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Looking for a private alternative to Google Drive?
What to look for in a private alternative to a general-purpose cloud — and how DRIVUNO compares.
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Three private surfaces. Same zero-knowledge architecture.
Why people start looking Most users do not leave their main cloud out of anger. They start looking when a specific need appears: a confidential project, a client requirement, an account scare, a sudden awareness of how much sits behind one password.
What "private" should actually mean Not just "I have a password." A genuinely private cloud should: - Encrypt files on your device, before upload. - Store only ciphertext on the server. - Hold no keys that can decrypt your content. - Avoid content scanning for AI, ads or product features. - Minimise metadata to what is strictly required to operate.
What to check before switching - Is encryption performed on the client, or only on the server? - Where are the keys generated, and where are they stored? - Can the provider recover your files if you lose your password? (If yes, that is not zero-knowledge.) - Does the provider run AI features on your content? - Is the sharing model URL-based or recipient-keyed?
How DRIVUNO answers - Client-side Argon2id key derivation. - XChaCha20-Poly1305 file encryption before upload. - No server-side decryption path. - No AI features on your content. - Recipient-keyed sharing envelopes.
Migration in practice Most users keep their main cloud for collaboration and move sensitive folders into DRIVUNO over a few sessions. The two clouds do not need to be all-or-nothing.
What people actually want Not a perfect clone of Google Drive — a storage they can actually trust with sensitive files. The features that matter are: encryption before upload, recipient-keyed sharing, honest metadata policy, no automated scanning, no admin override, no AI training pipeline indexing the bucket.
What you give up on purpose Server-side full-text search over your documents. AI-generated photo albums. Provider-side preview rendering of your private files. These are real features — they just require the provider to read your data. The trade-off is the entire point.
Why DRIVUNO is the right fit It is built in the zero-knowledge category from the first line of code. It is not "Drive with a privacy mode toggled on" — it is a different architecture, with different guarantees, for the bucket of files that actually need them.
Try it in one click.
Three private surfaces. Same zero-knowledge architecture.