In this IceDrive review, we uncover an ultra-secure cloud storage provider with some great features and attractive pricing.
IceDrive is a cloud storage solution that aims to make cloud storage feel like a physical hard drive with what the company calls “revolutionary” drive-mounting software. With IceDrive, you’ll be able to access your cloud storage just as easily as on your own device’s hard drive, but without taking up any space. IceDrive is a relative newcomer to the cloud storage market, founded in 2019. And in this IceDrive cloud storage review, we look at how it compares to some of the best cloud storage providers in the business as we examine its pricing, features, ease of use, and support. IceDrive plans can be purchased monthly, annually, or for a lifetime. If purchasing for a year or a lifetime license, there are three plans: Lite, Pro, and Pro+. If paying by the month, there is no Lite option. Lite comes with 150 GB of storage and 250 GB of bandwidth per month. Pro increases that to 1 TB storage and 2 TB bandwidth, while Pro+ offers 5 TB storage and 8 TB bandwidth. Monthly plans go from $4.99/month to $17.99/month, yearly plans $19.99/year to $179.99/year, and lifetime plans $59 to $499. There is also a free account with 10 GB of storage and 3 GB daily (not monthly) bandwidth, but it doesn’t have client-side encryption. The lifetime plans are interesting because they’re similar to buying an external hard drive. You’d pay less for a physical device, but in the likely scenario that you’d want your data backed up to the cloud anyway, with an IceDrive lifetime license, you’d be killing two birds with one stone. One of IceDrive’s best features is the ability to use it like a virtual drive that is attached directly to your computer. In fact, you can mount it like any other drive with a single click. It uses special software so that all the operations you’d need to perform on files—open, edit, delete, and upload—feel as fast as they would for files on your own hard drive or an attached drive.
