Guides/Elba vs Proton Drive
Elba vs Proton Drive: sync vs sovereign
Proton Drive is a well-made encrypted cloud. Elba is deliberately not a cloud at all. Pick by what you need syncing between machines to do.
Pick Proton Drive if
You need mobile access, multi-device sync, and sharing links. You're trusting Proton with metadata but not file contents.
Pick Elba if
You want no cloud in the picture. No account, no server, no metadata anywhere but on your machine.
Questions people actually ask
- Can I put Elba-sealed folders inside Proton Drive?
- Yes. Proton Drive will sync them as opaque blobs, giving you two layers of encryption.
Take the island
Elba is one HTML file. It runs locally in a Chromium browser, seals a folder with AES-256-GCM, never phones home, and becomes open source on 1 January 2030.
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