An administrator has a 5-node cluster configured for RF2 with 200 TB of raw disk space. The administrator decides to enable Erasure coding to gain additional usable space. Approximately how much usable space would be available after enabling Erasure coding?

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An administrator has a 5-node cluster configured for RF2 with 200 TB of raw disk space. The administrator decides to enable Erasure coding to gain additional usable space. Approximately how much usable space would be available after enabling Erasure coding?

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With RF2, 50% of the raw space is usable, so initially, 100 TB is usable. Enabling Erasure Coding (EC-X) can increase usable space by approximately 50%, resulting in about 150 TB of usable space.

An Administrator Has a 5-Node Cluster Configured for RF2 with 200 TB