It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Serious-Mode on 2025-07-27 22:10:41+00:00.

Long story short, hard drive was acting reaaaal slow. I still don't quite understand everything in CrystalDiskInfo. It still said "Good," but looking at the graphs, I think it was the Read Error Rate I saw going up. I didn't want to risk it, got a replacement drive and spent the next few days attempting to transfer whatever I could.

It was quite a process, things were extremely slow or would freeze up. Windows started repairing the drive every boot. No matter what, Clonezilla kept saying I needed to run chkdsk, and whichever drive I had connected to my external adapter would disappear after every failed attempt with Clonezilla.

Towards the end of the troubleshooting that I finally took a good look at the SATA cable. The end connected to the hard drive was a 90 degree connector, but it was definitely more like 100 degrees now. I swapped the cable, connected both source and target drive internally. For the "failing" disk, I was now getting "Disk offline because it has signature collision with another disk online," but could now successfully clone using HDD Raw Copy Tool. I've not combed through all the data, but so far, so good.

Now I am left wondering if there was really anything wrong with the original hard drive in the first place. It was one of my newer drives and was supposedly a little more robust being an Ironwolf NAS drive. I'll hopefully figure out a good way to test the drive, because it would fit nicely in my Unraid box.

Moral of the story, check your SATA cables, kids.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/WeezerAndTheWeezy on 2025-07-28 09:14:05+00:00.

Hello, everyone. I'm a seafarer, and in the next few months I'll be onboard for the next 7 months. The internet for crew on cruise ships is very expensive. I have this Android tablet with 256 GB storage and an SD card of 1 TB. I want to fill this storage with random shorts/reels or TikTok videos. So that I wouldn't need to buy any internet plans and keep the money for my family. I'm having a hard time searching for a downloader that can download batches of shorts. Maybe about 5000 random shorts/reels will keep me entertained for months? Thank you, guys!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Endeavour1988 on 2025-07-28 09:13:30+00:00.

I've been using HD Sentinel, and I'm just curious what others use to help monitor their drives. Also do you get to a point in time with powered on hours where you feel like its a good idea to replace regardless if its been rock solid for many years?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Mk23_DOA on 2025-07-28 08:49:18+00:00.

My HDD vendor has no more 12TB refurbished drives in stock and the last two I bought both went RMA for a refund.

So I am looking for a few new drives. I went with 12TB because of availability and economy since they went into my 8 bay NAS. In actual use I did notice that the drives were quiet when operating.

So I am looking for larger drives 16TB to 22TB range, that still are reasonably quiet because the DS1817+ sits in my home office.

In 22TB I could go with renewed EXOS drives, otherwise it would be new Toshiba MG or new Ultrastar in the 16TB-20TB range. What would be the option with the "lowest" noise output? I will inititially install 2-3 drives and don't expect to have to replace all 8 drives.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/mershaltec on 2025-07-28 08:21:17+00:00.

Hi there, quick question? I recently transfered the data from my daughter's laptop (Where she had run out of space due to hoarding every bit of CC she could get her hands on for The Sims 3 and 4) by using windows' built in backup software. I created a disc image of the data, no problem... except because of the way the drive is formatted, it will not let me expand her 500gb "C" drive to the full 1 TB. Even though there's a ton of unallocated space on the drive. here's like system information drive, and then there's some other recovery partition between her "C" drive partition and the empty space. What do I need to do in order to access that space and expand her drive? Will deleting that recovery partition (idk how) do the trick?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/LawlsMcPasta on 2025-07-28 07:57:37+00:00.

I currently pay £7 a month for 1TB, however I'm wondering if there might be a cheaper option? I've never need to touch my backup yet, so being easily accessible isn't a biggy for me, I just need peace of mind that I have a reliable off-site backup.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/AlreadyReddit999 on 2025-07-28 05:24:54+00:00.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/mantistoboggan1697 on 2025-07-28 04:38:44+00:00.

I'm getting into buying and ripping dvds/ Blu-rays. Got my disk writer set up with makemkv. Everything is working so far. I'm wondering what my long term storage solution should be be. I feel like a nas might be overkill maybe it's something I can grow into. Otherwise I'm thinking I'll just start buying external hard drives. I'm just not sure what my next steps should be. I got into to this becuase streaming services are pissing me off. I want to watch star trek again but I WILL NOT pay for Paramount+.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/fotoliptofono on 2025-07-28 04:07:56+00:00.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/6packpanda on 2025-07-28 03:39:17+00:00.

I'm curious what it looks like 2-4 years later. Recently bought T7 4TB version. I use my SSD for editing videos on it.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Ballin_Like_Curry on 2025-07-28 02:35:09+00:00.

Pardon my ignorance but i just saw a post about copying data from one ssd to another and saw they were having issues and it got me thinking that ive probably been doing things wrong this whole time as they were being recommended a lot of different software. Anytime i need to move data from one drive to another or data from a hard drive to an sd card i just open up my windows file explorer and select the files i want to transfer over click copy and then just wait till it all goes through.. Should i be looking into other software? Is windows not recommended to do data copy?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/TSADev on 2025-07-27 23:23:47+00:00.

So I have a plan for a storage server that would use JBOD's to house a bunch of 20TB Hard Drives, the problem ends up being, I need the JBOD's to be quiet and not use a bunch of power. My plan was to use SAS Expander's and use rackmount chassis with 15 3.5" bays minimum to build my own JBOD, but I was not sure if there were any existing ones I could pickup on eBay that are power efficient and quiet.

I do not have a dedicated space for my rack and servers, it's all in my bedroom due to not having any space anywhere else. Wanted to ask if anyone knew of any JBOD's that met my requirements before I went ahead and built the DIY JBOD's

Thanks

edit: I did want to mention the power draw concern is just due to not having the breaker trip

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/brentcolour on 2025-07-27 22:47:39+00:00.

Does anyone know how to download product videos from Amazon? I am trying to go into the inspect of the page but I can't find the .mp4 link. Does anyone know how to do this??

Here is the type of video I am trying to download. https://www.amazon.com/live/video/0469576881ec43f196dfd274a45dee37

Thanks.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/redexposure on 2025-07-27 22:25:28+00:00.

I'm hoping someone can recommend an (ideally) free tool, to manage Windows folders, instead of Windows Explorer.

I hoping for something where I can add category tags easily to folders, and also then use the manager to narrow down the list of folders, when I use tag searches.

Can anyone recommend anything that might do the above?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/shfkr on 2025-07-27 21:22:18+00:00.

i'm not a coder. i have a website that's going to die in two days. no way to save the info other than web scraping. manual saving is going to take ages. i have all the info i need. A to Z. i've tried using chat gpt but every code it gives me, there's always a new mistake in it, sometimes even one extra parenthesis. it isn't working. i have all the steps, all the elements, literally all details are set to go, i just dont know how to write the code !!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/rtsynk on 2025-07-27 19:25:41+00:00.

What I want:

• flexibly add/remove disks of any size
• present contents as one large drive
• store at least 2 copies of a file
• STORE FILES IN A NORMAL FILESYSTEM - I want to be able to pull a drive from the array, pop it in another computer and easily copy off all the files stored on it. No stripes, no tiles, no proprietary volumes, etc

Optional:

• some sort of checksum/parity

What's not important:

• performance (within reason)
• spinning down disks
• booting from the volume

The way I want it to work is that if you write /temp1/temp2/test/file.ext, it will actually put that file in that path on 2 of the drives. It will choose the drives based on the size of the file and the available free space of the different drives.

It will maintain an index (as a file on all the drives) of all the files in the merged volume and on which disks each file is

The main goals are:

• redundancy
• flexibility (to add/remove drives as needed)
• ease of use (just one volume so no juggling which drive to put files on)
• easy recovery from whatever jankiness the raid software displays (way too many horror stories of how the controller/software messes up and the entire volume is lost, no thank you)

EDIT

to everyone saying I want a backup, not a raid, i want both

when people talk about raid having parity so it can rebuild a missing drive, no one bats an eye

when unraid and others advertise that they store files in a regular filesystem to make recovery easier, everyone agrees it's a swell idea

but if I ask for having 2 actual copies (not including any parity) then suddenly it's a bunch of eye-twitching and reminders that "raid isn't a backup" and "that's what a backup solution is for"

RAID-1 has been around forever, I just want a more evolved version of that

yes i need a separate backup off-system and off-site, and that's great, but I still want a way to merge drives with duplication

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/theoldgaming on 2025-07-27 19:11:39+00:00.

This version in Particular, question to those who have used/use it.

Inside its a Seagate Barracuda apparently.

https://preview.redd.it/s6ybbz77ugff1.png?width=849&format=png&auto=webp&s=866105d2a7d6120f258f1a0f9b365266c7bb028c

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/just_a_guy321 on 2025-07-27 19:05:56+00:00.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/manzurfahim on 2025-07-27 18:33:15+00:00.

I want to download all video of some tiktok accounts, and looking for a suitable way to do this. Preferably an app with GUI, not good with github codes and commands. I'd appreciate some advise please. Tiktok is not banned in my country, but I'd like to archive the accounts I need before something happens.

Many thanks in advance.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/cointon on 2025-07-27 17:35:29+00:00.

Sandisk, Corsair and a few others have had USB4 SSD’s out for awhile, but not Samsung.

Really like Samsung’s T-series SSD’s.

Is a Samsung USB4 T-series on the verge of being released?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/an_angry_Moose on 2025-07-27 13:25:38+00:00.

Been eyeballing NAS systems for half a decade (maybe longer) and as my data piles up on regular old 8tb CMR Seagate drives and Apple iCloud, I think this year is when I’m finally going to do it. It seems like ugreen does post Black Friday sales, and I’m not in a mega rush, so I think I will wait for that.

I’m looking at a DXP 6800 Pro or potentially a 4800 Plus. I would like the option to expand to 6 drives eventually, even if my initial setup will likely only include 3-4 (something like 8-16gb NAS drives). I’ve ruled synology out as their hardware is old even in brand new products, but I also don’t like the direction they’ve gone in terms of drive options.

My uses:

1. Primarily, I want a way to download my entire apple photos library from multiple phones (multiple users) and store them in a NAS based “cloud” so that I’m not paying for ever-increasing apple icloud storage. It seems like UGREEN’s photo solution is actually pretty decent and improving. Is there an automated process for migrating your iCloud library to it? Lots of family video also.

2. Secondary, I rip blurays in UHD quality, and it would be nice to do the entire plex library including hardware transcoding on-NAS. We use plex to stream to multiple devices including iPads with odd resolutions. I’d like to be able to stream 4K HDR content to these without a hitch. If this isn’t possible on-NAS, I can maintain my PC’s plex server and just point the library to NAS storage as well.

3. Finally, I’d like to move assorted-semi-important file storage for typical NAS type redundancy.

I don’t think any of the above is truly critical to back up more than double redundancy (likelihood of 2 quality NAS drives failing at once?), but I currently only have the most important ones in apple’s iCloud.

Does this all make sense or is there a better option I should be considering? I’ve put the most research into Synology and UGREEN. It seems like Terramaster makes a 6 bay F6-424 Max that also ticks the boxes comparably (good hardware, maybe good photo software?), but QNAP and ASUSTOR offerings appear to be going towards Synology in terms of pricing, which seems to be less bang for the buck.

Thanks very much for your input!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/robotek on 2025-07-27 18:51:04+00:00.

Hi all,

I'm looking for a backup solution for my home video and photo projects.

Currently, I have a few WD password HDDs that I use for a periodic backup of all of the data (around 4TB) with my own software that basically checks for modified data and copies it to the same location - it works but it is really annoying. So I'm looking for a seamless solution...

Something like synology NAS seems to be perfect, but I'm not sure that I'm willing to spend that much money on this. Also, I don't need a NAS - DAS would be enough.

So, I found TerraMaster D4-320, which seems like it would do the job, but since it only has a software RAID I'm not sure.

I would love something that shows up as ONE HDD on my system and has an automatic backup.

EDIT: So I found out I don't really need to complicate my life with a RAID. I can add two large HDDs to my PC and use software to do a backup automatically for me. The thing is that what I used before (acronis) did backups in some kind of an image file, which I don't like.

Would FreeFileSync or Robocopy work fine in my case? I don't need an exact HDD clone, just a synced backup.

Any other ideas? Thanks!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Der_Haudegen on 2025-07-27 18:50:16+00:00.

Hey guys, I am currently looking for parts for my new gaming pc setup. I do have a couple HDDs and sata SSDs, so I'll probably need to get an additional PCIE card for additional sata ports.

Can you guys recommend any good cards with 4-6 ports? I've never used a card like that, how much power do they usually draw? How much headroom should I calculate for my PSU?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/FirageZero on 2025-07-27 18:43:55+00:00.

Dear Swarm Intelligence

I am going to buy a second backup hard drive. I already have one, which I use to back up my data from the NAS. Since I will then have two, I will use them alternately so that I always have one hard drive in a safe place. I have chosen the following (I need 20 TB):

Western Digital WD200EDGZ 20TB 7.2K RPM SATA 6Gb/s 512e 3.5in Recertified Hard Drive

What do you think about the risk and durability?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/usarcut2002 on 2025-07-27 18:24:55+00:00.

Hi all

Because of the current political climate, I am very concerned about scientifically based information being erased from the American internet. I would like to download and save reports from the government agencies that interest me. For example, I am very interested in climate change. I just searched for the EPA's climate change site, and it has been taken down. Does anyone know of an archive of scientifically based information that is free to the public? For starters, I am interested particular topics within in the EPA, the DoE, and the Access Board.

Thank you