Capacity yes but we are concerned about throughput. Bringing online a 1 PB of storage on a 100MBit/s connection isn’t going to help. I think we filled like 3000 nodes in the past week. So if these nodes would add some extra hardware drives (if possible with their setup) that would get us back to the throughput we had a week ago.
That is an old statement. We now see that the number of nodes with free space needs to stay high enough. So any additional node on a different internet connection or additional space on full nodes helps.
Not useful is to add an additional 1 PB to the 100MBit/s node I mentioned above.
I can’t even predict for my own nodes how much used space I will have at the end. As explained a few posts earlier we are trying to reserve enough capacity in the network to answer that question. In the meantime we are preparing some alternative solutions to that problem. The surge capacity would be short term.