Yeah it is a bit dusty, becouse it is in the basement, next to the garage. It actually looks better then the picture. I tried to use this cabinet with the original side covers and glass door, but it did not worked. Either it was too warm or became dusty… I will clean it, I promise! 
That is an other RPi what I used earlier as Home Assistant server, but I moved that system to the Intel NUC which is at the bottom.
The night time version looks better 
It’s nice that you have solar pannels aswell. Free green energy. 
Very much not “free”.
You just pay for it all up front 
I don’t want to go into too much detail, because our situation is very abnormal due to a well-used state support opportunity. We have had an 11kWp system for about 2 years and it has already returned the money we invested.
I used a set of really, really old disks to build some new storagenodes.
Is this dumb? yes.
Is it fun? Also yes.
I have a few high capacity disks on their way home to me: These old chaps will be taken out of production as soon as they arrive.
I’d love to know what you think
Your estimate of growing at $4/month is a good one: I hope to hear where that setup is in 9 months when you’ve cleared all the holdbacks!
My electricity is expensive so keeping one drive active costs me about $3 a month. That’s just for the drive, not the ancillary costs of running the server. So it only makes sense for me to use newer-ish large-ish drives.
(I actually had an old 1TB laptop drive that also was barely profitable becuase it used so little power. But it started to fail. at least I was able to migrate off the node before it died!)
@Roxor omg, the content just keeps writing itself I’ll put a reminder in my calendar and give you an update in 11 months lol - at that time, there should have been a complete payout cycle with full payout.
@EasyRhino Nah, electricity wise this is not at all worth anything. I did it just so I have space to grow into, before I can free newer high TB drives elsewhere.
Nice Bodycam action! There should be some lasers or bullets dodging when you go up the stairs… it will increase your movie creation skills. 
I promise my friend, I’ll incorporate dodging a laser in a future video! 
Finally got my system up and running—look at that nice number! 
I went ahead and set up a little website so anyone curious can safely view the disk stats and traffic:
https://storj.marvibiene.de/
It’s quite late now, so I’ll add my second server later. I’m open to any feedback! 
I was a little inspired by @Th3Van, but wanted something more visual than just plain text.
Why? Language barriers no longer exist today. Any decent browser can translate anything for you.
On the contrary, it’s beneficial to everyone if people actually in their native languages — the quality of text would be better, more efforts can be allocated to content without being distracted by form.
lol because it was almost all graphs anyway. And yes I see your original smiley 
blinky blinky… i like very much!!!
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Late to the party, but here’s mine!
It’s an eight drive enclosure running off of a Radxa Rock 5B Blue Edition (8 Arm cores and 32GB Ram). It’s a little beast and I love it!
There’s an internal nvme drive running the database and an additional 2.5’’ drive (on the side) just for writing logs, as otherwise the constant disk writing would kill the internal SD card in no time.
I had problems with Icy stuff. A 1 drive USB 3.0 external enclosure suddenly died after a few months; the drive was alright.
But nice setup. You should keep a closer look at the SD card; maybe you can move the OS on the NVMe or SSD drive.
Thanks! I’ve had some headaches with the Icy enclosure already, namely a few corrupted filesystems when I initially migrated the drives over, and occasionally when I swap a drive out - nothing that a bog standard filesystem repair won’t fix, but annoying downtime nonetheless. Having said that, bar the occasional niggle, it works well and keeps the setup pretty tidy compared to my previous open drive rack, which was a bit of a janky cable mess!
loglevel on fatal. and spare power for the 2.5" drive =more profit.
