r_13@lemmy.worldtoAndroid@lemdro.id•Samsung brings unlimited cloud backups to Galaxy flagships, but there's a catchEnglish
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11 months agoDoes that mean you could create 30 days worth of rolling, expiring backups? Even having 4 weekly backups on hand at any moment of disaster recovery would be useful.
Yeah it wasn’t so long ago that hard drive storage was more expensive than spindles of CD-Rs and that was around the time that internet and torrenting were taking off. People used to burn CDs full of movies to share and make room to download more. In that use case a unit of 700 MB on write once read many storage was useful if cheap.