SeaweedFS
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
1warn against
Dec 27, 2025first mention
Sep 15, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I'm pretty happy with Seaweed, running that on prem, rock solid so far.”
switched from MinIOon “Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3”
“I use SeaweedFS for storage. Works amazingly well.”
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“I used SeaweedFS in the meantime; it worked great too”
switched from MinIOon “MinIO is now community-forked as Silo”
Caveats and dissent
“SeaweedFS should absolutely not be used for anything beyond testing — otherwise you're almost certain to lose data.”
Often compared with
Threads where it came up
- Ask HN: Is there any good open-source alternative to MinIO? 3 mentions
- Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3 1 mention
- Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative 1 mention
- MinIO is now community-forked as Silo 1 mention
- MinIO repository is no longer maintained 1 mention
- How uv got so fast 1 mention
Data: seaweedfs.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 8
“I'm pretty happy with Seaweed, running that on prem, rock solid so far.”
“I use SeaweedFS for storage. Works amazingly well.”
“I used SeaweedFS in the meantime; it worked great too”
“looks like I'm leaning more towards SeaweedFS”
“I'm thinking maybe SeaweedFS [0, 2] or Versity Gatweway [1, 3] or RustFS [4].”
“Multi-node alternative, that keeps the object mapping in memory (so more RAM usage and startup cost compared to alternatives).”
“SeaweedFS should absolutely not be used for anything beyond testing — otherwise you're almost certain to lose data.”
“am skeptical but hopeful that seaweedfs is not going to do something similar”