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ExpanDrive is a fast and powerful Amazon S3 client that lets you browse S3 (or S3-compatible) storage. It builds native access to S3 directly into Finder and your Mac system at the filesystem level. Finder and Explorer, or any other application, can browser you S3 buckets natively and access the remote content on-demand. It effectively turns your Mac, Windows or Linux machine into a S3 Browser. This lets you browse S3 storage without needing to sync down any of the data in advance. You can view buckets, manage files, and transfer large amounts of data from within any application.
In addition to filesystem integration, ExpanDrive 7 has a powerful cloud storage browser and file manager. It surfaces more advanced features of S3 like setting the ACL for a given object, or modifying its storage class.
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If you’re looking for a simple S3 uploader, ExpanDrive’s storage browser has a blazing fast uploader built in that is designed for bulk upload and data migration. Files are uploaded in the background with our multi-threaded transfer engine. This makes uploads feel instant and doesn’t leave you waiting on transfers while you continue to go about your work.
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Most consumer-focused cloud storage services like Dropbox or Google Drive come with their own desktop sync client. S3 is different in this respect. It is a developer/infrastructure focused service that is primarily accessed by an API that you need a third party client to access. Amazon provides a fairly basic web interface, but other than that the only way to get data in and out of it is via the API.
There are a wide variety of clients to access S3, like S3 Browser or Transmit for the Mac. DragonDisk used to be targeted on this use-case but development ceased a few years ago. Most of these provide basic access to S3, but don’t provide native access to content. ExpanDrive provides advanced functionality and also turns S3 into an infinite-capacity external drive.
Bucket level organization
To get started you load ExpanDrive and input your access key ID as well as your secret key. Connecting mounts the root of your AWS account. Now you can use Finder or Explorer to browse your buckets and then drill into them.
S3 is organized into buckets, which are top-level folders that are uniquely named throughout the service. You can attach various policies to a bucket such as restricting access to particular users or making hosted content available to the public. ExpanDrive lets you mount the root of your S3 account, showing you all your buckets (if your user has permission to list buckets). You can restrict mount a specific bucket, or even a particular folder in a bucket, by typing the bucket name in the remote path section. For additional details you can check out our documentation on connecting to S3. This is useful if you have an IAM user with access to only a single bucket or doesn’t have the permissions to list the buckets for an account.
Powerful Server Edition
Head over to our ExpanDrive Server Edition page for instructions and packages for Windows and Linux servers. ExpanDrive Server edition is designed to run unattended, at boot [versus login], and provides drives that can even be re-shared on the network.
Browse S3-Compatible storage like Wasabi
Amazon provides a simple guide to get started with their S3 service. ExpanDrive is also compatible with any S3-protocol compatible service like Wasabi or Dream Objects. For Wasabi ExpanDrive has a built-in connection profile. But you can also select the Amazon S3 connection profile and modify the server field to connect to storage services like Dream Objects, Ceph, Cleversafe, Oracle and more.
Click Save or Connect and you’re good to go. Amazon S3 will now be visible as a network drive whenever you login to your computer – letting you access all of your content from Finder, Explorer, Photoshop, Microsoft Office – whatever!
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Drag and drop files to copy them out to the cloud. You can even stream media content like movies and music directly from the S3 storage without needing to first download or sync them. For more information, check our documentation page on connecting ExpanDrive to S3.
System Requirements
ExpanDrive supports macOS 10.10 or newer and a wide variety of Linux distributions including Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Centos, Fedora, Redhat, and more. Learn more about how to install ExpanDrive for Linux here.
ExpanDrive runs on Microsoft Windows 7 through Windows 10. Windows Server is also supported as well as RDP/Terminal services environments. ExpanDrive can isolate multiple users logged into the same machine so they each have their own view of cloud storage.
| Developer(s) | ExpanDrive, Inc |
|---|---|
| Stable release |
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| Operating system | Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, Linux |
| Available in | English |
| Type | SFTP/FTP client |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | www.expandrive.com |
ExpanDrive is a distributed file system client for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows and Linux that facilitates mapping of local volume to many different types of cloud storage. When a server is mounted with ExpanDrive any program can read, write, and manage remote files (that is, files that only exist on the server) as if they were stored locally.[4] This is different from most File Transfer Clients because it is integrated into all applications on the operating system.[5] It also does not require a file to be downloaded to access portions of the content. ExpanDrive is commercial software, at a cost of $49.95 per license. A 7-day, unrestricted demo is available for evaluation.
ExpanDrive uses a custom FUSE implementation as its file system implementation layer on the Mac and Windows.
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History[edit]
SftpDrive was the original version of ExpanDrive for Microsoft Windows. It was commercial software with a 6-week trial.[citation needed]
ExpanDrive 2 was released on June 21, 2011[6] adding support for plain FTP, Amazon S3 and a new ExpanDrive service named Strongspace Online Storage. ExpanDrive2 included a rewritten SFTP engine which lay the groundwork for a unified Mac and Windows code base.
Version 2.4, released in January 2013 was the first version to be released simultaneously for Windows and Mac.[7]
ExpanDrive 3 was released on May 14, 2013 with a new user-interface and support for more drive types such as Dropbox, OpenStack, Rackspace and WebDAV.[8]
ExpanDrive 4 was released on June 12, 2014 with dramatically faster access. ExpanDrive 4 also added support for Microsoft OneDrive, Copy.com, HP Helion Cloud, Owncloud and hubiC.[9]
ExpanDrive 5 was released on June 15, 2015 with a near-total rewrite of its core functionality.[10]
ExpanDrive 6 was released on July 5, 2017, followed by a redesign to version 6.1 on September 25, 2017. The most recent version v6.3 was released on November 2nd, 2018. [11]
ExpanDrive 7 was released on May 8, 2019, which added support for Linux, A cloud storage browser and transfer application, multi-user file locking, search and version management. [12]
New features include improved performance and file versioning. An increased list of supported storage and cloud storage providers have been introduced since version 5, including Dropbox, Google Drive, Google Team Drives, Amazon Drive, Box, OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, Sharepoint, Openstack Swift, BackBlaze B2, Amazon S3 as well as the original SFTP, FTP or WebDAV server and SMB/Windows File Sharing.
See also[edit]
- SSH file transfer protocol (SFTP)
- Secure Shell (SSH)
References[edit]
- ^'ExpanDrive Release Notes'. Retrieved September 29, 2020.
- ^'ExpanDrive Release Notes'. Retrieved September 29, 2020.
- ^'ExpanDrive Release Notes'. Retrieved September 29, 2020.
- ^Tech Republic. 'Using ExpanDrive to mount remote file systems'. www.techrepublic.com. Retrieved 2014-10-28.
- ^Mac Apptitude. 'How to mount cloud storage in the Mac Finder'. www.macapptitude.com. Retrieved 2014-10-28.
- ^Jeff Mancuso (2011-06-21). 'ExpanDrive Blog » ExpanDrive 2 for Windows – FTP and S3, blazing fast SFTP'. Blog.expandrive.com. Retrieved 2014-10-28.
- ^Jeff Mancuso. 'ExpanDrive Blog » ExpanDrive v2.4 released - ExpanDrive Blog'. Blog.expandrive.com. Retrieved 2014-10-28.
- ^Rui Carmo (2013-05-19). 'ExpanDrive 3'. The Tao of Mac. Retrieved 2014-10-28.
- ^Brett Terpstra (2014-06-18). 'ExpanDrive 4, more services and faster sync'. Engadget. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
- ^www.expandrive.com/introducing-expandrive-5
- ^updates.expandrive.com/release_notes/expandrive_win
- ^www.expandrive.com/hello-expandrive-7/
External links[edit]
- Review of ExpanDrive at Macworld (November 2008)