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However, at the time of writing, the 2TB iDrive Personal account has been upped to 10TB, and the price dropped to $3.98 for your first year. Our preferred pricing plan for individual users is iDrive’s Personal plan, which gets you 2TB of storage space for $79.50 – that’s less than a 2TB Google Drive plan, and substantially less than the price of a 2TB iCloud or Dropbox account. Not only does iDrive compare well with major storage solutions in terms of features, it does so while also significantly undercutting them on price.

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We also tested the Android mobile app, which is equally easy to get to grips with and lets you back up images and video, along with your contacts, SMS text message and calendar data. The local client isn’t blessed with the most modern interface design, but that’s a minor criticism as the app is still simple to learn and use. The only catch is anyone you share files with must first create their own iDrive account in order to access shared files.īoth iDrive’s web and computer app’s interfaces are intuitive and easy to use. Sharing files stored on iDrive is also simple – just click the sharing button and you’re taken to options for entering one or more recipient’s email address/s.

We didn’t encounter any issues with the speed of backing up or restoring files, though this reviewer’s home-working internet connection is far from the fastest out there, so isn’t exactly the ultimate benchmark for file transfer speed. IDrive's advanced settings offer comprehensive server data back-up options (Image credit: Future) It’s easy to modify the location of files you want to back up and the frequency of automatic back-ups, create custom back-up schedules to suit your work routine. This will automatically select commonly accessed files/folders on your system to back-up and automatically sync according to your preferred back-up schedule.

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Once you’ve signed up, you can either upload files via your web account, or download the iDrive app for your computer/mobile device.

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IDrive offers a free 5GB of storage, so you don’t need to enter any credit card details to try out the service and familiarize yourself with how it works.

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There’s also two-factor login authentication to protect you in the even that your account login details are compromised.įiles stored on iDrive can be uploaded and accessed via the iDrive website, but for full back-up and syncing functionality, download the iDrive app for Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android. Security is always a concern with any cloud storage provider, so iDrive offers 256-bit AES encryption, secured by a user-chosen encrypting key that isn’t stored on iDrive’s servers.

Express back-up is free once a year for iDrive Personal users, and Express restores are charged at $99.50 for US residents. If you need to perform a full system restore, iDrive Express works in reverse, as you can then request a physical drive with your data saved on it. You then back up your computer to the drive, send it to iDrive and they upload your data to their cloud servers. iDrive has thought of this though, as iDrive Express allows you to request a physical storage drive in the post. Of course, backing up your whole computer is likely to use a serious amount of network bandwidth, and if your internet connection doesn’t have a particularly fast upload speed, backing up a full PC/Mac system could take days. Not only can individual files and folders be backed up, you can also use iDrive to store the contents of your entire computer, cloning its hard drive so you can perform a full system restore. IDrive’s Snapshots feature that stores up to 30 previous versions of all files backed up to iDrive (Image credit: Future)

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