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Decentralized data storage has finally landed

38 points| alessandroetc | 5 years ago |storj.io | reply

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[+] gruez|5 years ago|reply
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.
[+] Saris|5 years ago|reply
I don't know the details myself, but one aspect may be how many places your files are stored.

With B2 or similar S3 based storage, it's generally in one datacenter. But at least from what I've heard, stuff like Storj or Sia has an advantage from your files being stored over a large geographic area in multiple places.

[+] alessandroetc|5 years ago|reply
Costs shouldn't rise or fall based on the price of the coin. You can pay directly in USD for the storage so that you don't have to worry about the pricing shifts.
[+] prepend|5 years ago|reply
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

[+] jasonkimtech|5 years ago|reply
We built a service that tells you the exact cost/performance differences between different object storage systems [backblaze, storj, wasabi, s3, etc].

All you need is an AWS cost and usage report and we can tell you the tradeoffs including egress fees and everything.

Would be more than happy to help you out with this.

https://taloflow.ai

[+] alessandroetc|5 years ago|reply
If you want something that you can just plug into and leave alone, I'd just use Storj. It's priced the cheapest and their tech is the best thus far. I will say that it's built for developers so expect needing to spend some time to set everything up.
[+] Jemm|5 years ago|reply
"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

[+] someonehere|5 years ago|reply
Does anyone know the difference between this and TahoLAFS? Almost sounds the same.

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

[+] jtolds|5 years ago|reply
CTO here! We took a lot of inspiration on our latest design from Tahoe LAFS. Big fans. Main difference as I see it is Tahoe isn't as focused on producing a full storage ecosystem (storage node operators, etc), but we do share lots of similar points technically! Encryption, Reed Solomon, etc. Zooko's zfec Reed Solomon library influenced our usage of Reed Solomon for sure.
[+] alessandroetc|5 years ago|reply
Storj is going to be a lot more tried and battle tested than TahoLAFS. If you need to reliable store files under a strong encryption, I'd use storj.
[+] fumblebee|5 years ago|reply
Can someone eli5 the difference between storj and filecoin? And explain why filecoin has a market cap multiple times that of storj?
[+] willio58|5 years ago|reply
From what I’ve read, it’s really a matter of branding and marketing that’s resulted in filecoin having a larger market cap.
[+] hifly|5 years ago|reply
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)

[+] abcd_f|5 years ago|reply
Finally! Just few years after Wuala closed down. /s
[+] micouay|5 years ago|reply
What's the difference between that and Diode?

https://diode.io/

[+] gruez|5 years ago|reply
Considering that their pricing page doesn't mention any storage prices, I'm guessing it's some sort of self-hosted cloud solution, rather than storj which is closer to something like s3.