Storj Monthly Overview

My article Storj Node – Rent Out Your Disk Space and Earn Money describes in detail how Storj can provide decentralized cloud storage at low cost with high security. Out of interest and fascination with the technology, and the hope that it will add something to my passive income, I also run a Storj node and thus provide my available disk space. In return, I receive money from the storage provider in the form of STORJ tokens.

Since I would have liked to have such a page myself before starting the node to see a possible development of income and disk space, I decided to publish the progress of my node. Always at the beginning of a month I summarize this progress. So you will find on this page the following key figures.

  • Earnings
  • Earnings paid out by Storj
  • Withheld earnings
  • Used disk space

Since Storj wants to prevent a node operator from suddenly taking its hard drive off the network, the algorithm always withholds a portion of the revenue. After a certain runtime of the node, the decentralized cloud storage pays out the withheld amount.

The earnings are on a small scale still. Nevertheless, I find it enormously exciting how it develops over the months. The node has only been running since the end of April 2021 and unfortunately I had not taken any screenshots for May, June, July and August. For this reason, the listing starts with September 2021.

Storj summary

MonthEarnings ($)Total earnings ($)Withheld earnings ($)Space used
August 202312.29355.0168.97 TB
July 202311.14343.7169 TB
June 202314.51328.2468.44 TB
May 202316.70311.8368.02 TB
April 202318.74293.0168.15 TB
March 202325.58267.3967.92 TB
February 202323.15244.2566.59 TB
January 202323.19220.9466.33 TB
December 202222.91198.3466.23 TB
November 202221.25177.4266.13 TB
October 202223.82153.8165.65 TB
September 202222.4131.5664.99 TB
August 202215.84115.1264.45 TB
July 202217.5297.4811.993.9 TB
June 202214.8676.5211.993.61 TB
May 202212.0964.3511.993.08 TB
April 202212.1452.1211.992.55 TB
March 202212.3139.7211.992.17 TB
February 20229.5830.1111.991.8 TB
January 20229.4220.6111.991.54 TB
December 20217.2815.1010.161.36 TB
November 20216.0310.548.641.14 TB
October 20215.646.37.220.93 TB
September 20214.514.044.960.79 TB
  • Earnings ($): Earnings of the current month
  • Total earnings ($): All earnings up to this month and excl. earnings of the current month.
  • Withheld earnings ($): All the income that Storj has withheld so far. The algorithm calculates how much of the income is withheld at the beginning of the following month. For this reason, the current month is not taken into account here either.
  • Space used: Total disk space used by Storj.

2023 August

Storj Dashboard end of August 2023. Bandwidth used: 1.3 TB. Average storage space used per day: 6.41 TB. Total available storage: 10 TB. Used storage: 8.97 TB. Free disk space: 0.73 TB. Recycle bin: 305.2 GB. Earnings this month: $12.29. Total earnings: $355.01. Withheld earnings: $6.

2023 July

Storj Dashboard end of July 2023. Bandwidth used: 1.45 TB. Average storage space used per day: 6.64 TB. Total available storage: 10 TB. Used storage: 9 TB. Free disk space: 0.69 TB. Recycle bin: 305.2 GB. Earnings this month: $11.14. Total earnings: $343.71. Withheld earnings: $6.

2023 June

Due to still too few node operators shutting down their nodes following the payout changes, Storj has once again implemented a reduction in payouts.

The adjustments can be seen in the course of the forum post: Announcement: Changes to Storj Node Payouts (forum.storj.io)

Storj Dashboard end of June 2023. Bandwidth used: 2.11 TB. Average storage space used per day: 7.63 TB. Total available storage: 10 TB. Used storage: 8.44 TB. Free disk space: 1.43 TB. Recycle bin: 132.84 GB. Earnings this month: $14.51. Total earnings: $328.24. Withheld earnings: $6.

2023 May

Storj Dashboard end of May 2023. Bandwidth used: 1.55 TB. Average storage space used per day: 7.64 TB. Total available storage: 10 TB. Used storage: 8.02 TB. Free disk space: 1.63 TB. Recycle bin: 351.73 GB. Earnings this month: $16.70. Total earnings: $311.83. Withheld earnings: $6.

2023 April

Storj has communicated in their forum that they will be reducing payouts. This is due to the high number of node operators. Through this action, they hope that there will be various operators who will exit. In any case, this explains the reduction in earnings over this and the upcoming months.

Announcement: Changes to Storj Node Payouts (forum.storj.io)

Storj Dashboard end of April 2023. Bandwidth used: 2.92 TB. Average storage space used per day: 7.59 TB. Total available storage: 10 TB. Used storage: 8.15 TB. Free disk space: 1.85 TB. Recycle bin: 0.69 GB. Earnings this month: $18.74. Total earnings: $293.01. Withheld earnings: $6.

2023 March

Storj Dashboard end of March 2023. Bandwidth used: 3.01 TB. Average storage space used per day: 6.8 TB. Total available storage: 10 TB. Used storage: 7.92 TB. Free disk space: 2.04 TB. Recycle bin: 37.26 GB. Earnings this month: $25.58. Total earnings: $267.39. Withheld earnings: $6.

2023 February

Storj Dashboard end of February 2023. Bandwidth used: 1.91 TB. Average storage space used per day: 1.03 TB. Total available storage: 8.3 TB. Used storage: 6.59 TB. Free disk space: 1.6 TB. Recycle bin: 107.7 GB. Earnings this month: $23.15. Total earnings: $244.25. Withheld earnings: $6.

2023 January

Storj Dashboard end of January 2023. Bandwidth used: 1.54 TB. Average storage space used per day: 1.01 TB. Total available storage: 8.3 TB. Used storage: 6.33 TB. Free disk space: 1.9 TB. Recycle bin: 67.74 GB. Earnings this month: $23.19. Total earnings: $220.94. Withheld earnings: $6.

2022 December

Storj Dashboard end of December 2022. Bandwidth used: 1.55 TB. Hours of storage used: 180.09 TB*h. Total available storage: 8.3 TB. Used storage: 6.23 TB. Free disk space: 2.02 TB. Recycle bin: 46.57 GB. Earnings this month: $14.04. Total earnings: $198.34. Withheld earnings: $6.

Since the display in version v1.69.2 had an error and the Current Month Earnings of $14.04 for the month of December were not correct, here is the Payout Information which showed the earnings correctly.

Storj Payout Information end of December 2022. Download Payout: $12.50, Repair & Audit Payout: $1.16, Disk Average Month Payout: $9, Net Total: $22.67, Estimated Payout: $22.91

2022 November

Storj Dashboard end of November 2022. Bandwidth used: 1.75 TB. Hours of storage used: 163.32 TB*h. Total available storage: 8.3 TB. Used storage: 6.13 TB. Free disk space: 1.51 TB. Recycle bin: 652.76 GB. Earnings this month: $13.32. Total earnings: $177.42. Withheld earnings: $6.

Since the display in version v1.69.2 had an error and the Current Month Earnings of $13.32 for the month of November were not correct, here is the Payout Information which showed the earnings correctly.

Storj Payout Information end of November 2022. Download Payout: $11.81, Repair & Audit Payout: $1.16, Disk Average Month Payout: $8.17, Net Total: $21.14, Estimated Payout: $21.25

2022 October

Storj Dashboard end of October 2022. Bandwidth used: 1.69 TB. Hours of storage used: 3.6 PB*h. Total available storage: 5.7 TB. Used storage: 5.65 TB. Free disk space: 0.47 TB. Recycle bin: 52.35 GB. Earnings this month: $23.82. Total earnings: $153.81. Withheld earnings: $6.

2022 September

Storj Dashboard end of September 2022. Bandwidth used: 1.56 TB. Hours of storage used: 3.17 PB*h. Total available storage: 5.7 TB. Used storage: 4.99 TB. Free disk space: 0.68 TB. Recycle bin: 31.98 GB. Earnings this month: $22.40. Total earnings: $131.56. Withheld earnings: $6.

2022 August

Storj Dashboard end of August 2022. Bandwidth used: 1.29 TB. Hours of storage used: 2.83 PB*h. Total available storage: 5.7 TB. Used storage: 4.45 TB. Free disk space: 1.23 TB. Recycle bin: 24.18 GB. Earnings this month: $15.85. Total earnings: $115.12. Withheld earnings: $6.

2022 July

Storj Dashboard end of July 2022. Bandwidth used: 1.21 TB. Hours of storage used: 2.71 PB*h. Total available storage: 5.7 TB. Used storage: 3.9 TB. Free disk space: 1.75 TB. Recycle bin: 56.04 GB. Earnings this month: 17.52. Total earnings: $91.48. Withheld earnings: $11.99.

2022 June

Storj Dashboard end of June 2022. Bandwidth used: 1.31 TB. Hours of storage used: 2.36 PB*h. Total available storage: 5.7 TB. Used storage: 3.61 TB. Free disk space: 2.04 TB. Recycle bin: 46.78 GB. Earnings this month: $14.86. Total earnings: $76.52. Withheld earnings: $11.99.

2022 May

Storj Dashboard end of May 2022. Bandwidth used: 1.24 TB. Hours of storage used: 2.06 PB*h. Total available storage: 5.7 TB. Used storage: 3.08 TB. Free disk space: 2.57 TB. Recycle bin: 21.93 GB. Earnings this month: $12.09. Total earnings: $64.35. Withheld earnings: $11.99.

2022 April

Storj Dashboard end of April 2022. Bandwidth used: 1.18 TB. Hours of storage used: 1.64 PB*h. Total available storage: 5.7 TB. Used storage: 2.55 TB. Free disk space: 3.1 TB. Recycle bin: 56.12 GB. Earnings this month: $12.14. Total earnings: $52.12. Withheld earnings: $11.99.

2022 March

Storj Dashboard end of March 2022. Bandwidth used: 1.21 TB. Hours of storage used: 1.42 PB*h. Total available storage: 3 TB. Used storage: 2.17 TB. Free disk space: 0.76 TB. Recycle bin: 73.32 GB. Earnings this month: $12.31. Total earnings: $39.72. Withheld earnings: $11.99.

2022 February

Storj Dashboard end of February 2022. Bandwidth used: 0.87 TB. Hours of storage used: 1.07 PB*h. Total available storage: 3 TB. Used storage: 1.8 TB. Free disk space: 1.14 TB. Recycle bin: 57.64 GB. Earnings this month: $9.58. Total earnings: $30.11. Withheld earnings: $11.99.

2022 January

Storj Dashboard end of January 2022. Bandwidth used: 0.78 TB. Hours of storage used: 1.03 PB*h. Total available storage: 3 TB. Used storage: 1.54 TB. Free disk space: 1.41 TB. Recycle bin: 48.16 GB. Earnings this month: $9.42. Total earnings: $20.61. Withheld earnings: $11.99.

2021 December

Storj Dashboard end of December 2021. Bandwidth used: 664.41 GB. Hours of storage used: 0.9 PB*h. Total available storage: 3 TB. Used storage: 1.36 TB. Free disk space: 1.36 TB. Recycle bin: 55.59 GB. Earnings this month: $7.28. Total earnings: $15.10. Withheld earnings: $10.16.

2021 November

Storj Dashboard end of November 2021. Bandwidth used: 653.94 GB. Hours of storage used: 0.73 PB*h. Total available storage: 3 TB. Used storage: 1.14 TB. Free disk space: 1.81 TB. Recycle bin: 48.52 GB. Earnings this month: $6.03. Total earnings: $10.54. Withheld earnings: $8.64.

2021 October

Storj Dashboard end of October 2021. Bandwidth used: 629.89 GB. Hours of storage used: 619.43 TB*h. Total available storage: 3 TB. Used storage: 0.93 TB. Free disk space: 2.01 TB. Recycle bin: 56.59 GB. Earnings this month: $5.64. Total earnings: $6.30. Withheld earnings: $7.22.

2021 September

Storj Dashboard end of September 2021. Bandwidth used: 558.22 GB. Hours of storage used: 487.9 TB*h. Total available storage: 3 TB. Used storage: 0.79 TB. Free disk space: 2.16 TB. Recycle bin: 53.97 GB. Yields of this month: $4.51. Total earnings: $4.04. Withheld earnings: $4.96.