Feature Set:  

We get the impression that ADrive is geared more toward business and enterprise users because there are fewer features available on the free account. Don’t get us wrong, the 50GB free account certainly has ample space compared to the 1 or 2GB free accounts that other services offer. But you have to pay in order to get a lot of the features that come standard in other storage sites.

For instance, in order to get simple SSL encryption on your file transfers, you need to pay for your account because the free account won’t do it. This probably isn’t a big deal to you if you just want to store a few nonessential files that can be accessed from anywhere. But if you have any documents or images with personal information you might want to think twice about going with the free account.

If you do go for the paid account, the features open up considerably. You have access to sub-accounts and even multiple concurrent sessions of your storage space. This is another feature that probably won’t be important to the average personal user, but this feature becomes extremely useful for businesses that want to have files available to multiple employees over the internet.

ADrive has full support for file sharing and file history. The service can even go over your file history and recover files. This is especially nice if you are frequently pulling documents off your online storage, editing them and uploading them again.

All of that sounds pretty standard for online storage services, and they should, but there was one feature in ADrive that we absolutely loved and which we want to see in other services. ADrive provides access to the Zoho Online Document Editor so that you don’t even need to download your files to a computer hard drive to access them and edit them. This is a wonderfully useful tool, especially if you are using a public or bare-bones computer that might not have document editing software. Plus, it’s just more convenient even if you do have editing software. You can make changes right in Zoho and save; you’re done. This feature alone makes us love ADrive, regardless of what else it has to offer.