Competitive Analysis: Ahsay VS IDrive

August 14, 2025

Backup users will compare different backup and recovery solutions before making a subscription decision. For backup users’ reference, 
we've created an Ahsay and Backblaze B2 backup and recovery service comparison on pricing models and features.

Ahsay provides valued add features you can take advantage of. We support:

  • Unlimited devices/endpoints
  • Bring your own disk plan
  • AES 256-bit data encryption
  • Immutable backup
  • Backup Linux
  • Backup PostgreSQL
  • Backup FreeBSD
  • Backup Synology NAS
  • Backup QNAP NAS
  • Backup Android
  • Backup iOS

 

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Service plan comparison as below.

 

Ahsay

IDrive

Pricing Models

Backup as a Services - Monthly payment

Backup as a Services - Monthly payment

✔

✔

DIY Backup - self hosted - (storage based model)

DIY Backup - self hosted - (storage based model)

✔

✔

Low cost storage based on pricing model

Low cost storage based on pricing model

Powered by Microsoft Azure

Powered by IDrive

Backup Features

White label for MSP backup

White label for MSP backup

✔

✔

No limits on backup file size

No limits on backup file size

✔

✔

Unlimited devices / endpoints

Unlimited devices / endpoints

✔

✘

Cloud storage included

Cloud storage included

✔

✔

Bring your own disk plan

Bring your own disk plan

✔

✔

Automatic backup

Automatic backup

✔

✔

Unlimited retention period

Unlimited retention period

✔

✘
- Backed up data can only be retained for as long as IDrive account is maintained, unless files are manually deleted or removed through automated Archive Cleanup process.

Immutable backup

Immutable backup

✔

✔
 

Backup Data Validation

Backup Data Validation

✔

✔

AES 256-bit data encryption

AES 256-bit data encryption

✔

✔

Account security protected by 2FA

Account security protected by 2FA

✔

✔

Backup Solutions

Microsoft 365 (Outlook, OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams, Public Folders)

Microsoft 365 (Outlook, OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams, Public Folders)

✔

✔
- Public Folders not supported

Google Workspace (Gmail, Drive, Shared Drive, Contacts, Calendar, Tasks, Chat, and Meet)

✔

✔
- Tasks not supported
- Chat not supported
- Meet not supported
- Maximum of 10TB storage per user. Once exceeded, extra charges apply.

  • Lossless backup of Google Workspace documents (Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, and Drawings)

✔

✘

Operating Systems

Windows

Windows

✔

✔

macOS

macOS

✔

✔

Linux

Linux

✔

✔

Synology NAS

Synology NAS

✔

✔
- Available as an add-on purchase
- Available through integration with Synology Hyper Backup & Cloud Sync

QNAP NAS

QNAP NAS

✔

✔
- Available as an add-on purchase
- Available through integration with QNAP's Hybrid Backup Sync

FreeBSD

FreeBSD

✔

✘
 

IBM AIX

IBM AIX

✔

✘

Databases

Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft SQL Server

✔

✔
- MS SQL 2022 not supported

Microsoft Exchange

Microsoft Exchange

✔

✔

Oracle

Oracle

✔

✔
- Oracle 18c not supported
- Oracle 19c Standard Edition not supported
- Oracle 19c Enterprise Edition not supported
- Oracle 23ai not supported

MySQL

MySQL

✔

✘
 

MariaDB

MariaDB

✔

✘

Tibero

Tibero

✔

✘

PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL

✔

✘
 

Virtual Machines

VMware

VMware

✔

✔
- VMware Workstation not supported

Hyper-V

Hyper-V

✔

✔
- Hyper-V 2022 not supported
- Hyper-V 2025 not supported

Proxmox VE

Proxmox VE

✔

✘

Bare Metal

Windows System

Windows System

✔

✘
- Only available on a different IDrive backup solution (IDrive BMR)

Linux Bare Metal

Linux Bare Metal

✔

✘

Backup Mobile

Backup Android

Backup Android

✔

✔
- Backup of files/documents is not supported

Backup iOS

Backup iOS

✔

✔
- Backup of files/documents is not supported

Others

Cloud file

Cloud file 
Ahsay supports Microsoft Azure, OneDrive, Microsoft 365, Amazon S3, AWS S3 compatible storage, Wasabi, Google Drive, Google Cloud Storage, Dropbox, Dropbox for business, OpenStack, Rackspace, Backblaze, FTP and SFTP backup.
 

✔

✔
- OneDrive is supported through Microsoft 365 personal account backup
- Google Drive is supported through Google personal account backup. Maximum of 10TB storage. Once exceeded, extra charges apply.
- Dropbox is supported through Dropbox personal account backup

Windows System State

Windows System State

✔

✔
- Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) meta directory not supported
- Performance counter configuration information not supported

Microsoft Exchange Mail Level

Microsoft Exchange Mail Level

✔

✔

Note: Comparison was based on IDrive Team subscription plan. Other information acquired from other available plans.

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