Cost of storing data on SAFE?

I understand, thanks for the clarification. It’s just hard if you want to run a commercial business on the network and need to start planning for that, for instace do some forecasting or calculations to be able to determine if maidsafe would be the right platform, it’s just a wild guess now.

But I understand now that it’s really hard to put a price on it. Guess we just have to wait and see!

Thanks for all your replies peepz

It is just a different pricing model.

Some people buy a car with cash as a lump sum, while others pay monthly. Safe network storage is like the former.

Ofc, we still don’t know what this lump sum will be, as it will be defined by how much people are willing to charge for storage. If it is a choice between having no income from unused disk space and a small income from farming, maybe the latter will result in extremely cheap storage - there are an awful lot of disks with spare capacity sitting on desks/laps/pockets!

Moreover, if you want to finance storage costs over a number of years, you can do that too. Just borrow the safecoin and repay each month.

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