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Abstract

Systems and methods for determining utilization levels of storage within a dispersed storage network (DSN). The methods include obtaining transaction records, updating a cumulative data storage byte-hour count for storage of corresponding bytes of encoded data slices in the storage units of the DSN, and issuing byte-hour usage information based on the updated cumulative data storage byte-hour counts. Each transaction record can include one or more of an operation count, an operation type (e.g., read, write, delete), number of slice bytes transferred, number of slice bytes deleted, a timestamp, a user identifier, and a vault identifier. The updating can include one or more of identifying the one or more affiliated entities, determining a byte-hour adjustment (i.e., up or down) based on a transaction record, and updating a byte-hour record for affiliated entities based on the byte-hour adjustment.

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