Experience with a cloud drive

[David McFarlane]

All,

I have a user who wants to run their E-Prime experiments from a cloud
drive (Google Drive, Dropbox, etc.). At first I objected largely on the
basis of my experience doing test runs of E-Prime from a departmental
network drive, which showed excessive latencies for loading stimulus
materials. But then I got reminded that these cloud drives actually
hold the files on the local drive, and merely mirror the files to the
cloud. In that case, I suppose that the cloud drive would not affect
the performance of E-Prime, as it would still load stimulus materials
from the local drive. Of course, I would still want to measure this by
running some E-Prime tests and look at OnsetDelay values under a variety
of scenarios. And I would still ask users to disconnect from the
network while running experiments, in order to eliminate that small
amount of additional processing load.

Does anyone have any experience running E-Prime from a cloud drive? How
did it work for you?

(Note that a search for "cloud" in this Group produces only one hit, on
an unrelated topic.)

Thanks,
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David McFarlane
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