Since the advancement in the internet world in respect to its speed. People are using the web to do a lot of different things that was virtually impossible to do on a dial-up connection. Watching a video on sites like Youtube or uploading or download huge files on the web was a tedious task when we were using dial-up internet connection. Now dial-up connections are almost obsolete and almost everyone has a broadband connection now. This has really opened up the web for users and website owners alike. They can put huge amounts of data on the web and people on a broadband connection can easily access it in minutes because of the speed of their internet connection. Youtube has grown a lot in recent years and so has the online backup business.
Instead of storing your backup files on a CD or a DVD, you can now backup and sync all the data on your hard drive or from anywhere else directly to your online backup storage space. Lots of sites that offer online backup service are giving limited online backup storage space for free to users. iDrive is one of the company that provide online backup storage space for free as well as for paid customers. Their basic service is offered for free and their paid subscription is pretty cheap as they provide unlimited storage space for paid customers.
iDrive Basic Package:
- 2GB of online storage space
- an option to upgrade to an iDrive Pro account if you require more space
iDrive Pro Package:
- Unlimited storage space
- ability to create and manage multiple online backup accounts
- Costs $4.95 per month or $49.50 per year
To use iDrive’s online backup system, you will need to download a iDrive software. This software will work on almost all Windows Operating Systems apart from Windows 98. To use this software, your computer will need atleast 512MB of RAM and 20MB of hard disk space which is required for local caching. You can download iDrive’s online backup software here. You can download this software free of cost and also use their iDrive Basic package if you don’t need much backup space or want to just try out iDrive’s service before you decide to buy iDrive’s Pro package.
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Hi,
How can you be sure that the files that we upload are 100% safe and are not looked at by the company?
You have to be so suspicious these days!
Thanks,
Alex
Most certainly so, there is a good chance that things are being monitored.
It is actually for the companies safety as we are hearing so many frauds and cyber crimes being reported often.