4TB Stored in Six Months?
Where abouts are you?
Lafayette, Louisiana with a reliable fiber internet connection. I thought it was about average. Bandwidth total averages a bit over 2TB/month. The process was really slow at first even after being vetted then it picked up some over time and it does vary. I just leave it alone and let it do itās thing.
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That sounds like about double the growth rate of what Iāve seen some EU SNOs post. For months now weāve seen that huge nightly backup job (starting around 7pm EST)ā¦ youāre probably winning a lot of races for it. Good job!
Well, after 10 months, EU node stores 7TB. FTTH, single node on IP, no VPS/VPN; it made 91$. 
Butā¦ donāt start packig for EUā¦ 
All my other nodes, older than 2 years, have flat progress. The deletes are just too many after some time.
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Yes, Iāve backed up the last six months of data on Storj. I used to use a different provider, but the fees were becoming a real burden. Thanks to Storj, Iām using it almost for free now. Itās really helping me save on fixed costs!
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You are living in a lucky spot probably. my experience with 10gbit/2.5 FTTH is different. @Th3Van public numbers too. I have some nodes in EU and USA too.
If any newcomers are thinking about starting new nodes and are reading this message: please donāt. You wonāt have 7 TB of data in 10 months. Trust me!
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Yeah, it also depends on your ISP, not just your system. I am at 3 and the cheapest one is also the lowest performer. It has the most clients and, most probably, itās systems are overwelmed.
I agree, donāt take my expirience as a general model. I donāt expect every node in my region or in EU to get same traffic.
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Denmark
However, please donāt take this as an absolute truth or statistical baseline - this node was started during the space-reservation-gate and was quickly migrated to hashstore etc.
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So right.
Mine are 6.6TB in 11 months and 6.2TB in 10 months. Why am I missing out so much. LOL
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Iām surprised to see such a huge interval of stored data for nodes in different locations. I imagined there would be a difference, but not so huge.
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I would expect a more rebalancing for the data on a Global Collaboration storage tier.
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Looking at the overall situation across all nodes, we can treat these as exception, not a solid baseline on which to build a business plan
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If Iām being honest, Iām not running nodes for āquick moneyā ā Iām genuinely addicted to scaling. For now itās more of a hobby: itās not a big profit machine yet, but it pays for itself, sometimes thereās even a little left over, and most importantly itās a ton of fun. And honestly, where else would I get this much hardware to (legally) feed that obsession?
And yeah, deep down Iām still hoping to make bank off this at some point.
Iām kind of a reckless bastard like that.
I have 370 nodes and a total of about 400 TB of data.
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That is 20000 kWh per year just for the 370 disk drives?
Or are you using 2.5" laptop drives?
Of course, there are fewer hard drives ā just 64 of them, each 16 TB (still quite an impressive amount; without Storj, I wouldnāt have bought so much hardware).
I use only Seagate Exos models.
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Madness!!!1! 
. Are you still adding hardwareā¦ or can you coast for awhile and just let used-space catch up (you should be about half full)?
New Years Resolution: āCatch up to Th3Van!ā 
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Actually, Iām even slightly reducing hardware nowādata volume is at about half of past yearsā peaks.
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I guess because the supply is growing faster than demand.
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What would be the switchoff trigger?
Currently, it pays the power bill for my homelab, which hosts more than just Storj. Itās not much, but it still saves me money, and Iāve gotten over $1000 so far. A bit less in reality since the tokenās price tends to go down by the time I remember to sell it, but at least that capital loss saves money on taxes.
It would have to massively tank like Chia for it to be ānot worth itā. Plus, Storj actually does something useful.
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Bonjour, bonne annĆ©e Ć tous. je suis surpris de vos chiffres, je suis nouveau en tant que SNO, je suis en France et jāai installĆ© 2 noeuds fin septembre et il y a dĆ©jĆ plus de 4TB de stockage. jāavoue ne pas comprendre la logique sachant que les statistiques globales pour le satellite EU1 indiquent un taux de remplissage Ć 10%.