A couple of weeks ago I talked about online backup solutions. Well, I want to talk about one I missed, IDrive-E. IDrive is another contender in the online backup market, however, these guys seem to have a good thing on their hands. They offer a free and a pro version, with the free version limiting you to 2gb of storage space and the unlimited version promises unlimited storage for less than $50 a year. At that price, its cheaper than buying cd’s or dvd’s and you can access it anywhere.

The IDrive solution allows for drag and drop backups as well as scheduled “hands free” backups, a nice features for those of us who prefer set it up and forget it solutions when it comes to backups. After all, once its backed up, many of us forget about it in the first place right?

It took me all of 5 minutes to signup for the free account, download their software (most of the online backup systems require some kind of software download), set it up and use it. The setup automagically setup an auto backup of my documents folder for 9pm every night, which is nice, I don’t have to think about it, just drop it and go.

I might upgrade to the proversion, just so I can backup my wifes photo collection (we lost half a year’s worth of digital pictures when the computer crashed…), but I want to see how well it works. However, for a cheap and easy back up solution, the price is right on iDrive.