Why AltDrive Secure Online Backup?

If there is even a small chance something will happen, given enough time, it will. Yes... the White Sox will win the World Series one day... maybe in my lifetime. But I digress. You will lose data one day - guaranteed. Events, like earthquakes, fire, flood, the unruly teenager, or a computer virus, hard-drive crash, stolen laptop, or coffee spill, your PC will eventually lose your photos, music, videos, and important documents.

Can't I Recover Data From a Dead Hard Drive?

Sometimes, but not if your computer has been stolen—and rarely even if you have it. Companies charge thousands to attempt to recover your data with no guarantee that you'll recover anything from it. For $3.71 per month, AltDrive online backup will backup all your data for 50 years for the price of one attempted recovery.

I Bought an External USB Hard Drive.

Not bad, but we think that offsite is best. And do you back up your data regularly? Are you sure you're backing up your important files? Are your computer and enternal hard drive stored in the same place, making both susceptible to the same risks, like theft, and fire or flood damage? What if you go on a trip and leave the drive at home? You can't backup or restore files while you're gone. And what if you take it with you? You can lose both at the same time!

Are you for real? Lots of services are going under.

This is where AltDrive is sitting pretty for the forseeable future. The scene is littered with companies who decided (or had) to stop offering online backup. AOL XDrive, Hewlett Packard Upline, and Iron Mountain to name a few. Others, like Mozy, stopped offering unlimited backup. Others have become chincy on the default backup settings so that big files like videos are not backed up. At AltDrive, we just redoubled our capacity. We are, by design, very efficient. This didn't happen by chance... it was an essential aspect of the business plan to implement such an architecture. AltDrive is here for the long haul, even while the biggies are exiting the market.

So, How Am I Backed Up with AltDrive?

You download a small computer application that installs in a few clicks and doesn't require a credit card to start using it for two months. This internet backup application automatically backs up your photos, music, videos, documents, and other irreplaceable files and compresses and securely encrypts them. Then it sends them over the Internet to the remote AltDrive datacenter.

How Can You Backup Everything Online For Just $3.71 per Month?

We have developed a highly efficient storage system that enables us to optimize how we store data. And we’re counting on some people having a lot of data and others not very much, but that it will work out on average. If you sign up for the annual platinum plan, it is only $2.76/machine (monthly basis) for unlimited backup of three computers.

Look, I'm an Advanced User, and I Already Have a Set of RAID Drives with Perl Scripts to Copy My Files Back and Forth Between My 18 Home Machines that are in a Datacenter I've Built in My Closet. Why Do I Need AltDrive?

Congratulations! It sounds like you're passionate about backup—and so are we. In fact, you may even want to send us a note on the jobs page. But we still think you should try AltDrive's online backup because it's automatic, will save your data remotely, and is really inexpensive.