Elephant Drive Review

ElephantDrive’s remote backup solution comes in 2 different version one for the average Home user and another for a home with several computers. The Pro version is for small businesses and users who need server level support. Both the Home editions  provide unlimited storage and automated backup for your personal photos, music, video, documents, and all other valuable files you have. Elephant drive features a fantastic wizard based setup utility that should get you up and going really fast.

Backup Space

The most important aspect of an online backup service is the amount of space provided and the maximum filesize provided. Elephant provides unlimited space on all its plans. The Home edition basic plan has a max-filesize limit of 1GB and the pro plan has a max-filesize limit of 2GB.

Setup
Elephant drives provides pre-made categories for backing up your personal photos, music, video, documents, and all other valuable files you have. These pre-made categories greatly simplify the initial setup. In addition a wizard walks you through the automatic backup settings.

Features

- Background Backup :  Elephant drive does your backups quitely and automatically in the background while you continue working.
Version Control : Elephant drive provides upto 8 versions of the same file, giving you the ability to rollback to a previous version of the file when needed.

Security
The Elephant Drive desktop software encrypts all your files before transferring them to the remote server. A high degree of encryption ensures that only you will have access to your data file.

The Elephant drive software also does a backup of  locked files.  This is a great feature in case the backup runs while you are working on something.

• It’s fast because it backs up only the data that has changed.
• It backs up both open and locked files.
• It’s inexpensive and reliable

Elephant Drive Product Options
Two distinct versions are provided each with a basic and pro versioncomes in two distinct ‘plus’ versions :

• Elephant Drive Home and Home Plus editions

• Elephant Drive Pro and Pro Plus editions

Home Edition features : Unlimited Storage,  Covers backups for 1 computer, 1GB max filesize

Home Plus Edition features :Unlimited storage, support for 4 computers,  2GB max filesize

Elephant Drive Pricing and Discount Coupons
Elephant drive is priced for the entry level customer.  On a monthly subscription, the home edition is priced at $4.95 per month. The Home Plus edition is recommended if you have multiple computers, each requiring a separate backup setup. An easier way to economize is to use an internal backup software like GoodSync to backup to a single computer, and have that main computer installed with elephant drive.

Elephant Drive also publishes online discount coupons : See here for the most current Elephant Drive Discount Coupons

Conclusion
Elephant drive is one of the best online backup solutions for the entry level user. Even if you do not use or do not want to use the sophisticated features, you will still find a lot of value.

Elephant Drive Backup Review