I intended to renew my cloud space in one of the popular services, and because I encrypt my data before uploading it, privacy was not a priority for me as much as reliability and price. I tried to search for cheaper methods until I found this article, which frankly surprised me with the prices:
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Decentralized storage is cheaper than centralized storage by around 78.6% on average. This is given that the main decentralized storage options cost $2.11 for 1TB per month on average, compared to the average of $9.88 among top centralized storage providers across personal and enterprise plans.
The most expensive major decentralized storage option costs $0.16 less than the cheapest centralized storage option, for 1TB/month. Storj charges the highest among top decentralized storage providers at $4.00, whereas Google Drive offers the lowest price of $4.16 among top centralized storage providers. That said, Storj charges separately for the retrieval of stored files at $7/TB for download bandwidth.
source https://www.coingecko.com/research/publications/centralized-decentralized-storage-cost#:~:text=How%20Much%20Does%201TB%20of,Filecoin%20to%20%244.00%20on%20Storj.
Filecoin asks for around $0.19 per 1TB/month is this real? If so, how were these services able to outperform Amazon S3, Google Cloud, and iCLOUD, as the average prices seem very different.
The topic is up for discussion, but if anyone knows who has personal experience, I would be grateful.
I am not talking about the price, but rather the price of storage for high capacities, as I thought that Filecoin was something to store spaces in megabytes at most, such as photos, music, and short films at a maximum, and not something that can hold terabytes, especially at this low price compared to the costs of storing kilobytes in Bitcoin.
So far, the most answer I have found when asking this question is that these services have not been tested at these capacities, and that the promises that are given are inaccurate, or that demand is still low. I will try to upload 1 TB in the coming days and let's experiment.
I also don't know how Filecoin determines storage costs: in $/TB or FIL token/TB. If it is FIL/TB then the FIL token depreciation impacts the storage price in $.
I will wait for your experience with Filcoin, this could be the future of our storage instead of Google Drive or DropBox. It is cheaper and more decentralized, there is no reason for users to refuse. On https://destor.com/ from Filecoin, there are many organizations using data storage service.
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I intended to renew my cloud space in one of the popular services, and because I encrypt my data before uploading it, privacy was not a priority for me as much as reliability and price. I tried to search for cheaper methods until I found this article, which frankly surprised me with the prices:
(https://talkimg.com/images/2024/01/11/sbpJf.png)
Decentralized storage is cheaper than centralized storage by around 78.6% on average. This is given that the main decentralized storage options cost $2.11 for 1TB per month on average, compared to the average of $9.88 among top centralized storage providers across personal and enterprise plans.
The most expensive major decentralized storage option costs $0.16 less than the cheapest centralized storage option, for 1TB/month. Storj charges the highest among top decentralized storage providers at $4.00, whereas Google Drive offers the lowest price of $4.16 among top centralized storage providers. That said, Storj charges separately for the retrieval of stored files at $7/TB for download bandwidth.
source https://www.coingecko.com/research/publications/centralized-decentralized-storage-cost#:~:text=How%20Much%20Does%201TB%20of,Filecoin%20to%20%244.00%20on%20Storj.
Filecoin asks for around $0.19 per 1TB/month is this real? If so, how were these services able to outperform Amazon S3, Google Cloud, and iCLOUD, as the average prices seem very different.
The topic is up for discussion, but if anyone knows who has personal experience, I would be grateful.
The main reason is that decentralized storage is typically cheaper than centralized storage. Decentralized storage you don't have to pay for the overhead if large company like data centers, you are only paying for storage space directly from other users on the network.