Patent ID: 11870916
Assignee: PURE STORAGE, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 14:
15. A distributed storage network comprising:
at least one processor configured to determine storage parameters associated with error-encoded data slices generated from data to be stored in the distributed storage network, wherein the storage parameters include information indicating a read-threshold number of error-encoded data slices required to recover the data;
storage units including memory devices configured to store one or more error-encoded data slices of the read-threshold number of error-encoded data slices; and
the at least one processor further configured to distributedly store the error-encoded data slices among the storage units, wherein distributedly storing includes limiting a number of the error-encoded data slices stored in each storage unit to a number that will leave at least the read-threshold number of error-encoded data slices stored in remaining storage units in the event of a failure of any individual storage unit.