Hopefully someone can answer this question.
I have a spare raspberry Pi 1 (b+).
Would it be possible to use this to host a sia node on siaberry, and use this node with a storage contract as NAS? Not for steaming, but just to store large files i don't use so often. I mean provided the SD card is big enough for the OS and blockchain. Then buy 1 or 2 TB with a contract?
If it is possible, does anyone know of any guides how to set this up.
Unfortunately Sia only works on 64-bit CPUs, thus being impossible to run it on a RPi 1b+... It its however possible to run Sia on a RPi3.
If I understand you, your plan is using a RPi as a mini-NAS backed up on the cloud of Sia. That should work perfectly, but I would recommend you to keep files locally too. The Duplicati integration of Sia can help you a lot for that task.
Also consider a distribution created by a contributor of the community (@Kete) called SiaBerryOS:
https://www.reddit.com/r/siacoin/comments/6pzfeh/introducing_siaberryos_a_linux_operating_system/ It is meant not for renting, but for hosting data of the network. However it could be worth you take a look at it. Maybe you can adapt it to your needs
Thanks for the information about this. I also think that speed and scalability are key components that need to be addressed to be superior than the competition. Do you know what the next version bring to the network in details? Or can you point me towards the source where I can read up on it? Thanks in advance!
So what is this update about if I may ask? What will it improve?
thanks.
ur doing a great job btw!
Thank you!
The 1.3.1 release will focus on these elements:
- Optional wallet auto-unlock on startup: This is a feature much demanded by hosts
- UI overhaul: The graphical elements are being redesigned, so the UX looks more clean and modern. Also, new explanatory elements are going to be added to assist new users to understand how to create an allowance for renting storage space, and more detail to the reports of how the funds are being expending during the contracts
- Renter overhaul: The whole backend code for renters is being redesigned. Without going into much technical detail (check the GitHub of Sia for details): a) the current version has problems of uploads being stalled, that's being fixed, b) currently the performance of Sia on a renter slows down when he approaches 5TB of uploaded data, so this is being optimized to allow up to 40TB (further increases are planned for the future); c) reduction in the RAM memory usage; d) a totally new filesystem that will allow nested folders to be uploaded; e) A feature called WAL (write ahead log) that will improve reliability of data upload and prevent data loss; f) many new parts of code that while they don't have an immediate use, will be the foundation of all the future features of Sia (like file sharing, recovery of files just with the seed, synchronizing files between two computers or file streaming)
- Connectivity fixes: There is an issue that is making 1.3.0 nodes loss sometimes the connectivity to other peers. This is being corrected
- Difficulty adjustment algorithm (DAA) fix: The recent hardfork for changing the DAA presented an unexpected bug, and a new hardfork will be introduced in this version of the software to correct it
And speaking about connectivity: if you are using the Sia client and your client is unable to sync to the latest block or you made a transfer but your client does not show it in the balance,
try this workaround: https://www.siastats.info/nodes.html
Already the second day does not work, not only does not work, so I can not conduct any transactions (trade), and then, as luck would have it, the price began to rise slowly.
Nice jump up! I hope that by the end of the year we will reach level at least 100 satoshi! 
