rclone
Best performance, ideal for global cloud drives
What it is: The most popular command-line cloud storage tool worldwide, supports sync + mount as local disk.
Official Docs: https://rclone.org/docs/
Natively supported drives (no extra setup needed):
- Google Drive
- OneDrive (global + CenturyLink China)
- Dropbox
- Aliyun Drive
- Amazon S3, Backblaze B2, Wasabi, Cloudflare R2, Tencent COS, and most object storages
- WebDAV, FTP, SFTP, etc.
Best for: Users who want maximum speed and mainly use global drives.
Due to container security restrictions, rclone mount (mounting as a local disk) is not supported on GPUhub instances and will fail with permission errors.
Recommended: Use rclone for sync/copy (fully supported and fast):
# Download data
rclone copy xxxdrive:datasets/my_data ./data --progress
# Upload results
rclone copy ./outputs xxxdrive:results/my_run --progress
Alternative: Serve as WebDAV (access like a network drive):
rclone serve webdav xxxgdrive: --addr 0.0.0.0:8080 --vfs-cache-mode writes
# Then open http://your-instance-ip:8080 in JupyterLab or browser.
For most training tasks, automated copy/sync works best.
Alist
Easiest to use, perfect for Chinese drives or Netdisk etc.
What it is: Web-based cloud drive aggregator with a beautiful dashboard and one-click mounting.
Official Docs: https://alist.nn.ci
Supported drives (especially strong with Chinese closed-source drives):
- Quark Drive
- Aliyun Drive
- Baidu Netdisk
- 115 Cloud
- Tianyi Cloud
- Xunlei Cloud
- Lanzou Cloud
- Plus everything rclone supports
Best for: Users who mainly use Quark, Baidu, 115, Tianyi, or want a single web UI to manage all drives.