Interesting idea… VSS is proving to be very difficult to get working reliably.

Not as yet… it is very much ready, however we have an issue the code for one of the cloud services. Once this is sorted and tested we’ll release it.

That’s nice to hear. Apart from browsing speed, I was interested in understanding download and upload speeds. As mentioned, two of your competitors (in the “cloud drives mounting” arena) were really, really slow. Like one twentieth of the available bandwidth in download.

Cloud Xtender, when operating in backup mode (there are a number of different modes that effect how a file is stored locally), does not enumerate the cloud service when a users is looking at the local drive, it enumerates an image of the remote file system. This of course means speed is basically the same as a native drive. In addition, Cloud Xtender can cache small file block requests. For example, if you list a media file, Explorer may request certain meta data from that file, in such cases, only the requested file info is pulled from the cloud, and is then cached for then on.

I have tried three different competing solutions (the usual allowing to mount a cloud provider as a lettered drive) and for one reason or the other they weren’t suited to my needs.

Two were god-awful slow, one had the bad habit of downloading the *whole* file when just browsing it triggered an automatic thumbnail generation from XBMC (which obviously doesn’t happen if proper file access is mimicked).

What sort of speeds are we talking about? Say Google Drive, it fully saturates my bandwidth when accessing it from the webapp. What could I expect from Cloud Xtender? 🙂

Cool, thanks 🙂

Hi Keith,

You can connect to multiple storage services using the same drive letter. While you can use Cloud Xtender to create a drive letter that points to a single cloud storage service (and given the performance, I suspect many users will use it in this way), one of it’s key features is to be able to pool multiple cloud storage services under the one drive letter… think of Cloud Xtender as cloud storage pooling.

Hi,

We have plans to expand the providers as needed, as for specific providers such as OneDrive for Business, if there is a demand, then yes.