After posing these important five questions to your online backup provider you should have a good picture of how reliable their services are and how safe your data will be. As the old IT saying goes, “A backup is only as good as its restore.” 1. Where is my data being stored? It’s important to […]
In this week’s Great Inventions In Backup History we take a look at the backup or “spare” tire. Driving around town in the early part of the 20th century had its drawbacks. You had to crank your engine to get it going, you couldn’t get where you were going very fast and because the first […]
Sally was up all night polishing her 112 page final dissertation… wait… it’s supposed to be 112 pages but Sally only sees 110 – why are there two missing? “Oh, no! No! No! No!” she exclaims. She realizes that she saved her file after having accidentally deleted pages and now they’re gone! “Oh, no!” She frets again. […]
What is the number one reason people lose smart-phone contacts? From dropping their phone in the toilet – this has happened to about 1 in 5 people! Did you know that IDrive makes an incredible free app that can help you recover your contacts lickity-split if your precious device should have an unfortunate, watery mishap? According […]
Wow! Our users put together, are now securely protecting over 15 million GBs of photos, videos, music and documents! Many thousands are students and teachers from some of the most prestigious schools on Earth: Harvard, Standford, Yale, Columbia, Princeton, MIT. We thank you for choosing IDrive to protect your valuable notes and work. In honor […]
One of the most common reasons IDrive Pro users contact our call center is to ask about their account quota – your quota is the maximum amount of data allowed to be stored in your account. If you subscribe to IDrive Pro Personal (150GB) or the IDrive Pro Family Pack (500GB) you have a “hard” […]
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 […]
