I drive also supports many versions of disk cloning in computer backup along with lots of server backup options which Backblaze doesn't seem to offer, but luckily I don't have use for either of those so that's not a factor for my use.
While backblaze is currently $70 a year if you pay ahead of time for unlimited storage but only for a single device. The cost to use is roughly the same if you choose the 5 TB Storage option for I drive as you usually pay yearly with no option to do monthly roughly 65 US dollars depending on if you get a discount or not.
#Backblaze vs crashplan vs idrive vs carbonite zip
It also supports showing thumbnails and streaming of some videos that you have backed up, as of now backblaze does not have thumbnail support for photos without having to manually select each file.ĭownloading files from I drive is also much more streamlined than backblaze as you do not have to zip files to download larger batches, this is very useful whenever using the mobile app as the backblaze mobile app requires you to manually click the download icon for each individual file while the iDrive mobile app will let you download entire folders or even categories in one go without having to deal with zip files.
Some things that I drive does better than backblaze is the fact you can back up multiple computers to the same account as you pay for a chunk of storage instead of unlimited for a single device which also includes a mobile devices which backblaze doesn't. While backblaze does have their own version of this they seem to only use the enterprise-level version that send you a 50 terabyte Fireball, with no option to do a smaller more personal version I drive cannot do this as it uses a file tree base system of file storage, this is incredibly bothersome as if you change the name of any of the files on that entire tree I drive will try to re-upload everything, even if the name and metadata hasn't changed at all.Īnother thing that backblaze does better is the fact that you can get a hard drive sent to you with your already backed up data for free, I drive does exactly the opposite they will send you a drive for you to copy your data locally on to and then mail the drive back to them in order to backup the data that way, but to get a copy sent to you cost money. Backblaze supports file comparisons, or in other words it is able to tell if it has already uploaded a file even if it was from a different Drive or folder. To start with things that backblaze does better than I drive. After trying both backblaze and I drive I'm going to give a brief review of my experience with both services.
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