{"id":2168,"date":"2016-12-01T19:48:33","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T08:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.stillaslife.com\/?p=2168"},"modified":"2018-09-09T09:07:20","modified_gmt":"2018-09-08T23:07:20","slug":"7-days-of-expandrive-cloud-unification-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/es\/7-days-of-expandrive-cloud-unification-review\/","title":{"rendered":"7 d\u00edas de ExpanDrive Cloud Unification - Revisi\u00f3n"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>12\/12\/2017 ACTUALIZACI\u00d3N: <\/strong>This review was based on ExpanDrive 5.\u00a0ExpanDrive 6 has been released with some big changes. <a href=\"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/es\/technology\/expandrive-6-review-improvements-caveats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Echa un vistazo a mi comentario<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.expandrive.com\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2172\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2172 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/expandrive-logo-300x56.png\" alt=\"ExpanDrive Logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"56\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/expandrive-logo-300x56.png 300w, https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/expandrive-logo.png 340w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I started trialling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expandrive.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ExpanDrive<\/a>\u00a05 to see if, compared to <a href=\"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/es\/software\/30-days-of-odrive-cloud-unification-review\/\">Odrive<\/a>, 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 <a class=\"thirstylink\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Dropbox\" href=\"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/es\/goto\/dropbox\/\" data-shortcode=\"true\">Dropbox<\/a>, <a class=\"thirstylink\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"P\u00e1gina de inicio de Amazon USA\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/?&amp;_encoding=UTF8&amp;tag=stillaslife-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;linkId=8cb6743b6d77c46595ca967792214b3f&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\" data-linkid=\"5100\" data-shortcode=\"true\">Amazonas<\/a> Cloud Drive, Google Drive, and OwnCloud. I\u2019m 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 <a class=\"thirstylink\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Dropbox\" href=\"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/es\/goto\/dropbox\/\" data-shortcode=\"true\">Dropbox<\/a> and it takes quite a while to load the full folder tree.<\/p>\n<p>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. 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.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<h3>Las caracter\u00edsticas principales son:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Con\u00e9ctese a m\u00faltiples plataformas de almacenamiento a la vez, incluidas las plataformas m\u00e1s comunes, con una sola aplicaci\u00f3n.<\/li>\n<li>Background file transfers for small files and real-time transfers for large files.<\/li>\n<li>Native file access just like an externally attached drive.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Supported storage platforms<\/h3>\n<table style=\"height: 5px;\" width=\"742\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong><a class=\"thirstylink\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Dropbox\" href=\"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/es\/goto\/dropbox\/\" data-shortcode=\"true\">Dropbox<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<td>S\u00ed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong><a class=\"thirstylink\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"P\u00e1gina de inicio de Amazon USA\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/?&amp;_encoding=UTF8&amp;tag=stillaslife-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;linkId=8cb6743b6d77c46595ca967792214b3f&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\" data-linkid=\"5100\" data-shortcode=\"true\">Amazonas<\/a> Unidad de nube<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>S\u00ed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Google Drive<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>S\u00ed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Google Cloud Storage<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>S\u00ed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Caja<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>S\u00ed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong><a class=\"thirstylink\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"P\u00e1gina de inicio de Amazon USA\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/?&amp;_encoding=UTF8&amp;tag=stillaslife-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;linkId=8cb6743b6d77c46595ca967792214b3f&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\" data-linkid=\"5100\" data-shortcode=\"true\">Amazonas<\/a> S3<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>S\u00ed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>OneDrive<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>S\u00ed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>OwnCloud<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>S\u00ed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>OpenStack<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>S\u00ed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Archivos de la nube de RackSpace<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>S\u00ed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Objetos de ensue\u00f1o<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>S\u00ed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>HP Helion<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>S\u00ed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Microsoft Sharepoint Online<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>S\u00ed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>HubiC<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>S\u00ed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>WebDav<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>S\u00ed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>FTP<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>S\u00ed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>SFTP<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>S\u00ed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>FTPS<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>S\u00ed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>So after using it for 7 days, I&#8217;ve tried to cover off all the things I would do or use on a regular basis.<\/p>\n<p>Lo que encontr\u00e9 es:<\/p>\n<h3>Preparar<\/h3>\n<p>ExpanDrive has a straight forward installer. It&#8217;s to the point and doesn&#8217;t mess around. During the installation, you can connect your storage locations if you wish, and once it&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2176\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2176\" style=\"width: 201px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/es\/7-days-of-expandrive-cloud-unification-review\/expandrive-settings\/#main\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2176\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2176\" src=\"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Expandrive-Settings-211x300.png\" alt=\"ExpanDrive Settings\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Expandrive-Settings-211x300.png 211w, https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Expandrive-Settings-600x854.png 600w, https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Expandrive-Settings-768x1093.png 768w, https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Expandrive-Settings-719x1024.png 719w, https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Expandrive-Settings-705x1004.png 705w, https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Expandrive-Settings.png 968w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2176\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Configuraci\u00f3n de ExpanDrive<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>From the taskbar icon you have the ability to control your connections and monitor what they are doing. You can add or remove cloud\u00a0connections, eject and reconnect storage locations\u00a0<span style=\"background-color: #f5f6f5;\">(useful if they failed to connect for some reason)<\/span>, you can edit the connection settings, you can see any background transfers that are running, and check for updates. Really that is all you need, and it delivers it with a simple interface that looks good as well.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2208\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2208\" style=\"width: 201px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/es\/7-days-of-expandrive-cloud-unification-review\/expandrive-connections\/#main\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2208\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2208\" src=\"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ExpanDrive-Connections-211x300.png\" alt=\"Adding ExpanDrive Connections\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ExpanDrive-Connections-211x300.png 211w, https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ExpanDrive-Connections.png 484w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2208\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Agregar conexiones ExpanDrive<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>Transferencias de archivos<\/h3>\n<p>Files seem to upload or download just as fast as <a class=\"thirstylink\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Dropbox\" href=\"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/es\/goto\/dropbox\/\" data-shortcode=\"true\">Dropbox<\/a>, Google Drive and <a class=\"thirstylink\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"P\u00e1gina de inicio de Amazon USA\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/?&amp;_encoding=UTF8&amp;tag=stillaslife-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;linkId=8cb6743b6d77c46595ca967792214b3f&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\" data-linkid=\"5100\" data-shortcode=\"true\">Amazonas<\/a> Drive&#8217;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 <a class=\"thirstylink\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Dropbox\" href=\"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/es\/goto\/dropbox\/\" data-shortcode=\"true\">Dropbox<\/a> to Google Drive it would tell me that image.jpg is being downloaded from <a class=\"thirstylink\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Dropbox\" href=\"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/es\/goto\/dropbox\/\" data-shortcode=\"true\">Dropbox<\/a> and uploaded to Google Drive.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2206\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2206\" style=\"width: 201px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/es\/7-days-of-expandrive-cloud-unification-review\/expandrive-connections-screen\/#main\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2206\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2206 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ExpanDrive-Connections-Screen-211x300.png\" alt=\"ExpanDrive connections screen showing an active transfer\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ExpanDrive-Connections-Screen-211x300.png 211w, https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ExpanDrive-Connections-Screen.png 484w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2206\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ExpanDrive connections screen showing an active transfer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>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\u00a0are 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&#8217;s fine for smaller files, but for large ones, it&#8217;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&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>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\u00a0many 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 &#8220;some data can&#8217;t be read or written&#8221;.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2209\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2209\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/es\/7-days-of-expandrive-cloud-unification-review\/expandrive-failed-multi-transfer\/#main\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2209\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2209\" src=\"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ExpanDrive-Failed-Multi-Transfer-300x75.png\" alt=\"ExpanDrive transfer failed because one or more items can't be found.\" width=\"300\" height=\"75\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ExpanDrive-Failed-Multi-Transfer-300x75.png 300w, https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ExpanDrive-Failed-Multi-Transfer.png 394w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2209\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">La transferencia de ExpanDrive fall\u00f3 porque no se pueden encontrar uno o m\u00e1s elementos.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the case of multiple files, it fails because &#8220;one or more required items can&#8217;t be found&#8221;.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2210\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2210\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/es\/7-days-of-expandrive-cloud-unification-review\/expandrive-failed-single-transfer\/#main\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2210\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2210\" src=\"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ExpanDrive-Failed-Single-Transfer-300x74.png\" alt=\"ExpanDrive transfer failed because some data can't be read or written.\" width=\"300\" height=\"74\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ExpanDrive-Failed-Single-Transfer-300x74.png 300w, https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ExpanDrive-Failed-Single-Transfer.png 391w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2210\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">La transferencia de ExpanDrive fall\u00f3 porque algunos datos no se pueden leer ni escribir.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>These errors occur moving\u00a0data from an internal hard drive, so it&#8217;s clearly writing to the destination that is a problem and not reading from the source. Given I have to synchronise thousands of files that are large enough to be real-time transferred this is really a dealbreaker. The fact that if I try and sync a folder with 100 photos in it results in an error and having to manually check the photos to see where it failed and begin again is unbelievably frustrating. Even more so when sometimes it only successfully completes one file. I also noted that on single large files it almost always got right to the end of the transfer and then failed. Upon checking what was on the remote storage location, I found that sometimes there was a 0kb file, and sometimes it seemed like it actually succeeded. Unfortunately, this makes ExpanDrive extremely unreliable for large transfers.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I never saw any evidence of network connectivity issues, but I would expect that it is possible a brief network or internet drop could cause this kind of error. If there was, it was not enough to cause ExpanDrive to drop any of the remote connections themselves. Regardless, though, it is the job of the app to ensure that a network failure is handled in the best way possible for the user. With real-time transfers, I imagine this is difficult, but could be addressed with local\u00a0caching.<\/p>\n<p>There is a balance, and I think for everyday users ExpanDrive have hit it with small files cached for background transfer and large files done in real time. In practicality, even a 100mb file transferring in real-time on many internet connections these days is not a big deal. However, for my use, I would prefer to have all data cached unless they physically cannot fit on the local computer drive. Something to the effect of, if more than 10% of the hard disk capacity would be available after caching the file that would be ok with me. After all, it would only be temporary until the file finishes transferring. Of course, it would also help if the transfer ever actually succeeded.<\/p>\n<p>I could be wrong, but I have a suspicion that another issue I found could be related. I noticed that often when I created a new folder or deleted a file. After I name a new folder, an &#8220;untitled folder&#8221; would appear as a new folder in addition to the newly named\u00a0folder. When deleting files, I\u00a0sometimes found the deleted file would reappear a few minutes later. This seemed to occur particularly if it was a file that had recently been added.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2213\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2213\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/es\/7-days-of-expandrive-cloud-unification-review\/expandrive-untitled-folder\/#main\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2213\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2213\" src=\"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ExpanDrive-Untitled-Folder-300x65.png\" alt=\"ExpanDrive Duplicate File Issue\" width=\"300\" height=\"65\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ExpanDrive-Untitled-Folder-300x65.png 300w, https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ExpanDrive-Untitled-Folder-600x131.png 600w, https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ExpanDrive-Untitled-Folder.png 606w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2213\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Problema con el archivo duplicado ExpanDrive<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>Acceso a archivos<\/h3>\n<p>Within applications, file\u00a0and folder access is native, so for example in Photoshop I could navigate into my drive and select a location to save my graphic. I could also open a graphics file from the drive. The caveat here though is, logically, the speed is impacted by your internet connection. So loading a large file, especially on a slow connection will take a while. Similarly saving a large file can take a while. Why? Because it behaves just like a physically attached drive, so there is no temporary files or anything like that it is just straight to the cloud. This is another area that becomes a problem with real-time access, especially since there is a risk your large save will fail.<\/p>\n<p>It is great, for small files. In practice though for large files, I find I&#8217;m sometimes sitting waiting for a while for it to open or even longer for it to save before\u00a0continuing on with what I was doing. Even in Finder when opening a folder, I&#8217;ve not opened before it does seem to cause Finder to hang until it loads the contents. That said, once I&#8217;ve opened the folder once it does appear to open faster each subsequent time so there must be some sort of folder tree caching with an index of the files in it.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the freezing of Finder and other applications when opening and saving files is a real headache as some folders have a lot of them and may take a while if the internet connection is slow. I found it can cause Finder and other applications to hang and become unusable for a few minutes, the longest, while I was testing was about 8 minutes on a 40Mbps connection while I was accessing a <a class=\"thirstylink\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Dropbox\" href=\"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/es\/goto\/dropbox\/\" data-shortcode=\"true\">Dropbox<\/a> folder containing a couple of thousand photos. The freezing also occurs when first single-clicking a file. In Finder, a single click results in loading a preview icon for it. So when clicking a larger file, say a 20mb raw photo, Finder hangs until it finishes creating the preview which requires accessing the entire file. This again can take a little while depending on the file and the speed of the internet connection. It wouldn&#8217;t matter quite so much if there were a delay except that Finder hangs, so you can&#8217;t use it for anything else in a different window. You just have to wait. Fortunately, you can go off and use another application, such as a web browser. So you can still do other things, you just can&#8217;t use Finder, or whatever application it was that you were using to access the file.<\/p>\n<div>\n<h3>Desincronizaci\u00f3n<\/h3>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t actually really relevant because everything happens directly in the cloud. Small files that are cached locally before transfer do however appear to be automatically removed once the transfer is complete.<\/p>\n<h3>Cifrado<\/h3>\n<p>Encryption is not presently available in ExpanDrive, but a brief chat on Twitter does indicate that encryption is something in the works for a later version.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/darksbane\">@darksbane<\/a> no at rest encryption. Right click integration coming.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ExpanDrive (@expandrive) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/expandrive\/status\/784162256762310656\">October 6, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>So in the meantime, you would need to pair ExpanDrive with another tool like <a class=\"thirstylink\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Cryptor\" href=\"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/es\/goto\/boxcryptor\/\" data-shortcode=\"true\">Cryptor<\/a>\u00a0in order to make use of encryption.<\/p>\n<h3>Uso de memoria y CPU<\/h3>\n<p>With only 7 days in the trial, it does not give much time to test memory and CPU usage, however during transfers, particularly of big files or lots of files I did not notice ExpanDrive using large amounts of RAM and CPU time. It seemed to remain quite reasonable all the time though and never seemed to exceed the amounts used by the <a class=\"thirstylink\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Dropbox\" href=\"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/es\/goto\/dropbox\/\" data-shortcode=\"true\">Dropbox<\/a> application with similar data.<\/p>\n<h3>Otras cosas notables<\/h3>\n<p>I discovered when the trial ended that I was able to continue using ExpanDrive unrestricted as long as I didn&#8217;t either reboot the computer or restart ExpanDrive. Unfortunately, while I recognised that I was able to keep using it, I didn&#8217;t realise that it would end after a reboot. So I did get an extra couple of days out of the trial, but after rebooting for an OS X update, ExpanDrive informed me that the trial had ended. I do appreciate that it let me continue using it for up to 20 minutes at a time.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2231\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2231\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/es\/7-days-of-expandrive-cloud-unification-review\/expandrive-trial-ended\/#main\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2231\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2231\" src=\"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Expandrive-Trial-Ended-300x145.png\" alt=\"ExpanDrive Trial Expired\" width=\"300\" height=\"145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Expandrive-Trial-Ended-300x145.png 300w, https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Expandrive-Trial-Ended.png 422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2231\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prueba de ExpanDrive expirada<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t expecting this, so it was nice to be able to get back into it from time to time while writing to double check things and to take screenshots.<\/p>\n<h3>En general<\/h3>\n<p>I have to say, <strong>ExpanDrive has a lot of promise<\/strong>, a lot. As an application it is great. Simple to set up, easy to use, and it just works as though it was always a part of the operating system. It&#8217;s great to just be able to access all my files across all my cloud platforms as though they are a locally connected storage drive. Even better, it has virtually no footprint on my local storage. So I have access to terabytes of data with a few clicks of the mouse.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, though, for such a promising application <strong>it only delivers on small files<\/strong>. Anything more than 1-2mb in size transferred in small quantities (or individually) it just doesn&#8217;t work well for. Between application freezes and failed file transfers it just is not suitable for anything more than individual document and image access. I&#8217;m actually extremely disappointed in how poorly it performs. The fact that large file transfers happen in real time with almost all failing (including saving large files) and the fact that applications freeze for long periods of time while trying to browse the attached storage are real killers for me.<\/p>\n<p>The application freezes are not something that can easily be dealt with as that is a core operating system problem. It happens accessing network attached storage as well. However, local networks are usually faster than the internet, so it is not as noticeable. Even so, it contributes to making the application unusable for terabytes of data like I need to.\u00a0I could probably put up with the application freezes if my transfers would complete successfully or at least moved to a background transfer that was capable of ensuring completion. Combined, it&#8217;s just not a practical solution.<\/p>\n<p>It is extremely disappointing that such a promising application is really <em>unusable<\/em>. From my testing, I think it would be suitable only for use with small data sets and small files. I&#8217;m thinking documents, spreadsheets and maybe a few images. So if you are using the free versions of various cloud platforms to get more space, you could purchase ExpanDrive to bring them all into one application. It would work quite well in that scenario. In my scenario though where I have 3 terabytes in <a class=\"thirstylink\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Dropbox\" href=\"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/es\/goto\/dropbox\/\" data-shortcode=\"true\">Dropbox<\/a> and 1 terabyte in <a class=\"thirstylink\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"P\u00e1gina de inicio de Amazon USA\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/?&amp;_encoding=UTF8&amp;tag=stillaslife-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;linkId=8cb6743b6d77c46595ca967792214b3f&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\" data-linkid=\"5100\" data-shortcode=\"true\">Amazonas<\/a> Drive, comprised of many large files, it just doesn&#8217;t work. Not to mention Google Drive and I would like to access <a class=\"thirstylink\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"P\u00e1gina de inicio de Amazon USA\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/?&amp;_encoding=UTF8&amp;tag=stillaslife-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;linkId=8cb6743b6d77c46595ca967792214b3f&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\" data-linkid=\"5100\" data-shortcode=\"true\">Amazonas<\/a> S3, but there is just no point.<\/p>\n<h3>Lee mas<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/es\/software\/odrive-or-expandrive-for-cloud-unification\/\">Odrive or ExpanDrive? A comparison of specifications and supported clouds.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/es\/software\/30-days-of-odrive-cloud-unification-review\/\">30 days of Odrive Cloud Unification &#8211; Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ExpanDrive se comporta como una unidad USB externa conectada, o m\u00e1s precisamente una serie de almacenamiento USB conectado. Cada uno de sus sistemas de almacenamiento en la nube se convierte en una unidad conectada a su computadora. Mientras est\u00e9 en Internet, puede ingresar estos destinos de almacenamiento en cualquier momento y acceder a los archivos en ellos como lo har\u00eda con cualquier otra unidad externa. Del mismo modo, puede guardarlos directamente como una unidad externa normal.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_wordproof_timestamp":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[1396,1369,1395,1397,1515,1513,1390,1511,1410,1000,1514,1392,1512,1414,1416,1393,1508,1510,1394,1407,1509,1409,1415,29,1413],"country":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Expandrive-v-Odrive-Cloud-Blue.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2168"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=2168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}