As I’ve been entertaining myself with reading the restructuring threads tonight, a recurring question occurs to me. How do SNOs end up with hundreds of TB of data? I’ve been stuck at ~35% utilization for literally years. I have low latency 500/500 fiber internet, but only a single IP address. I woul…

Not exactly. Would fill bit more, up to ~ half per disk on average, just like rabbit showed. So the additional IP’s alone won’t get Your disks filled, without reorganizing whole file system of Your machine to put more nodes on one disk, each with its own ip.

[image] Ruskiem: Your machine to put more nodes on one disk Which is a worse design. Thus I would support a @Vadim ’s suggestion [image] Helping the network become profitable — what can operators contribute while staying viable? (calculator inside) STORJLINGS …

(i don’t approve that, just to be clear. Aldo i once ran 5 nodes on 1 ultrastar disk for a year or two, but it was all 1 ip (no cheating), and the CPU had problem more than disk, coz it was some low-watt one) Or You just need detection if some disk machine has nodes with different Ip’s to make sur…

Currently I don’t have an idea, how to achieve that without a /24 rule. Because in Select we have contracts, and distribute pieces in an equal way to allow the data to survive even if the one operator could plug-off. However, they at least are immune to a usual offline issues and have a NOC 24/7, al…

Actually, I have one. The home DC owner can put a collateral equal to their equipment and/or 100% of their annual income to guarantee that they will be not a Byzantine actor, which they are. Just take a look, how easily they disposed /24 and 1 node - 1 disk rules.

This was suggested a number of times in the past. Example: [image] Open discussion / ideas for updated tokenomics Ideas & Suggestions This would not be a bad thing. Right now there is a large surplus of node operators. I would definitely preferred having to d…

[image] Alexey: put a collateral equal to their equipment and/or 100% of their annual income This is unrealistic. For someone storing several PBs of data, that is tens of thousands of dollars tied up as collateral. With zero guarantees Storj will still be around in a year, or that payouts won…

The smart contract might be implemented to support both sides. They are designed for these cases, where you do not need any arbitrage to get money if the condition is broken. Actually, this is how the contract for Select operators is designed, the usual one, on paper. They will pay, if they break t…

Alex, Or You can keep /24 rule, but make sure the network strongly favors ingress in nodes without VPN’s. VPNs have bigger pings (time to first byte). A normal fiber connection is like 1-10ms. A VPN is up to 200ms Not all VPN nodes are cheating, how ever this way, nodes circumventing /24 rule, w…

[image] Alexey: they will be not a Byzantine actor, which they are A Byzantine actor is a term from distributed systems and computer science, referring to a participant in a network that may behave maliciously, unpredictably, or fail in arbitrary ways. Currently I would say it is rather St…

SNOs with lots of data... How?

Node Operators

arrogantrabbit August 1, 2026, 9:03am 16

This was suggested a number of times in the past. Example: