RAID stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks – it is a standard method used to cluster many hard drives together into one unit for the purposes of space, speed and security. At IDrive, we use RAID to configure large amounts of fast storage that is many–many times more reliable than the hard drive in […]
C:UserUsernameMy MusiciTunesiTunes Media That’s the default “path” in Windows 7 for your iTunes library. Now check out the path for your Microsoft Outlook data: C:UsersUsernameAppDataLocalMicrosoftOutlook Did you know that? If you did, great, but if you didn’t you might be one of those people that are wondering how it would be easy to backup and restore […]
We often talk about how IDrive out-performs other services by 25-30% in the area of backup/restore speed and we thought to let you in on a few of the reasons why: 1. The IDrive platform is built and maintained by us. Why is this important? Well, there are more online backup “companies” out there than […]
“IDrive saved my bacon.” – Kevin K., Los Angeles Kevin has been using IDrive for a few months now, he’s currently a full-time student at a California Community College. As a film studies major he spends a lot of his time reviewing movies and clips he views in class. Last week he sat down at […]
IDrive is possibly the fastest online backup service. It is not an empty statement. We have done many internal tests, and there have been some third party studies (although only a few) that clearly shows IDrive’s advantages in performance. How do we do it? For starters, we do not impose artificial bandwidth limits. Whatever your […]
Hot on the heels of IDrive‘s free offer for 5GB, IDriveSync now offers 5GB of free storage. To provide a true feel for the functionality of sync and sync across multiple PCs and Macs, it was important to up the limit to 5GB. You can now store more pictures and data and sync across multiple computers for free. […]
IDrive Lite, the multi-device contacts backup and restore application for the mobile platforms, now supports Android 2.0 and higher devices, in addition to iPhones and Blackberries. While there are possibly other contact backup applications, the key differentiating factor is its ability to do cross platform backups and restores. You can backup contacts from your Blackberry […]
IDrive Lite, the Contacts Backup Application for the iPhone and Blackberry devices has just been enhanced to keep versions of backups. This brings the IDrive Lite App more along the lines of traditional backups where one can restore , not just from the most recent copy of backup, but from earlier copies of backup. The […]
Here is a direct pick from the recent ComputerWorld article. “After the Sidekick near-disaster, mobile phone users might be wondering if they should ever trust any cloud services to protect their vital data. On the face of it, there are some obvious lessons to be learned from the Sidekick snafu, even as Microsoft Corp. […]
