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Tapedrive is fast object-storage software you can run on your computer, deploy to hardware you control, or use through Tapenet, the public network of Tapedrive nodes. If you know Git, HTTP, or S3, the interfaces are already familiar.
Tapedrive is in early access. See the installation guide, or read the quickstart to see how the pieces fit together.

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Why Tapedrive

Fast

Write a file, get an address, and share it. Large writes move straight from the client to storage nodes.

Familiar

Keep the tools and workflows you already know.

Yours

Run it on your computer, run it on dedicated hardware, or use Tapenet. You choose where the storage lives.

Built to last

Tapedrive uses erasure coding, verification, and bandwidth-optimal repair to keep data available when machines fail.

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What you can do

  • Share a file and give someone its address.
  • Deploy a static website from a directory or Git repository.
  • Point existing S3 tools at a Tapedrive gateway.
  • Store objects from an application, then serve them over plain HTTP.
  • Run the storage yourself (coming soon), or use Tapenet.
Tapedrive is object storage, not a database. It works best for files, websites, artifacts, datasets, backups, and other data written as whole objects. Data on Tapenet is public, so encrypt anything private before writing it.

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How it works

Solana keeps track of the network: which nodes are in it and which pieces of data each one holds. Tapedrive nodes store and serve the data itself. A private network works the same way with tapesvm, a high-performance drop-in replacement for Solana. The architecture overview explains the full system.

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Where next

Install Tapedrive

One command installs the CLI and the rest of the toolchain.

Use Tapenet

Use the public network, or contribute hardware by running a node.