It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/First_Musician6260 on 2025-07-29 00:34:12+00:00.

Yes, the ex-Fujitsu mad lads have finally done it. They've beaten Seagate and WD to the chase. Now who will be next to match them...?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/AcrobaticPlenty5431 on 2025-07-29 00:29:39+00:00.

Hi all, this subreddit describes my problems perfectly, "What do you mean DELETE ?!"

I have a growing collection of mainly movies, family photos, and i have run out of internal storage. Ive got some hard drive laying around that i have stored things on, but without beeing able to easily access them, im finding myself probably downloading the same things or rebacking up the same things.

My PC is connected to my Nvidia Shield PLEX, so if solution is a NAS im thinking it does not have to be that powerful to do transcoding? I also dont need to access it all the time, maybe once a week transferring to/from

What should i do, im lost with the amount of way i could go, but not sure what right one is?

NAS, DAS, external HDD plug&play, something that i can use my various hdd's i have laying around? . On a budget too but happy to go with something second hand

Thank you all

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Beautiful_Banana_812 on 2025-07-28 22:28:02+00:00.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Wolfgang_Pup on 2025-07-28 21:39:10+00:00.

Hello! I recently retired and over the past 25 years have only accumulated 5Tb of data which probably isn't hoarding. What feels like newspapers up to the ceiling is that the data is on 2 laptops, 6 external drives and 12 Google accounts. Plus the duplication is boundless. Apparently every time I was getting on an airplane I would just do a full backup.

What would you recommend as a starting place to get a handle on all this and establish a secure backup plan?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/benevolentamatuer on 2025-07-28 19:56:42+00:00.

I currently have a Dell PowerEdge R730 2x E5-2697V4 2.3Ghz 36-Core/72-Thread 512GB RAM H730P X520-I350 2x750W - it came pretty barebones, and currently running ESXi 7 on a NVME drive. I plan to deploy Proxmox on this server when I get around to it. What I wanted to do was utilize this R730 to create a NAS server. However the SFF slots are just not useful for the amount of storage I want. I was told I should be looking into JBODs w/a RAID/SAS card to attach to the JBOD?

Doing some initial perusing on ebay and there are so many JBODs out there. I think i'm pretty settled on just needing 12-24 3.5 bays for SATA/SAS. The options seems pretty wide, and i'm not exactly sure which brand and type I should be honing into, alongside a compatible HBA for the R730 and JBOD. Would really love some some direction to fine tune my search in this regard.

More over, the HDDs I am after are the 28TB recertified enterprise drives off ebay. Most of the JBODs I looked into have only been tested for 18-20TB size HDDs, and I am not sure if there is a limitation on a certain generation JBOD/HBA to recognize these size drives.

Overall I am looking to focus my research and searching with some helpful advice about what to research, which reputable brand/generation are best. This will mostly be used for storing backups of family documents and media, uh educational iso, and hopefully the storage pool can be used for my future swim into a security cam system.

Don't be afraid to be rough with me, i'm a slow learner but I get there.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/naturesurviving on 2025-07-28 17:45:21+00:00.

Hi everyone! I have in my possession a rip of the Interstellar movie on 4K Blu-Ray that is 84.10 GB in size. I want to write it to an XL Blue-Ray disk but i don't want to play it on my computer, i want to buy a Blu-Ray player (because i am also thinking of starting a personal collection of my most wanted films) to hook it to my TV...problem is, I cannot find a decent priced (honestly i did not even went for the expensive ones) player that plays XL disks. I don't have the original disk to see what kind of disk it was so i am asking you, how do you burn or play these kind of media?

Thank you!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/DragonArbock on 2025-07-28 22:21:32+00:00.

was wondering, this website is still up (somehow), and it runs with a flash emulator plugin, such as Ruffle. But how would one go about actually downloading an offline version of this? Any attempts I've made result in the downloaders getting stuck at the 'get flash' screen.

http://www.square-enix.co.jp/kingdom/days/

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Resonant_Stove on 2025-07-28 20:51:10+00:00.

Hey everyone, I’m pretty new to larger scale storage and I’m in the process of building a NAS. I got a 10 bay PC case and some components for super cheap, and that will be the main storage machine once I finish building it. It will be 10 3TB drives in raid 6 to start and I’m using HexOS. I think I have that all figured out, but backing up the NAS data is what I’m wondering about.

For now I really only have the ability to do one local backup with an optiplex 5040MT that I already have. The NAS will have a capacity of 24TB to start. I’m thinking of getting two 24TB drives for the optiplex to keep mirrored as the backup target. Is this a logical thing to do?

For context: My current storage needs are roughly 12TB between all the random drives I’ve accrued over the years. I’m hopping to centralize everything and have double the capacity of what I have now so I don’t have to think about it for a while.

I’m open to any and all suggestions, so please feel free to share any ideas. Thanks!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/NatSpaghettiAgency on 2025-07-28 20:41:55+00:00.

I rarely see par2 mentioned in this subreddit, how come? I was thinking about protecting my backup of photos and videos with par2deep, but seen the lack of posts about it, I was hesitant and wondering whether it was the right choice.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/elgato123 on 2025-07-28 20:36:43+00:00.

I think the general consensus is that TWIT will not be around much longer. They went from dozens of shows to only a few, and I think that at this point, they only have one actual employee besides the founder himself. It’s a shame since this was the original technology podcast and one of the first podcasts.

Is there any current project or previous project to try to get all of the audio and video episodes that are still available for download and archive them?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/TinderSubThrowAway on 2025-07-28 20:31:24+00:00.

So, I have an HPE Ultrium LTO-8 drive and an LTO-7 tape broke off from the cartridge and now the entire tape is inside the drive on the spindle and unable to be spun back into the cartridge so it can be removed.

Anyone know anywhere in the Boston Area that might be able to do a repair on this? The drive it out of warranty by 3 years at this point, so really just want to get it back working and use it as a second drive after we buy a newer LTO-9 drive.

I have a support call logged with HPE, but not expecting it to be fruitful so looking for secondary options for a repair.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Alifer9 on 2025-07-28 20:09:12+00:00.

I researched the reddit a little bit and saw that there is a noise level difference between these two, but this is probably said for 7/24 writing/reading systems. That's the reason why i wanted to open this post.

I am thinking about putting one of them on my computer at my office (just as an archive, storing photos and stuff), which preferably needs to stay quiet. I already have a SSD for my system. Am i going to notice the noise difference between the two while doing nothing but using my computer? (without directly using the HDD, also copying and pasting stuff into it.)

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ManyNectarine89 on 2025-07-28 19:55:41+00:00.

Options:

1)Acer Predator GM7000 2TB ($85)

2)SK Hynix Platinum P41 2TB ($85)

3)Samsung PM9A1 MZ-VL22T0A 2TB (OEM 980 Pro) - ($75)

4)Crucial T500 CT2000T500SSD8 2TB ($88)

5)Fanxiang S770 2TB ($70)

The Fanxiang S770 2TB is the cheapest one, highest TBW. Not sure how I feek about the brand (had back luck with a chineese SSD a very long time ago). All have dram. But yeah do any come out here as a good deal? My initial plan was to get a T500. But I could get a GM7000. The OEM 980 pro doesnt seem worth it, it is cheap but a S770 is cheaper and seems to be better? Don't know much about the P41, doesn't seem as good as the GM7000?

I am looking for a OS drive, that will last as long as possible.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/didyousayboop on 2025-07-28 19:46:18+00:00.

Trailer description:

For over 30 years, Marion Stokes obsessively and privately recorded American television news twenty-four hours a day. A civil rights-era radical who became fabulously wealthy and reclusive later in life, her obsession started with the Iranian Hostage Crisis in 1979—at the dawn of the twenty-four hour news cycle. It ended on December 14, 2012 as the Sandy Hook massacre played on television while Marion passed away. In between, Marion filled 70,000 VHS tapes, capturing revolutions, wars, triumphs, catastrophes, bloopers, talk shows and commercials that show us how television shaped the world of today and in the process tell us who we were.

A mystery in the form of a time capsule, RECORDER delves into the strange life of a woman for whom home taping was a form of activism to protect the truth (the public didn’t know it, but the networks had been disposing their archives for decades into the trashcan of history) and though her visionary and maddening project nearly tore her family apart, her extraordinary legacy is priceless.

Official website for the documentary: https://recorderfilm.com/ (scroll down for a list of places to buy, rent, or stream the movie)

If you have access to Kanopy through your local library, you may be able to watch Recorder for free: https://www.kanopy.com/en/product/recorder-marion-stokes-project?frontend=kui

Interview with the director of the documentary: https://theoutline.com/post/7370/recorder-documentary-marion-stokes-interview-matt-wolf

Wikipedia article for Marion Stokes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Stokes

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Happy01Lucky on 2025-07-28 18:26:12+00:00.

Solved - Thanks for the help!

I was checking out Anna's Archive and I see I can download all fiction and non fiction books as one giant 87tb torrent file. This got me wondering about how a person would actually accomplish this task. Lets say theoretically I purchased 4x 24tb hard drives. Could this download somehow be split across those 4 drives? Is there a better way?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Flat-Mirror-9566 on 2025-07-28 18:22:21+00:00.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/chronowerx on 2025-07-28 16:08:47+00:00.

Absolute gem of an app - well worth a watch of the Youtube video to get an aide of the massive capabilities.

https://github.com/9001/copyparty/

Demo: https://a.ocv.me/pub/demo/

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/he4amoch on 2025-07-28 16:05:51+00:00.

As written in the title, reliability wise, which do you think is better for long term backup? for WD, I can't find any ultrastar models available in stock, so I am stuck with either the enterprise models from toshiba or seagate.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/mwomrbash on 2025-07-28 15:08:46+00:00.

Hello,

I am considering investing in a tape backup for my homelab. I have important business and personal files that I want to preserve.

I have been looking at the Dell PowerVault 124T LTO6-140 Automatic Library. I have a few questions for anyone who knows about these things:

1. Which internal tape drives are compatible with the above library? Any chance I can add an LTO6 or LTO7 drive to it? Or am I limited to an LOT5 drive?
2. Can I install a drive from a different vendor than Dell?
3. The manual shows that I have to connect the SAS cable and an Ethernet cable to my computer; Is the Ethernet just for management, or is it needed to actually conduct backups?
4. Is it possible to use LTO5 tapes with an LTO6 drive? I understand I would get less storage; the question is more on backwards compatibility.
5. I am planning on connecting the Tape Library to my ProxMox server with a dedicated SSD as a buffer. Is it possible to pause between tape changes to refill the SSD?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Evening_Ad_7183 on 2025-07-28 10:51:27+00:00.

https://www.magipack.games/farewell-for-now/

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/dranoel_4a on 2025-07-28 10:43:19+00:00.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/badboy9965 on 2025-07-28 09:18:17+00:00.

Hey all,

I'm really stuck and hoping for some advice. I recently got a couple of 28TB Seagate Exos recertified drives(ST28000NM000C) , but no matter what I try, I can't get them to work. Here’s what I’ve done so far:

Tried installing them in a regular HDD bay—didn't work.

Put them into a TerraMaster DAS enclosure—still nothing.

Bought a brand new UGREEN NASync DXP4800 thinking it might be an enclosure compatibility issue—but whenever I insert these drives, I just get repeated beeps and the drives aren’t detected.

Other drives (smaller capacities, other brands) work fine in all these devices, so I'm struggling to figure out if these Seagate drives are the problem, or if there’s something else I'm missing about handling very large recertified disks.

If anyone has experience with high-capacity recertified Seagate drives or similar errors (especially if you’ve made them work in any of the above setups), I’d really appreciate your insight. Happy to provide more details or test suggestions if needed.

Thanks in advance!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/irishdabcdn on 2025-07-28 07:18:19+00:00.

So I bought a Seagate (Recertified) Exos X 22TB from their ebay store cause in the Conditions it lists backed by a one year warranty. Well the drive died after 3 months. I did contact Seagate and the stated it is not covered and I must contact the seller. When I msg them to get a replacement I was told oh sorry we only give 30 days. After pointing out it stated 1 year the reply was oh you have to go thru ebay/alstate. When I looked up my alstate account they stated that the seller (Newegg) never file the sale. So I'm out my money and now have a paper weight.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/RusticSon on 2025-07-28 05:26:01+00:00.

I want to cusom build a home server, which will acts as a NAS, homelab and jellyfin server. I am thinking of the following configuration. Would love to hear thoughts on this setup.

AMD Ryzen 5 7600 3.8 GHz 6-Core Processor

ARCTIC Freezer 36 CPU Cooler

ASRock B650M-HDV/M.2 Micro ATX AM5 Motherboard

G.Skill Flare X5 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL36 Memory

2 x Crucial P3 Plus 500 GB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive

4 x Western Digital Red Plus 4 TB 3.5" 5400 RPM Internal Hard Drive

Fractal Design Node 804 MicroATX Mid Tower Case

MSI MAG A750GL PCIE5 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ioalexander on 2025-07-27 22:49:31+00:00.