it was very simple to setup, and even if you just leased a bunch of servers off say OVH, far FAR cheaper to run your own than paying any of the big cloud providers.
It also had pretty low requirements, ceph can do all that but setup is more complex and RAM requirements far, far higher
For a proper Ceph setup, even the 45drives budget configuration is still not "hobby" grade.
I will have to dive into the MinIO manual at some point, as the value proposition still seems like a mystery. Cheers =3
Yes, Ceph is RADOS at its core. However, RADOS != S3. Ceph provides an S3 compatible backend with the RADOS Gateway (RGW).
I don't understand yet exactly what MinIO would add on top of that to make it relevant at any scale. I'll peruse the manual on the weekend, because their main site was not helpful. Thanks for trying though ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
But that's kind of advantage only on the small companies and hobbyist market, big company either have enough needs to run big ceph cluster, or to buy it as a service.
Minio is literally "point it at storage(s), done". And at far smaller RAM usage.
Ceph is mon servers, osd servers, then rados gatway server on top of that.