Thanks for the review. One note on feedback is your audio quality. It's a little muffled and has a small amount of reverb. Not just this video but a few others of yours I've listened to today compared to say Dottotech videos.
This looks promising. I've been hunting something that I could use for a long while now, with the exclusive content I offer. I had 2 HDD's fail on me when I needed vital info on them. So this seems like something I can try touching on.
Thanks. Good video. I've been using idrive happily for a couple of years and didn't even know about the sync option. Now I can ditch Google Drive and I don't have to worry about security. :-)
@Roy T It's not as fast or efficient as Google. The sync folder is on the slow side, but it's been reliable and I don't have to worry about privacy like I would with Google Drive. The backup service has been excellent. I've been using it for a few years now and I've been able to backup and restore with 100% success.
@@BrianHazardVideos im a OneDrive user, i am thinking to migrate to IDrive, since it combines online backup and online sync storage in 1 service. And it’s also cheap. What do u think?
@@MrWanted000 That's pretty much what I did, but I migrated from Google Drive, not One Drive. I've been happy with it, specifically because of the better privacy. Just mind that it's sync folder is weirdly slow.
@@BrianHazardVideos the file sharing system is a big hassle. When you share a file the other person needs a IDrive account to be able to download the file.
You forgot the main thing which is disk image backup, people should know that black blaze does not back up disk image, which is very bad for people like me that have maybe 500 apps on the Mac with a lot of settings and a lot of shortcuts and macros which took me years to build.
Hi, It, I started out with the free plan , how do, I change over to the IDrive Personal Plan? Additionally, how do you do snapshot? Also, how do you remove and old PC, that you no longer have?
Off to a rocky start with iDrive, as my first 2 attempts at backup resulted in backup failure ,and the internet connection getting disconnected (I have gigabit internet, connected by internet). It may work out -- it's too soon for me to judge whether iDrive isa good product -- but it's a reminder that few things work as well in real life, as in the product description.
Fantastic concise summaries. I have an abundance of video and photos from DSLR. I have older Drobos as time has slipped. I never really trust them and I now have way too many backup drives (external USB and some bare drives I put into a USB chassis) other than the Drobo NAS devices. Keep some at home and others at my office. Several years I started a Carbonite account and I am not a fan as I can’t see what it is doing and don’t really trust it and the interface is sad. I have a 4TB Internal D: drive that Carbonite as work around for local backups only. I do not need to share files.Seems like IDrive is a no brainer. Noted you said it was slow. I just want to be able to see it working and will take advantage of the courier service for the initial seeding. I want the flexibility for example to had an external SSD take it my office and connect to my Office PC and upload files. I have very fast Xfinity at home but office is faster and data caps. Am I missing anything?
Could you talk about the facial recognition features some reviews claim for iDrive? I can't find out how they work... Or is it just That API are potentially available for facial recognition software packages?
@Cloudwards Geeky question for you: Does IDrive compress the files? I made a backup of my work drive with around 5TB of photos and videos and in the IDrive it shows as 3TB. I checked everything and it is all correct, all folders are there, but there different of size concerns me.
@@MrWanted000 Don't waste your money. I paid US$13.90 for a 2TB/12 month account and that was too much for what it does, or more importantly, what it doesn't do.
Ciao Mauricio, we're looking to secure data from a 30+TB server plus bits and pieces from our macs. Just as a backup, cheapest possible even if retrieval if ever required costs a little more. Any advise?
You won't find many places to host a 30+TB backup, your best bet is to use a cheap PC and turn this into a local backup server with RAID5 or 6, a cheap Adaptec card and 8x6TB drive should give you 38TB/32TB accordingly, I do have many sites using Livedrive that are on around 8-10TBs as they don't seem to have a fixed limit, but I won't hold them to this limit. If you need your backups offsite, 30TB is a huge amount of data, unless they are all live data and in use daily, you should separate them into groups, such as old data (reference only), live data (in use daily), other static files, and only use cloud backup on daily live data but keep a copy of dead data on a USB drive.
No reviewer of the iDrive ever says whether it's incremental like say Dropbox or whether it starts from scratch every time it does a backup. This matters a lot to me as the data I'm backing up is a lot initially and then very little if using an incremental backup. But does iDrive offer this and if so where is the setting to set it up?
Thanks for that, it is somewhat clearer now. My only recommendation would be is"Slow down a little" I had to keep going back and starting a section again to listen again to the wording. That does take away from the learning experience somewhat. But thanks.
@idrive is painfully SLOW! its embarrassing slow. You basically will take WEEKS to backup your 500GB external. Very, very bad. Even with a fast 225mb/s connection, its less than 1mb/s upload. not worth it.
I just purchased this service and I am going to dump it. It is so slow takes hours to backup my smartphone and it still has not competed a backup of my computer with 2 failures along the way !!% and 2 and a half hours is just plain stupid considering I have a 100mbps fibre to the premises and wifi 6 router.
Be very careful with this service. I was charged ridiculous overage charges. Like bad business to charge such high charges. 100 times. I would suggest not leaving your credit card on file, to ever give them the opportunity to charge your card for overages.
I want to say something about your presentation. Your eyes look like you're talking to a guy sitting next to me. I get that you're reading, but try watching yourself. Oh, and try wearing a shirt, man. A professional appearance gains more attention. I wonder what it is with all you guys posting what should and could be helpful videos while looking as if you're just getting into bed for the night.
Thankfully I’m in a position that I don’t have to wear a shirt anymore. Oh and the shot is setup with two cameras, one is off axis the other one I’m directly looking into.
Came here for idrive review.... stayed for the handsome man
I really like the unlimited devices feature exactly what I want !
Thanks for the review. One note on feedback is your audio quality. It's a little muffled and has a small amount of reverb. Not just this video but a few others of yours I've listened to today compared to say Dottotech videos.
iDrive uploads with my full 20Mbit speed (yes I wish it was more), so upload speeds seem to be improved at least. I'm located in west-EU.
Be warned , doesn’t matter how fast your upload speed is, you’ll be uploading at 1mps!
1389 hours to upload 5TB xD
Not sure if this is for everybody and I dont know the details, but they offer the ability to send you a physical drive, where you can then ship back.
its a waste of money just plain rubbish and I wonder do these reviewers actually use the service ?
iDrive is incredibly slow! DO NOT USE if you want to back up files fast, no matter what your connection speed.
It is abysmally slow.
This looks promising. I've been hunting something that I could use for a long while now, with the exclusive content I offer. I had 2 HDD's fail on me when I needed vital info on them. So this seems like something I can try touching on.
Now I regret that I paid subscription for IDrive because it’s so so slow....i think I will cancel it .... thanks for the video...
I agree it is third world slow a complete waste of money
Did u find any alternative?
Thanks. Good video. I've been using idrive happily for a couple of years and didn't even know about the sync option. Now I can ditch Google Drive and I don't have to worry about security. :-)
Glad it helped
@Roy T It's not as fast or efficient as Google. The sync folder is on the slow side, but it's been reliable and I don't have to worry about privacy like I would with Google Drive. The backup service has been excellent. I've been using it for a few years now and I've been able to backup and restore with 100% success.
@@BrianHazardVideos im a OneDrive user, i am thinking to migrate to IDrive, since it combines online backup and online sync storage in 1 service. And it’s also cheap. What do u think?
@@MrWanted000 That's pretty much what I did, but I migrated from Google Drive, not One Drive. I've been happy with it, specifically because of the better privacy. Just mind that it's sync folder is weirdly slow.
@@BrianHazardVideos the file sharing system is a big hassle. When you share a file the other person needs a IDrive account to be able to download the file.
How much will it cost after one year from the promotional offer given in the link?
Thanks man ! Was looking for this !
You forgot the main thing which is disk image backup, people should know that black blaze does not back up disk image, which is very bad for people like me that have maybe 500 apps on the Mac with a lot of settings and a lot of shortcuts and macros which took me years to build.
Hi,
It, I started out with the free plan , how do, I change over to the IDrive Personal Plan?
Additionally, how do you do snapshot?
Also, how do you remove and old PC, that you no longer have?
I thought the volume on my speaker was it was the video itself. would be nice to amp your voice.
Already done in my latest videos.
Since I have multiple PCs, it seems like the right choice would be iDrive.
Off to a rocky start with iDrive, as my first 2 attempts at backup resulted in backup failure ,and the internet connection getting disconnected (I have gigabit internet, connected by internet). It may work out -- it's too soon for me to judge whether iDrive isa good product -- but it's a reminder that few things work as well in real life, as in the product description.
Did I hear that correctly? 2.5 hours to upload a 3.5GB folder?..... It would take days to upload a terabyte?
Great video! How about a video talking about how to best week idrive settings, what options to check or uncheck, hourly schedule or daily...etc?
Great suggestion! It really depends on your needs and file setup. For most people a daily backup is enough.
@@Cloudwards Would you suggest a daily backup for either online server and local hard disk as well?
Hi.. Me again ; Do you have any recommendation and tutorial if I want to create my own secure cloud storage? Thank you :)
Can you do a tutorial on idrive?
Fantastic concise summaries. I have an abundance of video and photos from DSLR. I have older Drobos as time has slipped. I never really trust them and I now have way too many backup drives (external USB and some bare drives I put into a USB chassis) other than the Drobo NAS devices. Keep some at home and others at my office. Several years I started a Carbonite account and I am not a fan as I can’t see what it is doing and don’t really trust it and the interface is sad. I have a 4TB Internal D: drive that Carbonite as work around for local backups only. I do not need to share files.Seems like IDrive is a no brainer. Noted you said it was slow. I just want to be able to see it working and will take advantage of the courier service for the initial seeding. I want the flexibility for example to had an external SSD take it my office and connect to my Office PC and upload files. I have very fast Xfinity at home but office is faster and data caps.
Am I missing anything?
Will this work with a NAS to backup movies and TV shows? Not interested in backing up files on my computer.
Could you talk about the facial recognition features some reviews claim for iDrive? I can't find out how they work... Or is it just That API are potentially available for facial recognition software packages?
That helped me decide
@Cloudwards Geeky question for you: Does IDrive compress the files?
I made a backup of my work drive with around 5TB of photos and videos and in the IDrive it shows as 3TB.
I checked everything and it is all correct, all folders are there, but there different of size concerns me.
In Australia, the speed is not a problem as our internet is one of the worst in the world.
Best tips and info
do you a new account for each computer?
Excellent. I'm going to try iDrive today.
Do u still using it? What’s ur feedback?
@@MrWanted000 Don't waste your money. I paid US$13.90 for a 2TB/12 month account and that was too much for what it does, or more importantly, what it doesn't do.
@@cadman1973 lol, can you explain more?
@@MrWanted000 I tried. It won't let me post.
I modified it and it went through this time.
Very concise and well done.
Ciao Mauricio, we're looking to secure data from a 30+TB server plus bits and pieces from our macs. Just as a backup, cheapest possible even if retrieval if ever required costs a little more. Any advise?
30TB will take you a week to back up on this service
You won't find many places to host a 30+TB backup, your best bet is to use a cheap PC and turn this into a local backup server with RAID5 or 6, a cheap Adaptec card and 8x6TB drive should give you 38TB/32TB accordingly, I do have many sites using Livedrive that are on around 8-10TBs as they don't seem to have a fixed limit, but I won't hold them to this limit.
If you need your backups offsite, 30TB is a huge amount of data, unless they are all live data and in use daily, you should separate them into groups, such as old data (reference only), live data (in use daily), other static files, and only use cloud backup on daily live data but keep a copy of dead data on a USB drive.
No reviewer of the iDrive ever says whether it's incremental like say Dropbox or whether it starts from scratch every time it does a backup. This matters a lot to me as the data I'm backing up is a lot initially and then very little if using an incremental backup. But does iDrive offer this and if so where is the setting to set it up?
It’s incremental - it mentions it in the FAQs on their site.
Thanks for that, it is somewhat clearer now. My only recommendation would be is"Slow down a little" I had to keep going back and starting a section again to listen again to the wording. That does take away from the learning experience somewhat. But thanks.
Crap upload speeds. I can upload at 250Mbps on Dropbox, One Drive and Google Drive. With iDrive I can only upload at 6 Mbps.
@idrive is painfully SLOW! its embarrassing slow. You basically will take WEEKS to backup your 500GB external. Very, very bad. Even with a fast 225mb/s connection, its less than 1mb/s upload. not worth it.
in your review you look like an owner of idrive, the company
Had a hard time concentrating due to all the muscles bulging out of the shirt.
I just purchased this service and I am going to dump it. It is so slow takes hours to backup my smartphone and it still has not competed a backup of my computer with 2 failures along the way !!% and 2 and a half hours is just plain stupid considering I have a 100mbps fibre to the premises and wifi 6 router.
Be very careful with this service. I was charged ridiculous overage charges. Like bad business to charge such high charges. 100 times. I would suggest not leaving your credit card on file, to ever give them the opportunity to charge your card for overages.
Low volume
What a waste of time ...................poor review
I want to say something about your presentation. Your eyes look like you're talking to a guy sitting next to me. I get that you're reading, but try watching yourself. Oh, and try wearing a shirt, man. A professional appearance gains more attention. I wonder what it is with all you guys posting what should and could be helpful videos while looking as if you're just getting into bed for the night.
Thankfully I’m in a position that I don’t have to wear a shirt anymore. Oh and the shot is setup with two cameras, one is off axis the other one I’m directly looking into.