Other plans range from the 5TB IDrive Personal from $4.97 a month, to 50TB offerings from $31.22 a month in year one, to Teams plans giving up to 500 users 1TB each.
You can get 100GB for $2.95 a year (yes– per year, not per month), or spend $9.95 a year to get 500GB. Budget users can start with a basic 10GB storage for free.
It’s a long and impressive feature list, but iDrive’s real highlight could be its price. Personal plans can do this once a year for free, business plans get three tries. Your internet isn’t fast enough to back up or restore hundreds of gigabytes of data? The IDrive Express service allows you to send files to or from iDrive on a USB drive via the mail. Once your data is online, you can access it via iDrive's web interface, sync files with your other devices, and there are even mechanisms for sharing files via email, Facebook and Twitter. But for all its power, we found iDrive's apps very easy to use, and our speed tests revealed backup performance was a good match for Google Drive and the top storage contenders. And with most plans covering multiple devices, you can protect as many of these as you like with a single account.Ī lengthy list of backup options starts with simple file and folder protection, but you can also protect your iPhone's photos, videos, contacts and calendar, maybe add SMS on an Android phone, even create a full disk image for disaster recovery purposes later. Wide platform support ensures you're covered on anything from Windows 7 or Windows Server 2003 up, along with Macs, Android and iOS devices, Linux via assorted scripts, and a range of network-attached storage devices: QNAP, Synology, Netgear, Asustor and more. If your laptop has an SD (or smaller microSD) slot on the side, then pop in a card and keep it there all the time, and nothing will stick out.IDrive is a top-notch cloud backup service which caters for everything from simple photo backups for your mobile, to syncing and sharing files across your network, to protecting SQL, Exchange, SharePoint and many other servers. Drag and drop the important files from your computer onto these drives before storing them in a safe place. If you don't have a lot of files, pick up one or two inexpensive USB thumb drives (aka “jump drives,” “flash drives” or “USB sticks”) or SD memory cards – with, say, 16 or 32 gigabytes. Remember, you’ll need an internet connection to access your files.
You’re essentially renting space.Īpple’s iCloud+, for example, costs $0.99/month for 50GB, $2.99/month for 200GB and $9.99/month for 2TB. This can add up, and once you stop paying, you’re without your own files. Though certainly convenient, cloud services give you only a few gigabytes for free therefore, you’re left with paying a monthly subscription for a company to store your files. THE RIGHT STORAGE: Apple, Google or Microsoft? How to match cloud storage to your computers – and cut costs
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