# Amazon Drive uploads slow? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussions\ **Created:** [October 3, 2016, 4:28pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/amazon-drive-uploads-slow/161422 "2016-10-03T16:28:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![wersus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@wersus](https://forums.plex.tv/u/wersus)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2016, 4:28pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/amazon-drive-uploads-slow/161422/1 "2016-10-03T16:28:26Z")
Hi, Plex Cloud looked interesting and I signed up for beta. I just tried to upload some files to Amazon Drive. My upload speed is usually about 15Mb/s but upload to Amazon was 100-500Kt/s. It would take forver to upload something like recorded HD TV show, which is usually like 5-10GB large. Is everyone else getting better speeds and is there anything I can do to improve it? I live in Finland. ---
**Author:** ![hthighway](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/hthighway/32/82003_2.png) [@hthighway](https://forums.plex.tv/u/hthighway)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2016, 4:31pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/amazon-drive-uploads-slow/161422/2 "2016-10-03T16:31:40Z")
Take a look at some of the third party apps, like [rclone.org](http://rclone.org) or [goodsync.com](http://goodsync.com) I use rclone and it will saturate my upload. ---
**Author:** ![marc0nline](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/marc0nline/32/2507_2.png) [@marc0nline](https://forums.plex.tv/u/marc0nline)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2016, 5:18pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/amazon-drive-uploads-slow/161422/3 "2016-10-03T17:18:28Z")
@hthighway Goodsync is $995. Do you know of any other good cloud to server environment sync programs? ---
**Author:** ![hthighway](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/hthighway/32/82003_2.png) [@hthighway](https://forums.plex.tv/u/hthighway)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2016, 5:55pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/amazon-drive-uploads-slow/161422/4 "2016-10-03T17:55:58Z")
Did you look at rclone? it’s free ---
**Author:** ![TXNole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b782af/32.png) [@TXNole](https://forums.plex.tv/u/TXNole)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2016, 1:38pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/amazon-drive-uploads-slow/161422/5 "2016-10-04T13:38:07Z")
I am looking at odrive and goodsync. Currently trying out odrive, but the monthly subscription model for the premium features will likely result in me not staying with them. Going to give a good sync a try. One thing I am concerned about, however, is Amazon taking stuff off of my Amazon drive and then it syncing off of my local drive. I want it to sync (backup) only from my local drive to the Amazon drive (but not deleting from local if I remove it on the Amazon drive). I can always separately re-sync manually to “reset” the cloud – but I want my local files to drive what is stored in the cloud rather than the other way around. Looks like goodsync could work. Any other suggestions? ---
**Author:** ![TXNole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b782af/32.png) [@TXNole](https://forums.plex.tv/u/TXNole)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2016, 1:40pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/amazon-drive-uploads-slow/161422/6 "2016-10-04T13:40:05Z")
One additional clarification - I am even OK with files being “added” to my local drive from the Amazon drive – but I just don’t want anything deleted from my local drive because it was removed from the Amazon drive. ---
**Author:** ![Elijah\_Baley](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/elijah_baley/32/10336_2.png) [@Elijah\_Baley](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Elijah_Baley)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2016, 4:42pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/amazon-drive-uploads-slow/161422/7 "2016-10-04T16:42:07Z")
> @marc0nline said: > @hthighway Goodsync is $995. Do you know of any other good cloud to server environment sync programs? It has a free trial then it is $29.95. The price you quoted is for the enterprise edition. I am still not sure if I will keep Goodsync after the free trial mainly because my upload is so slow that it seems to make little sense to even try to use Plex Cloud for any serious use. ---
**Author:** ![marc0nline](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/marc0nline/32/2507_2.png) [@marc0nline](https://forums.plex.tv/u/marc0nline)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2016, 7:43pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/amazon-drive-uploads-slow/161422/8 "2016-10-04T19:43:08Z")
@Elijah_Baley I am running WHS 2011, so when I try to upgrade it quotes me the $995 price. Also, sorry to hear you are getting slow upload speads with ACD. Me and a friend average 10 to 20/mps upload over Verizon Fios 100/100/mps service ---
**Author:** ![j9ac9k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f4b2a3/32.png) [@j9ac9k](https://forums.plex.tv/u/j9ac9k)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2016, 7:06pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/amazon-drive-uploads-slow/161422/9 "2016-10-09T19:06:16Z")
I’ve been using acd\_cli and rclone, and both are able to upload in the mid 20 MB/s rate (I am lucky and have a 1Gbps symmetric service). A few times I’ve pushed 50 MB/s. acd\_cli seems to error out on uploading files larger than 10 GB, the official Amazon client on windows has no trouble uploading larger files, but it is definitely slower than acd\_cli or rclone. I just started using rclone, haven’t run into any issues yet regarding large files, if you have a large library, I would recommend using rclone at this point. ---
**Author:** ![LifeBeneathTheStars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@LifeBeneathTheStars](https://forums.plex.tv/u/LifeBeneathTheStars)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2016, 8:33pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/amazon-drive-uploads-slow/161422/10 "2016-10-09T20:33:57Z")
After a LOT of searching I was recommended StableBit’s Clouddrive (version 1.0.0.631) by someone on here, it is EXACTLY what I was after; full encryption on the fly. Give it a try. It has a 30 trial period too in case it’s not what you are after. ---
**Author:** ![hthighway](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/hthighway/32/82003_2.png) [@hthighway](https://forums.plex.tv/u/hthighway)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2016, 9:13pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/amazon-drive-uploads-slow/161422/11 "2016-10-09T21:13:17Z")
> @Mike12421 said: > After a LOT of searching I was recommended StableBit’s Clouddrive (version 1.0.0.631) by someone on here, it is EXACTLY what I was after; full encryption on the fly. Give it a try. It has a 30 trial period too in case it’s not what you are after. If you are just looking to just back your data up to ACD then ok, but if your plan is to use `Plex Cloud` with the data you upload then encrypting the files will defeat that. ---
**Author:** ![LifeBeneathTheStars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@LifeBeneathTheStars](https://forums.plex.tv/u/LifeBeneathTheStars)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2016, 10:48pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/amazon-drive-uploads-slow/161422/12 "2016-10-09T22:48:11Z")
> @hthighway said: > > > @Mike12421 said: > > After a LOT of searching I was recommended StableBit’s Clouddrive (version 1.0.0.631) by someone on here, it is EXACTLY what I was after; full encryption on the fly. Give it a try. It has a 30 trial period too in case it’s not what you are after. > > If you are just looking to just back your data up to ACD then ok, but if your plan is to use `Plex Cloud` with the data you upload then encrypting the files will defeat that. I would love nothing more than to have a complete streaming service in the cloud however encryption is more important to me. So if that means I can store all of my media on the cloud encrypted, but have to leave my PC on to decrypt and transcode, then so be it, it’s a small price to pay in my eyes. For me personally, this option is more useful than the current state of Plex Cloud. ---
**Author:** ![Kraevin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/kraevin/32/96968_2.png) [@Kraevin](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Kraevin)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2016, 11:05pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/amazon-drive-uploads-slow/161422/13 "2016-10-09T23:05:33Z")
+1 for rclone, free and does a great job! ---
**Author:** ![buba013](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/buba013/32/8485_2.png) [@buba013](https://forums.plex.tv/u/buba013)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2016, 5:00pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/amazon-drive-uploads-slow/161422/14 "2016-10-11T17:00:33Z")
+1 for rclone . works great for me, same speed with or without encryption enabled , I have 40Mbps upload and 30Mbps consistently. I have a sync from home to ACD using rclone with encryption enabled , then on my VPS I have rclone mounting and decrypting the ACD drive works well. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 10:00pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/amazon-drive-uploads-slow/161422/15 "2020-01-07T22:00:19Z")