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. […]
From your PC to your Mac to your iPhone and back again — IDriveSync is fast and secure file sharing, syncing and cloud storage for Windows, Mac and now iPhone. We’re proud to announce that IDriveSync is now out of beta and the new IDriveSync iOS mobile app is available for free in the […]
J.D. Biersdorfer, author of the popular “Missing Manual” series of books and New York Times columnist recently took the time to talk to our Business Development Manager, Stephen Gold, about IDrive, RemoteVU and the future of cloud storage. The podcast, TechTalk, runs each week and focuses on exciting trends in technology and upcoming products. Co-hosted by […]
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, […]
