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…

[image] storaje: Are my results really because my 9 nodes are behind a single IP address? Of course. They are treated as 1 node.

[image] storaje: How By openly working around /24 rule and hosting a swarm of nodes on an industrial strength server farm: [image] How does th3van do it? No, the question is how is such concentration is tolerated by storj. If I run two nodes on my sin…

[image] jammerdan: They are treated as 1 node. Sure, of course, I understand. Does everyone show ~35% utilization? If the network was evenly distributed across every /24 with nodes of reasonable performance, we’d all show the same utilization?

[image] storaje: Does everyone show ~35% utilization Utilization will depend on the allocated size. Currently node levels out at 10-12TB – deletions balance out additions at about that size.

How does th3van do it? two nodes on my single host I’m the villain. But if I run 2892 nodes in the same shed — I’m valued member of node operator community :rofl: You’re absolutely right. [image] arrogantrabbit: Currently node levels out at 10-12TB You’re saying that every /24 of nod…

Nobody knows. Now the choiceofn rule is in place, so it’s not guaranteed.

Yes, from my anecdotal experience on geo-distributed nodes, across western US. Sorted by size: The Node1 was created in 2022 (cable internet). Node4 – 2024 (symmetric fiber). Node 9 - early 2026 (also cable internet) [image] The 12TB seems to be a saturation point

Did you use a one connection channel? Because if not, then it’s a normal distribution, I guess?

[image] Alexey: Did you use a one connection channel? No, all except 2 and 9 are on the different hosts in different cities. 2 and 9 are on the same host/same IP. Actually 2 and 9 also add up to 12! Nice! [image] Alexey: then it’s a normal distribution Yes, I’m not saying it’s abnorm…

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.

SNOs with lots of data... How?

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arrogantrabbit August 1, 2026, 7:47am 3

By openly working around /24 rule and hosting a swarm of nodes on an industrial strength server farm: