I’ve been playing around with Storj as a fun home lab storage project, and in this video I walk through building a dedicated Storj storage node and migrating my existing data with minimal downtime. Storj is decentralized object storage: your file gets encrypted, split into 80 pieces, and distributed across nodes worldwide—and the cool part is it only needs 29 pieces to reconstruct the file. The network is constantly auditing nodes and repairing data when nodes go offline, so redundancy is baked in. I start by showing my “bench” node stats after about a week and a half (including audits, uptime, and a surprisingly high upload acceptance rate). The big problem was power: that test setup was pulling around 85W. So I rebuild the node using a Supermicro X11SSLF platform in a 1U chassis, then I migrate by copying my Storj software + systemd service over, moving the data drive, updating fstab (including noatime), and fixing a couple sysctl kernel parameters (TCP Fast Open and buffer sizing). After updating port forwards and restarting the service, everything comes back online—now at about 28W, with the acceptance rate returning to 99.7%.