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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 02, 2018
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Niall J. McShane, Arlington Heights, IL (US);
Jason K. Resch, Chicago, IL (US);
PURE STORAGE, INC., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for a dispersed storage network (DSN) begins by encoding a data segment of data to produce a set of encoded data slices including an information dispersal algorithm (IDA) width number of encoded data slices. The method continues by determining a number of storage locations, where the number of storage locations is less than the IDA width number, combining, for each storage location, a portion of at least two encoded data slices of the set of encoded data slices to produce a combined slice and sending the combined slice to the storage location for storage. When retrieving the data, the method includes combining slices associated with a set of encoded data slices, de-combining the combined slice, aggregating portions of common encoded data slices and decoding a decode threshold number of the encoded data slices of the set of encoded data slices to produce a recovered data segment.