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I have been using MinIO for my self hosted S3 needs but I now have a need to break up my backing storage into SSD for images and other small files and HDD for videos. From what I can tell this is not possible with MinIO and I would rather not run two instances if I can help it. Are there other self hosted solutions where this is easy to do?

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Good question, but I‘m afraid we‘re looking for a solution to a problem that S3 is not trying to solve. Blob storage solves problems such as redundancy and resiliency, effectively abstracting away the underlying storage.

That said, I would recommend hosting different instances ("clusters") of Garage S3 for that purpose. You could also use the storage type as the region name for more clarity (AFAIK a garage cluster works with a single region).

This would probably work well because Garage is so light on resources (unlike minio). I also have Garage running in a similar setup for around 2 years, with daily reads/writes… Never had an operational issue. Rock-solid stuff.