Will AmazonDrive be supported?

General Discussions
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Hi there,

As the title implies, I know Plex uses Onedrive, Dropbox and Gdrive, out of the three none is suitable for my media needs. I’ve just reached the 3TB mark and I’m signing up to AmazonDrive for £55 a year for unlimited storage (a bloody bargain for Amazon servers). I’d like to sign up for Plex premium now that it has cloud storage features, but it’s still limited to 3 cloud services and not even necessarily the best ones.

  • GDrive charges $99.99 p/month for 10TB, absurd. Or only 1TB for $9.99 p/month, so Google is way out of touch with the competition in this regard.
  • OneDrive doesn’t allow you to go beyond 1TB with an MS Office 360 subscription, or 5TB with 5 users version of MS Office, but you can’t merge those 5TB into one place, you have to log in separately. This was going to be my best solution for now, but the separate drives foiled that plan.
  • Dropbox offers 2TB at £10 p/month or unlimited storage for £15 p/month, way more expensive p/ year than AmazonDrive.

I’m a professional photographer, I need all the drive space I can get for my RAWs, on top of that I’ve got a library of about 800 HD movies and TV shows, so really need a reliable cloud service, and Plex would complement this perfectly. But it’s like Plex only partnered up with all the popular ones (no iCloud?).

Can we have AmazonDrive added to the list of eligible cloud services? I’d be all over Plex Prem if that were to happen.

Thanks for reading, all the best.

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The comments from the DEV team have been no Amazon Cloud Drive for the foreseeable future…

And regarding GDrive; Google’s GSuites for Business @ $10 a month for a single user will indeed give you unlimited storage, even though all docs on their site state otherwise.

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When Plex Cloud Server was under development, Amazon Drive was the first provider they tried to use. But there were difficulties, technical and otherwise, that made it unworkable.

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Thank you both for your input, it has been extremely helpful and enlightening.

As for the G Suite, I do have G Suite as part of my business domain (30Gb) The $10 a month upgrade option only states to give a 1TB upgrade if there are less than 5 users within that G Suite. I’m sure I can create 4 additional bogus users (if no verification is required), it would be a great option for 10 a month, but still $120 a year compared to $70 from Amazon’s.

Do I really want to pay an extra $50 a year for unlimited storage just so I can link it to plex? the answer is obvious.

I’ll keep waiting.

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@e.andre.quinta@gmail.com - Apparently they do not enforce the 5 user requirement.