A couple of weeks back I lost some important data due to a hard disk crash. Though I tried various data recovery techniques, I was not able to recover the entire data that was lost. That was when I truly realized the need to back up data on a regular basis. But backing up data on a regular basis involves a lot of time and effort; or so I thought, until I stumbled upon this cool service called iDrive, which serves as your own personal encrypted Online Backup drive. This service from iDrive is extremely secure, fast and is very simple even to the “not so tech savvy” person. Storing data online always gives rise to security concerns and to make sure that the data stored in their servers is extremely secure, iDrive encrypts the data on the fly.

There are various different storage plans offered by iDrive. At present there is a free plan which provides you storage space of up to 2 GB which you can use to store stuff like photos, documents and various other important data which you would want to backup in a secure medium. This plan which is known as the iDrive basic is provided absolutely free of cost and is a boon to students and other low end users who would like to backup stuff stored on their computer. Then there is this plan called iDrive Pro which costs $49.5 for personal users and $99.5 for business users. The storage space provided under this plan is a whooping 150 GB. For more details do check out idrive.com or call 1 866 748 0555