If it hasn’t happened to you personally, it’s definitely happened to a friend or family member: Your computer crashes and you lose everything … because you haven’t backed up your files. How do you back up those hard drives? We looked into the best online backup services that keep your stuff safe - and don’t require a ton of effort or money on your part. Some of it you can save casually in the cloud, sure - but some of it, for sheer size alone, kind of has to live on a hard drive.

Read our full Backblaze vs Carbonite comparison, and see how it compares to IDrive in our IDrive vs Carbonite piece.These days, everyone has precious things on our computers: those family photos, that old voicemail from Nana you saved on your computer, the half-finished draft of your novel. There’s also no multithreading or proper throttling, and there’s no way to run a manual backup of your data, so you have to decide if privacy is more important to you than these drawbacks.

Unfortunately, Carbonite won’t let you backup your external hard drive unless you opt for the Plus plan, which - at $9.34 per month - is quite a bit more expensive than Backblaze. Because it offers unlimited online backup, Carbonite is also a great CrashPlan alternative for private users. The biggest difference between the two is that Carbonite offers truly private encryption, so those who are looking for a more secure backup service than Backblaze but like everything else about the software will probably find Carbonite the most suitable alternative. Both are fairly bare bones when it comes to features, and they struggle with less-than-ideal speeds.

MP4 Repair: How to Fix Corrupted Video Files in 2019Ĭarbonite has a lot in common with Backblaze, offering unlimited backup storage, a simple and easy-to-use backup app and reasonable prices (though you can look at our Carbonite alternatives list if it’s not for you).

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