3. Some questions about sia

Some questions about sia


  • Hello, I am new and I come from France (I use google translation) I am host with a capacity of 1Tb.

    I have some questions:
    I have a hard drive that will probably die soon if I lose the data I know the collatral are lose but if I add another hard drive I will download a new data from other host on the current contracts?

    I understood that Sia was distributing the data based on price, region and what else of bandwidth and uptime?
    On how much the host files are copier?
    The network (pairs) can support a DDOS attack ?

    Why on http://siapulse.com/page/network the capacity is 314Tb while on http://explore.sia.tech/ it displays Total File Contract Size 86.100087675418 TB does not match the 4.4% occupation of 314Tb

    Thanks :)

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  • admins

    You can swap data between drives by:

    1. Add a new storage folder with the new drive
    2. remove the old storage folder

    This will cause the host to move all of the data from the one drive to the other, gracefully handling any read errors and ignoring corrupted sectors while still salvaging everything it can that is not corrupt.

    I'm not sure how well the network would hold up to a DDoS attack. It's a lot to attack 100+ hosts across 5 continents, but a lot of the hosts are pretty small, so maybe not too difficult. But also, the attack would need to be sustained for a full week, which is a lot harder. As Sia continues to grow, network-wide DDoS becomes increasingly unlikely, especially as more high powered hosts get added to the network.

    Total File Contract Size refers to the size of all file contracts ever created on the Sia network. The number is also misleading anymore, because (due to off-chain optimization), large file contracts will often be represented on-chain as having 0 bytes.

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