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Google Drive File Stream.


chcguy88

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My account finally was allowed to use google drive file stream and it is wonderful. It is what stablebit cloud drive should be if it were not for those pesky api call limits (which is out of your control). 

 

I am security conscious and want to use encryption like with cloud drive but instead use it via file stream (since it is much much faster). Does drive pool allow for this kind of behavior? Also it is important to split the disks up into 20mb chunks kind of like how clouddrive does it, as it wont force me to download a huge veracrypt image everytime I want to load a small file from a large archive of my data.  

 

I have licenses to all of your products so if anything works for this purpose please let me know. If not, I am looking for any solution to make the files in 20mb chucks and encrypt them. Google file stream does all the back end work of reading and writing to the drive platform.

 

 

Thanks and please let me know asap.

 

 

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While I agree that Filestream is a bit new, for media consumption it is so much better than Cloud Drive mainly because of the Delay Cloud drive has to deal with. I think there would be a nice middle ground if cloud drive could utilize filestream. This would limit api calls and let Google do the work for uploading the chunks. 

 

Future feature? :D

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Honestly, I don't think there is a good way to encrypt with File Streams. 

 

I'd say EFS, but I'm pretty sure what google will read isn't encrypted.   So short of something like password protected archives.... I'm not sure there is a good way to do this.

 

 

Though, what *might* work (heavy emphasis on "might") is to use the Local Disk provider in CloudDrive, and store these in the File Stream location.  That way, they should be stored on the File Stream location.

 

 

But   as soaringswine has said, if the transfer limit (not API limit) is still used here, then you can easily hit the limit, especially by doing this.  And in that case, it would be better to just use CloudDrive and some tweaks.

 

 

Namely, increasing the "Minimum Download Size", and setting a bandwidth cap in CloudDrive would probably work better.

Both of these settings are found under "Manage Drive"->"Performance"->"I/O Performance".

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