Proton Drive
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“Proton Drive already has a CLI built with linux users in mind by the Proton AG team”
“It's worse in many ways, but at least it's E2E encrypted and doesn't shove upgrading ads in our faces all the time.”
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“To send to other people: Proton drive”
“Drive is nice”
Caveats and dissent
“whenever I sync to proton drive the storage space used locally by the app is almost equal to a local photo library!”
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“they don't have some core features like proper proton drive rsync support”
“There's also the controversy around the CEO”
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Who recommends it in their own words
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Threads where it came up
- Mount Proton Drive on Linux using rclone and systemd 4 mentions
- Show HN: Proton Drive for Linux 2 mentions
- Linux 7.3 1 mention
- Mounting Proton Drive in Linux Like in Other OS's 1 mention
- Creating backup storage sucks 1 mention
- Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left 1 mention
Data: proton-drive.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 14
“whenever I sync to proton drive the storage space used locally by the app is almost equal to a local photo library!”
“mount your Proton Drive with rclone”
“Proton Drive already has a CLI built with linux users in mind by the Proton AG team”
“I really needed to mount my Proton drive on my Linux machine the way I mounted it on my Mac”
“these usually just go into Proton Drive”
“which has its own set of warts”
“It's worse in many ways, but at least it's E2E encrypted and doesn't shove upgrading ads in our faces all the time.”
“To send to other people: Proton drive”
“they don't have some core features like proper proton drive rsync support”
“Drive is nice”
“There's also the controversy around the CEO”
Sure, but you don’t need to pay a premium for end to end encryption like with proton. You would encrypt (all or part of) your NAS client side with your software of choice (I use restic) and ship it anywhere off site: could be cheapest cloud, or another location you have access to.
“They are working on an SDK, which they will use for their own Linux client”
“Proton, AFAIK, doesn't provide documented official APIs for accessing their Drive.”