Garage – An S3 object store so reliable you can run it outside datacenters
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HN comment orderCopy/paste from a previous thread [0]: We’ve done some fairly extensive testing internally recently and found that Garage is somewhat easier to deploy in comparison to our existing use of MinIO, but is not as performant at high speeds. IIRC we could push about 5 gigabits of (not small) GET requests out of it, but something blocked it from reaching the 20-25 gigabits (on a 25g NIC) that MinIO could reach (also 50k STAT requests/s, over 10 nodes) I don’t…
We moved over to garage after running minio in production with about ~2PB after about 2 years of headache. Minio does not deal with small files very well, rightfully so, since they don't keep a separate index of the files other than straight on disk. While ssd's can mask this issue to some extent, spinning rust, not so much. And speaking of replication, this just works... Minio's approach even with synchronous mode turned on, tends to fall behind, and again…
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-02-17 | Garage – open-source self hosted distributed storage service | wuschel | 4 | 1 |
| 2024-07-20 | Garage: Open-Source Distributed Object StorageFirst breakout | n3t | 518 | 141 |
| 2025-12-19 | Garage – An S3 object store so reliable you can run it outside datacentersBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | ibobev | 704 | 166 |