Bohemia Bunny

Uncrowd Your Hard Drive

June 4th, 2007 by lynn under Paid Post

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I just got a message that my D: drive is running out of space. I’m not surprised, since that’s where I keep practically everything - music, movies, photos, documents, games. My Windows is installed in C: so I like to leave that partition alone.

I’d buy a portable external hard disk but I missed out on the good deals during the PC Show, since I was working all throughout, plus I generally try to have as few gadgets as possible. I travel back and forth between Malaysia and Singapore, so the fewer gadgets I have to lug, the better.

I guess Online Storage would be the best solution for me, since I don’t intend to stop putting media on my hard drive, and I can’t upgrade it since I use a laptop. IBackup provides IDrive, a comprehensive data storage solution that’s so much more than just a warehouse for your data.

The interface is drag-and-drop, and your online storage appears as a local drive on your computer so it’s just as intuitive as a physical drive. For those who prefer a web interface, you can even edit certain file types directly, such as Office documents. To complement this, you can share web folders so that everyone in your team has access to files directly, instead of emailing back and forth, or using file sharing.

The feature that would be most useful to me is the ability to stream media files, even creating playlists with media players. So on a lazy evening in front of the laptop, I can stream my movies direct from the virtual drive. It wouldn’t even take all that long to transfer my data to IDrive - their tests reveal a 30% improvement in transfer speeds over that of other storage services. These figures are for Windows, though, although Mac users aren’t left out - there is a variant of IDrive just for you guys. And finally, there’s a trial subscription, so that customers who need further convincing can try before they buy.