When people hear about permanent storage, they naturally want to understand how it works. Permanence isn’t just about the length of time data is stored, it’s about speed, reach, and reliability of that data. For permanence to matter, data must be immediately available everywhere. This is where Turbo comes in, it makes that part of permanence practical.
The Problem
Storing data permanently is a breakthrough that’s still very much a new concept as it pertains to the long history of data storage. For that reason, if uploads take too long or distribution is limited, adoption will be more challenging and the idea of permanent data will be thought of as theoretical rather than useful.
Looking at traditional data storage systems that exist today, there’s often a bottleneck in three places:
- •Upload speed: Large files can take ages to process.
- •Seeding: Data isn’t instantly accessible across the network.
- •User experience: Complex onboarding makes permanence intimidating.
Turbo was designed to solve for all three.
- •High-speed uploads: Turbo accelerates the upload process, packaging data for permanence instantly.
- •Network seeding: Meaning that every Turbo upload is distributed across AR.IO’s gateway network, ensuring fast global availability.
- •Ease of access: Turbo credits make it simple for anyone like, individual creators, users with person data, developers, or institutions to preserve data permanently without technical barriers.
AR.IO is build the First Permanent Cloud Network which requires infrastructure that feels as fast and reliable as Web2, while delivering the resilience and neutrality of Web3. Turbo is a bridge for this.
Every upload through Turbo strengthens AR.IO’s distributed network, ensuring that data is:
- •Fast to access without friction.
- •Globally resilient across 600+ gateways.
- •Preserved beyond the lifespan of any single platform.
Who benefits from Turbo?
Everyone can, but some of the biggest use cases we’ve seen so far are:
- •Journalists uploading archives to ensure their work is safe, permanent, and instantly accessible.
- •Artists minting digital works can guarantee buyers not only ownership but permanence.
- •Researchers can preserve critical datasets and make them accessible worldwide, without delay.
Turbo makes permanence practical, accessible, and fast. By powering uploads that are instantly distributed and permanently preserved, Turbo helps move AR.IO’s vision of the First Permanent Cloud forward. Try it now https://turbo.ar.io/.