Patent ID: 8839068

Claim:
A method for execution by a processing module, the method comprises: dividing data into different priority level portions in accordance with a data partitioning scheme; selecting first error coding dispersal storage function parameters for first priority level portions of the data; selecting second error coding dispersal storage function parameters for second priority level portions of the data, wherein the first priority level portions having a higher priority than the second priority level portions and the first error coding dispersal storage function parameters provides a higher level of dispersed storage error encoding than the second error coding dispersal storage function parameters; dispersed storage error encoding the first priority level portions of the data in accordance with the first error coding dispersal storage function parameters to produce a first plurality of encoded data slices; dispersed storage error encoding the second priority level portions of the data in accordance with the second error coding dispersal storage function parameters to produce a second plurality of encoded data slices; and outputting the first and second plurality of encoded data slices.