The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Aniconomics on 2025-03-10 08:28:31.

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I have a one month premium subscription and some of the topics I want to read from have thousands of results. I would like to know if there exists a tool that will allow me to bulk download pdfs?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Itzhiss on 2025-03-10 07:48:27.

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So listing was for factory recertified 12tb seagate iron wolf. Model ST12000VN0007. So the seller DealsCenter (S/N Recorded) sent me factory certified ST12000NM0127 which I come to find out is a enterprise seagate from 2018. Then when I reach out to the seller about what they sent me. He reply's "we only sold ST12000VN0007 on this listing" Like dude. I sent you numerous photos. And you give me a one sentence answer and don't even respond to the photos that show the make and model of what you sent me ?

I didn't initially realize it. Bc it had same white label etc. until I installed it and noticed the model numbers where different.

Not to mention the seller shipped it.... wait for it. In 2 of those free usps bubble mailers rolled up. No crush proof box no nothing. Just HDD inside its static bag inside two of those bubble mailers and dumped into my mailbox.

At this point bc it wasn't sold and shipped from Amazon I'd have to send it back to them. They don't seem like they care too much to begin with.

Figure if I sent it back they won't ship out what there supposed to or say I switched it or something.

I also pointed out to them. " you record all serial numbers well might want to check mine!" lol.

Then if they do ship replacement going to come the same way this one did ? Like thats insane !

Anyway should I keep the 12tb enterprise drive ? Return is get my money back ? Or ask for a swap ?

Thoughts ?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Top-Camera9387 on 2025-03-10 07:03:52.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/redrooster1918 on 2025-03-10 02:24:40.

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Doing what I normally do -- right click, inspect, network, m3u -- but as of late, the links for the full hd file always seem to be a small dummy file that's like a second long and just a still image. I can still grab the low res sd links, but I can't seem to access the 1080p video link. Help please?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Big-Manufacturer-198 on 2025-03-09 22:20:24.

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I've recently setup a NAS with a 18TB HDD. While I've got another 18TB drive as a backup, it's kept off site and I'm only able to update the backup every month or so. I've got a 1TB Nvme drive to spare and I'd be surprised if I add 1TB in the time it takes me to update the backup drive so I'm thinking using that to store any changes as a second, more frequently updated backup would be a good idea incase of any failures between backups.

Is there a tool out there that could do what I'm looking for? I'm pretty new to the whole data hoarding thing but I wanna get it right and having to re-do all the work I do between backups would be a big pain. If it could be automated to update the changes weekly or even daily that would be amazing.

I do apologise if in my search I've missed the obvious and there's a tool I've completely skipped over that's exactly what I'm looking for but I do appreciate any help. I'm enjoying learning about how to keep my data safe and have some very important files I want to last to when I'm long gone.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/TheBananaIsALie666 on 2025-03-09 19:05:43.

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I've just purchased a supposed to be new Seagate Ironwolf. The FARM data reported by SMARTmon Tools reports power on hours as 11925 but spindle power on hours and head flight as 0. Hardware resets shows 3. As I understand it FARM data can't be reset so I'm wondering if there is something janky in how that value is reported or, I have a disk that's been used a hot spare for over a year or they just weren't able to reset that particular metric and the others have been zeroed. Any insights would be appreciated as I'm curious.

On another note I brought this from Amazon with eyes open as to the likely situation. It cost me £220 and a comparable Western Digital disk from a more reputable supplier would be closer to £400. For the usage I have planned for this disk that seems a worthwhile risk and for similar overall costs I could have the data on two drives for redundancy. The down side is if they die in a couple of year then my costs work out higher. When I upgrade my NAS backup storage for non and hard to recover data I'll probably be going with WD Red's again.

Full SMARTctl dump follows

C:\Windows\System32>smartctl -l farm e:

smartctl 7.4 2023-08-01 r5530 [x86_64-w64-mingw32-w11-b26100] (sf-7.4-1)

Copyright (C) 2002-23, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

Seagate Field Access Reliability Metrics log (FARM) (GP Log 0xa6)

FARM Log Page 0: Log Header

FARM Log Version: 3.7

Pages Supported: 6

Log Size: 98304

Page Size: 16384

Heads Supported: 24

Number of Copies: 0

Reason for Frame Capture: 0

FARM Log Page 1: Drive Information

Serial Number: ZRS00Z8F

World Wide Name: 0x5000c500cb9dd1e8

Device Interface: SATA

Device Capacity in Sectors: 31251759104

Physical Sector Size: 4096

Logical Sector Size: 512

Device Buffer Size: 268435456

Number of Heads: 18

Device Form Factor: 3.5 inches

Rotation Rate: 7200 rpm

Firmware Rev: SN03

ATA Security State (ID Word 128): 0x01629

ATA Features Supported (ID Word 78): 0x016cc

ATA Features Enabled (ID Word 79): 0x0000000000000040

Power on Hours: 11925

Spindle Power on Hours: 0

Head Flight Hours: 0

Head Load Events: 1

Power Cycle Count: 21

Hardware Reset Count: 3

Spin-up Time: 0 ms

Time to ready of the last power cycle: 23795 ms

Time drive is held in staggered spin: 0 ms

Model Number: ST16000NE000-2RW103

Drive Recording Type: CMR

Max Number of Available Sectors for Reassignment: 57754

Assembly Date (YYWW):

Depopulation Head Mask: 0

FARM Log Page 2: Workload Statistics

Total Number of Read Commands: 4058

Total Number of Write Commands: 176858

Total Number of Random Read Commands: 27

Total Number of Random Write Commands: 2246

Total Number Of Other Commands: 293

Logical Sectors Written: 45204308

Logical Sectors Read: 955505

Number of dither events during current power cycle: 16

Number of times dither was held off during random workloads: 25

Number of times dither was held off during sequential workloads: 6983

Number of Read commands from 0-3.125% of LBA space for last 3 SMART Summary Frames: 0

Number of Read commands from 3.125-25% of LBA space for last 3 SMART Summary Frames: 0

Number of Read commands from 25-75% of LBA space for last 3 SMART Summary Frames: 0

Number of Read commands from 75-100% of LBA space for last 3 SMART Summary Frames: 0

Number of Write commands from 0-3.125% of LBA space for last 3 SMART Summary Frames: 0

Number of Write commands from 3.125-25% of LBA space for last 3 SMART Summary Frames: 0

Number of Write commands from 25-75% of LBA space for last 3 SMART Summary Frames: 0

Number of Write commands from 75-100% of LBA space for last 3 SMART Summary Frames: 0

FARM Log Page 3: Error Statistics

Unrecoverable Read Errors: 0

Unrecoverable Write Errors: 0

Number of Reallocated Sectors: 0

Number of Read Recovery Attempts: 0

Number of Mechanical Start Failures: 0

Number of Reallocated Candidate Sectors: 0

Number of ASR Events: 1

Number of Interface CRC Errors: 0

Spin Retry Count: 0

Spin Retry Count Normalized: 100

Spin Retry Count Worst: 100

Number of IOEDC Errors (Raw): 0

CTO Count Total: 0

CTO Count Over 5s: 0

CTO Count Over 7.5s: 0

Total Flash LED (Assert) Events: 0

Index of the last Flash LED: 0

Flash LED Event 0:

Event Information: 0x0000000000000000

Timestamp of Event 0 (hours): 0

Power Cycle Event 0: 0

Flash LED Event 1:

Event Information: 0x0000000000000000

Timestamp of Event 1 (hours): 0

Power Cycle Event 1: 0

Flash LED Event 2:

Event Information: 0x0000000000000000

Timestamp of Event 2 (hours): 0

Power Cycle Event 2: 0

Flash LED Event 3:

Event Information: 0x0000000000000000

Timestamp of Event 3 (hours): 0

Power Cycle Event 3: 0

Flash LED Event 4:

Event Information: 0x0000000000000000

Timestamp of Event 4 (hours): 0

Power Cycle Event 4: 0

Flash LED Event 5:

Event Information: 0x0000000000000000

Timestamp of Event 5 (hours): 0

Power Cycle Event 5: 0

Flash LED Event 6:

Event Information: 0x0000000000000000

Timestamp of Event 6 (hours): 0

Power Cycle Event 6: 0

Flash LED Event 7:

Event Information: 0x0000000000000000

Timestamp of Event 7 (hours): 0

Power Cycle Event 7: 0

Uncorrectable errors: 0

Cumulative Lifetime Unrecoverable Read errors due to ERC: 0

Cum Lifetime Unrecoverable by head 0:

Cumulative Lifetime Unrecoverable Read Repeating: 0

Cumulative Lifetime Unrecoverable Read Unique: 0

Cum Lifetime Unrecoverable by head 1:

Cumulative Lifetime Unrecoverable Read Repeating: 0

Cumulative Lifetime Unrecoverable Read Unique: 0

Cum Lifetime Unrecoverable by head 2:

Cumulative Lifetime Unrecoverable Read Repeating: 0

Cumulative Lifetime Unrecoverable Read Unique: 0

Cum Lifetime Unrecoverable by head 3:

Cumulative Lifetime Unrecoverable Read Repeating: 0

Cumulative Lifetime Unrecoverable Read Unique: 0

Cum Lifetime Unrecoverable by head 4:

Cumulative Lifetime Unrecoverable Read Repeating: 0

Cumulative Lifetime Unrecoverable Read Unique: 0

Cum Lifetime Unrecoverable by head 5:

Cumulative Lifetime Unrecoverable Read Repeating: 0

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Cum Lifetime Unrecoverable by head 6:

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Cum Lifetime Unrecoverable by head 9:

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Cum Lifetime Unrecoverable by head 15:

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Cum Lifetime Unrecoverable by head 17:

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FARM Log Page 4: Environment Statistics

Current Temperature (Celsius): 30

Highest Temperature: 24

Lowest Temperature: 20

Average Short Term Temperature: 0

Average Long Term Temperature: 0

Highest Average Short Term Temperature: 0

Lowest Average Short Term Temperature: 0

Highest Average Long Term Temperature: 0

Lowest Average Long Term Temperature: 0

Time In Over Temperature (minutes): 0

Time In Under Temperature (minutes): 0

Specified Max Operating Temperature: 60

Specified Min Operating Temperature: 5

Current Relative Humidity: 0

Current Motor Power: 5856

Current 12 volts: 12.461

Minimum 12 volts: 0.000

Maximum 12 volts: 12.461

Current 5 volts: 5.012

Minimum 5 volts: 0.000

Maximum 5 volts: 5.222

12V Power Average: 0.000

12V Power Minimum: 0.000

12V Power Maximum: 0.000

5V Power Average: 0.000

5V Power Minimum: 0.000

5V Power Maximum: 0.000

FARM Log Page 5: Reliability Statistics

Error Rate (SMART Attribute 1 Raw): 0x0000000002c077c5

Error Rate (SMART Attribute 1 Normalized): 100

Error Rate (SMART Attribute 1 Worst): 100

Seek Error Rate (SMART Attr 7 Raw): 0x0000000000009150

Seek Error Rate (SMART Attr 7 Normalized): 100

Seek Error Rate (SMART Attr 7 Worst): 253

High Priority Unload Events: 1

Helium Pressure Threshold Tripped: 0

LBAs Corrected By Parity Sector: 0

DVGA Skip Write Detect by Head 0: 0

DVGA Skip Write Detect by Head 1: 0

DVGA Skip Write Detect by Head 2: 0

DVGA Skip Write Detect by Head 3: 0

DVGA Skip Write Detect by Head 4: 0

DVGA Skip Write Detect by Head 5: 0

DVGA Skip Write Detect by Head 6: 0

DVGA Skip Write Detect by Head 7: 0

DVGA Skip Write Detect by Head 8: 0

DVGA Skip ...

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/pile_of_bones2845 on 2025-03-09 16:15:26.

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Hello, I don’t know much about data storage, so excuse me if any of the following sounds dumb. I have a Legion 5 laptop with 512GB SSD space, the files I keep on it are the ones I need frequently, or just temporarily. Besides games I don’t intend to store anything on it permanently. The only storage device I own is a portable 1TB WD HDD, which must be over 5 years old at least, so I don’t put too much trust in it. However there are many family photos, videos and other documents on it that I would like to know safe, so I’m looking for a long term solution. If I am to buy a storage device I would like to use it to store not just photos but movies, pdfs and anything else too. My idea would be to get an HDD and an enclosure to it (not an external/portable), and just use it connected to my laptop. Less than 5TB would be more than enough for now.

This is where I would need the advice: would this be a good solution? If yes, what kind of drive and enclosure would you recommend?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/theonepugparty on 2025-03-10 02:43:21.

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Hey r/DataHoarder,

I’m looking for archived copies of Jarrel Rivera’s CompTIA Network+ tutorials that were previously hosted on his now-terminated YouTube channel. His videos were an incredible resource for Network+ certification studies, and it’s a huge loss that they’re no longer available.

What Happened?

Jarrel Rivera’s YouTube channel was recently terminated due to three copyright strikes. He confirmed that he has no plans to start a new channel at this time.

• His response to me about the termination: YouTube Video (still accessible)
• Archived playlist on Wayback Machine: (The playlist exists, but videos are not playable.) https://web.archive.org/web/20240823154832/https://www.youtube.com/@JarrelRivera

Where Else Is His Content?

Since his YouTube channel was deleted, I searched for alternatives and found:

• LinkedIn Learning Courses – Jarrel offers paid IT courses on LinkedIn, but they don’t fully replace his free YouTube content. Jarrel’s LinkedIn Learning Courses
• Podcast on Spotify – Recently, he started uploading CompTIA A+ lab tutorials and some of his old YouTube videos to Spotify. Podcast Link: LaTalk About IT – CompTIA Lab Tutorials
• His personal website: (Mostly contains links to his LinkedIn Learning courses & podcast) https://linktr.ee/jarrelrivera

What I’m Looking For

If anyone archived his YouTube videos, particularly the CompTIA Network+ labs, I’d really appreciate it if you could share them. Even just a partial collection would be incredibly helpful.

If you have any leads, alternative archives, or know of a way to track down more of his content, please let me know. Thanks in advance for any help!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/madamedutchess on 2025-03-10 02:38:57.

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Local county has entire newspaper archive on a website hosted by the company that scanned the images. Unfortunately, the website is deeply flawed and constantly get errors when searching. They have each page of a newspaper listed as "image" but it's a pdf when downloading. Talking about 100 years worth of content, but I would like to download all of these easily and index myself. Probably a few tens of thousands of files. Any ideas?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/depressedfox69 on 2025-03-10 02:04:05.

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So, Ive got a big photo album (5.41 Gb) and it has a lot of duplicate photos most of the dupes are whatsapp sent images vs the original DCMI image. Im looking for a software to manage said album. I already tried digiKam (too complex for a one time thing) and AwesomePhotoDuplicate finder? (Too simple and it didnt really fix much). So, what is the go-to tool for someone in my situation?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ALMOSTDEAD37 on 2025-03-10 00:32:06.

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Hello guys , so this is only sub where i think. I could get any answer for this . I have a U.3 drive ( micron 7450 ) and inwant to install in my pc , and i am on the look out for an adaptor , the ones I found are - https://a.co/d/5JNRxuY and https://a.co/d/j1y3Qv6 , both of them are gen 4 , U.2 compatible adaptors but can I use gen 4 , U.3 drives and achive those speeds ? I saw in some reviews that a few were able to achive full optane 5800x speed on these adapter but still I would like some insight on this . Cheers

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/iAmmar9 on 2025-03-10 00:24:24.

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The end of downloading videos from YouTube (effortlessly) may be near.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ddcrx on 2025-03-09 21:35:59.

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Was having a discussion w my buddy on disk prices these next few years. I think they’ll go up bc of tariffs and general economic uncertainty. He thinks I’m blowing it out of proportion.

What are folks take on here?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/KublaKahhhn on 2025-03-09 20:24:26.

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OS: Windows 10 Pro

Is there some app or service or script or method of creating a folder that is actually a dynamic representation of other folders filled with subfolders and files?

I have a large collection of comic book files. One or more groups of these files are in different folders, and at least one folder full of subfolders and files must be kept separate from the other groups of files and folders.

So it looks like this:

Folder A Folder B Folder C

subfolders&files subfolders&files subfolders&files

Some folders have the same names, like the title of a comic book series, but different issues inside them.

Ideally, I’d like to have “Folder Omega”, a dynamically updating collection of all these files in one structure of folders and subfolders.

I want to start to use Kavita, a method of viewing and reading the files.

But Kavita needs everything organized into one set of folders under one top folder. It doesn’t handle my scenario well at all. Plus it would serve me well for other reasons if I could set this up.

x-posted in r/selfhosted

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/techguy6942069 on 2025-03-09 20:16:32.

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I have a bunch of 1080p MP4 files but need help finding a completely free way to host them online (NOT LOCALLY) for streaming on my site. So far the only way I've found is anondrop. Net but it has a lot of issues. Any ideas? Just so you know the storage size of all of it is just under 70gb

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Samseurynck on 2025-03-09 19:53:26.

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Hey all!

I'm wondering if anyone has been compiling a list of datasets that have been deleted since inauguration day. I don't need the sets themselves, but their names.

Anyone know of somewhere I might find this?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Darkleader22 on 2025-03-09 19:42:57.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/timabell on 2025-03-09 19:27:24.

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I'm guessing that there will be some people here who like me have a healthy lack of trust in cloud "backups" and proprietary backup formats. I've been working on a tool to help me back up my laptop home folder to a usb disk.

https://github.com/timabell/disk-hog-backup

I'd love to know if anyone else thinks like me, and if anyone else would find this useful.

I'd be open to any alpha testing and feedback.

I'm a linux user, but it would be cool to get it to support windows and mac too.

This is my first post here, bit I think it might be a bit of a spiritual home. I lost a lot of data from cheap CD-R disks many years ago (it literally peeled off) and have been paranoid about data loss ever since.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Dry_Inflation307 on 2025-03-09 17:26:02.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/PsychologicalBass738 on 2025-03-09 17:56:56.

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Thx for all your good advice and stressing on the importance of backup and following 3-2-1 in my previous post here. Totally get the risk of data lost thing, but what are some good strategies to properly backup things like photos, videos, important files that I can’t afford to lose? Any device or platform that works well for you guys? Preferablly something that doesn't take lots of effort and time to do everyday, automatically backup will be ideal. I’m also looking for a budget-friendly option to start with—something that works now and can scale up as my data grows. Thanks so much!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/PizzaK1LLA on 2025-03-09 15:18:07.

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Hi all, I'm the developer of SeekDownloader, I'd like you present to you a commandline tool I've been developing for 6 months so far, recently opensourced it, It's a easy to use tool to automatically download from the Soulseek network, with a simple goal, automation.

When selecting your music library(ies) by using the parameters -m/-M it will only try to download what music you're missing from your library, avoiding duplicate music/downloads, this is the main power of the entire tool, skipping music you already own and only download what you're missing out on.

With this example you could download all the songs of deadmau5, only the ones you're missing

There are way more features/parameters on my project page

dotnet SeekDownloader \

--soulseek-username "John" \

--soulseek-password "Doe" \

--soulseek-listen-port 12345 \

--download-file-path "~/Downloads" \

--music-library "~/Music" \

--search-term "deadmau5"

Project, https://github.com/MusicMoveArr/SeekDownloader

Come take a look and say hi :)

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/redditunderground1 on 2025-03-09 14:12:24.

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https://preview.redd.it/wwq44x3x6one1.jpg?width=550&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b5ec38c8f60ffecbd8f7d952a45cb7d44209155a

I read that HDD's lose magnetism over time and they must be re-recorded periodically to preserve the data. On 3.8.2025 I tested a retired Toshiba 500gb HDD that was formatted and filled up to about 98% capacity with photos and videos on 2.17.2015. After it was retired, it was put in a ziplock bag and stored in a garage where temperatures ranged from 45F to 85F for the 10-year period. It was not run during that time. When I looked at it, all the data (photos / videos) were fine.

I didn't do any drive software tests on it, as I didn't have any to use. I downloaded some drive software awhile back and it took over my computer, so I was happy to get rid of it. I archive audio, photos, videos and text files. Either they work or they don't work...those are the tests I'm using here.

I then decided to do a microwave test on the HDD. I had originated this use of microwaving drives by accident. Last year I had ordered a 4TB Samsung SSD and it had problems from the start. But I was hopeful the bugs would work out and tried to use it anyway. I was transferring a 1.8TB file to it and it jammed near the end of the transfer. I was horrified to find out it would not let me delete my data before sending it back for a refund. Hence the microwave came into my head. It was a natural offshoot from using the microwave to treat moldy and mildewed paper, which I do regularly.

I can't tell you how long this original microwave test was on the 4TB SSD, but it was just a few seconds. I didn't know what would happen or if it would wreck the microwave, so it was short. When I plugged the SSD into the computer it would not show up. I was happy with the results and gave it a little more microwave radiation after that for good measure.

All we hear about nowadays is EMP danger with digital, so that also inspired me to do some microwave tests. Here are the tests for the HDD, SD card and thumb drives tested in a 1000-watt Samsung microwave.

Toshiba 500gb HDD

1 second microwave test: Passed (I don't think the microwave does much microwaving in the first second.)

2 second microwave test: Passed

3 second microwave test: Failed - drive made a loud pop and sparks near the cord port. Computer would not recognize the drive. (Drive was microwaved without the cord.)

Generic 4GB SD Card

1 second microwave test: Passed (I don't think the microwave does much microwaving in the first second.)

2 second microwave test: Passed

3 second microwave test: Passed / Failed (?) Some sparks. One computer would not recognize about 80% of the files and they only showed up as icons. When I clicked on an icon it would not load and it said the file was corrupted. Another computer played everything fine.

4 second microwave test: Failed - card made lots of sparks, plastic started to melt in spots on both sides of the card and there was a strong burned plastic smell. Both computers would not recognize the drive.

Note: This test should be rerun with multiple cards for 3, 4, 5, 6 second tests to pinpoint the failure. I used 1 card and it received a total of 9 seconds of microwaving before it failed. (Not counting the 1 second test.)

Generic 8GB Thumb Drives

I used 2 thumb drives for this test.

Thumb drive #1

1 second microwave test: Passed (I don't think the microwave does much microwaving in the first second.)

2 second microwave test: Failed - drive made an audio sound when inserting into the USB port, but the computer would not recognize it. I tried it on 2 computers.

Thumb drive #2

3 second microwave test: Failed. Drive made a loud pop and sparks inside of the USB connector. Both computers would not recognize the drive.

The rest of the HDD magnetism tests will be 12-year, 15-year, 18-year, 20-years and 22-years...if I'm still around.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/froggyplush on 2025-03-09 12:24:56.

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https://music.apple.com/us/song/right-now/1750576838

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/salty_greens on 2025-03-09 12:18:33.

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Hi everyone, I just got a Orico 3588C3 external hard drive enclosure. In the description it says it supports 18TB hard drive, but I’m planning to buy a 20TB drive if possible. Would it cause compatibility problems? Should I just buy the 18TB drive?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Ratathosk on 2025-03-09 12:03:51.

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Hi everyone,

Long time lurker here. I hope this fits sorry if it doesn't.

I've got loads of TB of hi-res photos at this point and i'm getting a bit nervous about losing it all in a fire. I'm a 3-2 but not -1 of the backup rule. I've been thinking about making a lower-res online last-ditch backup but i have no idea what tools people use for that. The amount is probably too much for me to afford to keep in original size online, it's at least 2 TBs worth of "curated photos".

Say i've got 100 gb of online backup space, is there a good tool people use so you can adapt the end file size and convert all the photos in batches so it'll "fit"?

English isn't my first language so maybe i'm just missing a keyword in my searches.