title: Best way to upload dataset from my PC to Virtual Machine instance on Google Cloud Platform
body: <p>I have a big dataset (around 50 GB) for a deep learning experiment. I will train my net on a Virtual Machine instance provided from The Google Cloud Platform. So I need to upload my dataset into the virtual machine.
  I've tried to use the gcloud console with the command:</p>
  
  <pre><code>gcloud compute scp --recurse C:\Users\Lenovo\Desktop\dataset root@instance-1:/home/Lenovo/dataset
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It works, but it needs around 50 hours to end.</p>
  
  <p>Is there any way to make this process faster?</p>
  
  <p>I also have a Google Drive repository in which I stored my dataset. It is possible to directly download into my virtual machine from Google Drive?
  My virtual machine has Ubuntu 18.04 LTS version of operating system. </p>