![]() Once you run out of that space, you can upgrade to a premium plan (opens in new tab) for $79.50 (5TB) and $99.50 (10TB) per year. IDrive comes with a free basic plan that offers 5GB of online storage. The only downside to IDrive is the slightly outdated user interface (UI), which is scheduled to receive an update in the near future. Don’t laugh-optical media is still in widespread use for archiving.A few other interesting features include a facial recognition service for images, support for unlimited devices per user, and a centralized dashboard to manage all your devices. The program even burns CDs and DVDs on its own. You can save your images just about anywhere and to just about any media. R-Drive Image also supports hardware RAID (as single volumes) and software RAID: Windows, Apple, and Linux mdadm. Other file systems are supported on a byte-by-byte (all sectors) basis with no preview or file-level access from within the program. It understands Microsoft’s FAT (16/32), NTFS, and exFAT Apple’s HFS/HFS+, and APFS as well as the Little and Big Endian variants of UFS1/UFS2 and Ext2/Ext3/Ext4 FS (Linux), and ReFS. It will also verify them, copy disk to disk (cloning), and mount images as virtual disks that you can browse and recover individual files and folders from. ![]() R-Drive Image will create full (everything), incremental (all changes since the last image), or differential (all changes since the original full image) images. Honestly, I can’t blame them for the omission, as it’s likely a lot of work. Alas, the new partitioning is only available from the bitmapped GUI. ![]() I use the DOS-like (Text Mode) interface partly out of reverence for the past, but also because it impresses IT customers looking over my shoulder. ![]() Clockwise from upper left: R-Drive Image’s old Windows/Linux boot interface, the still existent character-based interface from the boot disk, and the latest Windows/Linux boot GUI. ![]()
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