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Biom Drive

Biom Drive is the file management system in Biom. It provides managed cloud storage backed by S3 + CloudFront CDN, with integrations for Google Drive and bring-your-own-bucket (BYOB) options.

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Storage providers

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Biom Drive (default)

Managed cloud storage with:
  • CloudFront CDN — fast global content delivery
  • Multipart upload — files up to 50 GB with pause/resume
  • Folder management — create, rename, move, and delete folders
  • Duplicate detection — auto-detects duplicate files by name + size
  • Metadata extraction — automatic metadata parsing on upload
  • Quota enforcement — storage quotas per user

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Google Drive

Connect your Google Drive account to:
  • Browse and list your Google Drive files
  • Download files directly into Biom
  • Upload files back to Google Drive
  • Create folders in Google Drive
  • Rate-limited API access to respect Google’s quotas

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Bring Your Own Bucket (BYOB)

Connect your own cloud storage:
ProviderSupport
AWS S3Full support with access key/secret key
Google Cloud StorageFull support
Azure Blob StorageFull support
BYOB features:
  • Server-side credential encryption (AES-256-GCM)
  • Multi-source copy (local → your bucket, Biom Drive → your bucket, Google Drive → your bucket)
  • Range request support for efficient downloads
  • Public and private bucket support

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Local storage (IndexedDB)

For fully offline usage:
  • Files stored in browser IndexedDB
  • 500 MB browser storage limit
  • On-demand upload when sharing is triggered
  • No cloud upload required

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File browser

The file browser in the sidebar provides:
  • Hierarchical folder tree with expand/collapse
  • Multi-select for batch operations
  • Batch actions — upload, process, export, analyze multiple files
  • Drag and drop — drop files or folders to upload
  • Search with filters — search by name, type, size, date
  • Natural sort — files sort as 1, 2, 10 (not 1, 10, 2)
  • File type icons and thumbnail previews

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AI file organization

Let the AI agent organize your files automatically:
  1. Right-click a folder and select Organize with AI
  2. Choose a strategy: auto, by-date, by-type, by-experiment, or flatten
  3. The AI analyzes file naming patterns and proposes a folder structure
  4. Preview the proposed changes
  5. Apply to move files into the new structure
The AI creates up to 15 folders and never renames files — it only moves them.

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Upload engine

Biom’s upload system features:
  • Configurable concurrency — up to 4 parallel uploads by default
  • Exponential backoff retry — 3 attempts with increasing delay
  • Duplicate detection — file hashing to prevent re-uploads
  • Global pause/resume — pause all uploads at once
  • Per-batch cancel — cancel specific upload batches
  • Stale recovery — on page reload, stale uploads reset to queued state