Question about segments and cold storage

Product Discussions
2

Welcome to the forum.

Copied from https://www.storj.io/blog/february-2022-product-update

  • We enabled a monthly per segment fee for all users. The per-segment fee is $0.0000088 per segment. This fee will not affect most of you. To keep the per segment fee nominal at scale, we suggest packing small files into 64MB or greater.
  • Check out our docs to get more information on how objects are broken down into segments.
  • Files less than 64MB are one segment. A 1GB (1024MB file) is 16 segments.
  • Here is an example of what the per segment fee would look like depending on how much data you store on the network
  • 100,000 segments = $0.88
  • 1,000,000 segments = $8.80
  • To ensure you don’t accidentally upload too many segments, we added per project segment limits. Just like storage and bandwidth limits, you can alway request higher limits or upgrade your account.

How you use the storage is up to you, but node operators will be more happy if the storage is active since they get paid for outgoing traffic :wink:

If your segments are already too high, than there should be a mistake. Maybe contact support about that. If your files are larger than 64MB you should not have issues with the segment limit. Only if your files are smaller than 64MB it could be an issue, as each file will be a segment.

For example:
10 images á 10 MB are 10 Segments.
1 Archive á 100 MB is 2 Segments.

2 Likes