Understanding Ploutos Drive

Ploutos Drive is an S3 backed bucket storage mounted as a file system across your projects. The drive comes with a gorgeous interface to manage files and directories. You can upload files, folders into the Drive from UI and it will upload multiple files a blazing pace with built in retries.

Accessing Drive from the UI

You can access the Drive from the side navbar. The drive UI is similar to a Finder on Mac. You can upload files and folders and the Drive back end is designed to accept multiple files in parallel. In addition you can see if there are any failures and press retry.

The following actions are available from the UI:

• Create folder in the current directory
• Upload file from your computer
• Upload folder from your computer
• Rename a file or folder
• Move (file or folder) to a different location
• Copy path allows you to copy the path formatted as a UNIX path

Here is the screenshot of the UI with actions

Accessing Drive from code

One of the powerful and helpful features of Ploutos Drives is their ability to auto-mount themselves. For example in the above screenshot, the file “Master Plan.pdf” is accessible as “/drive/Master Plan.pdf”

with open("/drive/Master Plan.pdf") as f:

If you use notebook terminals (check out Notebooks), you can access the /drive from the terminals and you will have full read and write access.

<aside> 💡 You have full Read and Write access to your Drive. Be careful when you access that data directly from terminal. Once deleted the data will not be recoverable.

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Drives are mounted across all your notebooks, batch jobs and workspaces and also available from terminals inside Notebooks.