I agree and we had a discussion about such an idea some time ago:
Previously the Storj product was called Tardigrade. I still believe if you want Hundreds of terabytes of data from a customer there should be better solution than that the customer has to upload it on their own. This is what Wasabis is saying:
While a 10 Gbps Internet link is pretty fast, 10 petabytes of data is a massive (but not uncommon) amount of data. Let’s say you’re fortunate enough to have access to a 10 Gbps connection and want to move 10 petabytes from your on-premises data center to Wasabi. It’s going to take you over a year to get all that data uploaded.
And here is what they do:
We’re shipping them five high-capacity Wasabi Balls, each capable of transporting 87 terabytes of data. Because each appliance connects directly to their on-premises storage with its own 10 Gbps fiber link, they’re not clogging up their Internet bandwidth. It takes a little bit over a day to fill a Wasabi Ball and all five appliances can be used in parallel. Once full, the customer ships them to our data center for uploading to the Wasabi cloud, and we ship them five more Wasabi Balls.
In theory, 10 petabytes of data could be moved this way in just a couple of months.
It is a very interesting read from Wasabi here: https://wasabi.com/blog/wasabi-ball-fast-time-to-savings/