Problems after upgrading storage space with a new drive

[Alexey]

There is no limit like you described. But every node should be vetted. The unvetted node can receive only 5% of total customers’ traffic until got vetted. To be vetted on one satellite the node should pass 100 audits from it. With the current number of nodes it should take at least one and half month.
If you would have more than one node in the same /24 subnet of public IPs, it could take in the same amount of times longer as number of nodes (because they will share the same amount of traffic as a one node).

When your node would be vetted it’s not guaranteed that it will receive more traffic, it could be even lower:

@littleskunk

The group of unvetted nodes gets 5% of all uploads. The group of vetted nodes gets 95% of the uploads. If both groups would be equal in size that would mean a node gets 19 times more uploads as soon as it gets vetted. Now the problem is these groups are not the same size. If we have 19 times more vetted nodes then unvetted nodes you would get exactly the same traffic. If we have even more vetted nodes you might get less traffic as soon as you are vetted.

Download traffic more or less depends on the used space. An old storage node holding 5 TB will get 5 times more download traffic then a storage node holding 1 TB. Vetted nodes will not get more download traffic just because they are vetted. They need to collect used space first. This statement is also a bit too simple to always be correct. I would say over all a new node will start with a slightly lower number of repair downloads. The repair traffic should slowly increase over time. → The download traffic will differ a bit from node to node. The point is vetting has impact on upload, uploads will be followed by downloads, getting vetted doesn’t change the download selection.