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My Drive is the same working drive as Delta Drive, kept on storage you already own and pay for instead of storage we run. The screens, the sidebar, sharing, the Finder disk and the browser view are identical — what changes is whose storage the files sit in.

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Your account uses one of them at a time — your active drive — and the Viewing: picker at the top of the window tells you which. Making the other one active asks first and copies nothing. You set it up from Delta Drive → Storage → Connect storage you own….

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See how to connect your own storage and the difference between the two.

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Delta Drive, Delta Trust & My Drive · What Delta X is

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What is My Drive in Storage Studio?

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Short answer: My Drive is Delta Drive running on storage you already own. It looks and works exactly the same — same screens, sharing, Finder disk and browser view — but the files live in your own storage instead of ours.

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My Drive is the same working drive as Delta Drive, kept on storage you already own and pay for instead of storage we run. The screens, the sidebar, sharing, the Finder disk and the browser view are identical — what changes is whose storage the files sit in.

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Your account uses one of them at a time — your active drive — and the Viewing: picker at the top of the window tells you which. Making the other one active asks first and copies nothing. You set it up from Delta Drive → Storage → Connect storage you own….

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See how to connect your own storage and the difference between the two.

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