# Space rent for nodes

**URL:** <https://forum.storj.io/t/space-rent-for-nodes/3276>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [December 19, 2019, 8:27pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/space-rent-for-nodes/3276 "2019-12-19T20:27:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![dylerkyler](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/dylerkyler/32/69_2.png) [@dylerkyler](https://forum.storj.io/u/dylerkyler)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2019, 8:27pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/space-rent-for-nodes/3276/1 "2019-12-19T20:27:27Z")

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If anyone is intrested I can rent a lot of disk space (hundreds of terabits HDD). It’s possible to mount this over iSCSI and start storj node.

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**Author:** ![IOwnCalculus](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/iowncalculus/32/66_2.png) [@IOwnCalculus](https://forum.storj.io/u/IOwnCalculus)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2019, 8:36pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/space-rent-for-nodes/3276/2 "2019-12-19T20:36:34Z")

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This seems completely at odds with the decentralized goals of Storj.

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**Author:** ![dylerkyler](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/dylerkyler/32/69_2.png) [@dylerkyler](https://forum.storj.io/u/dylerkyler)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2019, 8:44pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/space-rent-for-nodes/3276/3 "2019-12-19T20:44:42Z")

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The storage is not located in one datacenter.

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**Author:** ![KernelPanick](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/kernelpanick/32/62_2.png) [@KernelPanick](https://forum.storj.io/u/KernelPanick)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2019, 10:46pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/space-rent-for-nodes/3276/4 "2019-12-19T22:46:53Z")

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iSCSI over WAN? 🤨

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**Author:** ![syncamide](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/syncamide/32/68_2.png) [@syncamide](https://forum.storj.io/u/syncamide)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2019, 5:45am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/space-rent-for-nodes/3276/5 "2019-12-20T05:45:24Z")

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First letter of iscsi is internet 😉

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**Author:** ![KernelPanick](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/kernelpanick/32/62_2.png) [@KernelPanick](https://forum.storj.io/u/KernelPanick)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2019, 6:22am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/space-rent-for-nodes/3276/6 "2019-12-20T06:22:37Z")

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True, The internet does mean tcp/ip. That doesn’t mean it’s very efficient at it. Unless you have super low latency, fiber to fiber links, and something more secure like mpls. I suspect it would be so much worse than local storage. I second @IOwnCalculus. You can make nodes appear distributed that way, but the storage is centralized, not a good idea.

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**Author:** ![deathlessdd](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/deathlessdd/32/6067_2.png) [@deathlessdd](https://forum.storj.io/u/deathlessdd)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2019, 11:19pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/space-rent-for-nodes/3276/7 "2019-12-20T23:19:39Z")

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This would be like using Google cloud as “Your storage for your node” Which defeats the whole purpose of storj.