The flawless backup solution: lifetime of wireless local storage, 1-yr of cloud backup from IDrive for 46% off

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Cloud storage is crazy convenient, but it has its drawbacks. You can find yourself shaking your fist at the sky if  your wireless connection drops out, not to mention the concerns offboard storage often raises about data privacy. Of course it beats having to lug around a brick in your bag, and avoids the risk of a power surge or accidental fall that suddenly turns all your critical data into nothing but a memory. Luckily we’ve found a deal that offers the best of both worlds by giving you both: the IDrive 1TB Wi-Fi Drive and 1TB Cloud Backup Bundle.

IDrive’s deal offers a terabyte of local storage in the form of a sleek hard drive, allowing you to backup and access your data wirelessly and at lightning-fast speeds. It’s like carrying a terabyte-sized chunk of the cloud around with you. And although the drive is protected by 256-bit AES encryption, if you prefer not to transmit your data over the airwaves you can use a micro USB 3 cable to hardwire it to your Mac or PC. It’ll also work with mobile devices, whether iOS or Android.

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That’s pretty handy, but for the hands-free side of things IDrive is also including a year of cloud storage on their military-grade servers, also secured with 256-bit AES encryption and an optional private key (and you thought clouds were soft). Since many internet service providers operate slower than the speed of smell, IDrive also offers something you’ll be hard pressed to find anywhere else: they’ll send you a secured “seed” drive by express mail for your first upload, to be returned and stored in their cloud servers faster than your ISP can say ‘sniff’.

Between the two, you’ll get a ton of storage that’s always accessible whether you’ve got an internet connection or not. And at 84.99 – nearly half the usual price – that’s one a heck of a deal. Whether it’s the data you use to do your work or the photos you cherish, it’s rarely this easy to make sure your it’s secure from theft and protected from being destroyed. If you care about keeping what matters to you, it’s well worth taking IDrive for a spin.

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