Skip to main content

RaiDrive

RaiDrive mounts S3-compatible storage as a Windows drive letter. Once mounted, all your local Windows tools — Explorer, Office apps, backup software — can read and write the bucket as if it were a local disk.

Install

Download from raidrive.com. The Standard edition includes S3 support; the free edition does not.

Configure

  1. Open RaiDrive and click + Add.
  2. Pick the Cloud Storage category and choose S3 Compatible.
  3. Fill in:
FieldValue
DriveZ: (or your preferred letter)
Addresss3.filebase.io
Path style✓ enabled
BucketLeave blank to expose all buckets, or set one
Access KeyYour Filebase access key
Secret KeyYour Filebase secret key
Regionauto
  1. Click Connect.

The drive appears in Explorer and is usable from any Windows app.

Performance notes

RaiDrive caches metadata aggressively for browsing speed, but every file read still hits the network on the first access. As with all S3-as-filesystem mounts, this works best for occasional access — not for hot reads in a build pipeline.

For workloads needing high throughput, the AWS CLI or PowerShell directly is significantly faster.

What's next

  • WinSCP — Windows client without filesystem mount
  • s3fs-fuse — Linux/macOS equivalent