![]() ![]() The cost for Safe Prime is $149.99 for one year (discounted to $104.99 for the first year), $284.98 for two years or $404.97 for three years. This service copies your files over to a physical drive and ships it to your home address in the event that you need to recover a large number of your files. The most expensive plan is called Carbonite Safe Prime and it reduces the cost of Carbonite's Courier Recovery service from $99.99 per instance to just $9.99. Safe Basic users have to individually select videos to back them up, and across all three Carbonite subscription levels, you will need to individually select files over 4GB for backup. ![]() (Backing up networked drives is not available with any Carbonite consumer plan.) It also includes Webroot antivirus software. ![]() (It's $212.78 for two years and $302.37 for three.) This plan adds both the ability to include one USB-tethered external hard drive in the backup and automatic backup of video files. (Carbonite does offer a 15-day free trial.)Ĭarbonite Safe Plus brings you up to $111.99 per year, currently discounted to $83.99 for the first year. These are prices for a single computer, and you'll pay the full price for each additional machine. You can also get a slight discount from the full price by paying for two years ($136.78, 5% off) or three years ($194.37, 10% off) at a time. The lowest tier, Carbonite Safe Basic, comes with unlimited storage space for $6 a month, but you have to pay that annually ($71.99 per year, temporarily discounted to $58.99 for the first year). Carbonite Safe: Costs and what's coveredĬarbonite has a slightly confusing cost structure, depending on your needs, and the company has drastically reduced the incentives for multi-year subscriptions. If you have thousands of photos, videos, or music files you want backed up to a safe location, a cloud-backup service is what you need. It would cost too much and take too long to use a syncing service to back up all your files. These aren't the same as online-syncing services like Dropbox or OneDrive, which create copies of specific files and push them out to all your devices. Most offer unlimited (or lots of) storage for a flat subscription fee, and some (but not Carbonite Safe) can also make local backups to an external hard drive. Some of these services can also back up system files, applications, smartphones, tablets and external hard drives. Online-backup services, or cloud backup services, make online copies of all the personal files on your computer. Carbonite Safe: Cloud backup services defined Good solution for those with < 200GB to backup.Ĭons: Essentially impractical for those with > 200GB to backup - poorly noted in website and advertisements.Read on for the rest of our Carbonite Safe review.![]() This is not practical for most and makes the claim of unlimited backup misleading at best. What they don't tell you until you look at the fine print is that they throttle your data after 200GB to a trickle: 100 kbps (kilobits per second) To backup 300 GB at this rate would take a year. While this is long, it may be worth it to have such a safe storage solution offsite. For a large 600GB collection this should take > 6 months. Up until 200GB, the program backed up about 3GB per day. Free oneself of the external hard drive which could be stolen or lost too!While accurate in many respects, this is not a practical service for any one with > 200GB to backup. Seems amazing for someone with 500GB accumulated photos and movies of the family. Hard drive intensive disk always running.Ĭarbonite say that their average customer have 5GB of backup.īy Anonymous reviewed on January 31, 2012Īdvertised as unlimited online backup for one fee. Pros: Unlimited Backup!Ĭons: Full up to date backup never possible due to slow upload speed. Carbonite works ok at first Carbonite customer service tell me now that their average customer has just 5GB of backup that works ok but if you have more than that like me they cut the upload band width to a unusable trickle. Well Carbonite Online Unlimited Backup not bad if your life is very short but if you have 80 Years or more of family pictures on your computer like myself you need a good reliable backup not Carbonite. I have been using Unlimited Online Backup now for over 12 Months and because of the throttling back of Car bonites Bandwidth when your backup becomes too large for them my awaiting backup gets larger I was 5GB from having full up to date backup after running the backup for 12 Months iMac on 24/7 but now its 30GB and rising so I had to uninstall it even though I paid for 3 Years.How does the advert go your life is on our computer back it up. ![]()
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