This is the type of article I wish Storj could have been a part of: it’s excellent marketing. But I’m sure they weren’t even aware of it - and because of the Drive Reliability reports it probably felt natural for StorageReview to work with Backblaze instead.
But maybe it’s not too late? Since it’s now a public archive could Storj choose to fund mirroring it instead… and create an article about how their copy is faster (or if not faster in best-case-peak-speed… at least faster for the average downloader tested from many parts of the globe)?
Maybe offering Pi to the world doesn’t fit with their current focus on Media and Entertainment. Is there an equivalent public dataset that would benefit the M+E crowd? It can’t step on copyright: but perhap some sort of free video version of a stock-photograpy archive?
I don’t know what I’m talking about: I just wish StorageReview had worked with us instead
Storj should not be trying to impress third-party review sites in the first place.
If the product and the numbers are solid, that should stand on its own. Chasing validation from small secondary outlets is not a serious aspiration for an engineering company.
“Backblaze has always had a soft spot in our heart for innovators, record breakers, and people doing cool stuff,” said Yev Pusin, Head of Communications at Backblaze. “When I heard that StorageReview had calculated pi to the 314 trillionth digit—a classic compute project that has taught technologists quite a bit over the years—I knew that we needed to leverage B2 Cloud Storage to support that growth and make the dataset available to all those who want it. This is exactly the kind of project B2 Cloud Storage is great for.”
At least it sounds like their marketing isn’t sleeping and not only focusing on one industry.
Of course such data (or datasets generally) should be ideal for the global distributed nature of Storj.
To be fair: Somebody has to pay for it. I’m under the impression that Backblaze is bearing the costs. I do not believe Storj could or want to do something like that.
Maybe with an option that the requester pays like on the roadmap: Requestor Pays · Issue #50 · storj/roadmap · GitHub or a special satellite for free or reduced storage of useful datasets for the public.
But I am also under the impression that Diol would be the exact marketplace for such data.
Probably.
They could run that (or other datasets) on the Diol marketplace and use it as marketing to make people aware of its existence.
I agree, it’d be great publicity, it’s pretty fun, ant it’s one of those things that the average consumer can understand, and that the prosumer can understand why it’s so costly and hard to do.
Which brings to price - who should pay for the huge amount of data required for this experiment?
I’m against such roundabout ways to donate to nonprofits. If I want to support a specific nonprofit I either donate to them directly, or volunteer there, or both.
Whether nonprofit will buy storage with that money or wherever else is not my concern.
Chance that nonprofits storj would select to support are on my personal list of nonprofits I want to support is slim to none.
The whole “we donate to nonprofits” charade is free marketing and tax write off. Not a motivation I can stand by as an individual.
If storj would want to do that as a company — be my guest. But definitely not at the expense of operators, who shall not be compelled to donate to organizations their client chose.
