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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/somenewbie3477 on 2025-03-06 14:46:57.

Greetings,

I am considering picking up an sc847 as I am running out of room for drives. My concerns are power draw and noise. It looks like there are 7 80mm fans in the chassis which will make a bit of noise. I've spent some time searching and have seen people replace the fan wall with 3d printed components to use 120mm/140mm fans or even replace the 80mm fans.

I am curious from those who have done this, do your drives stay cool and are you getting enough air flow? How is the noise/real world performance? The unit I am looking at comes with the SQ power supplies. My concerns are noise and power consumption and would like hear from those who have made this journey.

Is there enough air flow with 120/140mm fans?

Is there an actual replacement fan wall that is not 3d printed? I couldn't find anything but saw an old post suggesting a norco fan wall would fit and I happen to have a norco I want to retire.

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Novaa_49 on 2025-03-06 14:34:32.

I use the MBA 2015

When I first connected my enclosure(Acasis TBU405) with Kingston KC3000 in it. I was able to see the enclosure showed up in disk utility and able to format it to ExFat. But since then I wasn’t able to connect it.

Even to the PC, it wasn’t recognised or registered at all. What could be the problem?

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Ok-Improvement611 on 2025-03-06 11:12:23.
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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/rodborges_ on 2025-03-05 20:43:38.

Hello friends!

I would like some help and confirmation from you.

I live in a country where taxes are currently very high, which makes NAS solutions extremely expensive. To reduce this cost and have a more flexible solution, I am thinking about developing my own NAS system and would like to know if it is possible and if you have any suggestions.

I will only use it to back up photos and important files from my devices, mainly my cell phone, and to be able to access this data from anywhere like a classic Google Drive.

My plan is to acquire a mini PC -T9 chatreey (Intel N150, 8G RAM, 256GB SSD, 2xUSB-C, etc.) and a case for the 3.5' HDD connected via the USB-C port to optimize speed.

I am thinking of installing Synology DSM 7.1 or 7.2 on it because it seems like the perfect software for my use. Plan B for the software would be to use a solution like CasaOS with Tailscale.

What do you think? I would like to thank you in advance for all your suggestions and help.

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Hits1015 on 2025-03-05 20:41:31.

Hope i'm not wearing out my welcome with so many questions here but...i'm having a phenomenally brain-numbing time trying to find a USB hub and would be grateful for any advice. Every time i think i've "found it" - there's some catch! AI has not been much help either haha.

Needs are as follow

I transfer a lot of media files back and forth between large SSD and HDD drives with Mac Minis as host computer. Ideally want/need a POWERED hub with minimum of two USB-C ports, ideally more, capable of 10gbps speed.

If it has other USB ports great but definitely at least two USB-C specifically. I just want expansion for the 2018 Mini, so...something that aligns with it's maximum capabilities and port compatibility.

Thanks much!

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/two2tee on 2025-03-05 20:41:04.

Hey Hoarders,

I've decided to ditch cloud storage for offsite backup due to the long-term cost. Instead, I’m looking at getting a secondary, budget-friendly NAS purely for nightly backups from my main Unraid NAS.

Right now, I’m considering:

  • QNAP TS-233 (2-bay)
  • QNAP TS-133 (1-bay)

These are the cheapest options available locally. I'm currently using an external HDD for onsite backups, so the question is:

Should I save $60 and go for the 1-bay NAS, or is a 2-bay setup essential? 🤔

I’m aiming to keep costs down unless the extra bay is a must-have.

Would love to hear your thoughts! ☺️

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/NuggetsNReddit on 2025-03-05 20:27:54.

Here soon, I will be getting a hard drive from my dad’s good friend. He has been using multiple services to collect around 5 - 5.5 TBs worth of movies and tv shows over the past 8 years. I would like to upload this to the internet archive (or somewhere similar that won’t cause issues with my public ip getting flagged for uploading copyright content). From what I’ve seen on the internet and thru calculations, this is going to take anywhere between 2 years or 4 months. Any advice (y’all would get the link to it ofc)

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/JustGP on 2025-03-05 18:47:33.

Not the best deal but pretty good for a new drive right now. https://www.seagate.com/products/nas-drives/ironwolf-pro-hard-drive/?sku=ST8000NT001

You may have to click the 18TB button to get the deal.

There is another 10% off if it's your first time purchase.

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/eton975 on 2025-03-06 08:38:58.

With China seeming to get bolder regarding antagonising the ROC, is there any concern that the websites of motherboard and technology companies in Taiwan (eg. ASRock, ASUS, Biostar, MSI, Gigabyte, Realtek, VIA etc) might get their contents damaged or purged as a result, especially the manuals, drivers and BIOS images?

Would there be any interest in archiving the contents of those sites?

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/JadeMountainCloud on 2025-03-06 06:16:23.

This must be a pressing issue for future data hoarding. As far as I know the DeDRM people got a legal notice and had to remove their old solution for this, nonetheless it kept floating around on the web but the solution doesn't work anymore as it was for a far older version of LCP. Many e-book stores in the EU, and libraries, Netgalley, even Internet Archive, is switching to LCP. Is this only a question about when, or is Readium LCP as a technology a tough nut to crack?

I mean, Kobo is only "thinking" (and have been thinking for the last couple of years) about adding LCP support. It's crazy how we're somehow having to resort back to using Android or iPhone devices just to read our ebooks. And of course being bound to the store's or publisher's whims (like with the recent Amazon changes).

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/MelaknightUni on 2025-03-06 04:37:21.

I found some new in box hard drives at my local goodwill and was wondering if the manufacturer date really matters on hard drives. I bought it for a modding project to load some .iso files on. The one I purchased is from 2010. Let me know what you guys think.

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/MudAffectionate361 on 2025-03-06 04:26:34.

anyone here have any experience with scloud.live?

I've heard mixed feedback - but looking for affortable hosting for my own personal archiving purposes.

This seems perfect.

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Myfirstreddit124 on 2025-03-06 04:22:28.

I am looking for full drive encryption that is compatible with both Windows and Mac. I have external hard drives formatted in ExFAT. They do not boot and do not contain system files.

It should encrypt each new file I add on-the-fly.

I want to encrypt both empty and existing hard drives.

They should mount like normal drives and use an open-source encryption that hopefully won't lose compatibility in the future.

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/No_Maintenance_7353 on 2025-03-06 03:17:03.
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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/yougotgamesonphone on 2025-03-06 02:46:40.

Is it possible to extract a .stl file from Cults3d with/without 3d viewer? And if so how do I do it?

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/PXaZ on 2025-03-06 01:53:19.

Using the official command line tool, I can seemingly count all of the items in the Internet Archive:

ia search \* -n

The current count is 106,281,161.

This is about on par with Wikimedia Commons, where there are some 100 million media files.

But unlike Wikimedia Commons, for the life of me I cannot find a database dump which gives the full list of item identifiers along with metadata.

The command-line tool can list identifiers, and also grab metadata for specific identifiers. Simply to list the identifiers, the rate is quite slow, maybe 1500 items per second. But if it keeps up, I could list all identifiers in about a day. However, the rate for metadata retrieval is about 1 per second, so it would take three years to get them all.

Does anyone know if a bulk export of the IA metadata? Or some way of generating it?

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/East_Activity7008 on 2025-03-06 01:15:52.

I want to know what the best medium is for storing media (DVDs, Tapes, etc) that will last 100+ years. I would prefer it to be physical media and not cloud based. I'm hoping to have some sort of archive of physical media that I can pass on to my children and grandchildren. Any suggestions? (also I'm new to this kind of thing so guidance is greatly appreciated).

I hope this is the right subreddit for this

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/HFCloudBreaker on 2025-03-06 00:38:54.

Just as the title says. Lost about 3tb of files, can I plug in the hard drive and copy the remaining files to a new drive?

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/MetalHeadJoe on 2025-03-06 00:38:03.

200 years worth of cursive hand written data, being asked to be transcribed by volunteers that can read cursive. In case anyone is interested in this kind of data to add to their personal archives.

Didn't see any posts about this.

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/crumario on 2025-03-06 00:01:55.

Hi all,

I'm only a tiny baby hoarder myself, but I'm looking to see if there are any stashes of catalogs from clothing companies from the 2000s or earlier. I'm no expert, but I feel like a lot of brands must have had some kind of documentation of each season's pieces, and I'd really like to look through that.

Anyone know where to look?

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Cerfect_Pircle on 2025-03-05 23:05:47.

I have been putting together a list of parts for a NAS build I was planning as part of a self-hosted Dropbox replacement. This NAS is actually going to be my “offsite backup” running at a different location than my main Homelab. I am moderately inexperienced in this field and learning as I go, but I want to make sure I get it right the first time. I am planning for the NAS to run either unRAID, TrueNAS, Proxmox ZFS pool, or a mix of Proxmox and one of the other two, I still don’t know the best approach for that.

I was planning on using the Jonsbo N3 Mini-ITX NAS case as it has a decently high drive capacity for my usage and full(ish) sized cooler support which I figured couldn’t hurt either. I am running into an issue looking for a suitable motherboard for this project, and realizing after researching around myself and reading through other posts, there basically aren’t any “big brand” or better known smaller brand ITX motherboards that support anything over 4 SATA ports that aren’t in the enterprise price range, and even then they still seem pretty scarce. I know that CWWK NAS Motherboards exist, and that they have relatively decent ratings from what I have been reading, but the lack of thorough documentation and not being highly adopted by the Homelab community yet is shying me away from them. That pretty much leaves everyday big brand consumer ITX motherboards that you’ll be lucky to get more than 2 SATA ports out of. But the benefit of modern ITX motherboards is that they support recent gen processors, and have all the features and improvements that come with that, such as more efficient power usage, multiple m.2 ports, higher ram capacity and so on.

The suggested consensus from what I have been reading is to get a regular ITX board that has most of the features you are looking for, and to put an HBA card sourced from eBay or other reputable sellers such as the Art of Server, in the PCIe-x16 slot, then connecting that to the backplane of your drive bay, to get the larger number of usable drives that most people are looking for with self-built NAS systems.

TL;DR: What I am looking for is validation that I am correct about all that I have said above, and that I am looking at this the right way, and not missing something obvious that I may just not know about yet. When it comes to the HBA cards themselves, that’s where I start to get really lost because it seems like there are so many options from so many brands spread out over nearly 10 years of community backed knowledge usage and reviews, and some of the ~10 year old cards are still being suggested today. And on top of that, you have to look out for cards that support switched or through flashable firmware IT mode for some situations, HBA/RAID mode for other situations, sometimes a combination of both, SATA & SAS drive compatibility/backwards compatibility depending on the card, and I’m sure there’s more I’m forgetting about.

Along with that, bifurcation seems to be very important when it comes down to splitting PCIe lanes to devices/individual drives, and I am not sure if HBA cards somehow get around bifurcation? Modern Intel Core processors apparently only support x8x8 but AMD supports x4x4x4x4? The processor could support bifurcation, but the motherboard could not? Some types of cards need bifurcation, others don’t?

It just seems like a very confusing combination of topics that all work together in their own special way and are difficult for beginners to wrap their head around. I haven’t been able to find any clear cut answers that make me feel comfortable pulling the trigger on purchasing exactly the parts I need, and I am really hoping that this community would be able to provide me with some valuable answers, insight, guides, videos, whatever you have to offer that will help clear this up. I’m not asking for you to answer every question at once, just what you know and have time to make a comment about. Hopefully this post can be useful for others in the future who are in the same position that I am.

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/blizeH on 2025-03-05 22:48:30.

Hi, a coupe of years ago we sold our house and the estate agent used giraffe360 to create a virtual tour, you can see an example of what they look like here: https://premium.giraffe360.com/robert-bell/3f4f6f60b7d446dda8ea62566633dc5f/

Does anyone please know how to download it, assuming it's even possible? It'd be nice to be able to show our children it when they're a bit older to see what they remember of the old house, and to be honest I'd like to keep it for myself too. Just saving the webpage doesn't work unfortunately (have tried in both Chrome and Edge)

Thank you!

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/2Confuzed on 2025-03-05 22:22:59.

(Please do not tell me not to spin down my drives, I have been doing it for decades without issue, and my usage patterns are well suited to spinning them down.)

I have four 14TB shucked WD140EDGZ drives. They appear to be identical in every way that I have been able to observe (other than smart statistics, serial numbers, etc). Yet for some reason, only one of the four will actually spin down properly on a timer or via APM.

I set a 5 minute timer on all of them with "hdparm -S60 /dev/sd?" and all my drives spin down as expected except these three. I would assume it was a problem with this model, except one of the four of this model does spin down.

I can manually spin them down with hdparm -y, so they are certainly capable.

I am currently running them on a bare debian linux server. But they had the same behavior in another machine. I haven't installed anything on it yet because I want to get these drives working properly first. The drives have no data on them, and exhibited the same behavior with or without a partition/filesystem created on them.

I suspect that there is some setting in the firmware on 3/4 of these drives that is preventing the spin down. but so far I have had no luck figuring it out.

I already compared the output of smartctl -a and the values in /sys/block/sdX and didn't see anything different (that was relevant). Anyone have any ideas of other things to look at?

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/LaundryMan2008 on 2025-03-05 22:00:07.

Since the last post about the tape drives (Might have bitten more off than I could chew with some LTO tape drives : r/DataHoarder) I ordered a USB to UART cp102 bridge (not sure if it’s the right adapter to use) which I had to wait 2 months for (thank you Royal Mail for losing it) and wired up the power connections in the meantime which allowed the sled to be powered and have its built in fan scream at me.

I traced out the power connections with a multimeter and sacrificed a MOLEX to SATA adapter to use the MOLEX connector which I soldered onto the edge connector of the sled, I also used the pictures that someone from the previous thread has provided to find the UART Rx and Tx connections and solder some paperclip headers which are a bit small but will work as shown by the terminal, an issue I ran into is that the tape drive will not power on using the plug provided with the sled (tried other tape drives to no avail, one I’m trying to reprogram is IBM HH SAS LTO-5) but I can power the tape drives externally via a separate SAS cable which I definitely know isn’t normal.

I then set up PuTTY and the drivers for the USB UART adapter which went smoothly, I then opened a terminal using the settings that were shown on the LTO drive conversion GitHub post’s picture of their software and the only thing displayed is a grid of dots and the occasional letter x and I can hear PuTTY complaining every time a line of that comes up but there isn’t an error message that pops up at all, in fact I haven’t ever gotten any error messages telling me what went wrong at all, even when opening a terminal doesn’t give me an error message but makes the error sound if something isn’t set correctly, it only gives me an error message to say fatal error if I unplug the adapter so I don’t even know what I’m doing wrong as I don’t know which signals are Rx and Tx and only found out by trial and error as one way yields me no result on the terminal but the other way gives me the dots and the Xs.

What should I correct to get the tape drive to turn on and am I using the wrong software to perform the reprogramming/conversion? (I will want to go one step at a time by resolving the tape drive not powering on first and then tackling the software side of things once completed)

The 3D printable IBM HH LTO tape drive bezels are done but I would like to wait until I can release the post documenting everything I have done with these tape drives to have everything put together.

Thanks again for any help you give and I wish you a great day, also please don’t downvote my post of help because that isn’t any more helpful than not helping

What I used for wiring the sled, the top mentioned on the diagram is the side facing you normally and the bottom is the side hidden away from you with all of the connectors on it

My connections, had to use some Blu-Tack to hold the headers in place as the paperclips were too thin

This is the result when connected correctly (I believe so as the other way with Rx and Tx yields no result) and flow control set to the default which was XON/XOFF

This is the result with flow control turned off, reason for more data is because I went off to make tea (can’t activate windows after each reinstall (not enough money, too lazy and no point with a cracked copy) so I’m just leaving it unactivated, also it’s a cracked copy so theoretically it should be working just as well as an activated copy)

These were the settings used on the GitHub post but they reprogrammed their tape drives by using Linux and a script but if it’s possible I’d like to do it a simpler way with putty (if I can send raw hex data packets via that) without any complex Linux wizardry (never used it but have seen people at my work experience throwing slurs when it takes their server down for the umpteenth time)

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Lostonreddit1120 on 2025-03-05 19:34:37.

I'm new to this, so sorry if it's common knowledge, I tried looking up answers to no avail. I am trying to burn music onto CDs, I bought a pack of 50, but I'm trying to maximize how much I get onto them. Is it a bad idea to fill the disc up to almost its limit with data? For example, I've used 42 minutes out of 80 on my first disc, and I'm debating as to whether or not I should add another 22 minutes on to maximize how much I have on one disc. Would cutting it that close to the 80 minute limit reduce the disc's lifespan? Any help is greatly appreciated.

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