I personally think of a small DIY rack stuffed with commodity HDDs off Ebay with an LVM spanned across a bunch of RAID1s. I don’t want any complex architectural solutions since my homelab’s scale always equals 1. To my current understanding this has little to no obvious drawbacks. What do you think?
I set up garage, which works fine.
Advantage of an s3 style layer is it’s simplicity and integration with apps.
I also use it so I can run AI agents that have zero access to a disk based system
Just out of curiosity, what are you using S3 for?