OpenDrive: Another network drive that can be mapped as a local drive.

by yoshio on 2008-07-20 23:02:00

Similar services like this have been introduced before, which essentially map a network drive to display on a local drive. The advantage of doing this is that users can easily drag and drop files on their local drive for uploading, just as if they were operating directly on the hard drive. In fact, OpenDrive isn't a completely independent service; it has a strong connection with BOXSTr, which was introduced earlier. Files you upload to OpenDrive are actually stored on BOXSTr. In other words, OpenDrive is basically an application interface for BOXSTr. You can even directly log in to OpenDrive using your BOXSTr account because the databases are fully linked.