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Decentralized data storage has finally landed

by alessandroetc on 4/20/21, 12:58 AM with 32 comments

  • by gruez on 4/20/21, 3:35 PM

    Their pricing is only slightly cheaper than backblaze b2. For storage they charge $4/TB/month whereas b2 charges $5/TB/month, and for egress they charge $7/TB whereas b2 charges $10/TB. Personally I don't think the risks (eg. your cost going up because crypto price skyrocket, or you losing your data because of a crypto winter) are worth the savings. Not to mention there are much cheaper solutions than the two I mentioned, like deep glacier that only charges $1/TB for storage, or office365 that provides 6x1TB storage for $100/year.

  • by prepend on 4/20/21, 1:27 PM

    I ran some storj nodes a few years ago but gave up because the ratio of what I needed to share to the amount I could store was too poor.

    I see their pricing [0] has improved but does anyone have a good comparison of the true costs of various storage systems? I feel like I’m dealing with comparing Roblox to hearthstone gems when trying to figure out the cost of S3 vs Storj vs Filecoin vs whatever.

    It seems like there should be some p2p system where I can share 100GB on my storage array in return for 10GB that’s reliable enough that it will always be there if my house burns down.

    Currently I use S3 Glacier because S3 is too expensive.

    [0] https://www.storj.io/pricing

  • by Jemm on 4/20/21, 12:06 PM

    "Once your Node is verified after a vetting period, you’ll start being compensated for the storage and bandwidth you provide. Every month you meet the requirements, you’ll be paid in STORJ Token."

    I'd rather be paid in money

  • by someonehere on 4/20/21, 1:24 PM

    Does anyone know the difference between this and TahoLAFS? Almost sounds the same.

    https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs

  • by fumblebee on 4/20/21, 1:18 PM

    Can someone eli5 the difference between storj and filecoin? And explain why filecoin has a market cap multiple times that of storj?

  • by hifly on 4/20/21, 9:51 AM

    so I'm guessing that syncthing (with you running your own repeater/server node), doesn't meet your requirement. why not?

    (for me it's the lack of one way sync, ignoring deletes, and no partial directory sync)

  • by abcd_f on 4/20/21, 12:46 PM

    Finally! Just few years after Wuala closed down. /s

  • by micouay on 4/20/21, 3:28 PM

    What's the difference between that and Diode?

    https://diode.io/