ElephantDrive can provide good backup tools for an exceptional price; they offer a variety of plans including packages that support unlimited storage and versioning. They also provide superior security for your file transfers and storage and a variety of support packages.
They offer good collaboration tools for large work groups and offer a home version that will cover your online backup needs for up to four computers. They also provide different transfer rate abilities per version, up to 2TB per month.
ElephantDrive Standout Features:
- Unlimited personal online storage starting at only $4.95 per month
- Unlimited business accounts starting at only $34.95 per month
- Supports work group sub-accounts for collaboration (Pro)
- Provides secure access to large files by a secure link
- Allows independent sub-accounts of the same memory allocation (Pro)
In terms of basic backup tools, ElephantDrive can provide you with a good service. All versions provide automatic and scheduled backups, sharing tools, mapped network drive backup ability and file versioning. It also has a bandwidth throttle that you can use to control bandwidth usage.
The pro versions also provide open/locked/in-use backup support, which will back up open files or files in current use. In terms of versioning, the home and home plus only save 3 and 10 recent versions and the Pro 20 versions, the Pro Plus and Enterprise plans support unlimited versions.
This service will select files by type, such as Word Processing Documents, Photos and Images and Music and you can just choose to backup all files of that type. Or you can select folders individually or with the web interface you can easily grab a single file for backup.
It would be nice if this service provided a photo gallery or album options for photo and image sharing and viewing.
With ElephantDrive you can access your files from anywhere and you can create links for sharing large files. The Home Plus edition will let you sync and share between four computers and the Pro Plus many more.
The Pro versions support sub-accounts that share folders for collaboration and independent sub-accounts that do not share files and folders. Pro supports 10 users and Pro Plus 20-100.
This service does not provide photo albums or galleries nor does it offer cell phone specific applications or access.
ElephantDrive provides secure transfers through an SSL connection and stores information using 256-bit AES encryption technology. They also provide the option of personal encryption keys for all types of accounts. Their servers are locked down in temperature controlled facilities and fire and flood precautions are implemented.
ElephantDrive has also set in motion certain employee security measures that limit access and restrict the movement of information. We feel that ElephantDrive takes sufficient precautions to protect your data.
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