After creating your account you get links to the IDrive application for various devices. There are also mobile clients for iOS and Android.īefore you can use IDrive, you need to sign up for an account, which you can do without a credit card if you opt for the free version. There is a command-line-only version of IDrive for Linux, intended for servers, that you can get only if you email the support team and ask for it. IDrive offers desktop clients for Windows (7 and later) and macOS (10.11 El Capitan and later). What Operating Systems Does IDrive Support? Elephant Drive charges businesses $400 a year for 2TB of storage, for example, while SpiderOak charges $320 a year for 5TB of storage. It's competitive for business-grade backup. IDrive's Business plans start at $99.50 for 5TB of storage shared among five users and five computers and scale up from there. All of this means that, for most individual users, IDrive represents the best value. Backblaze offers unlimited storage space for $70 a year, though notably that plan can only be used to back up a single computer and doesn't support mobile devices. Elephant Drive charges $100 a year for 1TB of storage and $500 per year for 5TB. (Opens in a new window) Read Our OpenDrive Reviewįor comparison, SpiderOak One Backup offers 150GB for $69 a year and its 5TB costs $320 a year.

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