [@Henrik\_Lynggaard\_Han](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Henrik_Lynggaard_Han)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2013, 1:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/simple-persistence-question/12900/1 "2013-07-23T13:18:18Z")
Hi I feel this should be a newbie question, but so far my google skills has eluded me. Assume I have a simple setup with two nodes, standard 5 shards and 1 replica setup, and standard local disk persistence. When I add data to an index is it then persisted to disk only on the primary node, or also on each replica? In other words if each node has 250Gb of disk storage, do I have room for 250Gb documents or 500Gb documents? Best regards Henrik -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/groups/opt\_out](https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out). ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2013, 2:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/simple-persistence-question/12900/2 "2013-07-23T14:57:00Z")
Only for 250 Gb docs. As each doc is replicated once. -- David 😉 Twitter : @dadoonet / @elasticsearchfr / @scrutmydocs Le 23 juil. 2013 à 15:18, Henrik Lynggaard Hansen [henrik@hlyh.dk](mailto:henrik@hlyh.dk) a écrit : Hi I feel this should be a newbie question, but so far my google skills has eluded me. Assume I have a simple setup with two nodes, standard 5 shards and 1 replica setup, and standard local disk persistence. When I add data to an index is it then persisted to disk only on the primary node, or also on each replica? In other words if each node has 250Gb of disk storage, do I have room for 250Gb documents or 500Gb documents? Best regards Henrik -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/groups/opt\_out](https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/groups/opt\_out](https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out). ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 2:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/simple-persistence-question/12900/3 "2017-07-06T02:25:00Z")
Closed on July 6, 2017, 2:25am UTC