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By Taylor Thomas

ADrive offers the largest free version available from any online data backup service, up to 50GB. It also provides low priced, high-capacity paid versions. However, it is more equipped for long time storage or archiving than automatic backup.

ADrive Standout Features:

  • Free personal use account of 50GB
  • Supports remote file transfers
  • ADrive desktop available for Windows, Mac and Linux
  • Pro version support multiple concurrent sessions
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Backup Features:   Excellent

This service can backup your files through its web interface fairly easily and quickly, however it does not support automatic or scheduled backups. This is the area this service could use some improvement; it is more of an online storage service than an online backup service.

Remote/ Mobile/ Web Access:   Excellent

You can access your files from any computer, using any browsers, and with the Pro versions you can even run concurrent sessions. ADrive also supports file sharing and remote file transfers.

Security:   Excellent

With the exception of the free version, ADrive provides SSL secure transfers and encrypted storage.

Backup Space/ Price:   Excellent

ADrive has excellent pricing and a huge capacity free version, the free personal use version supports up to 50GB of online storage. The signature version offers more tools and abilities and supports up to 50GB for $6.95 per month, the Premium version starts at 100GB for $13.95 per month.

Though the automatic abilities do not really exist for this service, the large capacity free service is well worth using for storing files that do not change often like images and archived documents; in fact this is the service our reviewer chose for longtime storage of archived files and images.

Ease of Use:   Excellent

We used the online version of ADrive and found it a bit more difficult to use than other online interfaces, for example it does not support a drag and drop tool. In addition, while using FireFox we could not move to other open web pages during a transfer, so in a sense it locked us down.

Help/Support:   Excellent

With a paid account ADrive provides 24/7 email support, they also post quite a few helpful FAQs online. It also hosts a forum, but you have to be a logged in user to view it. The forum is, however, active and current.

Summary:  

ADrive provides an excellent high-capacity free storage version and low priced paid versions. We would like to see them add automatic backup abilities and an easier to use online interface though. For the time being, we definitely recommend SugarSync, Dropbox and IBackup.

 
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Backup Space/ Price
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