It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/NewsFromHell on 2025-07-17 18:13:15.

My 6TB Toshiba X300 is so loud during read/writes that I can't be in the same room. I'm looking to upgrade to a 16-25TB drive for general media storage, downloading, and streaming, but noise is my #1 concern.

What are the quietest drives in this size range based on your real-world experience? I've heard helium drives are better. Are models like the WD Red Pro or Seagate IronWolf Pro any good for quiet operation?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/PhilipRiversCuomo on 2025-07-17 17:52:36.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ChoiceDirect on 2025-07-17 17:48:38.

I'm able to source a pair of these in 6.4 tb capacity and install them in my windows desktop (lighter usage, mostly reads) and I'm wondering is there any way to switch them to high capacity mode (7.2tb) as I don't realky need 5wpd endurance.. thanx!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/randopop21 on 2025-07-17 17:43:48.

Way back, RAID controllers could notify you via an email that there was a disk failure or that your RAID array was in jeopardy.

Today, IT is just a hobby for me and I have a bunch of ex-corporate PCs at home that are SSD boot/primary drive + a small SATA drive.

I use the small SATA drive to hold periodic image backups of the SSD primary drive so that if there is ever a catastrophic failure of the SSD, I can plop in a new one and reimage it and carry on. (I realize that I could image them to a shared drive on the network but the ex-corp PCs each have a 500GB SATA drive in them already and so why not use them.)

This backup/recovery scheme does require that the small SATA drive is working properly and has been receiving the periodic SSD images.

With just the motherboard SATA chipset and sata controller of the ex-corp PC, is there a way to receive a notification that something has or is about to go wrong?

I want the same functionality like back when I worked with Adaptec / IBM Megaraid / Dell PERC (etc.) RAID controllers. (Especially now when it may be difficult to have devices send emails because Gmail could erroneously block them as spam.)

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/mikestergame01 on 2025-07-17 17:26:10.

I've been storing stuff on mega creating a bunch of free accounts and had no real problems till today. Megabasterd all of a sudden will upload the file then at the end after it's done give me "Fatal Error! Mega API Error: -2" It'll create the folder in the mega account but the files do not upload. I can upload them manually just fine. Anyone else having a problem with Megabasterd to upload files?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Merkel77101 on 2025-07-17 16:43:16.

Im curious how many of you have a NAS and those that do what is your volume structure? How big is your setup? How do you keep all of your stuff organized?

I see alot of guides suggesting setting up a media volume but Id like to be more granular, and have TV and Movies on separate volumes.

Whats your NAS setup look like for hoarding? I just grabbed a Terramaster F4-424 Pro and 3 10TB Toshiba N300s. I mainly hoard movies, TV, books and educational stuff. Im hoping to finally get it all organized better with this NAS.

On a side note I am little sad because about a year ago I tried to stop hoarding and now I regret deleting some stuff I deleted, in particular I had almost 20 years of Howard Stern shows which alot will never be heard anywhere again. So dont delete stuff and continue hoarding because someday you might regret the decision.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/nov845 on 2025-07-17 16:20:08.

https://preview.redd.it/012t4x8pmgdf1.jpg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=480d81f1fb8073655db21ae897f2ad2587e8480d

Awesome deal!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Duldain on 2025-07-17 15:23:42.

I always thought me going nuts on HDD space makes me some kind of nutter, but it seems I am a small fish in a huge sea :)

I am building my own custom PC's since the end of the '90 and HDD space was always a top priority for me. And, it was enough once to have a disk die on me without having a backup to make me a back-up freak as well.

My current setup:

• 1TB SSD drive for Windows
• 250GB SSD drive for Ubuntu (dual-boot)
• 1TB SSD + 2TB SSD for games installed, used under Windows
• 3 Data storage SATA DISKS: 3TB + 2x4TB = 10TB

Back-up strategy:

I've written my custom rsync scripts that I run in Ubuntu to back-up:

• the 3 data disks are backing up between each other selected folders (manual RAID simulation, I guess :))
• the backed up folders are then in turn rsync'ed to 4 external WD passport HDDs (a total of 12TB).

I know that seems like a small amount but in my circle I'm considered a paranoid person :)

For the veteran data hoarders I have 2 questions:

1. If I want to back-up sensitive information on a separate, empty, HDD, what should I use to encrypt the data?
2. for backing up data on an extra SATA HDD's, what do you guys use to connect to the disk? I assume you don't open up your PC's every time you want to plug in a disk. Do you have some usb to sata recommendations for 3.5" HDD's?

Thanks!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/exiledfan on 2025-07-17 14:02:21.

I've figured out a way to use WGET on login-only Tumblr blogs for mirroring, and I've figured out a script that removes the privacy popup that seems to be inescapable, so each individual HTML file needs to be revised, but this is still a massive win in my book.

However, the problem is now that it only scrapes a handful of posts--presumably being tripped up by the pagination.

Does anyone have any ideas on how this can be worked around?

(Tumblthree is not a viable alternative as it only downloads a fraction of the posts in the first place...)

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Quesonoche on 2025-07-17 13:56:25.

The past few months I've been downloaded tens of thousands of my saved reddit posts via BDFR and then running them throught bdfr-html to view on my server. The problem is as my number of posts downloaded has grown and grown, running bdfr-html consumes more and more RAM. Are there any options for turning downloaded jsons and media into htmls that don't consume so much ram but trying to run the whole thing at once?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Big-Wolverine-6238 on 2025-07-17 13:06:59.

I am looking to restore two channels that were deleted by me which I heavily regret looking back on it

I have come to a sad realization that any content that is not archived or has no snapshots of any media (video, picture, or audio) is gone forever. However terrible a loss this is, I managed to restore videos from my second channel which had 7 videos 5 of which are recoverable.

So I was thinking is there any other I can at least try to restore the two that only have metadata I tried looking into wayback machine archives and ironically they were saved as webpages...... not as video snapshots......

So is there any way I can try converting them into video format

and what of the channel that was deleted in 2016 with only webpage saved on the wayback

and also for anyone looking one main advice from this post

DON'T DELETE YOUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL WITHOUT ARCHIVING YOUR VIDEOS ESPECIALLY IF IT IS A SMALL YOUTUBE CHANNEL WITH LESS THAN 1K SUBS

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/BobThePlantGuy on 2025-07-17 12:40:17.

I need to replace the backplane on a Supermicro CSE-743 case. I found one screw and removed it, but the blue plastic piece has tabs holding the backplane in place. The manual doesn't provide instructions. I'm sure there's an easy trick, I just can't figure it out.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Urban_Predator on 2025-07-17 12:28:38.

I currently bought a Seagate BarraCuda internal HDD of 24TB. They are cheaper than the HDD that I currently buy for my Synology NAS. My two bays are currently full and I’m thinking to add a second DX1215. I currently use two drives for Raid, so I will need 4 for the initial sync.

I see in the specification sheet of Seagate that these 24TB BarraCuda HDD’s are CMR. Can I use these to fill the additional enclosure, now they’re CMR instead of SMR?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/GillysDaddy on 2025-07-17 10:36:07.

I'm considering a backup NAS that starts up only once a week, runs its backups, does some maintenance / system updates, then shuts down again. Are enterprise drives still the best option for that? Or is there something that's more purpose-built / optimized for handling many spin cycles and longer offline times?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Various-Tension8050 on 2025-07-17 08:51:27.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Universal_Cognition on 2025-07-17 04:55:48.

When I was young, I did site networking at a large campus for a major tech company. One day, we were working in the warehouse area and saw pallets of brand new, state of the art, 4.7GB hard drives being unloaded. Being the nerds we were, my coworkers and I stood around staring wide-eyed at the loot we beheld before us. These weren't yet available for purchasing by the public, and we were in awe! They seemed almost magical.

For the next couple of days, the topic of HDD space was prevalent in our discussions. "That's almost limitless space!" "You could spend the next several years downloading and never fill that up!" When I finally got my hands on one of them, I was in nerd heaven. I thought I'd never need more space in my life.

Fast forward to today: I can download more than 4.7GB in a few minutes and I'm sitting on 150TB+ of HDDs. Technology advancement is crazy.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/pugboy1321 on 2025-07-17 01:03:57.

Hey y’all, I need your help!

I've posted this around in a few camera/photo subs as well as DHExchange but I figured I'd throw it here too to try and get as many eyes on it as possible since it's time sensitive, hope that's alright, otherwise I'm happy to delete this! Sorry for the wording in this post, I wrote it mostly for the target of camera/photo subs to understand easier.

For the past ~two years I’ve been working on a project to archive and preserve the Sony Play Memories Camera Apps for older cameras so they don’t get lost forever. In 2023 they ended new sales of paid apps, and on August 31st of 2025 they will end support for downloading free apps, AND downloading any previously purchased apps.

I’m so close to completing the archive, but time is running out and I need your help! 

If you own any of the following apps on your Sony cameras, please see this postfor instructions to archive them, and reach out to me to share them with the archive or if you need help with the process!

| Sony A7x/RX100x/RX10x | Sony A6x00/A5x00/NEX-5T/R/NEX-6 | |

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| | Light Shaft | Angle Shift Add-on | | Multiple Exposure | Light Trail (A5100) | | Portrait Lightning | Liveview Grading | | Stop Motion+ | Motion Shot | | | Portrait Lighting | | | Sound Photo | | | Stop Motion+ | | | Cinematic Photo (NEX) |

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Emerson_Wallace_9272 on 2025-07-16 22:26:41.

Many have probably heard that ultrapopular EU shop Mindfactory has gone through bankrupcy. \

In the end, Geizhals owners /Heise/ have picked up the pieces and despite some concerns about possible conflicts of interests with Geizhals as main EU price search engine, it seems that they are already implementing some great ideas.\

For one, they have added mighty interesting recertified HDD drive options at very competitive pricing to their Snappschop. \

Recertified 26TB Seagate for €349 - not bad. Especially when competing with many thousands of anonymous shops on Amazon or Ebay and their warranties.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/VimmDotNet on 2025-07-16 21:31:08.

For years the Samsung 870 QVO 8TB has been the workhorse of my file servers. They're the perfect blend of size and speed (I couldn't care less about extended write performance) and during the pandemic they retailed for as low as $350. With a large SAS controller I can easily plug 32 into a server.

I recently went shopping for spares and discovered Samsung has discontinued the QVO line. I poked around and it seems nobody else makes an 8TB SATA SSD either, just NVMe drives. That's fine for a typical PC but if a RAID drive fails I need to swap in a replacement and I can't exactly plug an NVMe drive into a SATA port. This leaves me feeling a bit vulnerable.

Is there anyone out there who makes an 8TB SATA SSD?

• or -

Is there any way to connect an NVMe drive to a SATA port?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/zR0B3ry2VAiH on 2025-07-16 11:04:37.

Original post:

WD/SanDisk deny refund upon return of unopened 4TB SN850X NVMe drive : r/pcmasterrace

Update July 15:

I submitted my case to my credit card company back in March (like various people recommended in the comments on my original post). The credit card company reviewed my dispute claim and fairly quickly gave me a refund.

However, the credit card company did say that the merchant (SanDisk) could still provide evidence to support their denial of the refund. I knew at that point that they would, because I had seen this happen to other people in other circumstances. In most cases, the merchant has the upper hand and the last word.

So lo and behold, my credit card company did get evidence from SanDisk and quickly sided with SanDisk and charged me back. This happened in April and I just found out today as I was reconciling my account. I should have done so sooner, but I honestly thought it would take longer to get charged again.

This is what the message from the credit card company said:

Business Name: WWW.SANDISK.COM

Transaction Amount: $510.49

Transaction Date: February 28, 2025

We've rebilled the charge you disputed with WWW.SANDISK.COM.

Here's what happened: We reached out to the business about the $510.49 charge you disputed. After reviewing their explanation, we've determined that you're responsible for the amount in question.

We contacted the merchant regarding your inquiry and the merchant has provided us with the documentation which have been enclosed for your review. Please be advised we have removed the information not pertaining to the case from the supports. The merchant has provided us with explanation which states that upon inspection, one of the drives had the labels missing and as per the return policy, if a returned product is suspected of being fraudulent or counterfeit, SanDisk can refuse and confiscate the product. Since the label is missing, they are unable to verify if the product sent back is the correct one and not a counterfeit.

Here's what to expect: We've rebilled this charge to your account, and you'll see it reflected on your next billing statement. We've also attached further documentation, so you'll have all the details. If you have any new information that may change the outcome of this dispute, please contact us within 30 days.

This is the pages on the PDF in the credit card company's message to me. This is what SanDisk provided to the credit card company:

Page 1

Page 2

Page 3

The sent a lower quality image (perhaps due to the conversion to PDF) of the bogus photos they had sent me.

SanDisk can commit fraud and get away with it.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/masturbaiter696969 on 2025-07-12 04:44:12.

I am currently using two 1.5tb hard drives from 2009. They are very slow and starting to grow in bad sector count. Running sha256sum on these takes forever and I feel like running that also wears them out quicker.

I am thinking about buying some bx500 ssds or western digital blue hard drives.

The computers will be on almost all the time. While the drives are not going to be mounted all the time, I think the power supply will still supply them with power, so I don't have to worry about ssd data retention, is that correct?

I will be running sha256sum frequently, and from my understanding ssds are not really worn out by reads while hard drives are, is that correct?

I don't have money issues so i'm leaning towards ssds. Is there any downsides to ssds in my situation?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/SUCK-PIT on 2025-07-12 00:21:07.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/First_Musician6260 on 2025-07-12 00:13:59.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/zilexa on 2025-07-11 23:59:00.

Just wondering, I live Prowlarr + Sonarr + Radarr + QB. But is there a more simplified, potential all-in-one app ? Where you can simply add shows/movies you want to watch. And don't need to go find public trackers on Prowlarr first, integrate the apps with each other through their API keys and with their local IP addresses etc.

I love the NZB360 app for Android (a very friendly umbrella GUI over all *arr + QB) and I was just wondering why an app like that doesn't exist that does it all..

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Ciapekq on 2025-07-11 22:27:59.

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