Patent ID: 11956312
Assignee: PURE STORAGE, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 19:
20. A computing device comprising:
memory;
an interface; and
a processing module operably coupled to the memory and the interface, wherein the processing module is operable to:
identify a storage unit of a set of storage units for testing, wherein a data segment of data is error encoded into a set of encoded data slices that is stored in the set of storage units;
determine whether a threshold number of favorably performing other storage units of the set of storage units will be available during the testing;
when the threshold number of favorably performing other storage units will be available, initiate the testing of the storage unit and setting a status of the storage unit to unavailable;
when the testing has been completed, update the status to available; and
generate a testing report regarding the testing of the storage unit.