Cloud Storage Solution Help!

[duckypath]

Is there a solution that essentially makes a cloud service act as a local drive? So I am for example stream videos, directly download to it, and manage the files within it, but in a cloud storage type? I have a 4TB external that I want to use for some of my bigger files. 

 

But I also have a lot of smaller video files that I would like to be able to play, and usually every week or so there is a batch of files that I need to download. Instead of downloading them to my computer, I'd like to have the cloud service just pull it directly. Possible?

 

EDIT: I'd also prefer to have NONE of the files stored on my device. I know that most consumer solutions store the data on your device, and upload changes made. Instead I'd like changes to files to be done directly on the files in the cloud.

[Electronics Wizardy]

There are programs that can mount cloud storage that use S3 or are compatible as a drive in the local os.

 

Google file stream for gsuite will cache a local copy of the files, but you can use files like a local drive.

 

Most consumer storage will store on your system as they assuming your internet connection is bad, and the performance would be awful for doing work off a cloud drive directly.

[duckypath]

32 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

There are programs that can mount cloud storage that use S3 or are compatible as a drive in the local os.

 

Google file stream for gsuite will cache a local copy of the files, but you can use files like a local drive.

 

Most consumer storage will store on your system as they assuming your internet connection is bad, and the performance would be awful for doing work off a cloud drive directly.

Hmm ok, do you happen to know if I were to use one of these cloud mounting solution, if I were to download and point to download folder to this mounted drive, would it store all the files locally and in the cloud drive? Or would there just be a temp. storage to transfer.