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Company Overview
Lowest Price
$4.95/Month
Storage Space
150GB
Free Trial
No
Free Plan
5GB
Single Computer Plans
Yes
Multi Computer Plans
Yes
Business Plans
Yes
Plans Offered
Year Established
1999
Backup Features
Scheduler
Yes
Versioning / Snapshot
Yes
Browse Online Files
Yes
Incremental Backup
Yes
Bandwidth Throttle
Yes
Idle Backup
No
Resumes After Interruption
Yes
Web/Mobile/Remote Access
Web Access
Yes
Mobile Phone Access
No
FTP Access
No
Sharing
Folder / File Sharing
No
Photo Album Sharing
No
Send Large Files
Yes
Restore To Any Computer
Yes
Security
SSL Secure Transfer
Yes
Data Encryption
Yes
Geo-Redundant Storage
Yes
User Generated Encryption Key
Yes
Summary
iDrive is a simple online backup solution with great features and easy to use software. iDrive is owned by Pro Softned Corp. They offer several online solutions and have been around for a while. All backups are secure and can be retrieved at anytime. Their Plans are simple, easy to understand, and cover a wide range of storage options.
iDrive Plans & Pricing:
- iDrive Basic - Free with 5GB of storage.
- iDrive Pro for Personal Use - $4.95/month ($49.50/year) For 150GB
- iDrive Pro Family Pack - $14.95/month ($149.50/year) for 500GB
- iDrive Pro for Business Use - Starts at $9.95/month ($99.50/year) starts at 100GB - full web-based administration
Technical Features: Snapshot support, True archiving, mapped/network/local/external drives support, Use on multiple computers, Proxy support, Block Level Incremental backups, Bandwidth Throttle, easy to use software.
Company Profile
Pro Softnet was founded in 1999 and is located in Calabasa, CA. Their current CEO is Raghu Kulkarni. They have several online backup products and have over 10 years of experience. They have more than 40 employees and the company is privately held.
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Editor review
1 review
Good company and product
(Updated: June 19, 2012)
Overall rating
8.8
Ease of Use
8.0
Features
9.0
Space / Price
8.0
Customer Support
10.0
Security
9.0
Installation
Signing up was easy. You have to sign up before you can download the software, then login after it is installed onto your computer or through their website.
Backup
As soon as you are logged in the software will display your folders and suggest a couple for you to backup by default. The navigation is the same 'folder tree' structure you will see in Windows or Finder. It's easy to select the folders/files you want. Click 'Backup Now' or schedule for a later date. This was simple for us, although it isn't as automated as other software has been.
Scheduling
We think IDrive has one of the best scheduling tools available in online backup. You can set hourly, daily, per selected day, weekly, and the time at which it starts. Or you can program it to only work manually. You can have notifications sent to your desktop or email on completion.
Restoring
It is really easy to restore. You can use the software or the website. If you were able to backup using the software, you can restore. We found it pretty self explanatory. The website access allows you to download files, but navigating the site is a little confusing. If you are looking for the root or home of your computer, you have to use the "path" to click on the location you wanting to go to.
Conclusion
We like IDrive a lot. Mostly because of it's nice set of features. They do a great job at getting backups completed while keeping it simple. If you are wanting to sync files like Dropbox or Google Drive, you have to use their other product, IDrive Sync. It's pretty good as well. Their website left us with more to be desired. They have the essentials, but navigating, sharing and downloading were all more difficult then it should have been.
Signing up was easy. You have to sign up before you can download the software, then login after it is installed onto your computer or through their website.
Backup
As soon as you are logged in the software will display your folders and suggest a couple for you to backup by default. The navigation is the same 'folder tree' structure you will see in Windows or Finder. It's easy to select the folders/files you want. Click 'Backup Now' or schedule for a later date. This was simple for us, although it isn't as automated as other software has been.
Scheduling
We think IDrive has one of the best scheduling tools available in online backup. You can set hourly, daily, per selected day, weekly, and the time at which it starts. Or you can program it to only work manually. You can have notifications sent to your desktop or email on completion.
Restoring
It is really easy to restore. You can use the software or the website. If you were able to backup using the software, you can restore. We found it pretty self explanatory. The website access allows you to download files, but navigating the site is a little confusing. If you are looking for the root or home of your computer, you have to use the "path" to click on the location you wanting to go to.
Conclusion
We like IDrive a lot. Mostly because of it's nice set of features. They do a great job at getting backups completed while keeping it simple. If you are wanting to sync files like Dropbox or Google Drive, you have to use their other product, IDrive Sync. It's pretty good as well. Their website left us with more to be desired. They have the essentials, but navigating, sharing and downloading were all more difficult then it should have been.
Pros and Cons
Pros
Excellent features
Lots of control and management
Great performance
Scheduling is a main feature
Lots of control and management
Great performance
Scheduling is a main feature
Cons
Could be cleaner, but is ok
Maybe too many options for simple users
Maybe too many options for simple users
SJ
Steven Johnson
User reviews
4 reviews
Overall rating
2.5
Ease of Use
3.8(4)
Features
2.1(4)
Space / Price
3.0(4)
Customer Support
0.6(4)
Security
2.9(4)
Terrible Customer Service
Overall rating
0.5
Ease of Use
0.5
Features
0.5
Space / Price
0.5
Customer Support
0.5
Security
0.5
Avoid these people as if you cannot trust them with honest and fair pricing as advertised you cannot trust them with your backup data!
Pros and Cons
Pros
None they cannot be trusted!
Cons
They refused to provide advertised prices for needed upgrade and refused to provide credit for annual service I paid for just two months prior. Very rude customer service people. I would find another vendor as I do not trust these people.
WG
Wayne Gorsek
Idrive danger
Overall rating
0.6
Ease of Use
1.0
Features
0.5
Space / Price
0.5
Customer Support
0.5
Security
0.5
Why not just backup to a public forum and let everybody see your information? :)
Pros and Cons
Pros
Lots of storage for a low price
Cons
Dangerous android app!
When you install the android app you give them full access to all your information and the ability to change whatever they want. This was one of the first things I did when signing up and realized how stupid it would be to continue. I have no idea how secure the rest of idrive is.
When you install the android app you give them full access to all your information and the ability to change whatever they want. This was one of the first things I did when signing up and realized how stupid it would be to continue. I have no idea how secure the rest of idrive is.
RD
Rex Dewgud
Worst company ever
Overall rating
3.0
Ease of Use
4.5
Features
0.5
Space / Price
4.0
Customer Support
0.5
Security
5.5
This is absolutely the worst company ever in regards to customer support. I've dealt with allot of companies in the tech world and iDrive has the worst support team. They are mindless zombies that read off a screen and don't care if your issue is resolved or not. When cancelling the service i attempted to get a refund as it states in their terms of service however i was not able to speak with any supervisor or manager. DO NOT SIGN UP.
N
Noah
BEWARE of iDrive's ridiculous billing practices
Overall rating
5.8
Ease of Use
9.0
Features
7.0
Space / Price
7.0
Customer Support
1.0
Security
5.0
BEWARE of iDrive's billing policies when you upgrade to the paid version! I had a problem with running the old v3.4.1 software on Windows Server 2008, so their tech support told me to cancel my account and open a new account and get v5 software, and they would refund the original account for me. I did that, but a month later they had not refunded the old account. They told me they could not refund it, because (a) they counted the 15 days from the start of my free account, not the day I upgraded to the paid version!, and (b) they had no record of my chat session with tech support. I pointed out that they had charged me for two different versions of their software in a one week period, how could that be right?! But my tough luck, they would not refund for the old version that I used for two days and had to remove due to iDrive's problems on Server 2008.
JH
Jim Hutchinson