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    IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AIDrive protects PCs, Macs, mobile devices, Servers, Cloud Applications Data (SAAS) including Office 365, and Google Workspace, and provides S3 compatible Object Storage with IDrive e2. IDrive offers different plans for cloud backup for devices: - IDrive Personal - IDrive Core - IDrive Team - IDrive Small Business - IDrive Enterprise - IDrive360 EndPoint IDrive provides Cloud Applications data (SAAS) Backup: - Microsoft Office 365 Backup - Google…

    $99.50

    per year One user, unlimited computers 5TB storage

    Pricing
    IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    Editions & Modules
    IDrive Cloud to Cloud Backup
    $20
    per year
    IDrive 360 EndPoint
    $29.50
    per year
    IDrive e2
    $49.50
    per year
    IDrive Core
    $79.50
    per year
    Personal
    $99.50
    per year
    IDrive Team
    $99.50
    per year
    IDrive Business
    $99.50
    per year
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    Free Trial
    Yes
    Free/Freemium Version
    Yes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    No
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsIDrive regularly offers first year discounts for all plans and offers a full-featured 30-day free trial for IDrive 360 Endpoint
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    Community Pulse
    IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    Considered Both Products
    IDrive
    Chose IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    OneDrive pricing is cost-prohibitive for the amount of storage I need, but it has a pretty good immediate back-up process.
    Incentivized
    Chose IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    Using IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2 in 2024 reminded me of the early days when OneDrive, Google Drive and Dropbox where actually useful, streamlined, interested in being great cloud storage apps and not just a 'lock in' to constantly push other products on you.

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    Incentivized
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    Easy to Use and understand.
    Incentivized
    Chose IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    I considered ElephantDrive as an alternative, especially given it is natively integrated with my NAS device, but IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2 is considerably cheap for individuals and small teams for large capacities. Nowadays computer and NAS backups can consume …
    Incentivized
    Chose IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    Google drive is an excellent product, but it is not the right solution for incremental backup
    Incentivized
    Chose IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    IDrive is more reasonably priced and that in itself was the driving force behind using iDrive. All of the other options seemed good also but I like having a dedicated app and service that you can work with in the background.
    Incentivized
    Chose IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    We have used Carbon Cloner which, while very reliable, was more difficult to use when in support of expanding data needs.
    Incentivized
    Chose IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    Not Applicable
    Incentivized
    Chose IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    better pricing.
    Incentivized
    Chose IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    Carbonite for MacOS is still Intel, not Apple Silicon, so it runs under Rosetta.... 4 years later. Yuck!

    Carbonite burns cpu resources for days on end, rarely seeming to find a quiescent point.
    Incentivized
    Chose IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    MUCH cheaper, and easily set up to back up from Linux environments.
    Incentivized
    Chose IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    Extra functionality of the other programs were not needed, and the price was over double for the same storage. For the sake of a simple, secure, and reliable backup of my files at a decent amount of storage (10TB!) IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2 takes the cake.
    Incentivized
    Chose IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    Different use cases to be honest. I'm happy having both as I see and use them for different use cases. I also like having them on separate platforms instead of an all in one solution where I feel less secure knowing that if that solution were to fail that there would be no …
    Incentivized
    Chose IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    I was a successful computer consultant for almost 30 years and always used a competitors product for small single computer businesses (without servers)or home business users. Now that program has become sluggish and expensive.

    I had used IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage …
    Incentivized
    Chose IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    Given all the tools I've used: Backblaze, Storj and WasabiThe cost-benefit model of IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2 is the best. With it, I can align the efficiency of having my business and personal projects in a single company/account. It manages them efficiently, …
    Incentivized
    Chose IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    In our opinion, this topic clearly shows the supplier's focus on a narrower sector than the competitors I mentioned earlier. In addition, especially as the disk space requirement increases, the price becomes too high for some of the competitors. In addition, especially as the …
    Incentivized
    Chose IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    I chose IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2 over the others because of the cost of the investment. IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2 is much cheaper than Google Drive. IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2 was due to its price compared to the others, …
    Incentivized
    Chose IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    IDrive is cheaper and easier to manage
    Incentivized
    Chose IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    I prefer the unlimited number of devices and given storage quota that IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2 provides.
    Incentivized
    Chose IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    I've found IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2 to be faster. The user dashboard can mirror the hard drive. Set up was easy and quick. Storage is more than adequate for our purposes. I get a daily report of files that have been included in the backup, which lists any new …
    Incentivized
    Chose IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    The price for the storage space is better with IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2.
    Incentivized
    Chose IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    Multi device backup per user
    Incentivized
    Chose IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2 allows multiple computers on a single account. There is a 5TB option for small business at half the price of Back Blaze's unlimited plan. IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2 allows for the backup of an external hard drive and …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    96%
    Would buy again
    91 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    88 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    88 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    84 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    92%
    Implementation went as expected
    86 Answers
    Features
    IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    File Sharing & Management
    Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    Feature
    IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    9.3
    92 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Versioning9.667 Ratings
    Video files9.170 Ratings
    Audio files9.165 Ratings
    Document collaboration10.03 Ratings
    Access control9.26 Ratings
    File search9.177 Ratings
    Device sync9.083 Ratings
    Cloud Storage Security & Administration
    Comparison of Cloud Storage Security & Administration features of IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    Feature
    IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    9.1
    87 Ratings
    5% above category average
    User and role management9.270 Ratings
    File organization8.983 Ratings
    Device management9.184 Ratings
    Cloud Storage Platform
    Comparison of Cloud Storage Platform features of IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    Feature
    IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    9.3
    92 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Performance9.289 Ratings
    Reliability9.287 Ratings
    Storage Reports9.380 Ratings
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    IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    Small Businesses
    Egnyte
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Azure Backup
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
    ownCloud
    Score9.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.4
    (96 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    9.6
    (22 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    5.5
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
    Likelihood to Recommend
    IDrive
    It scales well from the individual to corporate environments with many different plans to suit your needs and budget. For backing up servers such as Exchange or SQL I've used their sister product iBackup, which is also excellent and we have no problems with, so maybe they should merge the two products into one which would make it a better overall proposition. It also seems to handle backing up mapped drives as well, which is what we used for a while before getting the on server version. That being said it can use up quite a bit of bandwidth so make sure you schedule at night when noone is working. However it does only backup changed files which is great.
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    Pros
    IDrive
    • I'm using it on MAC, the app works very well in the background
    • Logging activities is something I really like, because I can check whether the backup was successful or not.
    • I really like the option of being able to select external drivers and back up only specific folders or files.
    • The application itself is very easy to use, even though it doesn't have a version in my language (pt-br), I had no trouble setting it up and I'm using it without any problems.
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    Cons
    IDrive
    • DropBox-protected folders were not initially backed up as IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2 did not follow the symbolic links created
    • I experienced some UX confusion in adding new folders to backup; it's a different interface than setting up exclusions, and they should follow the same workflow and page buttons
    • After a reboot, it appears like a full disk scan is performed which can take quite a long time on a disk which has many files and lots of space
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    Likelihood to Renew
    IDrive
    It does everything that it needs to to create an effecitve Three level backup to the cloud of all your important data, its reliable, dependable and peformant in its use cases. It overcomes the need to store offsite physical media such as Tape or disk storage. And its cost and level of reporting can be tailored to fit the use case of your business.
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    Usability
    IDrive
    While both the desktop and mobile apps are pretty straightforward and not complicated to navigate with features and settings fairly easy to understand and execute with clear enough descriptions they could use a refresh to be a but more intuitive and improvements made so they are less glitchy. Also backup speeds could use some improvement
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    Support Rating
    IDrive
    I have not had to use their tech support. I did call once but luckily figured out what to do while I was on hold so I disconnected. If I really needed them it would have been a very long hold time I suppose.
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    Implementation Rating
    IDrive
    Did not participate in the implementation.
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    Alternatives Considered
    IDrive
    I was a Backblaze user for 5 years because they had a very cost effective plan for my storage needs. However, they were very poor at backing up external devices quickly, and made it a pain in the butt to keep the backups active due to their 30 days connectivity policy.
    Dropbox is a great fit for cloud backup when you need to access the backup files in the cloud frequently.
    IDrive is the best solution out there for true backup of devices in case they are damaged or lost.
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    Return on Investment
    IDrive
    • For individual users such as my case, the savings with the Personal plan are important compared to alternatives like ElephantDrive. For 5TB ElephantDrive costs $600/yr in the comparable Family plan, whereas IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2 costs only $99.50/yr.
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