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Recently I decided to re visit my deathskulls army and found twenty stormboyz in a random box. I've had them for years, but never played them. My question is: not many people seem to be running them, are they worth it? Also, do I split them into two units or one gigantic twenty ork mob of rocket based death?

They're pretty garbage tbh.

For the cost you can just buy a boyz squad in a Trukk which is the same thing but better.

That's true, plus both the Boyz and the trukk would be scoring units...

They are really fast, faster then most jump units. Their speed is worth it. But they have issues with tough close combat units and shooty units.
They are not crappy just not as point efficient as you would like them to be. Hiding units behind 12 moving vehicles such as wagons are a quite viable tactic.

Had they kept their normal jumppack rules and gotten the well needed cost reduction, they'd be viable. Last dex they were 3x or something like that the cost of a Boy for essentially a Jumppack, which compared to other codex prices for jump infantry thats insane.
Current dex made them priced about right, but rendered them useless because they always banked on their sheer speed to bypass their lack of armor, which they cant do reliably anymore. If you use the "new" way they move, the entire f-ing unit takes a danger test. With a t-shirt save, lot of boyz are gonna die.
The "new" way they move also hurts their charge. Previously it was +D6 in the movement phase, causing 1 random boy to blow up if you rolled a 1. Now its 2D6 Run. Same exact overall speed, increased danger, less charge threat range outside of the WAAAAGH! turn.

Theyre bad. Utterly bad. Speaking from someone who has a ton of these guys from eons past, thats not something i want to admit. Ive tried using them multiple times, and unless they somehow had complete LoS blocking terrain to hide behind before they can charge, they did absolutely nothing. In theory you could run a min squad with a pknob and hide them more effectively for a sneak-charge on a vehicle, but i'd rather run MANz missiles for that. Never, ever had MANz missiles let me down.

Stormboyz are decent but jump pack slugga boyz aren't exactly something the Orks need per say. They excel on boards with lots of LoS blocking terrain to take advantage of their packs ability to jump over terrain and keep them save from shooting. On planet bowling ball they die like boyz but with a slightly higher points cost. Stormboyz are basically taking the cost of a trukk and turning it into jump packs which in some cases is a benefit (lascannon hits a stormboy and your down 9 points, lascannon hits a trukk making it explode and your down something like 60 points, all that mobility is lost, and the unit is probably pinned or fleeing) while in other cases a negative (Str4/5 guns turn your squad into a mist of blood and spores while they would generally plink off a trukk chipping away at hull points). Stormboyz live or die by the amount of LoS blocking terrain.

Good tactic for Stormboyz is to hide behind some LoS blocking terrain mid field turn 1 and on turn 2 you call your WAAAGH and they go 12", 2d6 run, and 2d6 charge for on average a 26" threat range.

Hmm...some food for thought, thankyou people. Maybe I won't chuck them on eBay just yet. I'm thinking two squads of ten, leaping up opposite flanks, if nothing else that should freak out opponents and possibly force them to do something silly...

Oh, unless youre getting out of the hobby you should never ebay models. Only ones ive ever put on ebay were the old metal XV15 Stealth Suits because the different appearance between them and current ones were bugging me to hell lol.

Guarantee you when you get rid of a unit, youre going to wish you didnt a few months later.

I've only had them do any work in one game, and there's nothing they did that couldn't have been done better by a biker squad instead. Bikers get the same optimal movement without the dangerous checks, have better armor, toughness, guns, and are still good in assault. The only disadvantage bikers have under stormboyz is that they can't go up levels, I guess.

They were usable last edition mainly because zagstruk allowed them to charge after deepstrike. He also gave them much needed offense with a powerklaw.

Right now they are not strong enough offensively to do much and have issues with morale like all Orks so make poor obj grabbers.

Storm boys really only excel in games of planetstrike, although many people don't play it. Take them in their zagstruk formation. Of 3 units. They have to deepstrike but only scatter d6. They can then charge the turn they came in due to planetstrike rules.

I like running them alongside my green tide for the speed and putting more bodies on the table. I personally have lost that many to the dangerous terrain and I normally take it twice a turn if they move at all since they normally hide behind or in terrain for a turn or two. Sometimes they get slammed but normally I only lose between one and 5 which is worth it to avoid the extra shooting they would take if they were walking along.

They're number one priority for 'charge out of deepstrike' formation in out codex. So, i've obtained a bunch of space marine jumppacks to orkify and magnetize.

As for now, i've found them somewhat fine in footslogging lists. 8-12 + PK/BP nob. Leap behind cover around the midfield. They protect the backlines and threaten the opponent with their large reach. Sometimes, they do great deeds. Sometimes, they kill themselves with dangerous terrain tests, fail ld and run away before reaching the opponent. That's the reason why i stopped using them. Fun but unreliable.