@kevink: Technically the software does run on a Raspberry Pi3 indeed, however apparently I read somewhere it needs some fine-tuning so it does not process too many operations in parallel, otherwise it may respond too slowly to network requests.
Besides, my Node runs on a Raspberry Pi 4B which is the most powerful Raspberry Pi to date, and I noticed that whenever there are uploads/downloads, it actually makes the CPU work pretty hard:
On the left: Newtork activity (charts go up to 10Mbit/s)
On the right: Mean CPU load
What I see is that for an average of 3 to 5Mbit/s trafic, there’s one core used to approximately 60%.
Not sure if it’s because of compression/encryption but looks to me like the Storj software is not light at all on CPUs.
I could be mistaking, but I think Sotrj would require a pretty solid CPU for sending/receiving at 1Gbps speed.
That’s my 2cts, if anyone has better insights on this, I’d be interested to know more though 