I have to give MAJOR kudos for NordLocker customer support! They have been excellent with timely responses with good answers (not boiler plate responses) that shows they read my questions and obviously took quality time trying to find the best solution for me.
She even went to bat for me to try to get a 10TB online storage deal, though that was rejected and say they currently only offer 500GB or 2TB online storage.
BUT…here is the HUGE benefit with NordLocker, they offer UNLIMITED local encryption for Free (link here). You can pay if you want 500GB or 2TB of online storage. I would LOVE to see them offer a 10TB to Unlimited online storage option at some point in the future.
So Nordlocker will probably be part of whatever online storage solution I ever use from now on. Since many online storage options offer less than ideal security solutions, I am planning on using NordLocker for local encryption then use iDrive to backup my Nordlocker encrypted data. iDrive does offer end to end client side encryption, but even though the files are encrypted and not accessible by iDrive, they do not encrypt the file names or the fold structure. This is where I believe (hope) Nordlocker can come into play.
I would imagine this might also help with other online storage services that restrict what you can back up or have less than ideal security options as mentioned above in this thread. If you backup to a specific folder on your laptop or USB drive, use NordLocker to encrypt that folder, then backup that encrypted folder to the online storage service of your choice, you resolve several concerns, obstacles, security holes, and limitations. For example, BackBlaze offers a pseudo end to end encryption. With using NordLocker to encrypt your data before sending it to BackBlaze, it doesn’t matter if they have your personal (client side) BackBlaze encryption key because all they will see is unreadable data that is already encrypted by NordLocker.
Again all of this is in theory at the moment… Over the holiday break I will test it and then if all goes as anticipated.
