Livedrive and ADrive are two of the popular cloud storage and backup services. Both offer tons of useful features. Considering all of these, which one would you choose?
I used the web and PC versions of the above mentioned cloud brands and here I’ve presented a comparison table between them. I hope you will find it useful while deciding what to prefer.
[table]Points,Livedrive,ADrive
Free Package,No,Yes\, 50 GB storage with some basic features
Free Trial to Premium Plns,Available for 14 days,Available for 60 days
Credit Card Required to Register?,Yes\, mandatory,Not mandatory
Platforms,Web\, Windows (PC and Tablet)\, Mac OS X\, Android\, iOS\, Blackberry Playbook\, Kindlefire and Chrome browser extension,Web\, Windows\, Mac OS X\, Android and iOS
Business Plan,Yes,Yes
Unlimited Space,Yes,Yes
Sharing and Collaboration,Yes,Yes
Expiration Date for Shared Files,Not available,Available
Setting Download Limit for Shared Files,Not available,Available
Protecting Shared Files with Passwords,Not available,Available
Remote File Transfer,No,Yes
Documents Editing,Available with third party service Zoho,Available with third party service Zoho
Mounts a Network Drive on PC?,Yes,Yes
Backup Service,Available,Available
File Versioning,Yes,Yes
Version History Retention,30 versions,Around one week
Supported Protocols,WebDav\, FTP and SFTP\, read more,WebDAV\, FTP\, SFTP\, Rsync and SCP with SSH key management\, read more
Encryption, Yes. Handled from server side by default,Yes. Handled from server side by default
Customer Support,Email support only,Forum and email. Email support for only paid users[/table]
So, on the above table we see that, core online backup and cloud storage features are offered by both of the services. Still ADrive comes with a great 50GB free plan while Livedrive has no free packages. This is a good point that keeps ADrive ahead. If you think about free trial, you will find Livedrive with just 2 weeks testing period. On the other hand, ADrive invites you to test their premium features for 2 months as trial without having to add any credit card. But Livedrive requires you to add a credit card to register for the trial.
Until now, Livedrive supports more platforms than ADrive. In case of cloud access protocols, ADrive has a bit more options for you.
ADrive offers email and forum support. But the email option is only applicable for the paid users. Livedrive provides only email support. None of them currently offers live chat or technical phone support.
This was all from my comparison. So, which one do you prefer? Livedrive or ADrive? Why? Please share with us via comments. Thanks for reading.