If all SNOs whould used only the leftover space, retired surveillance HDDs, SSDs and 2.5" HDDs in their laptops, etc. the network whould never hit the proportions that has today. The big majority of PCs and laptops today have SSDs (all flavors), that are not suited for Storj. Laptop drives die verry quiqly, so again, they are a no no. You are left with NAS and servers, and grandpa PCs. How many of them are hobbists, not interested in money? How many of them loose interest or need that space after a while, producing repairs and increase the costs for Storj? Even Storj team, using those big payouts, incentivised the investitions in new hardware, even though they keep that lame excuse “we just tell you to use what you have… bla bla”.
If you show me money, I’ll do my best to take them. If you don’t want complaints, don’t show me the money!
You want a reliable network, enough space for small and big clients, than aproach the problem taking into consideration that this network need good drives, needs investments from SNOs and needs payouts accordingly.
From every angle you aproach the “use what you have” mantra, you realise that’s just stupid and a lame excuse for Storj to not be accounted responsible.
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