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.

  • MangoPenguinEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I used to use some of those services a little bit, but it’s very expensive and generally very slow compared to just using B2, Wasabi, etc…

    As far as a more local solution there are tons of those like Ceph, MinIO, GlusterFS, Garage, and many more.

    • peregus@lemmy.worldOP
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      3 months ago

      I use Wasabi too, I was thinking about having another option with data spread across different devices, with extra devices for safety (like SIA). Thanks for your point of view and for the suggestions!

      • MangoPenguinEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Multiple backups are good (really 2 is the minimum anyone should have). It’s just the added complexity and overhead of distributed systems doesn’t seem worth it to me, I have a local backup on a disk mirror in my NAS, and an online backup to B2 and that feels like good enough so far.