Storj is one of the few options in true distributed cloud storage, and the customer access through tardigrade has only been live for a bit over 6 months, so yeah it’s a 3rd gen prototype atleast of the backbone.
the instability is most likely because Storj Lab semi manually controls the test data, so at times a new sequence isn’t started or other operations needs to be done before test data restarts.
just like a SNO needs to scan their drives and verify that their system is operational, maybe do a reboot or some such thing to make everything run smoothly…
tho the argument could be made that this is only due to computers still not being a mature technology, in the future reboots will most likely be seen as antiquated.
So in some sense it is a toy, because it’s brand new… people haven’t had a chance to really figure out where it fits into their infra structure, as distributed cloud storage has very distinct advantages compared to other storage solutions.
also there is the whole, it’s basically brand new issue… just because you invented the telephone and made a telephone network, doesn’t mean people will flock to using it…
until they discover how useful it is… and who is first to use it… corporate / stock brokers
just like they where the first to use the telegraph.
the tardigrade network could explode in utilization, but that the real world utilization is still kinda low… well we are basically a data center with very few users…
if there are 6000 or more nodes, then even 6 petabyte uploaded is only 1 terabyte for each node…
i’m seeing like 4gb ingress and thats 2/3 of what it should be because i share a subnet with another node.
so 6gb ingress to this point today, and since data is split evenly across all nodes, then if we assume most nodes have a little space free… for this theoretical experiment … nah lets say 50% is full … then we should have atleast accounted more for that.
so 6gb ingress x 3000 nodes with free space, so the network has gotten 18 TB uploaded in the last 8 hours or so… sure for the size of the network it’s nothing… but it’s certainly no inactive, and taking into account it’s only been running for 6 months… if that in fact is close to the real numbers thats not to bad.
other reasons test data may stop is to better monitor uninterrupted natural network behavior…
but yeah it sort of is a toy atm, but it should be ready to do enterprise level work.