The best object storage servers, according to hackers
8 object storage servers were recommended on Hacker News between November 2025 and November 2026. We rank them by how many separate people recommend each one, and 3 earn the Hacker Approved badge.
Top picks
The three most recommended object storage servers with the badge. Each figure is 5 people. RecommendsCriticizes One comment
Easier to deploy than MinIO
Simple, free S3-compatible storage that runs on one node or many. Caveat: not fully feature-complete, and critics report data loss after unclean power failures.
Easy to run locally
Open-source S3-compatible object store recommended for local development, CI and self-hosting, with strong performance. Critics call it immature on reliability.
Simple S3 over a local folder
Recommended as a simple S3 API over a plain local folder, with no custom storage format. Critics note it uses sync IO, a problem on HDD zpools without SLOG.
All 8 object storage servers, ranked
Select a column heading to sort. Approval share is recommenders out of everyone who gave an opinion; the tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs. Months counts the months, out of 13, in which someone recommended it.
| Rank | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Garage S3 object store | 83 | 18 | 82% | 9 | — | Approved |
| 2 | MinIO | 54 | 149 | 27% | 9 | 5 yrs3 owners | — |
| 3 | RustFS | 48 | 26 | 65% | 9 | — | — |
| 4 | SeaweedFS | 46 | 10 | 82% | 9 | 2 yrs3 owners | Approved |
| 5 | VersityGW | 16 | 2 | 89% | 7 | — | Approved |
| 6 | Versity S3 Gateway | 7 | 0 | 100% | 4 | — | — |
| 7 | S4 | 6 | 0 | 100% | 5 | — | — |
| 8 | hs5 | 5 | 1 | 83% | 4 | — | — |
How we rank
Rank is the number of separate people who recommend a product in a Hacker News comment over the past year. Someone who praises the same object storage server in five threads counts once.
The badge goes to object storage servers that at least 10 people recommend, with recommenders outnumbering critics at least 2 to 1, recommended in at least 4 of the 13 months.
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