1. A method for execution by a processing module of a computing device, the method comprises: receiving redundant array of independent disks (RAID) data; determining whether to store the RAID data in at least one of a RAID format and in a dispersed storage network (DSN) format; when at least a portion of the RAID data is to be stored in the DSN format, converting the at least a portion of the RAID data into at least one set of encoded data slices; and outputting the at least one set of encoded data slices to a DSN memory.