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You experience with iDrive e2 so far?
I have been using them since the beginning and apart from a couple of hiccups not lasting long, the service has been working fine for me.
I am now wondering whether to recommend it to someone who has to back up several terabytes of quite important data but has a limited budget.
Has anyone experienced significant issues in recent times with e2?
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I have been only using them now for about 9 months, and I have been very happy. I only use them as a s3f bucket on my servers, and my desktops. Never tired their app/software so I can not comment on that part of their services. However for me as a bucket the service has been great, speeds are all over the place a little bit, but I can and push 800-1000 speeds.
Thanks,
Anthony
Thanks, I have also had a good experience so far, the only thing is that I haven't stored more than 700GB with them.
I have a 1TB plan there, I have no use for it at the moment as I have enough storage.
But I'm quite happy with the network and performance.
The only negative point I can see is that the replication policy wasn't clear it seems.
But at this price, the best you can hope for is local replication.
I did use idrive in combination with Elasticsearch backup of several terabytes. I stopped using it because the network performance was bad. There were too many timeouts. It worked good when I only had 100 gigabytes.
Been using E2 since September of 2023 to backup client websites (one of several backup destinations). No issues other than what I assume are host node reboots that cause 2 minute downtime every month or so. I have buckets in 2 cities, and I mirror all buckets locally on my NAS, so temporary downtime doesn't bother me. I haven't noticed any issues with speed, but I don't really benchmark it because it doesn't matter in my workflow. I've got 4 TB+ stored at the moment (growing slowly). Hard to beat the price/performance value compared to storage VPS. Much better in every regard, in my experience.
What do you mean by replication policy? Can you replicate a bucket between different regions?
Uhm, I see. Which region was this?
Every month?
I meant on their side. Hardware raid / Replication on several racks
I understand that at this price there is no multi AZ replication.
Europe, from Hetzner FSN
I now use backblaze and scaleway.
Ah Ok, I got confused when I read replication.
I mean which iDrive region
I tried all regions in Europe, Paris was the least bad but >1TB also not stable.
Ok, thanks. So far I have only been using the Frankfurt region and haven't had any particular issues with my limited usage of < 1TB.
Went and looked at the stats in monitoring for one bucket. Looks like several times most months. Hard to tell whether it's just a monitoring issue, or whether the bucket/node is actually inaccessible. Like I said, they are never long, and in practice it hasn't really affected my needs. but it is what it is-
How was the monitoring done? Just connection?
Basically just checking whether an .html file saved on the bucket is accessible publicly. I've had some other issues with my monitoring reaching servers even with a simple availability check, so I don't put 100% trust in it. So, whether my downtime is real or just some sort of connection error between monitoring and the bucket, I don't know.
Ok, thanks for sharing
Had great experience so far with e2. Generally was able to push/pull 500-1000 Mb/s for backups.
I had an account for e2 briefly so I could share some big files easy with someone. It looks kind of clunky but transfers everywhere were fast and it was super cheap. Seems alright.
E2 No problems overall. I wish they would provide a no extra download traffic consuming, multi-region auto-replication strategy.
It didn't seem to exist when I used them before.
Considering the price and overall usability, I have little to complain about.
I think I will go ahead with it.
Awful experience.
Regional ban time to time. (with vpn fine to open)
a lot of technical issues, problems with upload/download speed.
Problems with charging, problems with hidden costs, and hidden fake bills that force you to pay for things that you did not ask or request.
Ignoring DCMA, ignoring user removal. Forcing to use mobile phone for sign up.
Hidden rules.
In general in my own experience: awful problematic company that i will not recommend to anyone.
What do you mean by regional ban? I can’t make much sense of what you say
IDrive e2 has been solid for my needs, good pricing too
I'm saying Idrive- sucks and better to avoid that. That's what am I saying.
Regional ban looks like this:
Where are you based and are you sure it’s a problem on the e2 side?
yes, i'm sure that problems on e2 side. And yes, I'm not newbie in this scene. And i know what is good and what is bad. In my opinion - e2 (idrive) - awful.
b2 r2, aws, different storage offers here on LET - much better.
very slow compared to backblaze & hetzner SB for my servers backup in EU. and hard to access from asia (APAC) region. always failed to upload files even with small size under 10MB.
i got it cheap for idrive e2 (s3), cant rem is it due to 1st yr trial or coupon.
created my bucket in my country Singapore, Asia but network still average.
i still use for cheap price to backup my synologyNAS HDdisk2 so idrive is my secondary 'remote' backup - i use it as "fire and forget" repo.
i did try to download back partial data using synology hyperdrive, it can restore without problem so yeah, will renew if subscription expire. it works but not the best i assume.
That's how looks idrive.com (connection timeout) from my Russian vpn-IP.
I am using Backblaze to backup my websites through Enhance control panel and everything is smooth, no problems.
Weird how the experience with performance changes from person to person. For me iDrive e2 has usually been the fastest, ahead even of Wasabi.
Could it be due to sactions?