And with RPi 3b+ 1GB without SDD and one HDD too? I doubt so.
Why not, if it’s meet the minimum prerequisites?
Maybe, but they use much less energy than anything else. This is a good choice for those ones, who wants to learn Linux and earn something on top. So, even if they run it for fun, it would be still useful. At least my RPi3b+ was able to pay for all four nodes electricity and my internet subscription. For me it was useful. So, why not?
This is probably true. However, we accepted anyone, who have a spare space and bandwidth.
In this case, it is exactly in line with our ideas of sustainable development.
It’s not only for a small amount of slow nodes. It’s also to reduce costs on hardware, if someone would build HW only for Storj (yes, we against it, but we are not blind). And we want to reduce the footprint, not increase.
Maybe, I didn’t search enough to find that stat. I usually used a downloads stat from the GitHub.
This one implementation proves an increase in a performance. We want to have a high performance of our nodes. Anyone node. Even from a week devices. The high distributed nodes are our strength, why do not squeeze from it every ms which we can achieve?