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 […]
Can I backup my portable hard drive to IDrive? Yes, you can! IDrive allows you to select files from attached storage devices (like USB sticks and external hard drives) and back them up to your IDrive account. If the drive isn’t connected when the scheduled backup occurs – or if you have Continuous Data Protection […]
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 […]
One of our leading competitors, Mozy, a division of EMC posted on their website a set of new plans, and closure of their unlimited plans. Here is their reason, picked from their website. We’ve seen other backup service providers respond to this industry storage trend in different ways. Some, like AOL’s Xdrive, HP Upline, and […]
RemotePC , a sister service of our company has just announced the availability of an iPhone App called RemotePC Remote Desktop for the iPhones. The App essentially allows full remote access to a PC or Mac from anywhere. And it is free. As a company, our focus is on building the world’s best Online Backup, […]
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. […]
Folks, We have made a Beta release of IDriveSync, a new Sync and Share solution based on the IDrive Online Backup technology. We believe this is a great product with great functionalities at a great price. First the basics. Its primary function is to Sync and Share. It can sync the data you define on your […]
This is not a new concept. But we think our version of PC as a personal cloud is easier and more usable than the rest. Cloud Storage will play in several ways, and one way would definitely be your PC as the centralized server or the cloud and your mobile device as the client. RemotePC, […]
