Patent 11842053 was granted and assigned to Pure Storage on December, 2023 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A list of a available zones across respective SSD storage portions of a plurality of zoned storage devices of a storage system is maintained. Data is received from multiple sources, wherein the data is associated with processing a dataset, the dataset including multiple volumes and associated metadata. Shards of the data are determined such that each shard is capable of being written in parallel with the remaining shards. The shards are mapped to a subset of the available zones, respectively. The shards are written to the subset of the available zones in parallel.