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added to pre-splits entry in glossary
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MongoDB will return from the documents in the result set.
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pre-splitting
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When deploying a :term:`shard cluster`, it is sometimes
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necessary to expedite the initial distribution of documents
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among shards by manually dividing the collection into chunks.
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In this case, you pre-split the chunks instead of waiting for
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the MongoDB :term:`balancer` to create splits.
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Pre-splitting is a command run prior to data insertion that
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specifies the shard key values on which to split up chunks.
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When deploying a :term:`shard cluster`, it is sometimes necessary
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to expedite the initial distribution of documents among shards by
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manually dividing the collection into chunks. In this case, you
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pre-split the chunks instead of waiting for the MongoDB
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:term:`balancer` to create splits.
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SSD
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Solid State Disk. A high-performance disk drive that uses solid

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