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Comparing IDrive to The Best Cloud Storage Services Despite the convenience of backup services, is IDrive all that it’s cracked up to be? By looking at the good and the bad, let’s find out if IDrive is the right software for you. Whether you need to back up multiple devices or sync online files, backup software can come in handy. Hence, I would love to know your user experiences, and discuss further to know the reality of using these two services.IDrive is a cloud storage software that allows you to back up your PCs, Macs, and mobile devices through an online cloud interface. There's a lot more I have to consider, but on paper it seems like IDrive is just inching ahead of backblaze for me (including Android mobile backups), but some parts of it still feel sketchy. So if someone has experience with IDrive's restore functionality, please share. What I really need is the capability of being able to restore everything should a crisis arise. But if it takes time to upload - that's fine. Both seem slow to me, and definitely don't use my full speed. Speed-wise, I haven't been able to test them properly yet. I'm in India so shipping hard disks is just a huge no, and I have a data cap of 3 TB per month with 200Mbps. Plus, if I lost all my data and needed to restore over 5 TB of data, it would be a monumental task of downloading huge zip files and extracting them appropriately. I deselected an external drive (which already backed up over 100 GB), and it just vanished from backblaze with no explanation thus far. My biggest issue with backblaze so far is an almost complete lack of customizability for a power user - I don't need it to back up everything and the file exclusion list is super problematic. But the 30 file versions in IDrive seems way better than having to pay 8$ a month for Backblaze's 1-year file versions. So, what have your experiences been using these services? What would you recommend for long-term backups, easy restores, and file sharing as well? Please don't recommend any other service or any object storage cloud - I'm not looking for data archival as such. I've been comparing them online as much as I can to understand which one would be best for me, but now I thought I should just test both since Idrive was so cheap and backblaze is only 6$ a month. So I recently got bought Backblaze personal backup + IDrive annual subscription (for just 4$ for 5 TB for 1 year - pretty good starting point).

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