Companies encounter some problems when storing data internally. There are major technical and cost problems in expanding infrastructure up and down, and the maintenance of storage area networks is a test. We must also solve the difficult problems of data compatibility mode and security.

This test has led to the birth of cloud storage, which provides scalability, sensitivity, safety factor, cost optimization, and simplicity. Fortune Business Insights estimates that the worldwide market for cloud storage sales will grow from $83.41 billion in 2022 to $376.37 billion by 2029.

Cloud storage enables users to store data in other locations based on public Internet technologies or dedicated data connections. Traditionally, cloud storage servers such as Dropbox, Sync and Google Drive have applied centralized cloud service providers (such as Amazon Web Services and Azure) to store data. Dropbox is a cloud-based document storage and collaboration platform that enables users to store, browse and share documents at any time and on all devices.

With Sync, customers can easily share documents with others and collaborate on content, even in real time. The solution also provides high-end security configurations, such as end-to-end encryption and two-factor authentication, to protect private information.

Google Drive is a document storage and sharing service developed by Google that allows users to store and browse his documents, including text documents, pictures and videos, from all machines and devices that are transferred to big data.

However, the centralized solution has an important drawback. Storing data in a central location gives the server significant rights, such as leaking data to third parties without consent, and losing data due to hardware configuration or network problems and hacker attacks.

Decentralized storage has become a feasible choice for centralized selection. With the strong support of blockchain technology, the use of decentralized storage has proved to be very advantageous in a period when business operations are focused on solving data quality.

This paper discusses what is decentralized storage and how it works. It also briefly compares centralized and distributed storage servers.

What do you mean by decentralized storage?

Decentralized storage is a decentralized Internet storage server for distributed books, rather than depending on a single centralized physical line. Data is stored on each node in a decentralized network and should not be stored on a separate server with the cooperation of a separate authority. This improves reliability and stability by ensuring that data is disseminated and preventing errors and other potential risks.

Decentralized storage options require the customer to have and control his data thoroughly, rather than relying on third parties to manage and store the data. Interstellar File system (IPFS) and Storx are two examples of distributed storage systems.

IPFS is a distributed peer-to-peer document storage Internet, which allows users to store, browse and share documents in a distributed system, thus giving higher security, security and maintainability. With Storx, everyone can quickly encrypt, segment, and distribute important data among several managed nodes around the world. Each document stored in Storx has been split into several parts before the data is encrypted and stored in separate storage nodes operated by different network operators around the world.

Storx is built as an independent storage network, and no single network operator has complete access restrictions on data belonging to a single customer. Because different types of network operators have wonderful pieces of data, no single holder has too much influence, thus improving the data security factor. The Internet has built-in personal privacy protection for personal data belonging to special customers.

How does decentralized storage work?

Let us insist on taking Storx as an example to fully understand the working principle of decentralized solutions. One of them uses a login name and password to transfer the file to Storx's Internet. Behind it, the Internet forms a unique public key, encrypts the file, separates the document into several highlights, and distributes it to individual nodes internationally.

In order to ensure redundancy, the Internet builds a large number of copies of this scene to ensure that wonderful pieces of data can be found from the replacement node if a node is not available. When customers need to find files, they apply login credentials to talk about the public key, and use background management to rearrange documents and get access restrictions.

The Internet uses the local SRX dynamic password as the payment medium. The data core with excess storage capacity actually operates the storage node. Every once in a while, they provide proof of storage to the platform.

Credit degree system of storage node

In order to make clear the high-quality specification of storage nodes, Storx has a reputation system of storage nodes, which is an application driven by artificial intelligence technology, which can carry out the necessary quality inspection of all storage nodes. The system distributes the mass concentration to each node according to the implemented quality inspection.

The influencing factors that harm the reputation mechanism of nodes are the high efficiency of nodes, the quality and location of nodes, and the total number of SRX chips. SRX is the original loan currency of Storx, which adds power to the ecosystem. At the level of high efficiency, the system takes into account the security parameters of upgrade and update and the patch package of server operating system. The system also ensures that such nodes are not easily centralized in the same Internet service provider or location.

Distributed Storage Server and centralized Storage solution

The design of distributed storage platform makes it the best choice than centralized system software. Take Storx as an example to give us a deeper understanding of their main performance:

Storage of important data

Although centralized storage systems are vulnerable to deception and restrictions, the decentralized Internet, which is composed of more than 4000 nodes internationally, enables Storx to store important data. All nodes in Storx are company-level, which means that this is a network server-level hardware configuration that stays in at least layer 3 data core. The quality of hardware is shown in the quality of storage.

Storx restricts the projection of publicly accessible data. Only the owner of the data or the person granted the access restriction can find the data stored in the account according to the public key.

Application of data encryption

Some centralized storage systems try to establish a combined decentralized solution that lacks the key elements of decentralization to compete with the market of decentralized storage systems and transfer management decisions to the decentralized Internet.

On the other hand, Storx uses both content-specific data encryption and transmission encryption to make the stored data more secure. Storx gives distributed cloud storage and enables military-grade data encryption AES-256 and fragment technology to ensure data security if no separate node has complete data.

High-end cloud storage

In traditional cloud storage, data is stored on a separate network storage hosted in one location. However, the scattered data will divide the document into several wonderful clips and distribute them to different locations around the world. Because there is no server downtime in decentralized storage, there are several levels in life to bear several shutdown at the same time, or even check.

Storx launched a system that combines the better of the two. Although documents are dispatched to different types of nodes, these are network server-level hardware configurations, not ordinary electronic computers. Customers have won cutting-edge cloud storage, which is a combination of traditional cloud and decentralized data construction.

Increased speed

Unlike the traditional storage method of storing a lot of data on a single source, there are several nodes for storing data separately. In a centralized system, speed depends on several factors, such as connectivity, network bandwidth, and the total number of processors running on the server. However, in decentralized systems such as Storx, the system will query the network and obtain data from recent nodes, thus achieving the best data retrieval speed.

Future Development of decentralized Storage system

Distributed storage systems may become more and more popular in the near future. Compared with traditional centralized storage systems, they have many advantages, such as higher security factor, data security and higher stability. They also have the potential to control costs and improve the availability of server resources.

In addition, distributed storage systems are expected to improve scalability, reliability, and ease of use in the near future, making them more attractive to a wider range of customers, including individuals or organizations. With the comprehensive expansion of Internet of things products and other decentralization, the need for decentralized storage servers is expected to increase, thus stimulating a large number of independent innovation and research in this field.