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MIGRATING ENCODED DATA SLICES FROM A RE-PROVISIONED MEMORY DEVICE OF A DISPERSED STORAGE NETWORK MEMORY

  • US 20120054556A1
  • Filed: 08/05/2011
  • Published: 03/01/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/26/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprises:

  • monitoring a reprovisioned memory device that has been reprovisioned from a legacy storage protocol to an error coding dispersed storage protocol;

    when a usable memory life of the reprovisioned memory device in the error coding dispersed storage protocol has expired;

    determining a data migration scheme for migrating a plurality of encoded data slices stored on the reprovisioned memory device; and

    migrating the plurality of encoded data slices from the reprovisioned memory device to one or more other memory devices in accordance with the data migration scheme.

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