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Hey, so I recently discovered Sia and bought 25k coins as I truly think this product sounds amazing and has great potential. At the very least, I think these coins will be a nice investment, but I do want to use them for storage as well. My laptop only has a 256GB SSD so I was planning on moving stuff to a cloud storage solution at some point soon anyway, and am thinking Sia for that. I'm also working on a game that I plan to publish in a few months and may use Sia for that.

I have some questions that I couldn't really find answered on the websites FAQ I was hoping you guys could help me with.

  • What are the file size limitations to Sia currently? Maximum file sizes? Minimum?

  • What are the transfer times? Download times? Upload times? Do uploads have to have a certain amount of confirmations before they can be downloaded and thus can't be used real-time by a client/server application?

  • Can multiple wallets/clients share an 'account'? What I mean by that is, I use the Dropbox API for a couple apps, so users are granted access to by dropbox for uploading/downloading files (this way 10 computers can share the same cloud storage). Can SIA do the same? Could I have client A upload to my service from their computer so I can download it or have client B download it?

  • Roughly how much do you guys find storage ends up costing? I see on the website they say $2/TB/month, but is that the actual going rate (as I understand, hosts determine the rate), or is that PR fluff and it's actually more like $3.50~ or something?

  • Any risks of data loss?

  • If you fail to renew, is there any way to pay again at a later date and get your files back, or are they lost forever?

Thank you for your time. I'm really excited to give this product a go

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