I am using Seaweedfs with 40+ TB data and ~100M files. Serve 100-200k+ users daily with servers that just have HDD.

I would also be interested in your experience. Besides, they both don't have a UI, don't they?

We use seaweed in production, inserting 1-4 million small images per day.

It comes with a web based UI.

We migrate from minio to seaweed around 2020/2021. At that time our minio server have problem handling hundreds of thousands small files.

Btw if you only need to store and serve a few TB, Backblaze B2 is way cheaper and easier.

We used it for around 2yrs with the s3 gateway and it was very stable for around 50 TB of data mostly very small files (50-200kb).

Have you used Garage in production/professional? What has your experience been like?

We were trying it out for quite some time and it worked well apart from two things: anonymous access and the bigger blocker for us was AGPL. Minio and Garage having the same license means I would always prefer Minio.