A computing device includes an interface configured to interface and communicate with a dispersed storage network (DSN), a memory that stores operational instructions, and a processing module operably coupled to the interface and memory such that the processing module, when operable within the computing device based on the operational instructions, is configured to perform various operations. The computing device receives a request to store a data object and to dispersed error encode the data object to generate a plurality of sets of encoded data slices (EDSs). The computing device then performs a deterministic function on a data object name to generate a plurality of data object names. The computing device then replicates the plurality of sets of EDSs to generate other pluralities of sets of EDSs and to facilitate storage of the plurality of sets of EDSs and the other pluralities of sets of EDSs within a plurality of storage units (SUs).