I recently did some calculations and compared several mainstream storage solutions. When comparing the costs of storing 1TB of data for a year, the difference is huge: traditional cloud services cost $500, Filecoin quotes $200, and the new distributed storage star Walrus is directly cut to $50 — backed by a combination of RedStuff encoding and a 4x replication factor. In terms of read/write experience, Walrus's access latency remains stable around 80ms, which is basically the same as traditional cloud providers. I actually ran a project where I migrated a training dataset from a certain AI team from traditional cloud to a distributed network, saving $4,500 in storage costs in just one year, and the data recovery speed was more than twice as fast. This cost difference is not a small amount; traditional cloud services are indeed struggling to bear this pressure. In the future, whoever can optimize cost, performance, and ease of use will be able to capture a significant market share.