Hello @andwhatabout,
Welcome to the forum!
In July your node has been paid for the actually used space and bandwidth, not for the Average Disk Space Used This Month, which is used only for estimations.
However, your node may have a not deleted data yet (either in blobs waiting for the Bloom Filter and the Garbage Collector or in the trash). The data older than 7 days would be removed from the trash automatically, you do not need to do anything.
If the node calculated the average usage more correctly (ignoring missing or incomplete reports from the satellites), and the databases would have correctly calculated local usage, the estimation would be more accurate.
There are two ongoing issues:
- The Average disk space is incorrect Avg disk space used dropped with 60-70%
- The Disk usage could be incorrect for your setup (local issues): Disk usage discrepancy?
Both contributes to the incorrect estimations. However, your node is paid accordingly sent orders by your node, they accounts used space in GBh, not an average over the month, so they are pretty precise. Unfortunately due issues above SNOs now do not have a reliable method to verify their correctness.
The first issue can be fixed with this feature: Fix storage usage gaps displaying · Issue #7009 · storj/storj · GitHub
The second issue can be fixed by SNO by either optimizing the storage or by enabling scan on startup if you disabled it (it’s enabled by default) and disabling a lazy mode, then wait until the used-space-filewalker would calculate the used space and update databases. It should be successfully finished for all trusted satellites and your node should not have errors related to the databases and/or filewalkers. Then you would have at least correct numbers on the piechart.
The average could be still wrong, there is no workaround. So, when the satellites would be able to report the average used space, then the estimation would slowly adapt, however, it would still being an estimation (it assumes, that the usage would be the same to calculate the estimation).