[3] Scientists such as those running Folding@home deal with massive amounts of data, which must be stored and backed up, and this is very expensive.

[3] The project is designed based on the distributed file system known as Cosm, and the workload and analysis needed for Folding@home results.

If the servers detect the disappearance of an individual contributor, the data blocks held by that user would then be automatically duplicated to other hosts.

Ideally, users would participate for a minimum of six months, and would alert the Storage@home servers before certain changes on their end such as a planned move of a machine or a bandwidth downgrade.

[3] Through careful application of redundancy, encryption, digital signatures, automated monitoring and correction, large quantities of data could be reliably and easily retrieved.