Quote from: GabryRox on Today at 12:06:36 AM

Quote from: nsummy on August 29, 2020, 10:10:20 PM

Quote from: GabryRox on August 29, 2020, 08:12:33 PM

Was wondering if anyone here is currently or has been involved in STORJ nodes. I have over 100TB in HDD just sitting idle since they were mining BURST a few years ago, so looking to put them to work even for a moderate return. Just curious what some first hand experiences with this has been.

No experience myself, but this is a recent and well discussed thread on it (with calculator): https://forum.storj.io/t/realistic-earnings-estimator/6693

Thanks nsummy, there a ton of info in that thread and i read a good chunk of it yesterday, as well as looking through some guides on their website.

My initial impressions are this:
1- seems like there could be some pretty good returns, but...
2- unfortunately, getting a node set up appears to be quite complicated, especially compared to BURST, which was time-consuming to get all of the plots written but was pretty easy and straight forward to set up
3- I also have concerns about whether or not this could be run on a mining PC, and i will not set something like this up on my main PC. There's a bunch of stuff about port-forwarding and other setup stuff that I am worried will conflict with ETH mining.
4- it also seems like you might have set up RAID to get a node to use more than 1 HDD. This seems crazy to me but again, something i need to dig into
5- bottom line, i plan on trying to get my top questions answers before proceeding any further

I will be happy to share my findings on this thread when i get some traction... stay tuned.

The big question will be, whats your bandwidth situation? I'm not fully versed on BURST but my understanding was that you had to dedicate storage, but it was just proof of storage, not actually hosting files. With Storj it would be like you are hosting a file share. By the way, while you are looking into Storj you might also want to check out Sia. I think its a poorly run project that will ultimately fail, but it is a similar concept and might be easier to set up