IDrive’s Teams plan comes with anywhere from 5TB for five users to 100TB for 100 users, costing between $99.50 and $1,999.50 per year. OneDrive business users will pay between $5 (£3.80) and $10 (£7.50) per user per month for storage only, or $6 (£4.50) to £12.50 (£9.40) for this plus Microsoft Office apps. What’s great is that there’s no limit on the number of devices that can be backed up, so if you run multiple computers and also want mobile devices backed up, there’s no additional charge. Users must commit to annual subscriptions, which start with 5TB for one user. IDrive offers 10GB of free space which sounds great, but isn’t a lot in the scheme of backing up an entire computer. There are also annual plans which save you a bit of money, and given that most people will subscribe to a cloud storage platform long-term, we approve of these savings. ![]() Share this among six users (total 6TB, 1TB each) and you’ll pay $9.99 (£7.99) per month which we think is fairly reasonable. There’s also a 100GB plan which costs $1.99 (£1.99) per month, but if you need access to Microsoft Office you’ll have to fork out $6.99 (£5.99) per month for the Microsoft 365 Personal plan, which comes with 1TB of space. OneDrive’s free plan offers 5GB of storage which is nothing special. There’s also an online chat popup window which is really valuable and helps the company to stand out. IDrive has a clear support page on its site, with a handful of phone numbers and an online form to create a ticket. ![]() OneDrive users will find a huge number of self-help articles online which are fine for troubleshooting basic issues, but anything that requires real-time human support is better suited to the company’s email and phone support, which we found rather hard to find buried deep in several menus. This is only an indication, though, as many users will find that their own broadband connection may be the limiting factor. Still, the best we got from other competitors was under one minute, so neither excels. It took over seven minutes to download that same file, compared with iDrive which managed it comfortably under three minutes. OneDrive was let down by its download speed, though. It dealt with our 1GB test file in just under 10 minutes, compared with OneDrive which uploaded the same file in around five minutes which we found to be fairly average when compared with over 20 other cloud drives and backup tools. That said, we found iDrive to be a little slow on the uploading front. Cloud storage reviews: how we tested them.We also really value not just the bandwidth throttling of the desktop clients, but also the fact that only changes that are made to documents are updated in the online backup, rather than the entire file which may include a lot of unchanged data, which helps to speed things up quite a bit. Microsoft OneDrive vs iDrive: Performance Yes, you can restore files from online, but we really like the additional option to send you a physical copy of your data - because we don’t all have access to the Internet all the time! Individual users can request these once per year while businesses can use the service three times per year for free - any more than this and all users will have to pay a $59.95 fee. It will make copies of everything on Windows, macOS, iOS and Android devices, as well as external drives if you’re one of the many who, in the past maybe, have resorted to outsourced storage. IDrive works differently to OneDrive in that its primary focus is to backup everything on your computer to an online space. ![]() The bandwidth throttling is great for finetuning if you have a poor connection, but for most, this will remain untouched. There is browser access with a simple drag-and-drop interface, too, but the slickest operation by far comes from using the desktop clients which deal with syncing in the background. The same cannot be said for Apple’s word processing apps which can indeed open Microsoft Office files. That said, while these files can be saved in OneDrive, Office apps cannot open them. While this is great news for Windows users, macOS users using Pages, Numbers and Keynote may begin to feel that they are overpaying for a service they do not need. All but the most basic subscriptions come with the company’s suite of so-called ‘ Office’ apps, which include the basics like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, among a few more.
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