A method includes sending, by a first computing device, a first set of write requests and sending, by a second computing device, a second set of write requests to a set of storage units. The method further includes receiving, by the first computing device, favorable write responses from a first subset of storage units of the set of storage units and receiving, by the second computing device, favorable write responses from a second subset of storage units. The method further includes determining, by the first computing device, whether a number of the favorable write responses from the first subset of storage units equals or exceeds a write threshold number. When the number of the favorable write responses from the first subset of storage units equals or exceeds the write threshold number, the first computing device sends a set of commit requests to the set of storage units.