Yeah Backblaze are really great. They have enough buying power they can publish stats without getting punished for it. Long overdue in the industry.
My ZFS array is all 3Tb WD Red WD30EFRX drives. I just had one begin to fail before christmas, they replaced it under warranty. I see from the Backblaze data that there has been a sudden jump in the failure of those WD30EFRX this year, this is very worrying. I am very lucky I didn’t choose Seagate though, they’ve got between a 1 in 4 and 1 in 2 chance of dying in the next year which is awful
Does safecoin take into account the relative scarcity of data in a region? Say, for example inside of a national firewall or a war zone? Do rewards go up for delivering data to these hard to service areas?
This is interesting because it would create a business model that rewards people for bringing others access to internet freedom, the internet militia. The point can be made that people with a lack of personal liberty would potentially have the fewest amount of nodes and so nodes in oppressive/wartorn regions would come at a safecoin premium. Basically the risk of delivery is the resource. Potentially that risk should be rewarded.
There’s nothing explicitly designed to do this, but if you think about it, nodes in scarce areas will have an advantage over nodes outside. So when a chunk is requested from within a scarce area, any node that is geographically close will tend to serve data faster than a more distant node, and so be more likely to get the reward.
Depending on where you’re located, one bottle neck will be the gigabyte cap in your ISP plan. Most if not all ISP’s stipulate a maximum number of GBs per month. For example, with ABC 25 plan, you’ll get 25 Mbps download, and up to 2.5 Mbps upload. What they only say in the fine print or in their terms of service is you are going to be charged per MB beyond your cap. For instance, in this hypothetical ABC 25 plan, your cap would be 250 GB per month, that is down and uploads combined. So if you’re not prepared on this front, you could get an ugly bill a few months in. (Number of GBs farmed in the first month or two is obviously a big unknown, dependent on the initial popularity of SAFE and many other factors.)
I’ll step up to the next data plan, for a bit more money per month, I’ll get a 400 GB cap, and it’s about 50 down, 10 up.
I think this is less of an issue than people might expect because I think people tend to overestimate the amount of data are vault will be supplying to the network. I don’t know this, testing will hopefully give some guide during testnet3, but from discussions here and thinking about it I’m now convinced that most data saved to a vault will be accessed very rarely, if ever again.
Perhaps the biggest risk would be if a node ended up holding some popular data in its cache during a period of high demand, but this would I guess be rare, and short lived, so perhaps only a small risk in practice.
Also, if you are delivering data, you are farming and generating income, so it matters how much you are earning compared to your costs, which varies a lot, so hard to generalise, but…
Caps and data charges very widely according to country, provider and service. So don’t assume it’s common, even if its the norm in your country. And even then, check the aren’t better options you don’t know about.
I use mobile 3G for my internet on an unlimited calls, texts & data plan. Before that I had cable broadband, again unlimited, both plans about $25/month. Most people I know don’t realise they can get this kind of deal and use more expensive alternatives.
Back in December I sated my guesstimate on which I’m willing to put a small amount of money (if anyone wants to bet). In it I said no more than 1% a day, so if you provide 10 TB to MaidSafe and that’s accessed in a uniform fashion I think you’d need no more than 100 Mbps. Probably less.
Interesting, yeah I’m aware of the lucky countries with unlimited download, but ISPs started capping at least three years ago in mine. I’m curious what your upload and download speeds are on 3G. Have you run speedtest.net or the like?
I don’t get 3G at home, so where 3G/4G are available the results will be much better. But even my <3G speeds work well enough for me (lots of browsing, even videos below HD). I get through tens of GB per month.
Yes, he’s Glaswegian, so i reckon it’s permissible behaviour in England…a kind of living next to an Englishman tax …lol
Actually, he’s a good mate and knows about it - I bung him £15 a month, but I get “Nowtv”, “Netflix” “BTSport” etc, so it’s OK for both of us.
I hope that there will be a user friendly software package for farmers using a variety of operating systems. One issue I had with bitcoin was the amount of effort required to mine. Something like this would turn off a lot of potential farmers and diversity is important for a redundant system.
I read that there are no settings. I hope this does not apply to options too. I would prefer to decide how much space to use and whether or not to include an external drive, how much CPU or GPU to use (will there be support for switchable cards?) as well as bandwidth.
Why do you need “a variety”?
There will be a Docker image with Linux which will probably take 1 minute to install (excluding download time).
For Windows they said there will be a package which will probably take 1 minute to configure (maybe edit 3 lines in a vault.conf or something like that).
As long as it’s a drive (or probably a path - can be a directory on a drive shared with other apps), MaidSafe doesn’t care. There’s no GPU/CPU involved.
A variety of operating systems will be supported using simple installers (packages in MaidSafe repositories) for different Linux flavors and OSX, and a Windows installed (a docker image may be available too but isn’t the most user friendly option, so not a primary offering).
I don’t know what you are referring to with “there will be no settings”. There may be no brainer defaults, but there will definitely also be the ability to change these, and I understand this will allow both GUI and a “headless” command line options.
Nerdalize is the brilliant idea to put datacenter in the home. Heat up the house and provide computing power to other companies. Ideally it would be fun if this idea, could grow into a Harddisk/Home PC and Mesh network all in 1 device. And ofcourse sucha device would be a good farming hardware on the SAFE Network.
