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MongoDB will return from the documents in the result set.

pre-splitting
When deploying a :term:`shard cluster`, it is sometimes
necessary to expedite the initial distribution of documents
among shards by manually dividing the collection into chunks.
In this case, you pre-split the chunks instead of waiting for
the MongoDB :term:`balancer` to create splits.
Pre-splitting is an action you can perform prior to data insertion
that specifies the shard key values on which to split chunks.
When deploying a :term:`shard cluster`, it is sometimes necessary
to expedite the initial distribution of documents among shards by
manually dividing the collection into chunks. In this case, you
pre-split the chunks instead of waiting for the MongoDB
:term:`balancer` to create splits.

SSD
Solid State Disk. A high-performance disk drive that uses solid
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