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Ask HN: Why is uploading to Google Drive so slow?

5 pointsby nomilkabout 1 year ago
I&#x27;m attempting to upload 2TB to google drive.<p>My upload speed is 250mbps, so 200gb should take around 2 hours, but it takes 20h. I&#x27;ve tried on multiple different wifi networks and on different times&#x2F;days for the past week.<p>yesterday I tried dropbox app on macOS, and the 200gb directory uploaded in well under 2h.<p>This differential is abstruse and I have no idea what&#x27;s going on nor where to get help on this. The tl;dr is I&#x27;d like to keep using Google Drive because it&#x27;s what I&#x27;m familiar with, but it seems upload speeds greater than 25mbps are not possible.<p>I realise I could &quot;just wait&quot;. But I much prefer to understand what&#x27;s going on; if this is a google policy, or if I&#x27;m doing something wrong.<p>FWIW I&#x27;m drop and dragging files from macOS to the google drive web interface. (I don&#x27;t believe google has an official drive app for macOS app as Dropbox has).<p>Any improvements to my understanding or help on this are greatly appreciated.

4 comments

tornquistabout 1 year ago
Google Drive has a macOS app like Dropbox. I’ve also found direct web uploads slow.
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RGammaabout 1 year ago
rclone can access&#x2F;mount Google Drive: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rclone.org&#x2F;drive&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rclone.org&#x2F;drive&#x2F;</a>
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ishankbgabout 1 year ago
Because it&#x27;s Google
b20000about 1 year ago
because googlers are napping in their nap pods