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Your site says it's distributed, but honestly it has no details of how it works. Is it built on top fo SIA, STORJ or similar? How does it work? How does one "be

Your site says it's distributed, but honestly it has no details of how it works. Is it built on top fo SIA, STORJ or similar? How does it work? How does one "become a node", etc.

tw04 6y ago
The fact they seem to refuse to answer WHERE the storage is coming from is honestly pretty concerning. It's been asked multiple times in this thread and they don't seem interested in addressing it. For all we know the storage is coming compromised hosts that don't even know they're participating.
- iagovar 6y ago
  Yeah, I wouldn't trust my data to a service I have no idea how it works.
  - onionjake 6y ago
    Not trying to obscure anything, just busy this morning :) I answered the parent.
- neverartful 6y ago
  I just found this poking around on their website: https://crowdstorage.com/faq/#where-is-my-data-stored https://crowdstorage.com/faq/#where-is-my-data-stored Where is my data stored? Your data is intelligently encrypted on your My Cloud Home and sliced into tiny pieces that only you can put back together. The encrypted data pieces are scattered across our community of users, using small portions of our member’s unused hard drive space. Spreading your data out in this way makes it more safe and secure than it would be if it was all stored in one location.
onionjake 6y ago
We are not built on top of Sia or Storj. Our technology has been developed for the past decade and is independent. Storage comes from services that we offer to end consumers. In exchange for our services they agree to let us use the unused storage on device, i.e. (https://crowdstorage.com/products/device-backup/ https://crowdstorage.com/products/device-backup/). We plan on expanding to many more devices. Storage also comes from being able to transparently leverage more traditional storage that we purchase from various providers.
- mrlinx 6y ago
  This is still not a clear answer. Where is the data? who are those people holding the data? how do they enroll in this?
  - onionjake 6y ago
    It is a service you can sign up for https://crowdstorage.com/products/device-backup-my-cloud-home/ https://crowdstorage.com/products/device-backup-my-cloud-hom.... Stay tuned for support on more devices in the future (i.e. synology, qnap, etc.). We also purchase storage in datacenters.
- iagovar 6y ago
  So, you're selling unused space in your own hardware? I'm sorry but It's not really clear.
  - onionjake 6y ago
    I answered the sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26581857 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26581857

Your site says it's distributed, but honestly it has no details of how it works. Is it built on top fo SIA, STORJ or similar? How does it work? How does one "become a node", etc.

tw04 6y ago

The fact they seem to refuse to answer WHERE the storage is coming from is honestly pretty concerning. It's been asked multiple times in this thread and they don't seem interested in addressing it. For all we know the storage is coming compromised hosts that don't even know they're participating.

iagovar 6y ago
Yeah, I wouldn't trust my data to a service I have no idea how it works.
- onionjake 6y ago
  Not trying to obscure anything, just busy this morning :) I answered the parent.
neverartful 6y ago
I just found this poking around on their website: https://crowdstorage.com/faq/#where-is-my-data-stored https://crowdstorage.com/faq/#where-is-my-data-stored Where is my data stored? Your data is intelligently encrypted on your My Cloud Home and sliced into tiny pieces that only you can put back together. The encrypted data pieces are scattered across our community of users, using small portions of our member’s unused hard drive space. Spreading your data out in this way makes it more safe and secure than it would be if it was all stored in one location.

onionjake 6y ago

We are not built on top of Sia or Storj. Our technology has been developed for the past decade and is independent. Storage comes from services that we offer to end consumers. In exchange for our services they agree to let us use the unused storage on device, i.e. (https://crowdstorage.com/products/device-backup/ https://crowdstorage.com/products/device-backup/). We plan on expanding to many more devices. Storage also comes from being able to transparently leverage more traditional storage that we purchase from various providers.

mrlinx 6y ago
This is still not a clear answer. Where is the data? who are those people holding the data? how do they enroll in this?
- onionjake 6y ago
  It is a service you can sign up for https://crowdstorage.com/products/device-backup-my-cloud-home/ https://crowdstorage.com/products/device-backup-my-cloud-hom.... Stay tuned for support on more devices in the future (i.e. synology, qnap, etc.). We also purchase storage in datacenters.
iagovar 6y ago
So, you're selling unused space in your own hardware? I'm sorry but It's not really clear.
- onionjake 6y ago
  I answered the sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26581857 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26581857