Overall both services provide a similar offering in regards to the key features on offer, the ability to upgrade to unlimited file versioning alongside the file synchronisation functionality and smartphone apps mean Backblaze ultimately wins this category. In comparison Backblaze offer 30 days of version history on their basic plan with the option to upgrade to 1 year of versioning for an additional $2/m and to unlimited versioning for an additional $4/m (plus B2 storage fees for any qualified files).īoth Backblaze and Carbonite also offer 15 day trial periods, a fair and useful amount of time for evaluating either service. There are, however, a few small areas where I feel Backblaze has a narrow edge compared to Carbonite, these are mainly in file sharing and smartphone apps, both of which Backblaze has but Carbonite (as of yet) do not offer to their users.įile versioning (historic versioning) is an area where Carbonite (unfortunately) also lags behind Backblaze by only offering the last 12 versions of a file (or 30 days if sooner) with no options to upgrade this. Each platform also uses block-level transfer, a system that reduces the amount of data that needs to be sent to the cloud when updating files that have already been backed up.* Backblaze initially comes with 30 days of version history, this is set to the latest 12 versions (or 30 days if sooner) for Carbonite usersĪs can be seen above, both services offer a similar service for a very similar price, this is owing to the fact both pieces of software are very similar in operation and aim to serve the same kind of customer. This is helpful if you want to limit how much bandwidth your data transfers use while you’re working. You can also request a hard drive with your files to restore large amounts of data.Ĭarbonite doesn’t offer a similar service, so initially backing up your computer to the cloud can take several days.īoth IDrive and Carbonite enable you to throttle or pause your uploads at any time. Your subscription comes with IDrive Express, a physical hard drive delivery service. Simply request a drive to be mailed to you, transfer your files onto it via USB, and mail it back to IDrive to have your files uploaded to the company’s servers directly. IDrive also stands out if you have terabytes of data to upload to the cloud or restore to your computer. By contrast, Carbonite took 25 minutes to download the same folder. On the plus side, Carbonite’s desktop client is incredibly easy to use and gives you the option to restore files immediately upon opening. We also restored 1.1GB of files from the cloud, and found that IDrive took around 18 minutes. IDrive completed the transfer in just over 90 minutes, while Carbonite took over three hours. We tested out both services by uploading a 16.8GB zip folder. IDrive is one of the fastest backup services we’ve tested, while Carbonite lags far behind. Carbonite was slower than IDrive at both uploading and restoring files (Image credit: Carbonite)
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