Patent 12008019 was granted and assigned to Pure Storage on June, 2024 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Modifying storage distribution in a storage system that includes one or more storage devices, including: detecting, for a storage device among the one or more storage devices, that a storage capacity of the storage device is different from a storage capacity of another storage device of the one or more storage devices, and responsive to detecting that the storage capacity for the storage device is different from the storage capacity of the other storage devices of the one or more storage devices, modifying a distribution of shards of data for a data stripe among the one or more storage devices.