diff --git a/codex/codex_test.go b/codex/codex_test.go
index deb7cb7..060a22e 100644
--- a/codex/codex_test.go
+++ b/codex/codex_test.go
@@ -79,3 +79,13 @@ func TestPeerId(t *testing.T) {
 
 	t.Logf("Codex PeerId: %s", peerId)
 }
+
+func TestStorageQuota(t *testing.T) {
+	node := newCodexNode(t, Config{
+		StorageQuota: 1024 * 1024 * 1024, // 1GB
+	})
+
+	if node == nil {
+		t.Fatal("expected codex node to be created")
+	}
+}
diff --git a/codex/testutil.go b/codex/testutil.go
index 274495b..fb0471c 100644
--- a/codex/testutil.go
+++ b/codex/testutil.go
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ func defaultConfigHelper(t *testing.T) Config {
 		LogFormat:      LogFormatNoColors,
 		MetricsEnabled: false,
 		BlockRetries:   3000,
-		LogLevel:       "ERROR",
+		Nat:            "none",
 	}
 }
 
@@ -43,6 +43,10 @@ func newCodexNode(t *testing.T, opts ...Config) *CodexNode {
 		if c.DiscoveryPort != 0 {
 			config.DiscoveryPort = c.DiscoveryPort
 		}
+
+		if c.StorageQuota != 0 {
+			config.StorageQuota = c.StorageQuota
+		}
 	}
 
 	node, err := New(config)
diff --git a/vendor/nim-codex b/vendor/nim-codex
index 480bd3b..5a227db 160000
--- a/vendor/nim-codex
+++ b/vendor/nim-codex
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 480bd3b65917da0f90ea43146bd73986ef5272e0
+Subproject commit 5a227dbb561672667c5c0285a417175b5004ddf7