Quickest way to upload 500 GB to Google Drive

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You can use Rclone - it is an open source tool developed at GitHub:

rsync for cloud storage - it is a command line program to sync files and directories to and from Google Drive and many other cloud hosts. Here is the Rclone Google Drive page:

http://rclone.org/drive

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megaSteve4

Updated on September 18, 2022

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megaSteve4 over 1 year
I have about 500GB to upload to to Google Drive. Two questions.
1. What would be the quickest way to do this? The drive app seems slow. Other people have said use CyberDuck but they seem to have deprecated Google Drive as an option (mentioned here)
2. Also I think uploading 500GB over my personal ISP would break their fair use policy. I can do this at work but if I took a hard drive to work synced it with my Google drive then went home and added the HD back to my personal PC would it need to re sync everything or would it be cleaver enough to realise it was the same 500GB and not sync it again?
Thanks
- Little Helper over 9 years
  
  Did you buy additional storage for Google Drive?
- kinokijuf over 9 years
  
  What ISP are you using that large uploads violate their policy?
- martineau over 9 years
  
  Taking the HD to work and then putting it back should work OK. It's also something you can try easily enough.
- megaSteve4 over 9 years
  
  @LittleHelper yup 1TB only $9.99
- megaSteve4 over 9 years
  
  @kinokijuf Virgin UK based dont know the policy but can imagine if I pushed an additional 500GB in a month they might not like it - they are tight over here!
- megaSteve4 over 9 years
  
  @martineau - good idea about testing it, I will try
- misha256 almost 9 years
  
  @megaSteve4 Most fair-use policies target downloads not uploads. You may as well ask Virgin to clarify their position for your specific use case. At least then you'll be sure instead of speculating.
- Firee almost 9 years
  
  What kind of data are you trying to upload. Is it documents / media. Is it compressed?
- megaSteve4 almost 9 years
  
  @Firee - I have completed the task now but for reference it was a complete mix of photos, some vids, loads of website stuff (text files).
- megaSteve4 almost 9 years
  
  Also to whoever out there down voted please explain. I think my question is legitimate?
- Firee over 8 years
  
  yup 1TB only $9.99 But that is monthly charges, which means you will be shelling out $120 /year, right?
- megaSteve4 over 8 years
  
  @Firee yes - that is billed monthly.
megaSteve4 over 9 years

so to clarify using this command like approach should be quicker than using the app? Thanks
Volker Siegel over 9 years

Technically, the reason I would prefer a command line tool is that it gives better control; You know what it will do more closely compared to a GUI app, and you do not want some extra background sync step nobody would notice normally with that amount of data.