Years ago I came across filecoin/sia decentralized data storage and I started trying them but then I stopped due to lack of time. Some days ago I’ve heard in a podcast about a kind of NAS that does kinda the same thing: it spreads chunks of data across other devices owned by other users.
Is there a service that does this but with your own hardware or, even better, something open source where you can have X GB as far as you share the same amount of space plus something extra?
It would be great for backup.
I use Sia as a renter (paying for storage) and I am also a host (selling storage space) on the Sia network.
Currently use it to host videos from peertube.wtf. It’s not perfect yet, but it works.
For how long have you being using it? How’s the reliability?
I have been using it for about 6 months now. no issues.
I currently only use 163.92 GB @ 4.2x of storage though and renting out about 2TB of storage.
It is actually fairly easy to setup. Both hosting and renting.
What do you mean with “@4.2x”?
It’s the redundancy. So a file exists at 4.2 hosts on average. The minimum is 3, which is something you set yourself.
Got it, thanks!