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24 alternatives to WinSpd – create “SCSI disks” as user mode processes on Windows
Windows Storage Proxy Driver - User mode disk storage - winfsp/winspd
WinSpd is a Windows utility that allows users to create virtual SCSI disks running as user mode processes. Rather than requiring kernel-level drivers, the software implements SCSI disk emulation in user space, making… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. WinSpd – create “SCSI disks” as user mode processes on Windows launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Windows File System Proxy - FUSE for Windows. Contribute to winfsp/winfsp development by creating an account on GitHub.
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Zfs.rent▲403Colocate your own 3.5" SAS/SATA hard drives in a Tier 2 datacenter!Eliminate data transfer costs by shipping drives directly!
2020 · zfs.rent · its alternatives →
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a FUSE file system based on Google Drive. Contribute to harababurel/gcsf development by creating an account on GitHub.
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · sc4.us · its alternatives →
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ExpanDrive▲70Network drive for cloud storage. Access files on-demand.
2019 · expandrive.com · its alternatives →
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DuckDisk▲104Table-first storage analysis for Mac, cloud, and SSH
Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Drivebase▲98Unified file manager for all your cloud storage with E2EE
Feb 2026 · drivebase.io · its alternatives →
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Your data guardian, no longer worry about data loss
2022 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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Contribute to builtbybel/FluentTweaker development by creating an account on GitHub.
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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This project contains no code from Linux, BSD, Minix, or any other OS. Everything up until this point is written entirely from scratch, including a pure microkernel (that only implements multiprocessor priority scheduling, memory management, and interprocess communication), a work-in-progress implementation of the standard C library, and a variety of servers that provide drivers and other essential OS functionality. At the time of writing this post, the servers provide drivers for the keyboard, NVMe SSDs (that works on real hardware), a Unix-like virtual file system (with a single root…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Block Erasure Format - An extensible, fast, and usable file utility to encode and decode interleaved erasure coded streams of data. - gbletr42/bef
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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DHCP as a FUSE file system. Contribute to lmorg/dhcpdfs development by creating an account on GitHub.
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey everyone, I’m Hunter, the founder of Archil. Archil is transforming object storage, like Amazon S3, into infinite, local file systems that provide instant access to massive data sets. Last year, we launched Archil’s NFS-based product publicly on Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42174204), and we were absolutely thrilled to see the response of this community. Since our last launch, we took a 10 month company-wide bet to build our own, custom storage protocol to deliver true, local-like performance to cloud instances – by behaving closer to a block storage…
2025 · its alternatives →
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Back in March we first launched Scarf Gateway with support for Docker/OCI containers.
2021 · about.scarf.sh · its alternatives →
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Get ExpanDrive for macOS, Windows, or Linux. Mount every major cloud as a native drive in minutes. Free for personal use, $29/month flat for teams up to 10 users.
2019 · expandrive.com · its alternatives →
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How often do you screw up the system so much you have to reformat the disk (without losing data) to fix it? Well, sometimes I do, and sometimes I can't be bothered to burn a live ISO onto a USB stick. There's initramfs, but it's hardly a pleasant environment, with network configuration and all. My go-to solution has typically been to create a chroot with busybox and a few utilities in /tmp, chroot into it, and then kill services that use the solid drive so that I can unmount it. That's an error-prone process, and sometimes systemd itself uses disk, so you can't unmount the drive despite…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · diskache.io · its alternatives →
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winsysroot is a tool which automatically and efficiently creates what is effectively a "sysroot" for Windows targets, allowing you to (cross)-compile against native Microsoft sources from any operating system and for any architecture supported by Microsoft. It also takes care of the case-sensitivity problem of the Windows SDK by automatically generating LLVM overlay specifications. It is written in pure cross-platform Go and is extremely fast it tries very hard to download the absolute minimum number of files to achive its goals. It pulls all data directly from Microsoft to avoid any legal…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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RamDrive that is backed by GPU Memory. Contribute to prsyahmi/GpuRamDrive development by creating an account on GitHub.
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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eBPF based tool to monitor disk usage, perform actions when threshold breached. - Lakshmipathi/ebpf-diskalert
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Replicated Block Device backed by FoundationDB. Contribute to meln1k/foundationdb-block-device development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Usually, I’m a researcher working on areas like RL for coding agents – but one day I became annoyed by our slow VM startup times. So I took the plunge into systems engineering and built the first version of our VM hypervisor called otterlink. It now powers both our research & all of Devin production workloads. Compared to EC2, otterlink was able to bring down VM startup times by about 10x. The real pain point, however, were EC2’s long snapshot times. We want a lot of flexibility (e.g. forking, rollback and suspending VMs) that all require taking disk snapshots. On EC2 taking disk snapshots…
2025 · cognition.ai · its alternatives →
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Understand your storage. Reclaim space without guessing
Jul 2026 · winreclaim.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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