What is Spacedrive?
Spacedrive is open personal data infrastructure. It turns the storage you control into one private filesystem across your devices, drives, servers, and the clouds you choose. The project states there is no hosted account, no vendor control plane and no telemetry.
A source can be a folder, a complete drive, a dataset on your NAS, another Spacedrive node, a cloud bucket, or an external service. Watchers keep a live index of names, sizes, timestamps and content state, and one search runs across local, remote, cloud and adapter sources. BLAKE3 content identities connect copies of the same bytes, and duplicate detection uses sampled hashes with full-byte verification before destructive cleanup. If you disconnect a drive, its catalog remains searchable.
You can freeze a source at a point in time and browse an offline snapshot. Spacedrive 2.0 Beta is planned for November 15, 2026. Nightly CLI and daemon builds are available now, but they are unsigned, move with every push to main, and can break, so keep backups of any library you point them at.
Key capabilities
- One searchable index over folders, drives, NAS datasets, other nodes and cloud buckets
- Live watchers that keep the index current
- BLAKE3 content identities and duplicate detection with full-byte verification
- Point-in-time snapshots you can browse offline
- A catalog that stays searchable when a drive is disconnected
- Nightly CLI and daemon builds
Where Spacedrive fits
- Live index Watchers keep names, sizes, timestamps and content state current, so opening a folder never rescans the disk.
- Cross-source search One search runs across local, remote, cloud and adapter sources.
- Stable identity BLAKE3 content identities connect copies of the same bytes across sources and devices.
- Duplicate detection Sampled hashes find candidates quickly, and full-byte verification confirms equality before destructive cleanup.
- History and snapshots A source can be frozen at a point in time, browsed as an offline snapshot, and inspected for which operation changed it.
- Operation preview A preview shows what will exist afterward, projected from the index without touching a file.
- Mounts Any source or subtree can be mounted into macOS, Windows or Linux.
- Peer connections Nodes connect over Iroh and QUIC with end-to-end encryption, and no hosted account is needed.
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