pCloud and Icedrive : Black Friday 2022 promotions

Online storage companies pCloud and Icedrive are participating in Black Friday to offer huge promotions (up to 85% off) on their lifetime online storage offers (one payment for lifetime use). They are among the best cloud storage services today, so if you want to find space for your personal or business data, this is definitely the best time of the year! Plus both services will allow you to cancel your purchase if you’re not satisfied (for 10 days for pCloud and 14 days for Icedrive).

Here is a summary of the huge promotions of pCloud and Icedrive for this Black Friday 2022 :

pCloud: lifetime cloud storage promotions

(from November 21 to 27)

Content	Price before promotion	Price with promotion	Savings	End date
10Tb for life	6000 €	890 €	5110 € (-85%)	27/11	Take advantage of it
2 TB for life	1140 €	279 €	861 € (-76%)	27/11	Enjoy it
500 GB for life	570 €	139 €	431 € (-76%)	27/11	Enjoy it
2Tb for life + Crypto	475 €	350 €	125 €	2/12	Enjoy it

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Icedrive: promotions on lifetime cloud storage

(from November 24th to 29th)

Content	Price before promotion	Price with promotion	Savings	End date
10Tb for life	1499 €	749 €	750 € (-50%)	29/11	Enjoy it
3 TB for life	674 €	349 €	325 € (-48%)	29/11	Enjoy it
150 GB for life	198 €	79 €	119 € (-60%)	29/11	Enjoy it
2 TB for life + Crypto	475 €	350 €	125 €	2/12	Enjoy it

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Please note: you can request a full refund within 10 days for pCloud and within 14 days for Icedrive, even with promotions.

both pCloud and Icedrive have all the desired qualities of a modern online storage. They even outperform their direct competitors like Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, iCloud, etc. Therefore, they are logically among the best online storage solutions today. We talked about them in detail in our online storage comparison (pCloud is 1st, Icedrive is 3rd).

pCloud is probably the best online storage service today, and Icedrive is not far behind (3rd in our ranking). Indeed, it combines many qualities, which are summarized below:

Some of the lowest prices on the market.
The best alternative to Dropbox, Google Drive or OneDrive.
Compatibility with all computers (Windows, MacOS, Linux) and mobile devices (Android and iOS).
Impeccable security with the ability to have a private digital safe (even pCloud and Icedrive can’t access this data). This feature is included by default with Icedrive, but is an additional paid option with pCloud.
Very economical lifetime online storage plans (pay once for unlimited use).
10-day money back guarantee for pCloud and 14 days for Icedrive.

With pCloud’s and Icedrive’s usual lifetime cloud storage rates already being particularly attractive, the Black Friday promotion is an opportunity not to be missed if you’re looking for online storage.

PCloud and Icedrive promotions for Black Friday 2022

The pCloud Black Friday promotion runs until November 27, the Icedrive promotion until November 29.

pCloud: -85% for the 10TB lifetime plan, and -76% on the 500GB and 2TB lifetime plans

The pCloud offer for this Black Friday is nothing less than a promotion of up to 85% on the prices of all lifetime plans: 10TB, 2TB or 500GB!

Contents	Price before promotion	Price with promotion	Savings	End date
10Tb for life	6000 €	890 €	5110 € (-85%)	27/11	Take advantage of it
2 TB for life	1140 €	279 €	861 € (-76%)	27/11	Enjoy it
500 GB for life	570 €	139 €	431 € (-76%)	27/11	Enjoy it
2Tb for life + Crypto	475 €	350 €	125 €	2/12	Take advantage

PCloud promotions for Black Friday 2022.

Icedrive: even lower prices

Although the discounts are less impressive at Icedrive (up to -60%, compared to -85% at pCloud), the prices are still overall even lower than at pCloud. For example, 10TB of space costs €749 at Icedrive, compared to €890 at pCloud (a difference of €141).

Contents	Price before promotion	Price with promotion	Savings	End date
10Tb for life	1499 €	749 €	750 € (-50%)	29/11	Enjoy it
3 TB for life	674 €	349 €	325 € (-48%)	29/11	Enjoy it
150 GB for life	198 €	79 €	119 € (-60%)	29/11	Enjoy it
2 TB for life + Crypto	475 €	350 €	125 €	2/12	Take advantage of

What to choose between pCloud and Icedrive?

You will notice that Icedrive’s lifetime offers are cheaper overall. This is obvious for the 10TB storage space which for this Black Friday is €890 at pCloud, against only €749 at Icedrive, a difference of €141!

Moreover, if you need privacy for your personal data, the “Crypto” option allows you to keep files in a digital safe that only you can access (even pCloud and Icedrive will not be able to read these files, for total confidentiality). This option is included at no extra cost with Icedrive, whereas it is not free (€150 for life) with pCloud.

The price difference between the two offers becomes even more important (almost €300) if you want to enjoy a digital safe.

Overall, pCloud has a better online storage service than Icedrive, with a bit more features and a larger user base (Icedrive was created more recently), but Icedrive remains in the top 3 and will delight most users. By the way, their Trustpilot scores (based on user reviews) are 4.2/5 for pCloud and 4.3/5 for Icedrive, which is excellent in both cases!

Your choice will therefore be based on very specific needs. Among the most important differences, pCloud allows you to choose whether your data will be stored in the European Union or in the United States (this may be important for professional data, for example), whereas Icedrive will not allow you to choose.

Other criteria will be very personal, like the amount of storage you need for example (only Icedrive offers a small space of 150 GB for example), or the budget you can allocate to it.

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What is lifetime cloud storage?

If you are not familiar with them, you should know that lifetime plans (or pCloud Lifetime) are a very economical originality of pCloud. They allow you to buy online storage space, pay for it all at once and then use it for life. This is radically different from the classic subscriptions (monthly or yearly) offered by the competition, which are generally more expensive over time.

This offer is already very interesting normally (see our review of pCloud Lifetime), so the Black Friday promotion makes it a real bargain.

The main interest of lifetime cloud storage offers is that they are very economical in the long run. Indeed, if you’re looking for cloud storage for several years, then a lifetime purchase will save you money compared to a traditional subscription that you’ll pay every year or even every month.

We go into a little more detail about these savings below.

Huge savings over a traditional subscription

To understand how incredible these promotions are, you need to know what the savings are over the long term, compared to the same online storage paid with a traditional subscription.

For the 2 TB offer, a “traditional” annual subscription costs €99.99 per year at pCloud. Other online storage services all have similar or higher prices.

Therefore, the €279 initial purchase of lifetime storage (thanks to Black Friday) is less than 3 years of subscription! In other words, you will have already amortized your purchase after only 3 years of use. And after that, you’ll enjoy an additional €99.99 in savings per year compared to someone with an annual subscription.

That’s an absolutely huge saving that increases every year:

€220 in savings after 5 years of use.
520 € savings after 8 years.

The savings on the 500GB plan also pays for itself 3 years after purchase. As for the 10TB cloud storage space, it is not available with a subscription, so it can only be purchased with a one-time payment.

Note that in order to enjoy your cloud storage space for many years, you will have to think carefully about how much storage space you will need in the future. For example, 500GB of space may not be enough for some users, depending on the current and future personal needs of each user.

Why is this a good time to get lifetime cloud storage?

The current prices offered by pCloud and Icedrive for their lifetime offers can be considered extremely low, especially with these Black Friday promotions. From pCloud’s and Icedrive’s point of view, these offers are probably not economically viable, but they allow them to attract new customers to keep a good position in a very competitive field.

It is therefore likely that these rates will increase in the future. In fact, pCloud has already increased rates for lifetime cloud storage offerings in 2022, and has announced that they will increase again in 2023 (with no further details).

For these reasons, it is especially important to invest in these types of offerings before their prices become less attractive. However, it is absolutely impossible to predict when this will be the case.

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PCloud and Icedrive promotions in a nutshell

Here is a summary of the huge pCloud and Icedrive promotions for this Black Friday 2022: