In addition the above, commonly used, services we also see support for using FTP, FTPS, SFTP (SSH secure file transfer) and WebDAV, together making potentially many more storage sources available for use with Mountain Duck.
#Mountain duck key software#
Upon first opening the software we will see a blank form for configuring the details of our first cloud storage drive, the drop-down menu at the very top allows us to initially specify which cloud service or protocol we want to make use of.įor the purposes of testing I will be using Dropbox, but it is interesting to see that a good selection of commonly used cloud storage providers are supported including:
#Mountain duck key windows 10#
Now we have the application installed and ready to use we can start mounting some cloud storage on our device, I will be using Windows 10 during my testing but Mountain Duck also provide a MacOS version of the software for those on Apple devices.
With the licencing or free trial out of the way the application itself will now be ready to use! Mounting Cloud Storage with Mountain Duck When starting Mountain Duck for the first time we will be asked to provide a licence key or, alternatively, request the 14 day trial. Very little user intervention was required during the install, just a couple of clicks and then the application was ready to use after the restart.
#Mountain duck key install#
At just over 65MB the installer can be downloaded and set running very easily, a restart was required during my install although, overall, the process was both quick and easy. Installing Mountain Duck begins by heading over to the Mountain Duck website where a 14 day free trial version can be downloaded. I also like that Cryptomator has been integrated right into the app itself making it easy to secure you data whilst being stored on any cloud, let’s go and see what it can do! So far Mountain Duck looks really promising and the concept of using cloud storage locally has lots of benefits. This encryption technology is especially useful if using a cloud storage provider which doesn’t offer zero knowledge security in any way themselves and might be used for storing potentially sensitive data.
There are also benefits in that should you loose you device (or it becomes unusable in any way) the cloud storage will still be safe and ready to use on another device!Īs well as making cloud storage easy to work with, Mountain Duck also includes the Cryptomator encryption technology which means the setting up of secure, zero knowledge encrypted containers very easy and convenient.
The main benefit of this approach to adding storage is that the amount of additional disk space available to your device is virtually unlimited, add into this that you data is (potentially) much safer in the cloud, much easier to work with across multiple devices and much easier to share with others. Mountain Duck makes the process of working with cloud storage on your local device quick and easy! It is one of the most convenient ways of mounting cloud storage from services including Amazon S3, Backblaze B2 and Dropbox as a drive on your Windows Or MacOS device and once mounted this storage can be used as if it were a locally attached hard drive.
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