One of the main innovations of Sia is providing a low cost means to turn that 1 TB refurbished hard drive into a useful cloud product.
Sia is able to provide, at 1/10th the cost of Amazon, high throughput, high reliability, high redundancy, geographically distributed cloud storage, and it can do that without high reliability drives or datacenters.
Sia is able to provide, at 1/10th the cost of Amazon, high throughput, high reliability, high redundancy, geographically distributed cloud storage, and it can do that without high reliability drives or datacenters.