I have a home server with heaps of spare storage, and remember testing out node operations back in the early days and even receiving STORJ to some wallet that's been sitting idle for years since...

I thought I'd explore this given I've been exploring docker containers lately. Observations:

1. Easy to set up! It only took about 20 mins to generate the necessary tokens - apparently very lucky as it seems some people can spend hours to get one.

2. Nice UI / dashboard - I loved geeking out about the data coming in and seeing my volume expand, and get a nice 100% figure for uptime etc.

3. Then - set and forget. It just worked. Great! I can just watch money pouring in!

4. But... then a few days later I can literally hear my drive trashing about when I'm in the vicinity, and looking at processes I see huge number of files all being written/read by Storj. This is basically non-stop.

5. A couple of days after that I check out the storj earnings estimator spreadsheet. $39/year, maybe. $3.22/month.

6. No point even graceful exiting. Opened up my docker, and dumped the image.

I'm happy to have tried, but even with hardware on the ready and expendable it makes absolutely no sense to run this. Sure, maybe if you have 100TB? That only would take you what... 8 years to achieve?

I won't say storj is unsustainable given they still manage to stay around - but it feels like irrational sustainability thanks to node operators that are penny pinching?

Hi friends,

Using Storj as cloud back up for my media and I have uploaded like 10gb of pics and videos already. Cant seem to find a way to change file names though. How can I do it?

I’m looking to start storing data for StorJ and have a few options for servers that I have laying around. Both are supermicro platforms, and a mix of x10 (broadwell Xeon e5) and x11 (skylake scalable Xeon) in each physical platform, and a few complete systems of each configuration. however I don’t know if more drives per physical server would be best, or breaking it up with multi node systems would be ideal as it seems a lot advise using less drives per node. I’ve got a metric pile of 4TB exos enterprise drives, so they will be used regardless of the server used.

Servers: 36 bay supermicro 144tb (36x4tb) raw capacity

Fat twin supermicro 2 node 2u 12 bays total, 6 per node 48TB raw 24TB per node

Twin pro supermicro 4 node 2u, 12 bays total, 3 per node 48TB Raw, 12tb per node

I setup Storj yesterday on truenas scale because i have far more storage then i need so i setup 10tb and its bee deploying since about 6pm yesterday. Is this normal should i stop it and try again?

Hi storjiers, I called graceful exit on one of my nodes because I have to move and I will not be able to maintain uptime. I think I called graceful exit at least 48 hours ago (likely more) and the four satellites are still showing 0.00% complete.

Am I just being impatient?

I am starting up a Storj node as a fun hobby project. I created my node on a test server on Sept 11. It's storing 291GB, has passed 208 audits, and has an upload success rate of 99.72%. The project is pretty damn cool!

Anyway, the purpose of this post is I'm building out a server to move the node to where it will live permanently. It's a 4-bay 1U chassis. I have 4x 12TB HGST (HUH721212AL56S0) that are perfect for the project. I'm heavily leaning towards building out a ZFS RAIDz1 array with these drives, which would allow me to run a single node on it and give 1 disk redundancy.

Is this a good idea? It seems it would be much easier to manage vs having 1 node per drive as there's less management overhead, should increase disk performance, and offers drive redundancy. Downsides are 12TB space lost to redundancy and loose everything if the node becomes disqualified. I am also aware it would take a long time to fill.

Or should I just stick with 1 node per drive and run with 1 drive until it's near full (I'm aware of the /24 rule).

Thanks for the advice. I'd like to do it right from the start and not have to restructure later :) :)

i read through this guide https://support.storj.io/hc/en-us/articles/360026612332-Install-storagenode-on-Raspberry-Pi3-or-higher-version

i'm at the step: Setup the storagenode before the run

a bit down port number 28967

but could this not be replaced with say 10000 ? the reason is that i'm behind a CG-NAT and i cant do portforward, but i can use tailscale funnel but i'm limited to 443, 8443, and 10000

the speed is also arround 10/10 but i think that is the last of my problems

EDIT: is this what i'm looking for? https://forum.storj.io/t/how-to-change-node-port/2604

I'm a noob/idiot/old fart...

i get that if i want to be paid in ether i can go create a wallet for that. i dont have any crypto wallets as i'm not a very big fan of crypto in general ( i like normal human money)

but zkSync Era, i see links for it but they dont open zkSync Era but just the general zkSync page

so how does the "opt in" with them work?

I used Storj for a while but only for very tiny folders (few KB to MB). I've been subscribing to some established privacy clouds for the past 2-3 years, but am having a lot of unresolved issues involving file corruption when I finally need access to critical files and re-download them from the cloud. If anyone here has also had experience with other privacy clouds like IceDrive, Filen..., could you share your experience with Storj? Are you able reliably to get large folders (about 100GB+) up into the Storj decentralized network without problems? When you need to download these large folders back to your local system, has this been reliable (no hard-to-decipher error messages, no file corruption)? Am looking for a cloud home for critical data. Willing to pay well for it, but need files to be free of corruption from the up-/download processes. Thanks!

I want some failover and setting a nodes ip to a static ip or dyndns is not really failover. If that single ip goes offline, the node is offline.

But how about SRV records for us with multiple public ips that can be routed to the same internal node? I found an old issue on GitHub, someone requesting SRV records be supported but it was just forgotten about it seems, years old now and not closed.

With srv records we could do something like:

Node01.domain.whatever
  Srv -> node01-ip01.domain.whatever:11111
  Srv -> node01-ip02.domain.whatever:22222
  Srv -> node01-ip03.domain.whatever:33333

And so on, so if the first one fails, satellites and other nodes will just try the next one, and then permafail if they are all offline.

Can something like this be done today for storj nodes or does it still only support A and CNAME records? How are the big node operators in here handling multi ip to the same node on the public/DNS side?

And alternative would be to have dyndns like setup with a single ip on the nodes A record, and then change it using a script on the node to change it to whatever ip is online, i just find this hacky and like the native way SRV records work much better as they are designed for stuff like this. Also this may result in someones local dns or server caching records for days if misconfigured and then it would not get the update and try the old ip, so a scripted solution like this might spawn weird connection issues later.

I had not used storj in a while sorry if I missed the news. I had free storage and now it jist says trial's over and I must upgrade to pro.

I'm using a pro account I got way back when they were offering 250GB for free, however, all of sudden I can neither download or upload anything. If you look at this screenshot it seems like it's a lack of available segments that's causing the issue? https://i.imgur.com/XpswYQp.jpeg

I'm a little confused on the amounts withheld. Month 10-15 100% is paid out but month 16+ you are back to 50%?

My isp does not provide a public ip can i still expose my node port using noip dynamic dns

Hi,

I just received my monthly payout on l1 despite using zksync for 2 years. Has anyone else encountered this ?

https://preview.redd.it/0iqmriiouxad1.png?width=3522&format=png&auto=webp&s=90b3b98d5adc80e6db4c71a86e9a623ebc86360c

Has anyone met the same problem? Or it is just me? Incognito mode works tho

Hi, so if I start node now with 160tb, on fiber, 24/7. How my payouts will look. And How will my utilization graph (used space/time) would look like? Thanks

Has anyone seen node performance increase by moving their DBs to SSD/NVME while keeping the storage on HDD? I'm looking to move my nodes create a new node that uses NVME to run the OS and store the DB files while keeping the HDD for the storage blobs.

Ok, why cant we talk about the damn price of the crypto? Its a damn Storj reddit.

Seems like someone is hiding the fact that the price of this coin is fuxxxng collapsing, why wont the developers do something about the price.

How many years will this be trading under a fuxxxxing dollar?

Im sorry but at the end of the day this is still a crypto coin and we should be allowed to talk about why the price has been destroyed here in the only storj official reddit.

When bitcoin goes up the price is stagnant, when bitcoin goes down the price drops 25%. Then when bitcoin goes back up the price is stagnant. It fuxxcing does this for the last 4 months.

And for you smart asrrces, replace bitcoin with etherium or whatever and its still the same programming, i just use BTC because thats the biggest catalyst for all prices in crypto world.

Hi.

I just registered for a Storj 30-day trial to test it as my possible cloud backup for my Synology NAS.

I created a Storj bucket and S3 credentials and set up a task in Synology Hyper Backup using an S3 custom URL. The backup task ran successfully (according to Hyper Backup), and even though Storj shows 3.22GB and 174 segments used, I have 0 files in the bucket.

Does anyone know what I probably did wrong?

https://preview.redd.it/1cxqfcgsvo9d1.png?width=1654&format=png&auto=webp&s=7155dc87235f7c7fc2eac20385631f2d00ac97a9

EDIT: all good, it's just a delay on the Storj side.

I've always been a bit anti cloud as an American due to the lack of protections that the CLOUD Act leaves Americans with. Through many debates with AWS certified folks they go on and on about how you can encryption the data. But my understanding of their keyanahement system is that they have a copy. Even in Bring your own Keys.

Can someone more familiar with cloud help me validate this assumption (or invalidate) and lay provide a brief overview of data/private key ownership with storj? Do you maintain complete control of your data with Storj given the decentralized nature or is there a valid argument that it could be viewed as insecure for reasons not listed?

I've been a huge proponent of "not your keys, not your coins". I feel like the same could be said for any data with a shared private key. Thanks for any insights.

My average disk space used this month seems like Batman symbol! 😆

How has your usage been the last week?

I haven't seen any ingress the last week on my node.