You get a discount the first year ($59.62).įor comparison, SpiderOak One Backup offers 150GB for $69 a year and its 5TB costs $320 a year. Elephant Drive charges $100 a year for 1TB of storage and $500 per year for 5TB. Backblaze offers unlimited storage space for $70 a year, though notably that plan can only be used to back up a single computer and doesn't support mobile devices.
All of this means that, for most individual users, IDrive represents the best value. IDrive's Business plans start at $99.50 for 5TB of storage shared among five users and five computers and scale up from there. It's competitive for business-grade backup. What Operating Systems Does IDrive Support? Elephant Drive charges businesses $400 a year for 2TB of storage, for example, while SpiderOak charges $320 a year for 5TB of storage. IDrive offers desktop clients for Windows (7 and later) and macOS (10.11 El Capitan and later). There is a command-line-only version of IDrive for Linux, intended for servers, that you can get only if you email the support team and ask for it.
There are also mobile clients for iOS and Android. Getting Started With iDriveīefore you can use IDrive, you need to sign up for an account, which you can do without a credit card if you opt for the free version. After creating your account you get links to the IDrive application for various devices. You need to install the software on every device you want to back up.Īfter installation you sign into your account then decide which files you want to back up regularly.
You can opt to back up only selected folders, such as your documents and pictures, or you can back up your entire hard drive. You can enable an optional syncing service, called Cloud Drive, from the settings. Any files you drop into your Cloud Drive folder are backed up and synced to other computers, similar to how Dropbox works. It's not turned on by default, and the company even refers to it as a "separate service," which is a bit odd seeing as it's included with IDrive. The desktop app makes it easy to back up as many files as you like on a regular schedule-or nearly continuously, called Real-Time in the options. The default is to back up every day first thing in the morning, which is probably ideal for most people. Those who want less frequent updates can choose days of the week and times for the operation. Most people can probably stick with the defaults, granted, but power users will appreciate the flexibility.
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