Patent ID: 8726120

Claim:
A method for execution by one or more processing modules of a computing device to access a data object in a dispersed storage network (DSN), the method comprises: receiving an access request for the data object; ascertaining that the data object is divided into a plurality of data segments, wherein the plurality of data segments are dispersed storage error encoded to produce a plurality of sets of encoded data slices, wherein a set of the plurality of sets of encoded data slices corresponds to a data segment of the plurality of data segments; ascertaining batching of the plurality of sets of encoded data slices, wherein the plurality of sets of encoded data slices are arranged into a set of batched encoded data slices; and outputting a set of access requests for the set of batched encoded data slices to storage units of the DSN, wherein an access request of the set of access requests corresponds to one of the batched encoded data slices of the set of batched encoded data slices.