IDrive Review: Is It The Best Cloud Backup?

IDrive is a cloud backup service that also functions as cloud storage. It’s one of our favorites, but is it better than Backblaze? In this IDrive review we show you the advantages and disadvantages of this cloud backup provider.

### Table of contents ###
0:38 IDrive - Cloud backup service
0:57 Online backup - protecting your files
1:36 IDrive can be used on any OS
1:54 Mobile app back up mobile device
2:12 How IDrive backup works?
2:36 IDrive Express
2:50 Cloud storage features
3:06 User friendly
3:29 Pricing and plans
3:54 Unlimited number of devices / no unlimited storage
4:13 Drawback - Speed
4:35 IDrive or Backblaze?

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[royery]

Came here for idrive review.... stayed for the handsome man <333

[gokulram]

I really like the unlimited devices feature exactly what I want !

[wpoeyer]

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.

[Mike_Malloy]

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.

[BrianHazardVideos]

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. :-)

[HNDCRAFTED]

Be warned, doesn’t matter how fast your upload speed is, you’ll be uploading at 1mps!

[TheCaliMack]

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.

[jpjacobsenbr]

@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.

[mooselexus]

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?

[danmagoo]

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.

[mikeyllo]

Since I have multiple PCs, it seems like the right choice would be iDrive.

[shyaji]

How much will it cost after one year from the promotional offer given in the link?

[vdm]

Hi.. Me again ; Do you have any recommendation and tutorial if I want to create my own secure cloud storage? Thank you :)

[islander]

Will this work with a NAS to backup movies and TV shows? Not interested in backing up files on my computer.

[BenToogood]

iDrive is incredibly slow! DO NOT USE if you want to back up files fast, no matter what your connection speed.

[ESHz]

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.

[lagflag]

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?

[SY-dqlh]

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...

[TimGriess]

do you a new account for each computer?

[sabihz]

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?