![]() Right now all of the major on-line syncing services charge $10 per month or under for 1TB of storage. Dropbox, Microsoft and Google are all competing for customers and driving down the price of syncing files to the Internet. The disconnect between SSD pricing and storage service pricing can be a deterrent to taking full advantage of both. While there are ways to use these services for off-line storage, through selective sync and web browser access, it can be a pain to actually use the files. There are a few different applications that can turn an Internet file service into a mounted disk. Instead of syncing local files to a service like Google Drive or Dropbox, you can treat the remote collection like a disk that you mount on the desktop as needed. These virtual disks behave just like a drive mounted over USB. They don’t have the performance or searchability of a local disk but they are well behaved as an external storage device. File access is slower and requires an Internet connection.The disadvantages I’ve encountered are minor in my day-to-day activities: There’s never any question about which files are stored on-line.You can login to more than one account at a time.They don’t take up any space on the local disk.Virtual drives have two major advantages over the typical Dropbox or Google Drive installation: I don’t have diverse experience in this category, but I know what works well for me. Transmit for Mac is great if you only need FTP, WebDAV and S3. It can create virtual disks of any connection type it supports. Transmit, while being a terrific FTP client for the Mac, is limited to a a few basic service types and does not support Dropbox or Google Drive.
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