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#Cloud storage spideroak trial#

There's no free tier here, but there is a 21-day free trial you can take advantage of before you pay anything – and you don't have to provide a debit or credit card if you do sign up for a trial, so you won't have any nasty billing surprises if you forget to cancel. Users requiring a cloud backup service will likely want long-term access, so most will be able to benefit from the reduced annual pricing.Īnnual customers can also get access to two additional plans with a reduced amount of storage: 5GB for $43 a year, or 10GB for $55 a year. All those tiers cover an unlimited number of devices, and in each case you can pay a bit less per month by paying annually which represents the best value. SpiderOak One pricing is based on how much cloud storage space you need: it's $6 (about £5) a month for 150GB, $11 (about £9) a month for 400GB, $14 (about £11) a month for 2TB, and $29 (about £23) a month for 5TB. We’re glad to see this being added - better late than never. However, there's no two-factor authentication offered to protect your account, which is quite an oversight given the other security measures used here.Īt the time of writing, SpiderOak One is testing two-factor authentication, and it is available to some accounts in beta.

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While this approach provides SpiderOak customers with the best levels of security, the downside is that should you forget your password then you’ll never be able to get to these files ever again. The only exception to this are files connected to ShareRooms, which by their very nature must be left unencrypted for others to access. (Image credit: SpiderOak) SpiderOak One securityĮnd-to-end encryption comes as standard with SpiderOak One, which we're glad to see – not even SpiderOak staff will be able to get at your files, and not even if law enforcement agencies should come calling.

However its strengths lie elsewhere, and that’s in a comprehensive computer cloud backup. Some users may be disappointed that there is no option to back up photos and other media on mobile devices, or even to get clear access to their files on the go, especially given the price and the service’s competition. This will come as a surprise given that the company has previously offered mobile app access to SpiderOak One. There are secure messaging and collaboration mobile apps by SpiderOak, however there is no mobile access to SpiderOak One (aside from accessing via the limited-function browser portal). It’s not as well designed as the software, which somewhat lets it down.

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The web portal is more basic and limited than the desktop clients, though it does let you get at your files, your devices and your shares if you need to download them again. What we do like is the help documentation, which is concise and jargon-free, and you can get at this either through the desktop apps or through the SpiderOak One website. It's possible to search through files from the desktop client as well, though it's not up to the standard you get with the likes of Google Drive and Dropbox at the moment. This shouldn’t matter too much to most users, though, who will likely use the desktop client running in the background automatically keeping data up-to-date. Having said that, some backup providers we tested managed the upload in around 5 minutes, so SpiderOak One wasn’t the quickest for us. In our tests, backing up a 1GB file took a little over 10 minutes, which is fairly average and in line with many other services.

#Cloud storage spideroak software#

If you don't want to pick out specific files and folders, then you can just point the software towards specific types of files on your system – files like emails, documents, movies and music.

The main interface is split up to cover backing up, syncing, your devices, and file and folder sharing. Backing up and syncing was configured in minutes and then you can just sit back and let SpiderOak get on with it. That said, there’s also heaps of control without needing to log into the browser platform. The desktop clients for SpiderOak are some of the cleanest and easiest to use that we've come across during our cloud storage testing: they're a breeze to use and make the process of picking files and folders to back up very simple. (Image credit: SpiderOak) SpiderOak One interface