It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/twiggs462 on 2025-03-08 00:46:53.

I have acquired about 25 laptop SATA HDDs that range from 320GB to 500GB... these drives I have formatted and cleaned off and did a surface test with no errors.

If I wanted to use them for storage of ebooks, mp3s and video. Would it be ok for general storage and not access everyday?

I have a NAS, it has a single volume backup. These would be my 3rd backup option. Thanks for any advice. I prefer to not pitch them. Thought this made sense since I have a dock to read and write to them.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/EpicMadDog on 2025-03-07 23:49:08.

Hi, purchasing my first few drives so I can hoard some data.

I am thinking of getting 4 of the Seagate Exos ST8000NM0016 8TB 7200RPM 256MB Cache SATA 6Gb/s 3.5" Enterprise HDD everything looks great, found a reseller selling them for $109 USD each with 5 year warranty. The power usage looks about the same as WD red pro's but the only thing is the noise level which isn't specified in the data sheet https://www.seagate.com/www-content/datasheets/pdfs/exos-x-10DS1948-1-1709US-en_US.pdfI understand these drives are louder than WD red pros but like I cant find how much... do any of you know?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Defozo on 2025-03-07 23:10:38.

I've encountered serious issues with my BTRFS file system on a Synology NAS, resulting in what seems like file system corruption. Initially, I tried to address this by cloning my original RAID5 array onto newer, larger disks and running built-in btrfs recovery commands, but unfortunately, these didn't yield any useful results.

Subsequently, I used UFS Explorer, which successfully located about 29 TB of data:

• Structured data: 27,807.98 GB
• Raw (unstructured) data: 2,296.43 GB

This is the full scan result in UFS Explorer:

I'm not sure why this table changed, but in the beginning, there were a lot of green blocks on the top and many gray ones on the bottom.

https://preview.redd.it/pkjzkkffccne1.png?width=1275&format=png&auto=webp&s=8268d97dcb3146477a3bcc7cf8f9ec29ac80e1a7

https://preview.redd.it/50an358iicne1.png?width=1230&format=png&auto=webp&s=aa30625d96cc95b96fb25974f865b252c430507e

https://preview.redd.it/84ay16hmicne1.png?width=1248&format=png&auto=webp&s=53d99985f059ff295c9d9c9db5139958c9157741

While this result is encouraging, I'm concerned because my original NAS storage capacity was around 41.82 TB, and I strongly suspect I was using much more space than the 29 TB identified by UFS Explorer. Although the critical data I care about seems visible, my worry is missing or incomplete files that I'm not immediately aware of.

Here's my main concern:

• Is there a way within UFS Explorer (or another method/tool) to verify exactly how many files are unrecoverable or incomplete? I'm not sure how to confidently assess this from the UFS Explorer scan results.

Additional questions:

• Can UFS Explorer repair a corrupted BTRFS file system, or is its main functionality limited to file recovery (copying data out)?
• Would the best course of action now be to format my newly cloned disks, reconnect the original disks, and manually recover the data using UFS Explorer?
• Is there any advantage in continuing to try other tools, such as DMDE (which I'm already scanning with now), or consulting a professional data recovery service?

Any insight or experience shared would be greatly appreciated, as I'm anxious to ensure a thorough recovery without losing important files or data integrity.

Thanks in advance!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Charcookiecumbs on 2025-03-07 23:01:18.

Basically I like /bookmark any photo I intend to download later , first time I downaloded all my bookmarks and now I downloaded all the likes as everything is moving to bsky

But there are still new posts , how do I download the newer tweets with wfdownloader without having to redownload the entire list of the contents ? Is there a way to separate new links from old ones ?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/artesons on 2025-03-07 22:11:44.

Its been working fine until recently pulling it out after its been shelved for a while, there isn't anything visible wrong with it minus a couple spots where a capasitor might go, but im assuming its just for other drive types because they use the same board, ive been poking at it with a multimeter and everything on the top board is fine but on the bottom I noticed that the traces for the front leds aren't getting any power, unfortunately I cant trace them but the cable from the top board to the bottom is fine so its somewhere after. But without any documentation im completely blind on this, no clue what I'm supposed to do

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/BikemeAway on 2025-03-07 21:55:11.

When I add new HDDs it says it needs to initialize them and format them (they have data) and from the manual it looks like it wants to install OS on them. Can i just plug HDDs (and be free to swap them) just to have access to single drives remotely (Samba) when connected to a router?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Msinned on 2025-03-07 21:53:30.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/PricePerGig on 2025-03-07 20:17:36.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/JustinD1203 on 2025-03-07 19:29:40.

I recently got a used Quantum Scalar 24 Tape Library and have quicky realized that none of the drivers, firmware, or documentation is available anymore. Does anyone have this stashed away somewhere that they would be willing to share?

Side note, the front panel complains about drive failure on both my drives, I was hoping to get more information on the actual failure to see if it is repairable.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/sparehed on 2025-03-07 18:11:25.

Anybody hoarding these images for prosperity?

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/07/pentagon-diversity-photo-purge-00217223

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Murphino on 2025-03-07 17:50:03.

I have an almost full 8tb drive I'm looking to clone over onto a 20tb drive. I want to get a seagate external and clone the data over before shucking then shuck it and replace the 8tb once I've confirmed it went well (I want the warranty to be intact until I've at least gotten everything over).

I've searched the internet and gotten very few responses for this much data over usb since I'm guessing the assumption is that after like 4tb most people would just buy bare drives?

I have three questions.

1. Is there any downside to doing a large clone over USB? Lost data, instability of the link, anything?
2. What is the best way to do this, just a week long robocopy? that's what I've used for backups, just a scheduled script to check for changes and copy over anything new, but for something like this should I be using macrium or a similar software?
3. About how long should this all take? I haven't copied anything over 1tb since I started doing the incremental robocopy backups and with 8tb from one hdd to another I'm imagining that this will not be a fast process.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Vorwort on 2025-03-07 17:33:30.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/unstableconstant on 2025-03-07 17:21:15.

https://questfighting.com/live-streaming-event/?login=success

There was a live stream of that MMA event. It's paywalled, but I paid for it and now it's available to me, but only online.

I have those urls as well.

https://vimeo.com/event/4959365/embed

https://vimeo.com/event/4682536/embed/81b195a2c0

Anyone can work their magic for a download link?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/User960312 on 2025-03-07 16:59:29.

Hi,

I have a M1 Mac Mini with too small internal storage. I have an 830GB Photo Library on on 1TB Sandisk external SSD, and some other (300GB) digitized videos/negatives on a 500 GB external HDD.

As soon the photos won't fit anymore, I was hoping to find a 2TB for the photos library + other files, and a 3TB external HDD for Time Machine backup for all together (Mac internal storage + photo library + videos)

Now I see there is 'regular' (?) SSD or NVME M2 SSDs (in an enclosure?)

What is recommended? NVME + USB C enclosure? Is there a difference between those or does only internal SSD matter?

Also any HDD recommendations?

Thanks!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/sldf45 on 2025-03-07 16:56:56.

Just learned that starting today almost all public facing files and data linked on TxDOT’s various webpages will be “archived” or broken. If anyone has spare capacity to crawl the sites and download it would be a good idea. The Texas gov is following the federal example and executing a massive data purge. That archive is likely to be inaccessible and or deleted. I hope this community can help.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/DawnRenee1988 on 2025-03-07 16:32:50.

I would like to have a program on my pc that I can keep a list of all the files I have and keep details for each file as well. Example there are media players that can show the Album art and title of the album and genre and year released for music. I want to be able to do something similar but not have a media player but a way to keep a list of all the shows and movies. And be able to see the poster art and the genre and year releases with plot and such. And no I don't want kodi or anything like that just a way to display the poster art and info for each episode or TV show or movie.

Or if there is a file program that can allow for metadata and such to be seen on each of the files once clicked.

I guess I'm looking for a simple library program that can be used to display detailed info for Movies and TV shows. And no a online site will not help me. I want a actual program where I can see the poster or cover art and then be able to click on it and see the info for each movie or TV show.

Is there something like that out there. And preferably free.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/huxtab on 2025-03-07 16:29:54.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Blackwater_7 on 2025-03-07 16:06:38.

If you are in a position where you can't back up everything, you need to ask yourself the following for deciding what to backup for now:

1- How hard is to "find" the content if its lost? (60 points)

Obviously this is a big factor for emergency plan. If your hard drive fails now, can you really find the content and download it again? If its literally impossible, 50 points. If you know it will be available at some place 0 points. If its between, score accordingly

2- How much you like the content? (20 points)

This is irrelevant to the contents rarity. If you like the content, give it 20 points. If its something you are not planning to consume / don't really care about the data, 0 points.

3-How hard is to "retrieve" the content if its lost? (20 points)

Imagine you have 2 folders, each containing 100 linux isos. First folder is called "my favorite linux isos" and other one is "2025 Linux Isos Pack ". Imagine in this example the "2025 linux isos pack" folder is just downloaded from a pack, meaning its just "one download" and you retrieve all the content. However, "my favorite linux isos" folder is probably took way more manual work. If you lost this content, you will probably need to search & download each linux iso seperately and it will take so much more manual effort to download and group them all.

So, for this reason, "my favorite linux isos" folder is more valuable. Its not only about datas rarity, but also how much effort you will need to download the content again. Hope its clear. Give 20 points if its too much manual effort, 0 points if its something like just 1 click download.

With this point system you can give a value to your data and backup the most valuable ones. If you are in a similar situation and can't back up everything, what other criterias are you factoring? Also do you find this pointing system correct?

Thank you

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/HorribleEmulator on 2025-03-07 15:57:40.

any program for this? trying to shrink the data points in my back up drive, so it's a bit easier to navigate..

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/bitCoder64 on 2025-03-07 15:31:07.

I've been looking at downloading copies of some of my favorite fandom wikis using the Special:Export to get a dump of all the pages and data, but it's a bit of a pain to navigate. Does anybody know of any tools to parse this into a set of markdown files? I've only been able to find one that seemed promising, but it's deprecated and I don't have the programming know-how to rewrite the PHP script to the latest version. Sorry if this isn't the right place to ask.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/videonerd on 2025-03-07 15:28:25.

They might already be gone

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Metalsiege on 2025-03-07 14:51:37.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/CustomMerkins4u on 2025-03-07 14:13:23.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/PricePerGig on 2025-03-07 13:52:59.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/manueslapera on 2025-03-07 13:37:18.

I bought a lacie rugged raid pro 4TB drive a few years ago. I just found it in one of the boxes from our move, plugged it in.

There is only a single file inside, 1.6 TB in size, named "backup", with no extensions or any other documentation inside.

Is there a way to figure out which software produced the backup, and how it can be opened? It contains old family photos and I wouldnt want to lose them.