For now i am only skeptical about one aspect: storage price per Terabyte may be lower than GDrive/Onedrive/etc. by 90% , ... but what about bandwidth price?
I have briefly read that a Sia renter must pay bandwith as well, while S3,GDrive etc. don't make you pay for it , right ?
Or do they have "practical" limits they don't declare but are actual.
I.E. They promise you unlimited traffic but in practice if you overcome a certain limit like 1TB/month then they will cap your transfer speed to 50Kbps for example.
We should define these variables to make a proper comparison
I have briefly read that a Sia renter must pay bandwith as well, while S3,GDrive etc. don't make you pay for it , right ?
Or do they have "practical" limits they don't declare but are actual.
I.E. They promise you unlimited traffic but in practice if you overcome a certain limit like 1TB/month then they will cap your transfer speed to 50Kbps for example.
We should define these variables to make a proper comparison
Oh, no... Amazon S3 indeed charges for downloading data: depending on the mirror, between $10-$20/Tb https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/ Compare this with what Sia costs: 13 cents per TB for uploads and 10 cents per TB for downloads: https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/ This is 100x less currently
Final costumer products might have apparently "free download" but in the end as you say there are caps. Enterprise clients don't have access to free plans and pay outrageous bandwidth costs on any traditional storage solution
You're right.
For example Google puts limits without stating it anywhere.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20897335/google-drive-hosting-downloading-limit
Dropbox Pro/Business limit: 200GB/day
http://classroom.synonym.com/dropbox-limit-bandwidth-19850.html
Onedrive: don't know