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I have write a post about iDrive before. Well here it is again, iDrive is a great backup system for backing up your important files. You will need a broadband connection for this online backup system to be usable and effective. iDrive provide a Secure Online Backup service to everyone. For paid customers they provide a bit more disk space but you can get 2GB of free storage if you don’t want to pay for the online backup. It is quite easy to use iDrive’s online backup system, you just have to download a software that is provided by iDrive themselves. Install that software and you are good to go.

This software creates a virtual drive on you computer and whenever you copy any files into the virtual drive, it automatically gets transfered and backed up on a secure iDrive server. Thats it, the files you copied into the virtual drive is now safe and sound on an iDrive server. You can only use 2GB of storage space for free, which is the basic package. For a more advanced package, you will have to pay $5 per month (this price applies to an iDrive Pro package for personal use).

iDrive has been and loved by a lot of people and most recently, their free service even got praise from PC World. Here is an article on PC World on 101 fantastic freebies. You can download the iDrive Software here if you want to try if out, come on, their basic package is for free and there is nothing to loose for us. Even PC World has listed it on their article.

We are relying on our computers and other technological gadgets to do our work, store important data and do a lot of other things. We don’t worry about what would happen if everything on our computer were to be lost. Well, that is a very real possibility but not a lot of people know about it or worry about it. I have lost some important files and videos because of it and now I don’t take any chances. Hard disk crashing is a very common occurrence and with it having a lot of movie parts, it is prone to breaking. I have had this happen once, my hard drive was working fine and then suddenly it just stopped working. If I didn’t know better, I would have lost all the data in it. I went to a hardware professional who used a Data Recovery software and got almost all my data.

Well, if you can get your hands on a data recovery software, you can do this yourself. You might find some useful information on data recovery if you read this News Blog. You can take precautionary measures before your hard disk gives out on you and backup your files. You can do this by copying it on a CD, DVD or another hard drive itself. But it takes some physical space for you to store them. Nowadays, online backup is gaining a lot of popularity amongst computer users. It is a lot easier to backup all your files online but some companies charge a subscription fee for storage space. And you will need to have a high speed internet connection as using a dial-up internet connection not at all recommended for this for backing up huge files. It don’t cost you a huge amount though. Using a CD or DVD is still not the safest solution for Data Backup as optical disks can be damages by scratching or in time if the disk quality is not that good. It is a pretty cheap option though. Well, you will need to choose for yourself, which methods you want to use.

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.