Closeįree storage: iDrive starts its offers with 5GB for free If you see inaccuracies in our content, please report the mistake via this form. If we have made an error or published misleading information, we will correct or clarify the article. Our editors thoroughly review and fact-check every article to ensure that our content meets the highest standards. Our goal is to deliver the most accurate information and the most knowledgeable advice possible in order to help you make smarter buying decisions on tech gear and a wide array of products and services. ZDNET's editorial team writes on behalf of you, our reader.
Indeed, we follow strict guidelines that ensure our editorial content is never influenced by advertisers. Neither ZDNET nor the author are compensated for these independent reviews.
This helps support our work, but does not affect what we cover or how, and it does not affect the price you pay. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or service, we may earn affiliate commissions. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. If you try any of these out, let me know how you like them.ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. If you already have an online backup service and you recommend it, let me know which one and why. What's more, if you're on the road for an extended period - on a business trip or vacation, for example - and away from your usual means of backup, it's good to know that you have another system that you can set and forget and use in a pinch if you need to recover a file or a drive. They're both reliable services, and they all offer an iOS app that lets you view your backups and even access your files when you need to. It won't cost you anything for either Backblaze or Carbonite's free trials: See which you like best and go with that one. On-site backups are a good first step, but off-site backups keep your personal data secure in the event of a catastrophe, water leak, burglary, or pet problem. In the end, we strongly suggest giving one of these services a try. See at Acronis (opens in new tab) Bottom line You do, however, get great savings by signing up more than one computer (5 computers are only $100 to start). You get about half of what you'd get with the $100/year, 1TB subscription and only two-thirds of what you'd get with the $50/year, 250GB subscription. The biggest downside is how few features you receive with the one-time $50 fee. The Mac client is also Touch Bar-compatible for the folks with recent MacBook Pros. If upgrade, you can get 250GB or 1TB of storage with the company itself.
See at iDrive (opens in new tab) Arq How to backup The service is free and can save you a ton of time and bandwidth. You then back up your data and mail it back in a prepaid priority post envelope. Here's iDrive Express in a nutshell: Once yearly for personal users and three times a year for business users, iDrive will send out a 1TB external hard drive. That being said, iDrive is a very secure way to store precious data, with native 256-bit AES encryption and two-factor authentication, and their iDrive Express service recognizes that backing up 1TB to the cloud is a colossal bandwidth suck. However, that's also because the smallest amount of storage you can buy is 1TB for personal use and 250GB for businesses. IDrive's biggest con is the fact that it's not even a little bit free - no free trial, nothing.