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Last updated on December 21st, 2017 at 07:24 am UPDATE: This review was based on ExpanDrive 5. ExpanDrive 6 has been released with some big changes.! I started trialling 5 to see if, compared to, it would be a more or less viable alternative to running all the different cloud synchronising apps for all the different cloud services I use. That includes Dropbox, Cloud Drive, Google Drive, and OwnCloud.
I’m also looking at it as a way of reducing the data footprint of those cloud platforms on my local machine, so not actually storing files locally is a significant benefit here. Manually removing files from synchronising with my various cloud accounts is a pain, especially since there are terabytes of data in my Dropbox and it takes quite a while to load the full folder tree. ExpanDrive behaves like an external USB attached drive, or more accurately a series of USB attached storage.
Each of your cloud storage systems becomes a drive connected to your computer. As long as you are on the internet, you can then enter these storage destinations anytime and access the files on them as you would any other external drive.
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Similarly, you can save directly to them just like a regular external drive. The only difference is that the speed of access is highly impacted by the speed of your internet connection. At the time of writing ExpanDrive has a free 7-day trial (it was 30 days when I first planned to test and compare it, but by the time I began the test it was disappointingly reduced to 7 days). Once the trial expires, you can purchase a single-user license for USD $49.95 or with lifetime upgrades for USD $74.95.
So it is relatively inexpensive, with additional discounts for multiple licenses and for educational or non-profit users. The core features are: • Connect to multiple storage platforms at once, including most common platforms, with a single application.
• Background file transfers for small files and real-time transfers for large files. • Native file access just like an externally attached drive. Supported storage platforms Dropbox Yes Cloud Drive Yes Google Drive Yes Google Cloud Storage Yes Box Yes S3 Yes OneDrive Yes OwnCloud Yes OpenStack Yes RackSpace Cloud Files Yes Dream Objects Yes HP Helion Yes Microsoft Sharepoint Online Yes HubiC Yes WebDav Yes FTP Yes SFTP Yes FTPS Yes So after using it for 7 days, I’ve tried to cover off all the things I would do or use on a regular basis. What I found is: Setup ExpanDrive has a straight forward installer. It’s to the point and doesn’t mess around. During the installation, you can connect your storage locations if you wish, and once it’s installed, a taskbar icon becomes available. Any clouds you have connected during setup will also now appear as external drives on your Mac, and you can access them just like you would a USB drive.
Adding ExpanDrive Connections File transfers Files seem to upload or download just as fast as Dropbox, Google Drive and Amazon Drive’s own applications. The noticeable difference though is that it behaves like a native file copy.
So on a Mac, your Finder file transfer dialogue is open telling you how long there is left and so on. I did notice that in the ExpanDrive menu accessed from the taskbar it does show you what file is presently being used in some way on each cloud drive. So for example, if I were copying image.jpg from Dropbox to Google Drive it would tell me that image.jpg is being downloaded from Dropbox and uploaded to Google Drive. ExpanDrive connections screen showing an active transfer The downside of this is that the transfer does not happen in the background except for small files. Small files are stored locally somewhere in a cache hidden away while they transfer, and then removed once the transfer is complete, larger files though are not.
So you have to maintain your internet connection. For me, this is a big problem. I deal with a lot of data in the cloud, and a good chunk of them are more than 100mb, many are more than 1gb. So this in practice means I need to copy them to a local drive first, work on them, and then when I am done, copy them back. It’s fine for smaller files, but for large ones, it’s just not a practical function to have to manually keep track of what I need to put back and where it belongs.
Yes, I will admit that it is great to not have a 13gb video file clogging up my local drive while it transfers in the background. However, I can’t be leaving my laptop connected to the same internet connection in the same place for 1-2 days while I wait for the transfer to complete. Even more frustrating though is after wider testing with larger files that are transferred in real-time on a 40Mbps upload speed I find that many of them fail. This includes large transfers of smaller files. So for example 60gb of photos that range in size between 1mb and 20mb each. In the case of a single file, it fails because “some data can’t be read or written”.