It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/wtf_ever_man on 2025-03-04 21:37:26.

data hoard aside.. I have an old outdated(bought the wrong tower) massive tower that I and the kids don't use anymore. The tower is dumb sized and I just don't have a use for the hardware at this point but maybe would pass it to a kid if they pick up the retro hobby? Its just some intel g6 or whatever from like 8 something years ago and a 1070. Not old enough to be retro retro.

What do you all do with your old but useable hardware?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/SumDataRat on 2025-03-04 20:36:43.

I've been toying with the idea of long-term storage to BluRay M-discs for capacity and longevity. These are things I don't want to go away for a long time, and cannot maintain the hard drives they live on. This is stuff like, family photos, video archive, etc.

For those of you who have done Blu Ray archival, how do you do it? Personally, I was thinking of doing "batches" of .ZIP files, maybe about 5 - 10GB a piece, along with an MD5 hash (maybe the last four written on the disk itself) of those .ZIP archives written to disk. That way, when I transfer them, I can check the hash and know that all the data made it out.

However... if the .ZIP archives become corrupted somehow, then bam, there it all goes.

I like using .ZIPs because they're more portable and it's easier to move them than it is to move lots of tiny files all over the place. But when it comes to making sure that it's all -actually there- does it make sense to store it uncompressed as individual files?

If the disc degrades somehow, then I might lose some individual files and keep others, unlike a huge .ZIP file, I'm losing that whole chunk of data.

What do you recommend?

edit: corrected grammar and punctuation

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/nefrodamus on 2025-03-04 20:35:32.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Budget_Echidna on 2025-03-04 20:05:57.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/steviefaux on 2025-03-04 17:27:20.

There are some shows that make for good audio only, Mortimer and Whitehouse Gone Fishing is one. I bought their audio book and it was really good.

I use ffmpeg after grabbing them with get_iplayer and use ffmpeg -map 0:a -acodec libmp3lame but takes ages have to name the original and name the new file.

Anyone know a better way of extracting the audio?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/flo900 on 2025-03-04 17:18:41.

30,000 names in one week - that is the goal of the #everynamecounts challenge for International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27. To mark the occasion, the Arolsen Archives are calling on volunteers to help digitize documents about Nazi survivors. 2024 is about cards from the so-called emigration file, which is kept in the Bremen State Archives.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Shimmy5317 on 2025-03-04 16:26:21.

Hiya everyone! I'm looking to get into second hand enterprise drives to really up my storage game. I'm looking to eventually have 6 16tb Seagate exos (or other brand equivalent) drives and was just wondering what you guys recommended in terms of redundancy. I'm guessing it would be 1 to 1?

Side question, I feel like I've heard it's best to spread purchases out across multiple sellers? Is that right or am I misremembering?

Thanks very much in advance for your help!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/EggSaladMachine on 2025-03-04 15:47:20.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/sea_kayaker_1965 on 2025-03-04 15:25:17.

Hey datahoarders! Thanks for all your work to archive govt data. Would you mind adding any .gov data you've downloaded to the Data Rescue Project's data tracker? As the rescue part of the project slows down, there will be efforts to store and catalog data for long-term public access. Please use the submission form to add your data to the project. Thanks! https://www.datarescueproject.org/data-rescue-tracker/

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Huxleypigg on 2025-03-04 15:19:24.

Can anybody tell me, if I turn bitlocker on an external drive, can I just use the password to access it from ANY PC?

Or do I need the recovery key too if accessing it from a different PC?

IF, I can access the drive on any PC with just the password, is there any point in even keeping the recovery key?

Any advice appreciated!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Hits1015 on 2025-03-04 14:21:37.

Hi, just looking for a sort of “best practices” approach for simple backup of multiple portable HDs to a newly purchased 10 tb HDD Probably should’ve gone bigger, but can always get another one.

For now though if i’m just wanting to backup multiple externals, SSDS, old HDD …onto this main drive. I’m all Macs here so i figured i’d format this HFS+journaled.

Do you think it is it best to use something like Carbon Copy Cloner or…Disk Utility to create a disk image of each drive? I don’t know if drag and drop of contents of each volume into a single folder would be optimal, because i would think Finder behavior could get unstable navigating 2 to 4tb of data in a folder.

These volumes dont need to be bootable - its just backing up all data files and folders. Not System files.

Thanks for any perspectives!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/FletcherRenn_ on 2025-03-04 13:07:35.

So my mom has always been a photo horder and has taken a lot of photos over 20+ years. Recently I found out shes been storing them over 15~ usbs/hard drives. Some 10+ years old. Im looking to properly back them up for her all looking for recommended brands that has long life expectancy

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Heggemony on 2025-03-04 11:54:37.

I'm waiting on my Synology DS423+ order and it's time to buy some drives, I'm just gonna start with one drive (Plex server, nothing critical that can be lost for now) and add more as time goes. I've read that the WD Red Plus is the quietest of the NAS-range drives from various manufacturers. It is very important that it is quiet and draws as little power as possible since the server is gonna be in a cabinet under the TV and energy costs are quiet high.

The retailer I'm looking at is selling drives up to 8TB with 5400 - 5640 rpm and 256 mb cache. 10 TB and up to 12 TB is 7200 rpm. On top of this from other retailers, specifically at 8TB I see one version marked as 128 mb cache and another as 256 mb cache.

I've tried googling but all I can find on Reddit is that all WD Red Plus series are 7200 rpm and then run slower, but why would they mark them differently?

FYI, I'm in Sweden so we don't have serverpartsdeals and the marking might be different here than it is in the US.

ChatGPT suggests that the quietest WD Red Plus are 1-6 TB and 8TB and up are noisier even though the retailer suggests the 8 TB one is 5640 rpm. Shouldn't 10 tb and up be the noisier one since they are marked as 7200 rpm?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/miwashi on 2025-03-04 06:18:06.

I have hundreds of postings favorited on Instagram.

Is there a downloader that can grab all of them, from a provided posting date range, and also append the poster's name to the filename?

That last part is important as I want to track where they came from.

I know there are downloading apps on the web but they only download one at a time and they have ads for every post you download.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/cilla_da_killa on 2025-03-04 04:32:39.

Why god why is there no option (macOS15.3.1) to ignore the clearly incorrect and unimportant status of these files from 4 years ago so I can make space to back up my current computer? There is a recent backup I DO want to maintain so wiping the HDD is not a great option.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/dopef123 on 2025-03-04 03:22:54.

Hi, I made a student film in college that did really well in a film contest. It was on funnyordie but now that it’s gone I don’t know where to find it.

I saw it on archive.org but it didn’t seem to be downloadable. Is it possible that any data hoarders here have an archive of the site? It would mean the world to me.

Thanks

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Nomnomnom_nom on 2025-03-04 00:17:55.

I recently took an IQ test on BlossomUP, thinking it was free. After finishing, I was asked to pay $1.95 to unlock my results. I paid, but a few days later, I noticed a $40 charge that I never agreed to. That’s when I started wondering—if they’re charging people without clear consent, how are they handling user data?

My main concerns:

1.Where is BlossomUP storing payment details? Do they comply with PCI standards, or is there a risk of data misuse?

1. Do they keep user data (answers, test results, emails, IPs) even after an account is “deleted”?
2. Has there been any report of them selling user data or sharing it with third parties?

If I’ve used their service, should I be worried about my payment info being stored insecurely?I know many sites like this make money by selling behavioral data, so I’m curious if anyone has looked into Brainmanager.io’s data practices. If they handle payments like this, I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re not careful with user data either.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/bailunrui on 2025-03-04 00:10:05.

Thank you to everyone in this subreddit. We have been able to revive the old CDC site thanks to archival work done by members of this subreddit. It is now live at: www.restoredCDC.org Thank you, thank you, thank you.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/BunchLegitimate8675 on 2025-03-03 23:50:33.

I am trying to download a video on YouTube but can't, as it is age restricted so no YouTube downloader I've tried has been able to download it. It isn't anything NSFW, it's a 50 minute tape of a serial killers voice that isn't available anywhere else online and might get taken down from YouTube, so I am trying to download it to archive it for historical purposes. Is it possible for a YouTube downloader to download age restricted videos?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Reallybabe-_- on 2025-03-03 22:48:32.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/NotBashB on 2025-03-03 21:54:47.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Narhen on 2025-03-03 21:23:29.

If anyone knows a subreddit or thread dedicated to offline computers please point me in the right direction!

I've always been really interested in off-grid computers. Essentially, a database of information that can range from plant identification, to medicine, to building structures, you name it.

With the AI craze now here, its impossible to ignore how incredibly useful something like Chat GPT could be in a grid down scenario. But is that an oxymoron? Is it even possible to have Chat GPT offline, and would an offline machine have enough power to run it.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/getyourown12words on 2025-03-03 21:07:10.

Hi, a while back I found (and lost) a link to an open source software that rewrites SSD to refresh the cells. I was looking for a free alternative to Spinrite. I plan to do this and back up my files to spinning rust. Any advice would be helpful.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/StuffedWithNails on 2025-03-03 20:39:46.

I'm very small-time compared to many of you as all my data is on 12 HDDs ranging between 8 and 12 TB in size each. Most of it is ZFS, the rest is NTFS. But regardless of my small scale, I'm faced with the prospect of needing to relocate to another country that I can't drive to, so my hardware will have to leave my custody to be shipped.

I may not have a lot of notice about the move, so I might not have a lot of time to prep for the move.

I want to ask what you would do or perhaps have actually done to make this a successful and relatively stress-free move.

My current "vision" is simply to buy several large USB drives, encrypt them and make multiple full copies of the entire data set. I might mail some to my new address overseas and hand-carry some as I personally make my way overseas, while the original hardware travels on a container ship with all my stuff. I would probably remove all the HDDs from their chassis and package them individually and separately from the computer hardware. I can put this together within a few days.

In theory I could just pack all the HDDs in a carry-on, but space and weight then become an issue. It would worry me to carry everything with me like that, but it's possible (I've actually done it for a similar overseas move many years ago, but I had only four HDDs then, it was more manageable).

I've thought about using something like S3 or rsync dot net or whatever for an additional safety layer but my Internet isn't fast enough for that to be feasible due to the size of the data, and I don't currently have any off-site backups.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/zanimum on 2025-03-03 20:13:59.

Aside from screen recorders, is there a way to rip video from this platform, escribe?

Random meeting as an example: https://pub-peelregion.escribemeetings.com/Players/ISIStandAlonePlayer.aspx?Id=2827c626-e9a3-4f34-a9af-e77b8b5cbf9e