IDrive sends you the drive, pays return postage (in the US), but it's still free once a year for personal users (three times for business plans.) Read more: IDrive cloud storage review.
TL;DR: Until October 27 at 11:59 p.m. PT, you can get a 1TB portable hard drive and 1TB lifetime cloud storage for $89.97. Files really do build up over time, and some of them are hard to delete.
The sync speed was excellent and you can see the progress of individual files by clicking into the "cloud-drive" folder. When we deliberately deleted a file in order to see how iDrive handled ...