
If you are using a free Proton account then be sure to take notice of the box describing how to get the full 1GB allocation of free storage as this does require a few simple tasks be completed first (as can be seen below).Īnother useful setting available upon first signing-in to the account is the option to set the default Proton theme. Once signed-in to Proton Drive for the first time, the service will greet us with some information boxes showing some useful details about the service.

Best of all, if you already have a Proton account (such as a Proton Mail account as can be seen below) then the new Proton Drive service will already be linked-up in the background and ready to go! Signing up to the Proton Drive service is thankfully very quick and easy, no personal details are requested other than a username for logging into the service (and a password, of course) and the account creation process only takes a few seconds based upon my own experiences. This will cover the actual signup process itself, how easy the service is to configure, use and how well the service functions whilst performing core tasks such as uploading files, sharing them with others and so on. In this section of my Proton Drive review, I will be signing up to the service for myself and testing out the usability aspects of the service.

With all of this in mind, Proton Drive looks like a very promising cloud solution for anyone taking the privacy and security of their data seriously! Time to sign-up to the service for myself and see the service in action, let’s go! A key component of this is the strong elliptic curve cryptography technology which is backed up by many other useful cloud features including secure file sharing (with time-limited shares), encrypted file search, multi-factor authentication plus any data kept on the service being subject to strong Swiss privacy and security laws amongst other things. Proton Drive, a new service from the developers behind the secure email service Proton Mail, is a security and privacy focused cloud storage solution offering end-to-end encrypted storage and enhanced privacy by default!Īs a relatively new cloud storage service (launching only in September of 2022), Proton Drive is taking the route of offering their users some of the highest levels of data security and privacy features enabled across all files stored upon the service by default.
