It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Falcons-Fury on 2025-02-20 07:53:54.

First off long time lurker but first time posting here. While I have some of my own files and servers and I am not at the level of some of you all with space and resources but this leads me to my questions.

• What is some way I can help to seed, download, archive my own etc to help preserve the data that is being scrubbed.
• Do we as a group have a way to help coordinate what we download and seed to help out?
• What tools to you all use for your site backups downloads etc?

Sorry for making the post so long just wanting to help out. Thanks proactively for the help and insights.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/throwaway_monk2 on 2025-02-20 06:57:52.

Like obtain https://www.youtube.com/@darkc3po from just putting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2U50K13-Hg

It would be particularly useful if it can process a list.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/osskid on 2025-02-20 06:51:36.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/KJSS3 on 2025-02-20 04:48:48.

Seagate Barracuda 8TB Internal Hard Drive for Desktops ST8000DMZ04 - Best Buy

Is 110 dollars a good price? There was a WD recently also 8TB for 120. I have never had a problem with seagate drives. Maybe once long time ago. I dont need fast or SSD. Just going to store a bunch of old photos and videos and docs. Combine several dirves into one. Not writing everyday or for server use. Just general backup write once and not touch for a long time.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/DisenfranchisdSapien on 2025-02-20 03:24:07.

without it's own controller so I can just plug it into my own and run a NAS that way. I will be using a Mac Pro running MacOS and probably a ATTO or Highpoint controller.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/SurpriseGmg on 2025-02-20 01:03:34.

https://imgur.com/a/WjmXsRe

I've looked everywhere, and I've failed to find a working answer to this one. For context, these are two Veracrypt containers on two separate drives, and while the file contents are identical down to the byte, there's a discrepancy here of 4,194,304 bytes. Could this have something to do with the containers themselves? I'm very sure that both were created with the exact same settings, so I can't tell what the problem is.

I guess what I'm really asking is: Should I be concerned about this small difference in bytes? I'm not sure which drive is more reliable here since the files seem to be fine on both, I just want to know why there isn't a match on two drives that are basically identical (down to the same model and settings).

Edit: The mismatch was apparently due to one of the recycle bins incorrectly holding onto deleted data, resetting both of them seemed to do the trick.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/iShaymus on 2025-02-20 00:43:20.

Before the lecture start about storage spaces, I know. I'm literally in the process of acquiring components for an unraid build.

I have a windows storage space with the following disk

• Seagate Ironwolf 12TB (2 months old) - FAILED
• 2x WD Red 1TB drives (yes months old)
• Seagate 2TB desktop drive (yes months old)
• WD 1TB pulled from an external enclosure

I have no resiliency set on the pool (not the kind of data that needs it). So, in THEORY there is no striping of data, it's essentially JBOD with a single drive letter.

How can I remove the bad drive from the storage pool and just lose all it's data while retaining what's on the other drives. It's tried to remove it from the pool in PowerShell but it wants to reallocate the data (which there isn't enough room for).

Also does anyone have any experience / advice dealing with Amazon over RMAs for faulty hard drives?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/bouboulina_laskarina on 2025-02-20 00:35:34.

Hi,

I am a professional photographer. I have an archive that spans about 75tb. All images and video. I usually search for images using a file number, through programs like bridge. But sometimes clients will send me screen shots of images from somewhere, in the eons, and with out the file number it is impossible for me to find these images. Especially if its an image from over 10 years ago. I should specify; Ive been doing this for 20 years, ten of which I spent on tour with musicians, so my archive is vast and widely disorganized. I am curious if there are any secondary apps I can use, similar to google Lens, but instead of searching the web it searches my computer/archive? I would so appreciate the advice, it would be a huge time savor and complete game changer for me. Also while I am on here any good NAS recommendations for the type of work/archive I have. Looking to upgrade from my current system of a million labeled hard drives. THANK YOU.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/TomPark1 on 2025-02-20 00:33:17.

Original Title: Are these Fake Ironwolf Pro Drives? The verify.seagate doesn’t register the number below QR, but on one the warranty info does (the other does not). Temp seems to load the QR page in Chinese before switching. Bought from ‘trusted’ eBay seller

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/quackcow144 on 2025-02-20 00:13:11.

Original Title: I just bought a WD - BLACK 8TB Gaming Internal Hard Drive from Best Buy and I plugged in both of the SATA data and power cables to it. When I went to initialize it in disk management I keep getting this error. Does this mean the drive is faulty?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/transmoth4 on 2025-02-20 00:06:34.

I've been trying to use htt track to copy a single url on a website, preferable one html file and image files, but I don't see how to anywhere.

I've messed with the settings somewhat but that hasn't stopped it

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/consistentlyunreal on 2025-02-19 23:56:43.

probably a dumb question, but i'm trying to download the series kaj pa ester from rtv slo's site and can't seem to figure out a way to download the full episodes. i'm not the most technologically skilled person ever so usually i just inspect element and download from the network tab, but for this site all the files in the tab are like 9 second long clips and i don't really know where else to look to find the file for the entire episode lmfao. any help would be appreciated :)

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/val_in_tech on 2025-02-19 15:36:29.

How would you go about getting a LOT of local storage at a reasonable price?

Preferably at least SSD speeds.

It would be cool if it would have hot, warm and cold storage and manage it automatically, or not! Let's go wild but budget conscious 😉

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Hanlp1348 on 2025-02-19 21:33:36.

Seems like something that Felon and fElon would like to delete.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/xXGokyXx on 2025-02-19 20:40:58.

I've been working on a setup to rip all my church's old DVDs (I'm estimating 500-1000). I tried setting up ARM like some users here suggested, but it's been a pain. I got it all working except I can't get it to: #1 rename the DVDs to anything besides the auto-generated date and #2 to auto-eject DVDs.

It would be one thing if I was ripping them myself but I'm going to hand it off to some non-tech-savvy volunteers. They'll have a spreadsheet and ARM running. They'll record the DVD info (title, data, etc), plop it in a DVD drive, repeat. At least that was the plan. I know Python and little bits of several languages but I'm unfamiliar with Linux (Windows is better).

Any other suggestions for automating this project?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/_hannibalbarca on 2025-02-19 20:39:54.

I need to use the HD for Mac/PC. So I guess Im using exFAT. For an 8TB Drive what allocation Unit size should I use? The default when I try to format shows 1024 kilobytes.

I plan on storing a wide variety of files. From music, movies, video games to small files like photos, text files, word docs, etc

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Ejziponken on 2025-02-19 20:35:36.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/AbysmalPersona on 2025-02-19 20:26:49.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/uwu_cacophony333 on 2025-02-19 20:07:33.

Hello! I keep seeing this subreddit pop up during my research, so I figure you’re the best people to guide me forward. I’m a college student doing my thesis research paper/presentation on digital archives and web preservation. The case studies I’m planning to examine and discuss in my paper are: The Internet Archive, The Archive Team, Restorativland (Geocities Gallery), Flashpoint Archive, (and maybe I’ll talk about the IIPC, still undecided). I'm curious about, from your perspective, if there's something important I'm not covering. I want to make sure I’m not leaving out anything that’s been really influential in the modern history of digital archives and information preservation, so for you in the know: is there anything missing from my list that I should make sure I talk about? Are there more niche projects out there I should research into? (please forgive my ignorance, I’m hoping to learn more!)

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Vgcmn5 on 2025-02-19 19:21:03.

Here’s Twitch’s announcement about limiting how many hours of video people can store with highlights and uploads on their channels: https://twitter.com/twitchsupport/status/1892277199497043994

This is really not a lot and they’re going to start deleting a large amount of content starting in April, so it might be worth preserving content from channels you watch in case their uploads aren’t on any other platforms.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/chrisherlock on 2025-02-19 18:46:08.

I sent some anonymous asks on retrospring, (a Q&A platform) then logged out and didn’t use the internet for a while. When I came back, I discovered the user replied to my asks, then deleted both my asks and the replies they gave, because the replies were ‘deemed as controversial’ and they apparently received a lot of hate for it. Do you think those posts could still be somewhere on the internet, or they’re completely gone? Is there any way I could read those messages now? I tried ‘wayback machine’ and some similar alternatives, and I found that user’s website but those particular messages weren’t there. Could you suggest me something I could try? I just want to be in able to read those messages, got really fixated on that lately 🥲 Any type of help would be so appreciated!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/-ThatGingerKid- on 2025-02-19 18:34:38.

I've found Backblaze to be a highly recommended cloud backup solution.

This is probably a dumb question, but other than reclaiming data from the tech behemoths of Google and Microsoft, why would Backblaze be more favorable as it costs slightly more per TB?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/hikerone on 2025-02-19 17:40:37.

I’ve been trying to find a good deal on used hard drives but they’ve pretty much doubled over the last 6 months. Where are people finding their hard drives?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/JohnnyDC04 on 2025-02-19 17:42:06.

So I always download whatever YT videos I want to watch directly to my phone cause my wifi isn't good and buffers a lot when streaming said videos, y2down.cc and downloaderto.com were my go to for this kinda of thing until one day they stopped supporting downloads for videos that are over an hour long which is a pity cause most videos I download are game play vods and those tend to be at most 2-4.5 hours long or more depending the kind of game it is. I always download at 1080p60 cause that is my preferred resolution so I've tried using other web-based YT video downloaders but they only support 360p and to download at 1080p would require for me to download an app version of the service only for it to take FOREVER to download. Other alternatives are apps for Windows that unfortunately I can't install as I don't have a Windows device (yet...I'm saving up for one but I'm $500 short lol) so I'd appreciate if ya'll could recommend other YT video downloader websites that support downloading hour length videos at 1080p, any help is appreciated!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Sciencentistguy on 2025-02-19 16:11:34.

I've recently been reviewing my media collection, and I have a number of poorly encoded DVD rips from when I was first learning all this. I still have all the originals, and I plan to re-rip a lot of them to fix these issues.

These are primarily served by PleX, and consumed on either an iPad Pro or an Nvidia Shield Pro / Sony Bravia OLED, fwiw

My question is: given relatively unlimited storage space, should I be deinterlacing? I don't love the idea of storing MPEG2, so my initial thoughts would be to re-encode that to h264 (and therefore deinterlace). Some of my older BBC blu-rays are however 1080i h264. In the past, i reencoded these (poorly) and deinterlaced. When i re-rip, should I re-encode/deinterlace at all, or just have my consumer devices worry about all that.

Lastly, what's the best way to do deinterlacing these days? I prefer to use ffmepg directly. nnedi? bwdif/yadif? I know that some of my discs (e.g. Top Gear's Burma Special blu-ray) contain some sections interlaced as 50p, and others "fake interlaced" as 25p, and I'd like to retain the extra smoothness in the former scenes if possible, without messing up the latter.

Any thoughts, anyone?