Delta Trust, Delta Drive and My Drive

Storage Studio offers three kinds of online storage, and the menu that opens them is called Delta-X. Delta Trust keeps your backups, Delta Drive holds the files you work with day to day, and My Drive is the same working drive running on storage you already own.

The three at a glance

A trial is enough for My Drive. Delta Trust needs a bought, active licence — the app says so on the button rather than walking you through setup first.

Backups and working files are kept apart on purpose

A backup you can delete is not a backup, and a drive you cannot delete from is not a drive. So the two are separate:

• Delta Trust is encrypted on your Mac before anything leaves it, with a key we never receive. Your history can't be destroyed for a set number of days — the card shows the number in force — by anyone, including Storage Studio.
• Delta Drive and My Drive behave like any folder: you add, open, share and delete.

Switching between Delta Drive and My Drive never touches your backups.

%% caption: Which of the three fits what you want to do
flowchart TD
  A[What do you want?] --> B{Protect a copy that nothing can erase?}
  B -->|Yes| C[Delta Trust]
  B -->|No| D{Work with files from anywhere?}
  D -->|Yes, on storage we run| E[Delta Drive, with a Delta Trust plan]
  D -->|Yes, on storage you own| F[My Drive, with a trial or licence]

Delta Drive and My Drive are one product

The screens, the sidebar, sharing, the Finder disk and the browser view are the same for both. What changes is whose storage the files sit in. Only one is live on a Mac at a time, and the heading tells you which. Each keeps its own files, search and settings, so switching copies nothing and loses nothing.

If you set up My Drive first and later buy a plan that includes Delta Drive, Storage Studio offers to Move My Drive to Delta Drive. Your files stay where they are; Not now changes nothing.

Where to find them

• The main window has a Delta Drive tab. With a drive, it shows your files. Without one, it explains what Delta Drive does and offers See plans, Use storage you own and Restore it with your recovery kit.
• More (•••) → Delta-X lists Delta Trust (with Storage & restore, Vault activity and Manage plan) and Delta Drive with each of its screens.
• Delta Trust also has a card on the Data Backup screen.

Read next

• Delta Trust — the vault, and what it promises.
• Delta Drive — a tour of the working drive.
• My Drive and setting it up.
• The recovery kit — the 24 words that open your vault.
• Sharing files with named people.

See also: Data Backup, Buying a licence, The free trial.