Yep, I agree that the iDrive upload speed is terrible. I have a relatively slow upload connection at home (~1.8 mb/s) and my QNAP backup has been running since Sept 8th for about 8 hours per night. It was about 70% done as of last week. I took the QNAP to my office since we are closed for Christmas week where we consistently see 22 mb/s upload speeds. After a week at the office, running 24/7, the backup job is 76% complete. There has been no difference in the effective upload speed after changing locations. I switched to Amazon Drive yesterday and started the same upload job. It is now 50% complete in just 24 hours. WOW! what a difference. iDrive does limit upload speeds and is terribly slow. I have the 5TB plan (former Crashplan user) and I doubt that I could ever use all of the space due to upload speed limitations. By the way, Amazon Drive does not include photos in the space calculation so I can store my entire photo collection > 1 TB using a 100 GB account. Heck, I know this might change, but I don't mind paying if it works. You do lose file versioning by switching from iDrive. I might use iDrive for small files and Amazon for photos and videos.
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