Recently storj did a test from salt lake satellite sending slightly increased traffic, in the ballpark of 50-70Mpbs. A lot of nodes were killed when they ran out of ram because disk would not keep up, a few people complained very loudly on the forum (seriously? Do you want more traffic or not?!). The test was in preparation for/ in anticipation of a customer getting onboarded, at least that’s what I remember reading.
So this might happen sooner than later. Which is a great thing. Just not for a potato single hdd appliances.
Nothing wrong with atom, C3000 series are pretty good.
This was exactly my thought process to. Huh, nice, and proceeded to buy old supermicro server from local hardware recycler 