A random thought. The recent changes to plans and pricing might have made treating a storage node as means to exchange storage between peers even more remote than it was. Previously for each 2.3 TB I store I could effectively fund 1 TB of Storj storage for myself, taking into account payment in tokens (+10%) and using L2 (+3%). Now I’d need 3.5 TB to do the same with the active archive plan.
Honestly, even the previous level was a bit too much for me; for my own ~12 TB of backups I’m using a provider that costs around half of what Storj used to, and on top of that—has generous free egress. At the same time I really don’t need performance that Storj offers—I can’t claim Storj’s price is not fair compared to its parameters. So now I wonder—how close could Storj get to the tit-for-tat level by tuning RS values and chunk sizes to make this kind of hobbyist backup/low performance possible? If a plan tailored for this kind of use was there, even if only available to people paying with tokens and not using S3 gateways, maybe that could generate some interest?