We performed a comparison between MinIO and VAST Data based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about MinIO, Dell Technologies, Red Hat and others in File and Object Storage."The stability of MinIO is good."
"This is an all-in-one, user-friendly data storage."
"The features that I have found most valuable with MinIO is its coding bit rot protection and how it distributes the workload over all the servers."
"For starters, MinIO has a good user interface. You can access it through the browser and perform operations like creating the object."
"The initial setup was straightforward as MinIO provided good support documentation and took a couple of days to complete."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of management and administration."
"The solution has good compatibility with different kinds of storage."
"Saves a lot of time in generating and managing documents."
"This has been one of the most reliable storage systems that I have ever used."
"The solution is useful for machine learning and scientific applications, including computer simulations."
"The monitoring capability is really bad and needs to be improved."
"The scalability is one of the limitations we have found. We are looking for another solution but they must provide the same characteristics, such as an affordable price and continuity."
"The solution lacks documentation."
"The documentation of the solution should improve."
"With problems, visibility is hard because everything is in containers. Difficult to get to the logs in order to figure out what the problem was."
"MinIO has behaved strangely in the past. For instance, the application dropped connection to MinIO. It's not too significant, but it loses connection. We're trying to understand exactly what is happening when this happens."
"There is a lack of good addons to integrate without having to use third-party applications."
"The product's security is open by default, without any SSL."
"The write performance could be improved because it is less than half of the read performance."
"The read/write ratio is an area in the solution with some flaws and needs improvement."
MinIO is ranked 1st in File and Object Storage with 22 reviews while VAST Data is ranked 12th in File and Object Storage with 2 reviews. MinIO is rated 8.0, while VAST Data is rated 10.0. The top reviewer of MinIO writes " A tool for storage purposes that helps businesses save time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VAST Data writes "Stability-wise, a device that has been up and running for years". MinIO is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, NetApp StorageGRID, Dell ECS and Pure Storage FlashBlade, whereas VAST Data is most compared with Pure Storage FlashBlade, NetApp AFF, Pure Storage FlashArray and Qumulo.
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