I find myself in the situation where I have a couple of nodes that are under-utilised, and so since a fair amount of time. Wanting to downsize my storj setup, is there a way to do a “graceful merge”? “Graceful split” is easy: just fire up a new node, and the load will get distributed. “Graceful exit” is also possible. What about “merge”?
Nope. The only way is graceful exit or just reduce free space to 0 and wait until the data gets slowly deleted by the customer / garbage collection.
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It might be not in line with TOS but technically you could just move two or more nodes to a single disk. 
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an option indeed, but trying to avoid that.
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Totally not recommend it, cause it will trash the disc and both nodes will perform much more worse as it would with just one node on the disk
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Storj can never allow node merging: it would be abused immediately.
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I don’t think so. I had such setup in the past with no problems and with hashstore it should work even better.
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Ok, I don’t know how efficient it is with hashstore. I had a Disk with 2 nodes in it too. But both node ran soo poorly. I added a second disc and moved one of the nodes. Then one single node was better than both nodes on one disk. Maybe a bad coincidence, but I have bad memories of the action.
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