IDrive

Love it

Commentaires : Je n'arrive pas à sauvegarder mes drive ma connexion est trop lente là où je suis mais chez moi j'ai un gigabit par seconde

Avantages :

Cheap concernant larg Space.

Inconvénients :

Difficile de faire marcher avec une connexion lente

Easy to configure on a Synology NAS to backup to the Cloud

Commentaires : This was an excellent experience, from signing up to installing -- the whole process took hardly any time.

Avantages :

I loved the fact that there is a native app available for our Synology DS220+ NAS. This app made installing and backing up our data very simple.

Inconvénients :

It's mildly irritating to have to login to iDrive from the Synology dashboard each time I visit the status page.

Inexpensive storage with great basic functionality

Commentaires : Pretty good. Upload speeds are limited by my bandwidth and I would definitely use the mail-in Express service if the UK shipping charges were more reasonable, or they had a UK-based upload service. Backups have worked as expected and I hope never to have to use the recovery service for anything other than testing purposes.

Avantages :

The cost per terabyte is commendably low and was the initial reason I tested iDrive. All the basic functionality was available in the desktop app that I needed - scheduled backups of internal and external media. Initial testing showed that everything worked pretty much as expected 'out of the box' and that backups could be easily restored. I was sufficiently impressed to purchase the software. I've used it to backup about half a terabyte of data so far, with more to be uploaded. Scheduled backups run as expected, or as soon as the machine is turned on. They also run if the machine is sleeping - waking, backing up and sleeping again. During the testing phase I contacted customer support with a relatively trivial query (see comment below re timestamps) and got a prompt answer - that was reassuring.

Inconvénients :

All timings by the software use PST (Pacific Standard Time) and a US format timestamp. I'm on the other side of the world and it seems nonsensical for me to schedule a 9 am backup on the 10th of November (10/11/22) to find that the system records it as being made at 3 am on 11/10/22. If backups are daily and no more frequent this shouldn't be an issue, but it could well cause problems (or at least confusion) if backups were more frequent.I would like to see more granularity in the backup scheduling. For example - to set weekly backups for one external drive and daily backups for another. My understanding from the FAQ and help files, together with practical use of the system, is that all network/external drives are handled as a single backup set. The only way to omit one would be to leave it unplugged. In the same way, all local files/folders are handled as a single backup set, again with no granularity. The advantage of this approach is simplicity, the disadvantage is a lack of flexibility. For peace of mind, simplicity is better ... but I'd still like the option of more granularity.

Bugs & Glitches

Avantages :

I was attracted by the price and features

Inconvénients :

Unreliable, too many bugs & glitches. Unusable most of the times. Very slow speed. Bad techincal support. Obsolete system design. Awful.

Actually way better then expected !

Commentaires : The only thing I didn't test so far is their support. And this is because of a very good reason : Everything works like a charm for me ! For the rest I manage to setup my workflow about backup and other things very smoothly thanks to their clear documentation.

Avantages :

I've reach a point were I couldn't store data anymore with Google One, unless paying way too much for my situation. I've found a very cheap deal to test iDrive, and I have to admit that not only it does all the things I wanted, but I've discovered that it allows me to setup and do much more than that actually ! I'm located in Europe (Belgium), and the transfer speed is really for for me.

Inconvénients :

I can't find anything so far that I don't like about it...