Quantity of Storj Nodes

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Hello,

I’m starting to build a setup to run Storj Node. I will probably begin with 4TB.

I’ve seen posts where people say that they run more than 1 node. I don’t understand the benefits and the reason of running various nodes instead of only one.

Best regards,
W0lf13

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Hello,
Imagine you’ll fill your 4TB disk. What next?

  • You can just stay with your 4TB disk and it’s perfectly fine
  • You can increase your storage for storj by buying bigger disk, copying data … but what with your ‘old’ disk?
  • You can add new/additinal disk to your current disk in form of RAID0… but I don’t think it’s recomended by storj and additionally - loosing one disk you loose all.
  • You can get/buy/whatever another disk and create another node. If you run in docker - it costs you nearly nothing. A bit of memory (let’s say ~300MB), nearly no CPU usage…

So if you want increase your storage for storj - new node is most probably the only meaningfull solution.

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If you have access to more than one IP address (in different /24’s), then more nodes means you could store more data faster, to earn more sooner. But most people are using just a single IP… so they run one node until it’s full (then decide if they want to swap to a larger disk, or start a second node, to keep earning more).

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So unless I have a block of public IPs, there is no need to have more than 1 node (even if I wanted I couldn’t)?

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  1. No any block of IP. All IPs in one /24 segment are ‘equal’ and share ingress.
  2. Even with one IP you can have multiple nodes. Just each node must run on different TCP+UDP port. But before your node is full of data, it makes no much sense (your ingress is shared)
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So if I want to add another HDD to my pre existing node, this isn’t recommended?

I should build the setup with the “final” desireable storage?

Which RAID operatores run with? 5 sounds about it.

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Now that makes sense!

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It is recommended to fill your first HDD that you are using. This will take a while. If the HDD is full and you want to add another, it is recommended to start a separate node for that HDD. Do not put them into a raid 0 because if one of the HDDs fails all data is gone and you will have to start from 0. If you add a second node and one fails, you will keep the data from the other nodes.

Don’t put too much storage in at once, because it will take a while until the 4Tb HDD gets full. And you can add enough later.

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Thank you @MarviBiene, I will have that in mind.