Google Drive as a Scratch Disk

[Eric Santiago]

That would be nice. But your data speed is the killer here.

I see options for syncing Google Drive to your local.

Is your intent for backup without having to manually move assets?

I don’t think you can use it as smoothly as a network drive.

[Chris Wright]

Google drive is not like a traditional storage device. besides the bad latency you would get when random scrubbing, (unless render cached), you would run into a maximum bandwidth limit. not in the traditional sense of bandwidth, but if you read more than x tb per month, they can freeze your account. but for something small, it might be a fun experiment. i wouldn’t use it professionally as an online IO storage.