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.

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For how long have you being using it? How’s the reliability?

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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.

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What do you mean with “@4.2x”?

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It’s the redundancy. So a file exists at 4.2 hosts on average. The minimum is 3, which is something you set yourself.

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