How to pronounce MinIO

MinIO is most commonly pronounced "min eye oh" (/mɪnˈaɪoʊ/). This pronunciation is documented by the project itself (see TechTarget Storage Soup — founder A.B. Periasamy on the MinIO name).

MinIO is a high-performance, S3-compatible object-storage server; the name is short for "minimal I/O," so it is said min-EYE-oh — the "IO" is the spelled-out input/output acronym ("eye-oh"). Founder/CEO A.B. (Anand Babu) Periasamy has explicitly stated he wants it known as "Min-IO, as in minimal IO" (TechTarget, verified). The article confirms the common variant: "most people pronounce it MIN-EO" (min-ee-oh, captured as the alt) — devs default to it because "-io" reads like an ordinary word ending rather than a spelled-out acronym.

Alternate readings you might hear:

• "min ee oh" /ˈmɪnioʊ/

Source: TechTarget Storage Soup — founder A.B. Periasamy on the MinIO name

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