We performed a comparison between MinIO and Scality RING based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two File and Object Storage solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature of MinIO is its ease of use, replication, and active directory. All the capabilities are in this solution."
"The product does save time for our company."
"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."
"It performs efficiently compared to other solutions."
"I like that if you have a problem, you can buy the home server. It is stable and robust."
"Saves a lot of time in generating and managing documents."
"Reliable erasure coding."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of management and administration."
"The most valuable feature of Scality RING8 is its performance and good interface."
"I think it's the economic factor. This solution has the lowest cost for storage systems."
"Another feature I like is the life cycle management that helps me with data storage efficiency."
"The product's initial setup phase is complex."
"Limited storage provided in the free version."
"Lacks documentation for non-Kubernetes users."
"Its reverse proxy features could be better."
"The MinIO dashboard is minimal as there are only a couple of features inside the dashboard for a basic user. I would like this to be more robust with more click-around features."
"The documentation of the solution should improve."
"The solution lacks documentation."
"The product's security is open by default, without any SSL."
"Scality RING is not easy to learn for someone new. It is a little bit difficult. There are a lot of components to it, and you also need to understand them to work with it effectively."
"Scality RING8 could improve by having more features. We have to use two automation tools to meet our needs. We would prefer to use only one."
"When we used this solution in 2015, it was not scalable at all. I don't know if they have improved on that, but at the time, scalability was just horrible."
MinIO is ranked 1st in File and Object Storage with 22 reviews while Scality RING is ranked 14th in File and Object Storage with 4 reviews. MinIO is rated 8.0, while Scality RING is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of MinIO writes " A tool for storage purposes that helps businesses save time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Scality RING writes "Offers UTIPI (Unified Tiered Infrastructure Per IOPS) feature in billing but lacks extensive testing ". MinIO is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, NetApp StorageGRID, Dell ECS, Pure Storage FlashBlade and Dell PowerScale (Isilon), whereas Scality RING is most compared with Dell ECS, Red Hat Ceph Storage, Qumulo, Cloudian HyperStore and NetApp StorageGRID. See our MinIO vs. Scality RING report.
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