Raidrive’s speed is just fine. It depends on your provider and the Cloud service you’re using.
What’s true for a hard drive, is true for upload/download :
- Uploading/downloading 1GB in 1 file is fast. There’s 1 connection, never interrupted, running until it’s finished. With a good fiber connection, uploading 1GB takes a minute.
- Uploading/downloading 1GB in 1000000 files of 1KB each, takes shit loads of time. Because it’s multiple small connections interrupted every KB. With a good fiber connection, uploading 1GB in multiple small files can take many hours.
If you want that kind of transfers to go faster, you should use your Cloud Storage provided Sync app. Usually in the options of such sync apps you can specify an amount of parallel TCP connections per transfer. It’s often about 5 or 6 transfers running together. For upload and/or for download. If your sync app can run files 5 by 5 (in parallel) it’ll go much faster than using Raidrive.
When copying with Raidrive mounted as a local drive, you’re limited to Windows copy : 1 file by 1 file. Which slows down the process tremendously.
In a nutshell, your issue is not with Raidrive, but with Windows. To go a bit faster you could also use multiple instances of your usual file manager and run multiple move/copy manually. If you have let’s say 1000 files to move to the cloud, use 4 file managers and select 250 files in each of them. 4 copies will run in the meantime, accelerating the process.