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Re: [ANN] Storjcoin X (SJCX) - A Coin for Decentralized Cloud Storage
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secret_bitcoin_login
on 29/12/2014, 03:16:32 UTC
So... I am kicking myself right now for not jumping on board with Storj during the initial crowdsale. I feel like I'm just playing catch up. So... I'm setting up a driveshare machine and working to accumulate 10,000 SJCX really quick. I'm considering tinkering with one of the Synology NAS's to use it as a Storj device. I saw a mention of it but no one seems to have followed up on the development yet. I extracted their firmware and it looks pretty doable, but I've yet to buy a device yet.

My friend is doing the same on those Taiwan made boxes. Let me find that picture first.

And the price is going up again : https://poloniex.com/exchange#btc_sjcx

What Taiwan made boxes are you referring to? I wasn't excited about paying $175 for a Synology box, but it looks like it would pay for itself in saved electricity over 4 years... if it runs at 19 watts as advertised. I'd be glad to switch to another manufacturer. I know Shawn had talked about some "branded" hardware during the Trial A video, but I don't know what he used.
Just a little cubietruck at the moment. Most barebones linux machines will probably do the trick.

The problem with tiny barebones linux-based machines (thinking RPi and Beaglebone) is that they lack the SATA.

This Cubietruck: http://www.cubietruck.com/collections/frontpage/products/cubieboard2-allwinner-a20-arm-cortex-a7-dual-core-development-board looks fine, but I'm not interested in paying $65 for it when most of the chip will be idled (even useless if we develop a stripped kernel for efficiency). This looks like a good time for a worldwide search for the optimal hardware.