# File storage

**URL:** https://forum.cardano.org/t/file-storage/39481
**Category:** General Discussions
**Created:** [30 August 2020 14:30 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/file-storage/39481 "2020-08-30T14:30:30Z")
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### Author: ![tefera](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forum.cardano.org/tefera/32/16688_2.png) [@tefera](https://forum.cardano.org/u/tefera)
#### Post date: [30 August 2020 14:30 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/file-storage/39481/1 "2020-08-30T14:30:30Z")

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What file storage solution is Cardano invisioning to use? IPFS?

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### Author: ![RobJF](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forum.cardano.org/robjf/32/8069_2.png) [@RobJF](https://forum.cardano.org/u/RobJF)
#### Post date: [30 August 2020 15:04 UTC](https://forum.cardano.org/t/file-storage/39481/2 "2020-08-30T15:04:36Z")

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If you mean for the blockchain, it’s a long time since I studied comp sci but my gut feeling is, this is not a good idea. For anything so highly distributed to be spread across decentralized storage would be a very complicated arrangement and I’d guess pretty inefficient. For off-chain data storage, on the other hand, using some kind of reference/pointer on the chain, IPFS might work well, I’d guess.