I've been following this company, Storj, for a while. Basically, you rent your drive space to them and they pay you via storj crypto token. It's be a really awesome way to utilize unused space on unraid devices.

 

https://storj.io/share.html

I was just checking this company out last night as well.

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I've been watching for a while but just got into it now.

I prefer SIA but they need a better UI

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I didn't realize SIA was the same premise as storj... I'll run both. Thanks for that!

 

Anyway, SIA and STORJ would be awesome plugins for unraid.

SIA is trustless. There's no centeral organization that distributes the money like Storj

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How much money do you make off this? Is it like $0.75 a month, or something more pleasant? IBasically, is it worth the effort?

How much money do you make off this? Is it like $0.75 a month, or something more pleasant? IBasically, is it worth the effort?

At the moment it's probably not worth it if your just in it for the money. It's more about supporting the projects in the infancy because you like the idea of encrypted cloud storage.

I imagine once they improve there products and gain more main stream market adoption they may become more worth while. If you already have a machine that runs 24/7 and has spare HDD space.

SIA is very easily in development

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I've heard people are getting a few hundred per month for renting out about 10-12 TB

 

1 hour ago, Pandemic said:

I've heard people are getting a few hundred per month for renting out about 10-12 TB

 

Wait, what? A few hundred of what?

It's paid out in Storj cryptocurrency (which is built on ethereum). The equivalent of a few hundred USD. The payout breakdown depends on a number of things:

http://blog.storj.io/post/156584576553/storj-payout-transparency

paymentModelFunction = function(gbHours, telemReports, downloadedBytes) {
 gbHoursScaled =  (gbHours - mean(gbHours)) / sd(gbHours)
 telemReportsScaled =  (telemReports - mean(telemReports)) / sd(telemReports)
 downloadedBytesScaled = (downloadedBytes - mean(downloadedBytes)) / sd(downloadedBytes)
 
 basePayout = 10
 ghHourPayout = 12.2221 * gbHoursScaled
 telemReportsPayout = 0.1452 * telemReportsScaled
 downloadedBytesPayout = 12.6849 * downloadedBytesScaled
 
 finalPayout = ghHourPayout + telemReportsPayout + downloadedBytesPayout + basePayout
}

 

 

 

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*****I was speaking to a docker dev from storj. Can anyone recommend any of the unraid devs who would want to collaborate on working with Storj?

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Edited July 22, 20178 yr by Pandemic

Would love this docker?  Did anyone make it for unraid? or maybe have a guide?

I have a fully operational Sia docker I run. Still need to update it to the new wallet v.1.3.1 though. I'll need to post a few bullet points as a guide when I'm home again in a couple of weeks.

 

Edited to add: I also had a Storj docker set up and running, but the thing with Storj is if your latency is too high from the bridge (of which there is only one in US I believe) then you don't get any contracts. There's a blog floating around somewhere of a guy who tried to set up his own bridge, but I don't think it worked out at all. I should still have the draft config buried somewhere in my unraid box.

Edited January 28, 20188 yr by mishmash-

How did you setup a Storj docker?

Scary, I think I know how to make these  Docker Containers now. This appears to be running. The template is based on Storj public nightly build. Here is the Storj hub.. 

This is NOT the Storj GUI, just the daemon, which is accessed through cli via docker. Only seems like one important command anyways:

docker exec Storj storjshare status

EDIT: ((Nuked the template)) Can now be found on the Community Apps Plugin. 

Edited February 17, 20188 yr by Jcloud