Expo Notes: IDrive offers online backup and cloud-based syncing services
In its first year on the Macworld/iWorld show floor, IDrive told a compelling story about its cloud-based services. In fact, IDrive offers a pair of services: The core IDrive product is an online backup solution, and IDrive Sync provides Dropbox-style intra-Mac file syncing.
IDrive, the online backup service, is a true archival offering. That is, when you delete your files from your Mac, IDrive holds onto them—optionally, forever. Some of the company’s competitors only archive such files for a finite window, like 30 days, before removing them.
You can sign up for a free IDrive plan with 5GB of storage. For $5 per month (or $50 per year), you get 150GB of storage; for $15 per month or $150 per year, you get 500GB. Archived files count against that quota, so you get the option to delete archived files that are gobbling up too much of your storage space. The company offers business storage plans, too.
IDrive’s Mac app for handling the backup duties runs natively on OS X, while some of its competitors like CrashPlan rely on technologies like Java instead. On the other hand, CrashPlan offers unlimited backup storage, which IDrive doesn’t currently match.
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