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Novos Brick is out.
Novos Brick cloud storage will end it's services on 15th of July 2021. I suspect this might also be related to Chia. Backup your data fast.
Hello,
This is an important email to announce the discontinuation of our NOVOS BRICK service. Unfortunatley, NOVOS BRICK will be discontinued from July 15th, 2021.
Increased hardware -and licensing costs and lack of upgrading users are forcing us to shut down BRICK. We are very sorry that BRICK didn't become what we wanted it to be. A lot of time, effort and money was invested into it but at this point we see no future where it could become a sustainable service.
If you signed up for the beta BRICK-200 (The $1 service) no refund will be provided. With substraction of the Paypal fees not much of that amount would be left and the effort would not worth the maybe 60 or 70 cent return.
If you signed up for (or upgraded to) the premium service, BRICK-500 or BRICK-1000 you will receive a full refund from all the months since you've purchased the service. These will processed starting July 15th, but please allow some time (up to several weeks) for these to be processed.
Please make sure to save your data before July 15th, 2021. As from then on your BRICK will be inaccessible.
Note: This announcement does not affect our VPS services in any way. This announcement is for NOVOS BRICK cloud storage only.
Thanks for your understanding!
Martijn Kools
NOVOS
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Shame it didn't work out. I used it as a supplementary backup for some files.
Don't think Chia has anything to do with it as it was Nextcloud/Owncloud As A Service.
@yoursunny
Blame China Chia
I do not consider this a deadpool.
Service is still up, proper notice is given, refunds are offered to paid plans.
I have 200GB plan to backup photos.
Now I'm back to uploading photos to Facebook.
Most of the people paid 1€ here and had several months of service.
Seems fair, that he says, what was it again 6 months or even more, no refunds to that 1€.
After processing fees back and forth you can't even buy you a chocolate bar duh.
True. The 1 euro was a marketing stunt. The fact that the whole storage business did not succeed, now when buying a HDD is more expensive because of Chia, does however come as a surprise.
Service sucked when trying to upload from the USA ... ~100kbps
It was not in USA was it not ?
You can upload your 200GB to my website and store it. It is only meant to be for photos. You can use it for 6 months for free and share your feedback as you are planning to upload it to upload FB as a backup.
I am planning to charge only 1USD per 100GB after a year or so. I can DM you the URL if you need. And 8USD for 1TB is my plan. And it is purely for photos.
Please stop trying to collect the pornography of LET members.
We accept anything legal
Also, if it is porn, he won't be using FB to upload. And I can offer 10 different people from LET 100GB of photo storage for free for 6 months and so you can share your feedback after 6 months.
Photos are already on Facebook.
If both my local HDDs fail, it isn't easy to download them from Facebook, but they still can be viewed.
Does you website support rclone or similar?
I'm not interested in doing a Facebook-like upload, album by album.
DM an offer is against the rules.
Please post the URL in the thread.
Either way, I'll have to share it publicly.
How else would fans see my photos?
My photos are not pornography.
If you have Facebook account, you can see them: https://fb.com/yoursunny
Nope. It is a normal PHP script that does FB like uploads. All I did was an optimized setup and so I can offer free service to people.
And who needs serious storage can get a premium account, which I will announce after 1 year.
The website name is https://im.ge , you will get free uploads and free downloads with no restriction.
Your photos will turn at least n >= 1 person on LET on. Therefore it can qualify.
Doesn't FB do compression and strip EXIF (but only for other users, it still retains this data for its own (ab)use) too?
I believe you can download the original photos
Note to self, start a business claiming to store personal porn collection "securely".
Sad because while I'm not sure that his approach was reasonable I liked the Novos guy and he was friendly.
I hope the best for him and his business.
How the fuck is chia influencing market?
Out of curiosity I have put it on the HDD in a laptop (I use only the NVMe part) for 1 TB it says I had a chance of winning in 30 years. I mean, come on.
You must be crazy to buy HDDs for that.
That's because you only have 1 TB. You need to buy 500-600TB to have a chance.
USB external drive 8TB was $150 here a few months ago. It's now about $300-350 and out of stock.
And yet... 30 exabytes with Chia, and it's just one mining pool space.
say you have one chance every 15 days with 600 TB at the cost of about 20k eur. 6000 eur a year. You recover investment at current prices in 3 years +. The more miners there are, the lower the return, so I can recover the price of a laptop mining ethereum in 2 years at current prices.
It doesnt make sense unless everyone hodl and hopes for things like dogecoin boom.
Exactly. To the moon 🚀
A 16TB drive you used to be able to buy for $140 can make $25 a month farming in a pool right now. That doesn't look like 3 years+.
Ah cmon. Using this calculator, you would be looking at a return of 1.6k a month and not 600. Also, your expected price/TB of $33 is horribly high, and the fact that Chia miners can still realistically recoup that cost is exactly why NOVOS Brick failed. They probably expected prices of $10/TB, not >$33 or whatever it takes before mining Chia isn't profitable.
I did the calculations myself using lowest price for a 12 tb disk here and current chia price. I did not include any other hw, power, etc, just the disks.
That's exactly the problem. The increased prices also make NOVOS Brick unsustainable, and Chia isn't the only thing affected.
If you used the old prices, the disks would only cost you 8k, and it would be far more attractive to miners. Trying to explain why a price increased by saying that no one would want to buy goods at the new price is a shoddy explanation. The only thing that matters is enough people were willing to buy goods at the old price to drive things up.
Also, 600 TB would be 2.0e-5 of the network. Total Chia emissions per month are 280k. You can multiply those two numbers together to see that average Chia wins for 600TB would be 5.6 per month. I'm not sure what math you were doing.
That is the idea, you cannot buy disks at old prices so anyone entering the scheme now would need to buy at current prices.
I can see a way where the old disks are used for chia while everyone needing now for any other purpose would buy at new prices.
Yeah, it's a mess.
Where the fuck was this? 8TB's were only going on sale for $199 (CAD, think 30% higher than USD) on BF and Prime days and shit last year. You couldn't even do $140 from limited quantity shucking.
Sorry, that was a ballpark number. However, I was able to find this from 3 months ago, so the price shouldn't be significantly different. Even if you double the cost, it doesn't significantly change the profitability of Chia mining,
@Nekki thinks I'm hot.
Compression, so what?
I just want the photos to be viewable.
They don't have to be the original files.
I made my own storage service: Deep Atlantic Storage.
This would become where I store my secondary backups.
See also: How Many Servers Do You Need for a Crucial Website? aka "how many backups do you need for crucial data"