Ultra-high-density hard drives made with graphene store ten times more data

Re:Ultra-high-density hard drives made with graphene store t... by B1FF_PSUVM on Sunday June 06, 2021 @10:28AM (#27413411)

Also, both MS and Apple nowadays make it pretty easy to keep rolling backups to an attached a USB HD.

Not to mention that, with Cloud this and that, local hardware is pretty fungible and easily "reincarnated" in a replacement device

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Re:Ultra-high-density hard drives made with graphene store t... by memco on Sunday June 06, 2021 @01:49PM (#27414836)

> Also, both MS and Apple nowadays make it pretty easy to keep rolling backups to an attached a USB HD.

Re Apple: this is true only for desktops or laptops. If you want to back up your iPhone you need a Mac to work with a local storage solution. And you cannot configure the Mac to use the HD to store the phone backups directly: the folder the Mac uses cannot be a symlink nor can it be configured. You have to sync all of your phone's data to the Mac, then sync the mac with time machine, which means your Mac needs to be large enough to store all of its data, plus the iPhone's.

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Re:Ultra-high-density hard drives made with graphene store t... by coolspot on Monday June 07, 2021 @02:41AM (#27419716)

It can be a hardlink (mount -t bind).

Source: my hackintosh has small SSD but large HDD.

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Re:Ultra-high-density hard drives made with graphene store t... by memco on Monday June 07, 2021 @02:52PM (#27426535)

I would love to know more about that. I've got a laptop for which there is plenty of storage on a NAS connected via wifi, but the laptop itself has the same size storage as the phone so can't actually backup the phone.

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