1. A method for determining data segmentation of a data object for use within at least a portion of a distributed storage network, the method comprising: receiving the data object within an access module; determining a size of the data object; performing a segmentation selection for the data object to assign a selected segmentation approach wherein the data object is selected to be segmented in either fixed sizes or in variable sizes; segmenting the data object into a plurality of segments that are either fixed-sized segments or a plurality of variable-sized segments segmented based upon the selected segmentation approach; and communicating the plurality of segments for further processing whereby data from each segment within the plurality of segments are destined to be processed to enable data recovery operations if the event where some of the data from each of the plurality of segments is not recoverable and to store portions of the data from each plurality of segments in different data storage units across a network.