Processing data before re-protection in a data storage system

A method, comprising,

• reading, via a processor, one or more source data chunks comprising first segmented data of a first object and second segmented data of a second object;
• consolidating the first segmented data into first consolidated data;
• consolidating the second segmented data into second consolidated data;
• compressing the first consolidated data into first compressed data;
• compressing the second consolidated data into second compressed data;
• and
• storing the first compressed data and the second compressed data into a distributed chunk data structure.

A non-transitory machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor of a data storage system, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising:

• reading object data corresponding to two or more objects from one or more source data chunks;
• consolidating and compressing respective object data of the two or more objects into respective consolidated and compressed data of the respective objects;
• erasure coding the respective consolidated and compressed data of the respective objects into data fragments and coding fragments;
• and
• storing the data fragments and coding fragments into a distributed destination chunk data structure.