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sorry, it's not attractive to me. you ca easily find alternate here, when you own the entire server by blockchain?
not this storj shit again
Check out https://storage.lima-labs.com/ for cheaper and better (none of this decentralized crypto bullshit).
Not really too sure what all the hate is...
Why hate on it? Storj/Sia introduce a new level of storage where you're not limited to a single data center but where your data is distributed (no hosts can view your data), thus it is fast, and where replication means it's pretty hard to lose it. Storj and Sia are particularly robust with built in sharding/encryption and a real ecosystem.
And, both seem pretty robust. Sia had > 1m unique users downloading files from public portals last year and Storj has 80 PB irrc.
If you lived through the OVH fire, you'd understand the durability difference . Decentralized storage solutions mean that there is no single point of failure.
While I would love a decentralized storage and reliability but I absolutely hate how it is going to disrupt inventory of storage drives, like GPUs. Its infuriating to have so many resources going to waste when many are deprived.
at least this has some semblance of utility in any way while chia is making people write drives to death with random rubbish bytes
For things like Storj, actual files get stored. If a cloud provider buys one less hard drive but a host for Storj buys one more to serve the same need, hard drives shouldn't increase.
But absolutely yes, Chia is not storing data but rather hard drives are used to "farm" it, which is grossly infuriating if it hikes up prices like GPU mining has done.
in theory. in practice, the same person buying 1TB from [major cloud provider] is not going to know storj exists, or trust it enough to buy 1TB from storj, so in reality this isn't going to be anywhere close to a 1:1 match by orders of magnitude
Well, whoever goes to Storj originally would have gone to a major cloud provider, and as a host of Storj, you only make money if there's demand. Everything balances out.
Can you elaborate?
time to galaxy brain this shit and store CHIA plots onto it.
Francisco
So they just dropped their traffic costs 6.5 times compared to 2 weeks ago? That's a good move because I could not see them surviving at all otherwise. Now the harder part - to convince businesses that centralization is actually a bad thing.
That's why you should go with the server with raid option.! smile:
I don't think raid will save my HDDs in a fire
It's not an entirely unattractive price. I've been looking at Sia and trying to wrap my mind around implementation strategies as well. We're really starting to see blockchain move from "that word that gets investors panties wet" and into real, tangible technologies. The early money was in pretending to use them "to change the world" but now, the next money is going to be in effectively utilizing them to change markets.