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Your payment is quoted in USD. The equivalent value of Storj is then paid to the storage node. So if you are owed $10 USD in April and the current value of Storj is $1.70, you get paid 5.8823 storj tokens. If you are owed $10 in May and the value of Storj is $3.00, you get paid 3.3333 storj tokens.

https://www.storj.io/node

• Egress Bandwidth $20/TB
• Repair Egress Bandwidth $10/TB
• Disk Space $1.50/TB
• Audit Bandwidth $10/TB

This is similar to the fictional "Pied Piper" app from the show Silicon Valley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk0BT7tTWno.

Here are two related real projects: - https://www.storj.io - https://filecoin.io

This contest was when I worked for Vivint, specifically I worked on their embedded hardware optimizing compression algorithms for 2G cell data. The person who organized the contest was working on Vivint's distributed filesystem DVR and left to become one of the lead engineers at Storj.

I think I would sell them. Or make them work a bit https://www.storj.io/node , depends on the space/electricity/bandwidth available. But payouts barely cover expenses (see the real payouts calc on their forum). And used shelf prices have gone north due to chia. So likely I'd sell.

I followed the official docs all fine https://www.storj.io/host-a-node. I just made a mistake in misunderstanding that the 'docker volume prune' command would not delete my docker volumes attached to the running containers.

The process / documentation is good to follow, it was an easy setup. My problem came days later when I was trying to clear up my Docker and ran the command which deleted the data I was storing. Once you lose your node you need a new identity, which can mean needing a new email address.

You don't need to control or change anything once running so it's a set and forget sort of task. (Unless you want to change the disk size used for backup)

" We’re not fully able to reveal the nature and extent of the partnership until the United States government declassifies the remaining documents as they are required to do within 180 days under the recent COVID-19 relief legislation "

https://www.storj.io/blog/product-development-update-april-2021

Im hoping Storj goes up as soon as they reveal more about this partnership.

No question is a dumb question :-)

StorJ.io allows people run their own node to share with the storj network. This is awesome since that means your data is striped across many different locations instead of just a couple like with AWS/Backblaze and AWS/BB require you pay extra for geo-replication, StorJ does that by default.

https://www.storj.io/node

I would try to email the company (https://www.storj.io/contact) and open a dialogue with them. StorJ's default billing has both raw storage fees and transfer fees, they do provide better access/bandwidth than storage only services; but you will want to review their default pricing, and if you are large enough you may be able to negotiate a different billing model/price rate. They are also currently handing out free trials, which I would recommend so that you can start to predict what your usage patterns might be like.

Pricing, also displaying the free plan: https://www.storj.io/pricing

This is a great protocol and will be a long term hold for me. The more you dig in, the more you start to see the long term potential of this project. I just think they need more publicity. With big data breaches and cyber attacks everywhere these days, more people will start to turn to decentralized storage. I've been buying the dips and have accumulated 1,050 coins at this point. Will add more if it dips. I own some Filecoin too and saw it go 10x on me out of nowhere. I sold some as it climbed upwards of $200 and used the proceeds to buy more STORJ.

Here is a link to their whitepaper. Its long but worth the read.

https://www.storj.io/whitepaper/

Node operators are paid in STORJ. Users can purchase storage space with STORJ.

More information: https://www.storj.io/blog/2018/12/an-overview-of-tokens-uses-flows-and-policies-at-storj-labs/

We’re looking into bringing banking to the un/banked. You might want to check out the StorJ white paper. It would allow residents of Public housing to become a political power house pretty quick. In the early stages, but the infrastructure is zooming along.

https://www.storj.io

Yes, go park your NFT on Storj, and then pay over time for others to persist it for you. (or for systems like IPFS, pay to host a mirror yourself, forever)

People seem to be willing to run nodes for L1/L2 projects just out of the goodness of their hearts (Bitcoin still needs less than 500GB). But nobody will run storage systems that consume TiB/PiB/EiB for free.

I've built several NAS boxes using XPenology. It's an bootloader hack that allows to run Synology OS on generic hardware. I chose this route because I had a Synology NAS and was familiar with its software.

Other NAS OS options are FreeNAS, UnRAID, OpenMediaVault, TrueNAS, and more.

Configuring XPenology wasn't hard, since I was familiar with Synology OS. However, keeping it patched is a pain since every Synology patch needs to be validated by community first for still working with bootloader hack and not losing drivers. In that sense, one of the other OS's will be better since we're not actually hacking someone else's product.

I have a 17TB SHR (Synology Hybrid RAID) array which allows for one parity drive - 4x2TB and 4x3TB drives.

My setup runs inside ESXi hypervisor, where NAS is virtualized with 8-port SAS controller passed through to it for drives. I have three other VMs on top of ESXi for my media management, Storj node and network management.

If you want a turn-key solution, I would advise you to look at Synology or QNAP SOHO products with enough drive bays to satisfy your needs. Building your own NAS is cheaper, but there's something about having a polished product.

I just learned that in the last quarter, Storj Lab paid out 1.3 million Storj to node operators, third party providers and their employees. However, all of these tokens came from the operating supply (In addition they still hold 229 million Storj pre mine). 0 Storj was purchased from the open market.

Source: https://www.storj.io/blog/storj-token-balances-flows-report-q3-2021

Meh, Dropbox lost it. They were ahead many years ago, their mailbox app was the best but for some reason they decided to shut it down. Now in 2021 their free options is 2gb? In 2021? And I belive the future of "cloud" storage is decentralized storage. For example Internxt or Storj.

Dropbox just releases garbage features to stay relevant.

A no-go

Decentralized storage is a thing. Not sure if they are using it in this case, but it’s definitely possible.

Check out Sia and Storj. I’m sure there are others as well but I haven’t looked for them in depth.

Jeg kører en StorJ node og en HoneyGain node på en et par af mine servere. Det generer en fin 50er om måneden, og det passer sig selv. Jeg er også slemt glad for PiHole, som du kunne køre sammen med de to andre.

StorJ tager lidt længere tid at sætte op, men HoneyGain er bare en klik-installer kinda ting.

You can snapshot your mongoDB to Storj and get the best of both worlds

See: https://www.storj.io/blog/storj-labs-partners-with-mongodb

And docs here: https://docs.storj.io/dcs/how-tos/mongodb-ops-manager-backup

they wrote a very good post on the blog, check this out:

https://www.storj.io/blog/2020/03/the-electric-car-example-applied-to-decentralized-cloud-storage/

oh? I thought they joined forces with microsoft in 2016..

https://www.storj.io/blog/2016/04/storj-labs-joins-the-microsoft-azure-blockchain-ecosystem/