{"rid":"storage/icedrive-lifetime-personal-2-tb","card":{"rid":"storage/icedrive-lifetime-personal-2-tb","eid":"icedrive","topic":"storage","slug":"icedrive-lifetime-personal-2-tb","provider":"Icedrive Lifetime Personal+ 2 TB","url":"https://icedrive.net/lifetime-plans","domain":"icedrive.net","category":"E2EE cloud drive, lifetime one-time","tier":null,"verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","vorder":1,"grp":"usable","confidence":"reported","binding":"retention-clamped","identity_kind":"card","identity_basis":"stated","needs_card":1,"needs_phone":0,"needs_id":0,"needs_institution":0,"country":null,"crypto":null,"interfaces":"webdav,rclone","egress_metered":0,"per_object_bytes":null,"retention_days":30,"verified_at":"2026-10-21T00:00:00.000Z","verified_basis":"inherited","checked_on":"2026-10-21","stale_on":"2026-11-04","n_evidence":2,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":2.08,"summary":"Lifetime Personal 500 GB $229 (list $344); Lifetime Personal+ 2 TB $499 (list $749). 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Vendor explicitly frames lifetime as 'Made for casual use — ideal for everyday uploads and access. Power users and heavier workloads may be better suited to a flexible subscription plan', which is a soft fair-use brake rather than a number.","metered":false},"interface":["webdav","rclone"],"interface_detail":"WebDAV + rclone generic; desktop/mobile apps; virtual drive on Windows","tooling":"WebDAV; no first-party rclone backend","chaining":"WebDAV -> local -> CDN","limits":[{"kind":"retention-clamped","value":"lifetime page (30 days","source":"https://icedrive.net/lifetime-plans"}],"limits_note":"Stacks cannot be combined with each other arbitrarily — Icedrive community staff: 'Its not possible to stack lifetime plans on top of one another. Only by purchasing Stacks ... can you add more storage.' So the 2 TB entry point is a ceiling unless you buy 5 TB stacks.","identity_cost":{"kind":"card","detail":"card","country":null},"reliability_note":"No mass data-loss event documented. Pricing has churned violently across 2024-2026 (Black Friday $349 for 3 TB, then a $389 2 TB Core, now $499) which is a signal about unit economics, not integrity. Refund terms disagree between the lifetime page (30 days) and the provider (14 days).","confidence":"reported","confidence_note":"One page read moves it to documented.","evidence":[{"url":"https://icedrive.net/lifetime-plans","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"'Lifetime Personal+ 2 TB ... $749 $499 One-time payment'; '30-day money-back guarantee'; 'Ideal for everyday uploads and access. Power users and heavier workloads may be better suited to a flexible subscription plan'"},{"url":"https://community.icedrive.net/t/lifetime-plans-should-not-stack-just-let-us-add-as-if-we-were-first-time/11031","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"stacking restriction confirmed by staff"}],"verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","verified_at":"2026-10-21T00:00:00.000Z","price_per_tb_month":"One-time $249.50/TB at 2 TB ($499). Over 5 years: $4.16/TB/mo. Over 10 years: $2.08/TB/mo. Expensive relative to pCloud at the same capacity.","notes":"Lifetime Personal 500 GB $229 (list $344); Lifetime Personal+ 2 TB $499 (list $749). Growth is by 'stack' add-ons (1 TB / 5 TB) or by attaching a subscription.","extras":{"price_verbatim":"One-time $249.50/TB at 2 TB ($499). Over 5 years: $4.16/TB/mo. Over 10 years: $2.08/TB/mo. Expensive relative to pCloud at the same capacity."},"binding":"retention-clamped","binding_note":"a clock, not a quota: bytes leave whether or not the client is finished with them"},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":500,"unit":"GB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:retention-clamped","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.price_per_tb_month","kind":"price-per-tb","num":2.08,"unit":"TB","per":"month","currency":"USD","usd":2.08,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[["$.free_tier.notes","process"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","not-extracted"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-extracted"],["$.retention.notes","not-extracted"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}