IDrive Online Backup
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Excellent Backup Service
I’m really pleased with IDrive so far. I was worried about the need for ever larger external hard drives, the changing connections, the potential for disk failure and the increasing space that they were taking up. So I decided to look into online storage for my backup. I read up on several different services before settling on IDrive and so far it’s been great. They offer a range of storage options and prices. I went for 10 TB, although I’m hoping that they will increase this to 15TB in the coming years. I needed it for home use; to back up audiobooks, family movies and photos, as well a iTunes movies and music. All in all, this takes up too much space for a standard hard drive and they only have a life of so many years. IDrive offers the option to initially transfer all your data onto a hard drive which they will upload for you. This is a great idea, however very expensive in terms of shipping if you live outside the US. I ran my back up for perhaps a week before I had to give up as it was taking too long and I needed to restart my computer to reboot other software. For me, this was a disappointing start, however I got around this by telling the IDrive software not to back up the folder on my external hard drive, and then slowly moving the files I needed to back out of the folder and doing a series of smaller back ups where I would have more control. Although this was a little frustrating, the software that comes with IDrive is pretty easy to use and does a good job. I like how it backs up the changes to the files, similarly to iCloud, so that future backups don’t take as long. It would be nice to see a Finder/Explorer style window in the future, so that you can drag and drop files, rather than always having to go through the backup process. I would very happily recommend IDrive to anyone looking for a good high capacity online backup service. Despite the few minor flaws I’ve outlined, IDrive more than make up for it with the high capacity and ease of use. I would like to see a monthly payment option though. As a personal user rather than a business, it’s a lot of money to pay out all at once and if anything were to be an issue for me in the future, it would probably be having to pay for the year up front.