Dimtar

Hi All. I have done a little reading here and done some Google searches but nothing really seems to cover the topic well enough so I thought I would start a topic with upto date information. Is anyone successfully streaming smooth video from a Cloud Drive? Looking for mostly answers around Google Drive as a provider but i'll take information on any provider. I've done a fair bit of testing over the last two weeks and results have never been good. Using the latest version of Cloud Drive (.802) I have created a drive with Google Drive on both my local machine (100/40mbps connection) and a VPS (1000mbps). The drive is a 10TB reFS drive with a minimum chunk size of 20MB. No matter what settings I use for prefetch it seems video just doesn't stream well. I have checked with files 1GB to 10GB in size and the results are always the same either via Plex or VLC. They are a mix of youtube rips and shadowplay recordings. Speeds from Google Drive range from 10-100mbps down according to the Cloud Drive UI but no matter what the video pauses occasionally. I've even adjusted the cache to be twice the size of whatever video I am testing. I don't mind waiting at the start of the video for it to cache etc. as long as its smooth from that point on. Is streaming file through cloud drive a pipe dream or have I just got a setting wrong? All discussion welcome, thank you.

Just wanted to chime in and say I feel I am having the same issue. On my home connection I can saturate upload speed 40mbps, but download is 4-2mbps. The same can be said of a Windows VPS with Vultr. Uploads of 100mbps and downoad of 2-4mbps at best. Both drives created on .802 in ReFS format.