It gets the job done
November 04, 2024
It gets the job done

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
IDrive Personal
Overall Satisfaction with IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2
I use IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2 as my cloud backup for my (Apple Silicon) MacBook Pro. I am a firm believer in having offsite/cloud as well as onsite backup for redundancy and speed of restores from archive.
My use case covers my individual machine which has my open source projects as well as my personal data.
My use case covers my individual machine which has my open source projects as well as my personal data.
Pros
- Easy to setup
- Initial upload was quick enough and not throttled for around 1TB
- After initial scan and backup, low cpu utilization
- Test restore was easy to configure and worked
Cons
- DropBox-protected folders were not initially backed up as IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2 did not follow the symbolic links created
- I experienced some UX confusion in adding new folders to backup; it's a different interface than setting up exclusions, and they should follow the same workflow and page buttons
- After a reboot, it appears like a full disk scan is performed which can take quite a long time on a disk which has many files and lots of space
- Works better than other cloud backup software I've used
- Less resource usage once the initial scan (or after-reboot scan) is complete
- Perfectly fine price point
Carbonite for MacOS is still Intel, not Apple Silicon, so it runs under Rosetta.... 4 years later. Yuck!
Carbonite burns cpu resources for days on end, rarely seeming to find a quiescent point.
Carbonite lost track of all of my files - it kept telling me I wasn't backing up, and yet everything was configured to do so. I'd been using it for > 5 years, and decided it was time to move on.
Carbonite burns cpu resources for days on end, rarely seeming to find a quiescent point.
Carbonite lost track of all of my files - it kept telling me I wasn't backing up, and yet everything was configured to do so. I'd been using it for > 5 years, and decided it was time to move on.
Do you think IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2 delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2's feature set?
Yes
Did IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2 live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2 go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2 again?
Yes

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