diff --git a/cmd/api-errors.go b/cmd/api-errors.go
index f2589c085..96e22ddef 100644
--- a/cmd/api-errors.go
+++ b/cmd/api-errors.go
@@ -879,16 +879,6 @@ var errorCodes = errorCodeMap{
 		Description:    "Object name already exists as a directory.",
 		HTTPStatusCode: http.StatusConflict,
 	},
-	ErrReadQuorum: {
-		Code:           "XMinioReadQuorum",
-		Description:    "Multiple disk failures, unable to reconstruct data.",
-		HTTPStatusCode: http.StatusServiceUnavailable,
-	},
-	ErrWriteQuorum: {
-		Code:           "XMinioWriteQuorum",
-		Description:    "Multiple disks failures, unable to write data.",
-		HTTPStatusCode: http.StatusServiceUnavailable,
-	},
 	ErrInvalidObjectName: {
 		Code:           "XMinioInvalidObjectName",
 		Description:    "Object name contains unsupported characters.",
@@ -1534,7 +1524,7 @@ func toAPIErrorCode(ctx context.Context, err error) (apiErr APIErrorCode) {
 		apiErr = ErrKMSAuthFailure
 	case errOperationTimedOut, context.Canceled, context.DeadlineExceeded:
 		apiErr = ErrOperationTimedOut
-	case errNetworkConnReset:
+	case errDiskNotFound:
 		apiErr = ErrSlowDown
 	}
 
@@ -1593,9 +1583,9 @@ func toAPIErrorCode(ctx context.Context, err error) (apiErr APIErrorCode) {
 	case InvalidPart:
 		apiErr = ErrInvalidPart
 	case InsufficientWriteQuorum:
-		apiErr = ErrWriteQuorum
+		apiErr = ErrSlowDown
 	case InsufficientReadQuorum:
-		apiErr = ErrReadQuorum
+		apiErr = ErrSlowDown
 	case UnsupportedDelimiter:
 		apiErr = ErrNotImplemented
 	case InvalidMarkerPrefixCombination:
diff --git a/cmd/api-errors_test.go b/cmd/api-errors_test.go
index 891e66cf9..9a69ce38e 100644
--- a/cmd/api-errors_test.go
+++ b/cmd/api-errors_test.go
@@ -39,8 +39,8 @@ var toAPIErrorTests = []struct {
 	{err: ObjectNameInvalid{}, errCode: ErrInvalidObjectName},
 	{err: InvalidUploadID{}, errCode: ErrNoSuchUpload},
 	{err: InvalidPart{}, errCode: ErrInvalidPart},
-	{err: InsufficientReadQuorum{}, errCode: ErrReadQuorum},
-	{err: InsufficientWriteQuorum{}, errCode: ErrWriteQuorum},
+	{err: InsufficientReadQuorum{}, errCode: ErrSlowDown},
+	{err: InsufficientWriteQuorum{}, errCode: ErrSlowDown},
 	{err: UnsupportedDelimiter{}, errCode: ErrNotImplemented},
 	{err: InvalidMarkerPrefixCombination{}, errCode: ErrNotImplemented},
 	{err: InvalidUploadIDKeyCombination{}, errCode: ErrNotImplemented},
diff --git a/cmd/object-api-errors.go b/cmd/object-api-errors.go
index 819e0e870..06ad8518a 100644
--- a/cmd/object-api-errors.go
+++ b/cmd/object-api-errors.go
@@ -27,22 +27,6 @@ import (
 // underlying storage layer.
 func toObjectErr(err error, params ...string) error {
 	switch err {
-	case errDiskNotFound:
-		switch len(params) {
-		case 1:
-			err = BucketNotFound{Bucket: params[0]}
-		case 2:
-			err = ObjectNotFound{
-				Bucket: params[0],
-				Object: params[1],
-			}
-		case 3:
-			err = InvalidUploadID{
-				Bucket:   params[0],
-				Object:   params[1],
-				UploadID: params[2],
-			}
-		}
 	case errVolumeNotFound:
 		if len(params) >= 1 {
 			err = BucketNotFound{Bucket: params[0]}
diff --git a/cmd/object-api-multipart_test.go b/cmd/object-api-multipart_test.go
index fb74cbc74..aa346e099 100644
--- a/cmd/object-api-multipart_test.go
+++ b/cmd/object-api-multipart_test.go
@@ -255,8 +255,8 @@ func testPutObjectPartDiskNotFound(obj ObjectLayer, instanceType string, disks [
 	}
 
 	// As all disks at not available, bucket not found.
-	expectedErr2 := BucketNotFound{Bucket: testCase.bucketName}
-	if err.Error() != expectedErr2.Error() {
+	expectedErr2 := errDiskNotFound
+	if err != errDiskNotFound {
 		t.Fatalf("Test %s: expected error %s, got %s instead.", instanceType, expectedErr2, err)
 	}
 }
diff --git a/cmd/rest/client.go b/cmd/rest/client.go
index ebb326288..2326f15a2 100644
--- a/cmd/rest/client.go
+++ b/cmd/rest/client.go
@@ -34,6 +34,17 @@ import (
 // DefaultRESTTimeout - default RPC timeout is one minute.
 const DefaultRESTTimeout = 1 * time.Minute
 
+// NetworkError - error type in case of errors related to http/transport
+// for ex. connection refused, connection reset, dns resolution failure etc.
+// All errors returned by storage-rest-server (ex errFileNotFound, errDiskNotFound) are not considered to be network errors.
+type NetworkError struct {
+	Err error
+}
+
+func (n *NetworkError) Error() string {
+	return n.Err.Error()
+}
+
 // Client - http based RPC client.
 type Client struct {
 	httpClient          *http.Client
@@ -46,7 +57,7 @@ type Client struct {
 func (c *Client) Call(method string, values url.Values, body io.Reader, length int64) (reply io.ReadCloser, err error) {
 	req, err := http.NewRequest(http.MethodPost, c.url.String()+"/"+method+"?"+values.Encode(), body)
 	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
+		return nil, &NetworkError{err}
 	}
 
 	req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer "+c.newAuthToken())
@@ -56,7 +67,7 @@ func (c *Client) Call(method string, values url.Values, body io.Reader, length i
 	}
 	resp, err := c.httpClient.Do(req)
 	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
+		return nil, &NetworkError{err}
 	}
 
 	if resp.StatusCode != http.StatusOK {
diff --git a/cmd/storage-rest-client.go b/cmd/storage-rest-client.go
index dbb98f500..46ed4fe49 100644
--- a/cmd/storage-rest-client.go
+++ b/cmd/storage-rest-client.go
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ import (
 	"crypto/tls"
 	"io"
 	"io/ioutil"
-	"net"
 	"net/url"
 	"path"
 	"strconv"
@@ -44,32 +43,10 @@ func isNetworkError(err error) bool {
 	if err.Error() == errConnectionStale.Error() {
 		return true
 	}
-	if strings.Contains(err.Error(), "connection reset by peer") {
+	if _, ok := err.(*rest.NetworkError); ok {
 		return true
 	}
-	if uerr, isURLError := err.(*url.Error); isURLError {
-		if uerr.Timeout() {
-			return true
-		}
-
-		err = uerr.Err
-	}
-
-	_, isNetOpError := err.(*net.OpError)
-	return isNetOpError
-}
-
-// Attempt to approximate network error with a
-// typed network error, otherwise default to
-// errDiskNotFound
-func toNetworkError(err error) error {
-	if err == nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	if strings.Contains(err.Error(), "connection reset by peer") {
-		return errNetworkConnReset
-	}
-	return errDiskNotFound
+	return false
 }
 
 // Converts rpc.ServerError to underlying error. This function is
@@ -81,7 +58,7 @@ func toStorageErr(err error) error {
 	}
 
 	if isNetworkError(err) {
-		return toNetworkError(err)
+		return errDiskNotFound
 	}
 
 	switch err.Error() {
diff --git a/cmd/typed-errors.go b/cmd/typed-errors.go
index 0f4381c30..9bdbe086f 100644
--- a/cmd/typed-errors.go
+++ b/cmd/typed-errors.go
@@ -85,6 +85,3 @@ var errNoSuchPolicy = errors.New("Specified canned policy does not exist")
 
 // error returned when access is denied.
 var errAccessDenied = errors.New("Do not have enough permissions to access this resource")
-
-// errNetworkConnReset - connection reset by peer
-var errNetworkConnReset = errors.New("connection reset by peer")