Like can I send it directly to the drive or do I have to manually get it on the laptops hd and then transfer it from there to the hdd?

  • JASN_DE@feddit.org
    5·
    10 days ago

    It has to go through the laptop in any way. Not necessarily saved on the laptop disk.

      • Mr Fish@lemmy.world
        4·
        10 days ago

        Plug both in to the laptop, then use the laptop to copy the files. You should be able to access both the phone and hard drive as external drives.

          • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            1·
            10 days ago

            They do! As long as the drive can plug into the iPhone it can at least read it. I don’t think it can write if the drive is NTFS. I have a USB C fish drive that is just as easily written to and read from on my iPhone 16 Pro Max as it is on my Galaxy S10.

            iPhones have done mass storage forever but very few drives supported Lightning. They do exist though. When iPhone added USB C, they added a standard USB controller. Supports everything an Android phone does, and in theory, a PC. Never heard of either phone platform being able to burn a CD but I bet both could read from a CD-ROM disc (or DVD or Blu-ray). Hard drives, flash drives, portable SSDs and the like? No problem.

  • over_clox@lemmy.world
    3·
    10 days ago

    I wish I could answer for an iPhone, but I’m on Android. I was able to connect (via USB-SATA adapter) a 4 terabyte hard drive directly, format said hard drive, and back up all my phone’s files and data.

    Directly, no laptop needed.

    Sorry you have an iPhone though, I’m sure they expect you to be using their iCloud service…

  • Kairos@lemmy.today
    2·
    10 days ago

    The drive and the phone are connected to the ports on the motherboard. With laptops these are usually connected directly to the CPU. With other systems you could have some kind of a hardware switch. But in your circumstance you have to go through your OS

  • ohulancutash@feddit.ukEnglish
    2·
    10 days ago

    If the drive is shared via samba, the stock iOS Files app can connect to it and you can transfer directly.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    1·
    10 days ago

    Well, if you’re willing to remove the drive from the laptop, you can probably interface it — I don’t know what interface it has — with the iPhone with a USB adapter, as I assume that your iPhone can do USB. I have a SATA-to-USB drive enclosure at home. It’ll make a drive look like a USB Mass Storage device to the computer.

    Honestly, though, if you just want to move some large files and have poor transfer speed, I’d probably just look into what software it is that you’re using and/or get a USB-to-wired-Ethernet adapter for the phone and pull things off the wireless network. The laptop’s OS really shouldn’t be that much of a bottleneck.

    There may also be some way to do USB-C-to-USB-C transfers, though I haven’t done that outside of using adb MTP to move photos on Android.

    If you don’t mind sharing, what are you trying to move, what software are you using to do it, and kind of transfer speeds are you seeing?

    • sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyzOP
      1·
      9 days ago

      No haha, def cant go that far. I lowkey just organised and cleared stuff so it was easier to do in parts so I consider it resolved. Thanks, good to have more options tuo