Patent ID: 9141458
Filing Date: 2015-09-22
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A maintenance free storage container comprises: a plurality of storage servers, wherein a storage server of the plurality of storage servers includes a plurality of storage devices and a server control module, wherein data is transferred via the plurality of storage servers to storage devices of respective storage servers and the data is retrieved from the storage devices of the respective storage servers, in which the data, prior to storage, is segmented into a plurality of data segments and respective data segments are error encoded to generate a plurality of encoded data slices for storage in the storage devices associated with a first set of the storage servers, and in which a threshold number of encoded data slices of a particular data segment are needed to reconstruct the particular data segment when retrieved, the threshold number of encoded data slices being less than the plurality of encoded data slices generated for the particular data segment, and wherein the maintenance free storage container allows for multiple storage servers of the plurality of storage servers to be in a failure mode without replacement and allows for multiple storage devices of one or more of the plurality of storage servers to be in the failure mode without replacement; and a container controller operable to: