Once you’ve signed up, you can either upload files via your web account, or download the iDrive app for your computer/mobile device. IDrive offers a free 5GB of storage, so you don’t need to enter any credit card details to try out the service and familiarize yourself with how it works. There’s also two-factor login authentication to protect you in the even that your account login details are compromised.įiles stored on iDrive can be uploaded and accessed via the iDrive website, but for full back-up and syncing functionality, download the iDrive app for Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android. Security is always a concern with any cloud storage provider, so iDrive offers 256-bit AES encryption, secured by a user-chosen encrypting key that isn’t stored on iDrive’s servers. Express back-up is free once a year for iDrive Personal users, and Express restores are charged at $99.50 for US residents.
If you need to perform a full system restore, iDrive Express works in reverse, as you can then request a physical drive with your data saved on it. You then back up your computer to the drive, send it to iDrive and they upload your data to their cloud servers. iDrive has thought of this though, as iDrive Express allows you to request a physical storage drive in the post. Of course, backing up your whole computer is likely to use a serious amount of network bandwidth, and if your internet connection doesn’t have a particularly fast upload speed, backing up a full PC/Mac system could take days. Not only can individual files and folders be backed up, you can also use iDrive to store the contents of your entire computer, cloning its hard drive so you can perform a full system restore. IDrive’s Snapshots feature that stores up to 30 previous versions of all files backed up to iDrive (Image credit: Future) (opens in new tab)
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