Backup Service IDrive Now Ships 1TB Hard Disks To Users Who Want To Back Up Large Amounts Of Data

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IDrive now ships hard disks to its users so they can back up to a terabyte of data to the cloud. The users then ship the drive back to IDrive and the company enables the data on their account. After this, users can continue to use the company’s regular online backup service to send incremental updates to IDrive and restore their data from their cloud backup.

The service, called IDrive Express, is available for a one-time fee of $59.99. IDrive Pro users, whose paid accounts start at $99.50 per year for 100GB of backup storage, can use the service once per year for free.  The idea to use hard disks and FedEx or UPS to back up data is not new. Mozy, for example, offers a similar service and both Google and Amazon allow developers to send in drives to enable large amounts of data in their respective clouds.

The whole process should take less than a week. It’s worth noting that users do have to pay for the extra storage these backups need on iDrive’s servers. The service’s pricing plans start at $49.50 per year for personal use and $99.50 for business users who, in return, get support for multiple accounts and backups from Windows Server. IDrive, the company tells me, currently has about 2 million users, and about 250,000 of these are on a paid plan.