late night working by Daniel Josef

Hey Shadowers! If you are like me and live in the US, you may be eagerly waiting the release of additional storage for your Shadow. While we continue to (patiently) wait for storage expansion here is self serve solution that will allow you to expand your storage Indefinitely!

Pricing: Wasabi: $5/1TB/MO | Lucid Link: $25/MO + $0.05 per GiB

Please Note: I reached out to confirm with Shadow and Blade that this solution does not violate their terms of service, and they told me that it is perfectly acceptable. However, they did note that they are “not liable for the data stored on your Wasabi/Lucidlink setup, or if it somehow negatively impacts your Shadow” so this is important to keep in mind when using third party solutions. That being said, lets move on to the setup!

Wasabi Account

The first thing you will need to do is set up an account with Wasabi.

This setup solution with Lucidlink does support other popular storage solutions such as AWS and Google Cloud, however I will only be writing this tutorial for wasabi as I found it to have the best price with the fewest restrictions.

Download Lucid Link

From the Lucid Link downloads page, install the Windows 64bit version of Lucid Link.

Once Lucid Link is installed and opened you will see the setup screen. On the bottom left of the Lucid Link program you will see an option that says Create or Manage your file spaces through our portal. Clink the link on the word portal to open a web page and begin setup.

Set Up Lucid Link

You will need to create an account, if you do not have one already.

Once you have created your account and signed in, you will see a prompt for Domain Name. This is just the name of the storage space you will be accessing on your Shadow so you can name it anything. I named mine shadowstorage.

You will now see a screen depicting the storage space you just created with no file spaces. You can click Create your first Filespace to continue.

Choose Your Storage Provider.

Now you can name your filespace, myself I named it shadow.

Select Wasabi Cloud, or your chosen storage provider.

Select your preferred server region. If you are not sure which one, just choose the one closest to your physical location.

Review your plan and select Create.

It will take a moment to set up your storage, after a minute or so you will see the button Initialize, and then Launch the Desktop Client.

You should see your storage name at the top of the Desktop Client, you will now need to retrieve some additional information in order to complete the storage setup.

Connecting to Wasabi

Return to the Wasabi website, and once logged in click the I AM button on the top on the left.

Now click Access Keys, and then Create new Access Key.

You will want to download a copy of these Keys and store them somewhere for safe keeping, as they are the only way to access the data stored in the Wasabi Bucket.

Copy and Paste the Shared Secret into Lucid Link, and click Initialize.

You can now click Open Storage to see your new file storage.

The data stored in this folder will be stored on your Wasabi server and streamed using Lucid Link. Wasabi will continue to expand and you can use nearly unlimited storage at $5/1TB/MO. I have used this to successfully play smaller games that are not super resource intensive but have not tried more intense games or content. This is also great for files like Movies or Photos.