Storj
Ranked 9 of 10 object storage by recommenders
Decentralized S3-compatible storage that some people trust for reliability, and others use to earn income from spare disk space. Critics mainly point to management problems and operational overhead.
Decentralized S3-compatible storage that some people trust for reliability, and others use to earn income from spare disk space. Critics mainly point to management problems and operational overhead.
12 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 7
- criticize it
- 5
- approval share
- 58%
Recommended in 5 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 7 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 1.4 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 5 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Simple, configurable architecture
“Storj supports arbitrary configured backends each with different erasure coding, node placement, etc.”
Comment from 20 Dec 2025 in “Garage – An S3 object store so reliable you can run it outside datacenters” “Storj is a much more straightforward implementation.”
Comment from 31 Aug 2026 in “A 12TB Steam “teraleak” spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming history”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Management and business viability concerns
“mostly IMO because of incompetent management”
Comment from 7 Sep 2026 in “Keep Our Servers Running” “Storj is in bankruptcy for fiscal reasons due to its impossible logistics”
Comment from 7 Sep 2026 in “Keep Our Servers Running” Operational complexity and overhead
“the economic incentives rarely outweigh the risks and operational overhead for the average homeowner”
Comment from 1 Apr 2026 in “Distributed data centers in our basements” “Insanely convoluted solution that only someone with crypto-brain would ever come up with.”
Comment from 7 Sep 2026 in “Keep Our Servers Running”
Other object storage people recommend
The four most recommended other object storage, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon S3 | 170 | 84 | 67% | 12 | 14 yrs3 owners | Approved |
| Cloudflare R2 | 85 | 14 | 86% | 12 | — | Approved |
| Backblaze B2 | 50 | 14 | 78% | 12 | — | Approved |
| AWS S3 | 17 | 7 | 71% | 11 | — | Approved |
| StorjThis page | 7 | 5 | 58% | 5 | — | — |
What people said
11 of the 12 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Storj is in bankruptcy for fiscal reasons due to its impossible logistics”
“Yes, and that's a great idea.”
“Insanely convoluted solution that only someone with crypto-brain would ever come up with.”
“mostly IMO because of incompetent management”
“Storj is a much more straightforward implementation.”
“Raising the minimum price from $5 to $50.”
“the economic incentives rarely outweigh the risks and operational overhead for the average homeowner”
“generating enough income to offset my energy bill by about 25% monthly”
“It turns out, if you build it correctly, you can get BETTER reliability SLAs.”
“I am a happy Storj customer”
“Storj supports arbitrary configured backends each with different erasure coding, node placement, etc.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.