Ask HN: Passive income with 1 Gb/s and 10 TB storage?

34 pointsby crlssnvor 4 Jahren26 comments

I recently upgraded my internet connection to symmetrical fiber and I wonder if it's possible to somehow earn a passive income with it. I have an unused raspberry pi and 10 TB of storage at my disposal.

I've looked at Sia (https://sia.tech) but the rewards are only ~1$ per TB/month. Are there any other options out there?

26 comments

cpachvor 4 Jahren

TBH, storage and connectivity is quite cheap these days. So I’m not sure you have enough edge just by that, in order to earn an income.

I would recommend buying index funds every month. $20 is more than $0 dollars. (If you can spare more than that, even better.) It will give you a passive income over time.

mustardovor 4 Jahren

StoreJ (formerly Tardigrade) https://www.storj.io/how-it-works

From https://www.storj.io/node

Average Payout Per Month...

Egress Bandwidth $20/TB

Repair Egress Bandwidth $10/TB

Disk Space $1.50/TB

Audit Bandwidth $10/TB

I have never tried to use it and have no affiliation

ohashivor 4 Jahren

I have run Storj nodes, they can be profitable, but it takes a long time to actually fill that space up. I do like the project though.

zakkivor 4 Jahren

Reading from “SaaS generating usd 500/month” thread, I believe you can create SaaS and host it in your home.

donkarmavor 4 Jahren

nothing good can come from selling your internet connection, if you do that say goodbye to having a non-blacklisted IP. if you make a plex server with the storage and connection you can save yourself streaming fees if you pay that already?

tluyben2vor 4 Jahren

It would be a race to the bottom for that, I mean, I would pay for cheap backup but I currently pay 40$/mo for 25TB so even that is not really something either.

KiranRao0vor 4 Jahren

Wait, where are you getting 25TB for $40/m

MiguelHudnandezvor 4 Jahren

25 TB is about $130/mo on backblaze b2.

(Not $13/mo as I originally posted)

Edit: GIGO math error. Their website said $0.005/gb, not $0.0005 as I based my calculation on.

tluyben2vor 4 Jahren

Thanks! I used b2 before but it didn’t work well (or at all actually; it kept failing). This was years ago; I assume they improved so I will try again!

Edit; I knew I checked before; the pricing on b2 seems much higher? Am I missing something?

I am paying now including the restore bandwidth. But 25TB seems 125$/mo and then you pay for downloading it?

MiguelHudnandezvor 4 Jahren

I was wrong on the math, but I think b2 is great for online backups. Great to have "just in case" but not necessarily trusted to production just yet. I still have a lot of fondness for the team and products based on their open source designs for the storage pods.

efffvor 4 Jahren

From the B2 calculator, it's like 1500/year, how can you achieve such price?

xscvor 4 Jahren

Do you have a source for this? B2 calculator shows $125/month for me

cenourinhaptvor 4 Jahren

Are you sure? I get 1500$/year and that doesnt include bandwidth.

ctnbvor 4 Jahren

25TB would be ~$25/m with Glacier Deep Archive

tluyben2vor 4 Jahren

Yes, but you incur traffic costs as well when you send to/from AWS right? I don't have that issue. Nor do I want it; I like AWS for what it does, but I want to be able to get away when I need to.

nextaccounticvor 4 Jahren

Isn't a race to the bottom a good thing? I want cheap backups.

tluyben2vor 4 Jahren

Sure, but not for OP!

killingtime74vor 4 Jahren

Almost everyone has 1 gig symmetric here in NZ. You can get up to 8. I’m not sure you’ll break even on electricity

zaphod12vor 4 Jahren

You can get 8gbs?!?! What can you do with that? I have 1 gbs and the bottleneck isn't that bandwidth for pretty much anything.

Mandatumvor 4 Jahren

You can get that locally. Not many places serve those speeds.

killingtime74vor 4 Jahren

It’s true, ISP international speed is not that high. However you can connect to a local VPN or locally hosted proxy to get full 8gb/s international

atmosxvor 4 Jahren

New Zealand, here I come!!!

_hhffvor 4 Jahren

If you’re in a low coverage area for the Helium network, I’ve heard you can make decent money setting up a miner: https://www.helium.com/

franga2000vor 4 Jahren

idk, ever since they killed custom hardware, Helium smells more and more like a pyramid scheme. The hardware needed is worth around 50$ but you don't actually get paid unless you buy hardware from an approved list of sellers where it costs upwards of 500$.

plumeriavor 4 Jahren

An IPFS pinning service? [0]

[0] https://docs.ipfs.io/concepts/persistence/

vgeekvor 4 Jahren

Plex share?