Proton drive, any experience?

[mid_gen]

Been using Proton VPN for a while....and doing some stuff that requires building a few websites/domains I need some better email hosting than the stuff that comes with my reseller account. As it happens my Office 365 sub has expired, and although I didn't use Office, I do use Onedrive heavily.

I noticed Proton do Proton Unlimited, which gives you VPN, mail with 3 custom domains, Proton Drive (their OneDrive equivalent), and their password manager. Seems a pretty good deal and everything I need.

But....is Proton Drive any good? I tried iCloud Drive but it sucks really bad. OneDrive works really well across macOS/windows/iPhone/android......

 

[Jimbeam3678]

Not much help but I always find it bizarre how people say OneDrive works really well with MacOS it’s horrid. IIRC proton drive does the job, I haven’t used it personally.

 

[nade]

I've used Proton Mail (free) for a while, not had any issues. I have never had any need or use for OneDrive or Proton's equivalent.

Did just have a quick look at the plan prices. I know the features/options don't match, but if paying annually the 365 Personal annual plan works out at £7.08 a month with double the storage.

The Proton Unlimited plan mentions 500GB storage but I am assuming like everything else it's shared between mailboxes / storage.

I'm not saying I would go for the Microsoft option, just wanted to mention it.

 

[kindai]

I use it and love it, just make sure to use the 30% off offer going rather than the 20% they have on the website.

 

[mid_gen]

Not much help but I always find it bizarre how people say OneDrive works really well with MacOS it’s horrid. IIRC proton drive does the job, I haven’t used it personally.

This man has not tried using iCloud Drive on Windows. It does not work, so completely useless!

I use it and love it, just make sure to use the 30% off offer going rather than the 20% they have on the website.

Good to know! I only want it for document syncing, so not fussed about big photo libraries (I self host Immich for that).

 

[Jimbeam3678]

This man has not tried using iCloud Drive on Windows. It does not work, so completely useless!

Good to know! I only want it for document syncing, so not fussed about big photo libraries (I self host Immich for that).

Yep completely agree, Google drive is the best out of them all, not perfect but the best of them all for me.

 

[mid_gen]

Yep completely agree, Google drive is the best out of them all, not perfect but the best of them all for me.

I just really not get on with Google products at all. consumer Gmail is tolerable but their business products and drive etc I can’t stand.

Think I will bite the bullet and go Proton. I really need some decent email hosting for a couple of my domains and getting that through a decent interface plus the vpn, drive, etc all for one price is pretty compelling, assuming the drive works ok.

 

[mid_gen]

Well I bit the bullet and went with the full Proton package. Been using Drive a couple of weeks and it's all fine so far, syncing perfectly across my MBA, two windows machines, iPhone. Nice to uninstall iCloud Drive and OneDrive and get rid of those nags.

Migrated my domains web hosting over to Proton Mail too which does a nice job of consolidating everything into one mailbox with a decent web UI and phone client.

 

[Jimbeam3678]

Nice and always great when people report back. Are proton an established company/business?

 

[mid_gen]

Nice and always great when people report back. Are proton an established company/business?

Yes they’ve been around a while, their original product was their privacy focused Proton Mail service (they are Swiss-based, no access to your data, E2E encrypted, no ads), but have branched out since.

Kinda tempted to forward my gmail to the proton mail inbox as well and just have the one client. Although I’m definitely keeping my Gmail as I much prefer using Oauth logins to maintaining separate user/passwords for everything.