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  1. Documentation
  2. DOCS-761

Best Practices on Sharding Large Collections

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      Some users have large collections (> 256gb), which cannot be sharded as per the normal sharding process/methodology.

      You have to write a script to read it and insert into the sharded collection. You then need to blow away the old collection and rename the new collection.

      The limit is mentioned here but I believe that it should be more explicitly mentioned in the central sharding documentation area along with a process on what can be done.

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