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Cinder vs SnapRAID

A side-by-side look at Cinder and SnapRAID. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Cinder

Cinder

Development

Cinder is an open-source block storage platform that implements services and drivers to provide storage resources for OpenStack environments. It is designed to provide flexible and scalable cloud storage for virtual machines.

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SnapRAID

SnapRAID

Backup & Sync

SnapRAID is an open-source backup program for disk arrays. It protects data on hard disk drives by generating parity information that allows recovery from up to six disk failures. It does not create copies of files, but relies on regular block-level snapshots to provide history.

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