Idrive review free#

One page listed a Personal plan and a Business plan separately in addition to a Free plan. IDrive's pricing plans were confusing to understand at first.

Between 74 and 749 depending on space and billing term for IDrive Business. I've never found a cloud storage that really compared well, financially, to just buying more external hard disks, but, when you pay for a cloud service you are getting some convenience that you might not be getting out of EasyStores and MyBooks, so while you can get anecdata and calculations it's up to you to decide what technology solution or solutions best meet your need. Cost: Between 52 and 149 depending on space and billing term for IDrive Personal. Granted - Chia changes the math on this a little bit and you'll need to decide whether a 14TB EasyStore at $420 is worth it the same way it was at $230. Do you have 10TB of data you need to have everywhere or do you may have an icloud/onedrive/google-one amount of data you need everywhere and maybe some easystores would be fine for your bulk archival/hoarding need.

So, the question I'd ask before you put a whole bunch of data up in this service is what you really need. IME desktop sized USB external disks last about a decade these days. (And, arguably, you want that - unprofitable cloud services shut down abruptly causing data loss.)īefore around March you could get a 14TB WD easystore for around $230 and if you have any faith whatsoever that that drive will last 2.5 years you've already broken even, in terms of raw capacity. Probably less than I want to think because the machines still require staff hours and electricity but. At that price, they're making a relatively tidy profit. These prices are a loss leader to get you and your data into the ecosystem so that you don't have much choice but to stay when the price goes up.ġ0TB appears to have a normal price of around $100-year.

Idrive review