It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ItWorkedLastTime on 2025-02-18 21:12:16.

A decade ago when I was using a DSRL camera, I organized all photos though Adobe Lightroom. I liked how I could set up collections and I ended up creating a catalog containing all of my photos, including scans of old photo albums. The catalog also has all the edits that I did to the photos and I really liked the non-destructive aspect of it.

I am looking to get back into this, and want to organize 10s of thousands of photos, some of which will be in a RAW format that I want to edit. I know that lightroom will work well for me, but I really don't like the idea of being locked in a catalog. I believe there's an option of sidecar files, but that option is unattractive to me because it would just clutter up the folder storage.

I'd love to hear some suggestions.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/AgreeableAd8687 on 2025-02-18 19:58:00.

My dad has a big collection of records, most are opera/jazz/piano music from the 40s-60s, all stored in different cabinets throughout the house. He gets them from thrift stores and other places and I want to try to archive them just in case but im not sure how, the only way i can think of is playing them one by one and recording them with a microphone i have (razer seiren mini). How can I go about this in a more efficient manner?

pictures of most of the collection l

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/lucavigno on 2025-02-18 19:56:26.

I'm going to build a new PC soon, and was looking at some 2TB ssd to use, and found this orico ssd which cost the same as other 2tb ssd, so about 110€, but it also has a 3d nanad cache, which my brother said it should speed up file transferring and stuff.

I would mainly use the PC to game and do some programming, so I don't know how useful a cache might be but it could help.

I'm asking since i never heard about this orico brand, but the reviews are pretty high and the various tech outlet don't speak about it too badly.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/NuggetsNReddit on 2025-02-18 16:01:25.

Currently have a pretty beginner setup (3 4TB Drives) for my media/backup server. I am using raid 5 with these drives and setting them up using Disk Management in Windows. I started it a little over a day ago and its only at 20%. I would only assume that it will be worse once the drives are filled up and one fails so i have to rebuild. Is a better option available?

And for the people recommending mdadm on Linux, I tried that, and I just don't feel comfortable using that with my knowledge and simultaneously keeping my data safe

Any thoughts?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/The_Neutral_Boi on 2025-02-18 18:16:04.

So, basically i need an external memory, like an HDD or an SSD where i'd store everything that is on my pc since i'm gonna have to reset it. I need some recommendations of good brands, possibly easily available in Europe. My range would be from 1T (minumum) to 2T (max. more would be even better but i can't spend too much money). Any good recommendation? I have VERY important stuff (emotionally and not) that i cannot risk to lose or get corrupted due to some low quality product

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/spong_miester on 2025-02-18 16:36:51.

Donated my old DS218j to a friend and am wondering if the renewed HGST drives will work in it. The exact 12TB model isn't listed on Synology compatibly list but the HC520 series is so a little confused. I'm guessing it will work fine just not supported if everything goes a bit haywire

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/DiskBytes on 2025-02-18 15:34:37.

I've just put some stuff onto LTO tape, using mbuffer, it reported the summary as follows

summary: 18.8 GiByte in 6min 11.7sec - average of 51.9 MID/S, 5x full.

What does the 5x full mean?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/dcoulson on 2025-02-18 15:30:30.

My existing setup has 24 drives in a DS4246 and about half a dozen in a DS224C. I need to add more 3.5 drives so have been looking at JBOD shelf options, but so far haven't found anything that really works out better than the DS4246. All my existing shelves have 12G IOMs so was trying to keep everything 12G/SAS3 if possible

• DS4486 - Seems this only works with SATA drives, and I have a bunch of SAS drives. Could use one shelf for SAS and the other for SATA. But doubt I need 48 extra drives. Unless I could replace the 4246 with this probably not worth it.
• DE6600 - Love this thing, but needs 220 power (so that means new/extra UPS) and is too deep for my rack.
• Supermicro 44x JBOD - Seems expensive AF and hard to find, but checks all the boxes and I could displace the existing 4246.

Is there a JBOD option I am missing, or do I just suck it up and get another DS4246?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/MidnightOpposite4892 on 2025-02-18 15:21:48.

I want to buy a 1TB external HDD for portability and I've been looking for HDDs from Western Digital and Toshiba. Which brand do you think it's better?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Ok-Valuable594 on 2025-02-18 15:18:55.

Got a WD MyPassport Ultra that I would like to make backups of a windows and Mac machine. The HD comes with NTFS drivers to allow write/read on Mac as well.

Is it a stupid idea to use the NTFS drivers on mac? Is there a risk of data corruption? I don’t want to format to ExFAT as not journaled. Or bigger picture, should I stick to two independend hdd for my backups (didn’t like this option at start due to cost constraints)?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/jim_philly on 2025-02-18 15:14:16.

I'm working through collections of DVD data discs, mid-2000s home videos on DVD, and some audio CDs. I'm noticing that Pioneer Blu-Ray capable optical drives are painfully slow (<1Mbps read rates), or they cause File Explorer to hang entirely. Has anyone else experienced this? The current drive in question is the BDR-2213, but I have the same problem with my older BDC-207DBK drives as well. Drives that only support DVD and CD seem to do better, but still much slower than Windows 10 (and possibly even earlier versions of Windows 11). I'm running Windows 11 Pro 23H2.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Spirited-Interview50 on 2025-02-18 14:49:15.

Like the title says, I got water on my Samsung external SSD T7 drive the other day day. It was in my backpack along with my water bottle. I thought I had made sure the water bottle lid was on tight but when I saw the water stain in my backpack…. There were beads of water on the drive which I wiped off. I pugged it into my laptop briefly and it was working fine. It wasn’t immersed into water and I didn’t see any water going into the power port (not sure the actual name - where the USB C cable goes into)

I don’t need to use it just yet.. I’m letting it air dry in am upright position, sitting in a cell phone stand for the next few days.

Am I hooped and need to get another one? 😭

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/missscifinerd on 2025-02-18 14:02:55.

Setup: Low-end laptop with Ubuntu, attached to an external drive bay with a single 14TB drive in it. I've currently got it formatted with EXFAT, for max OS compatibility (In my defence, the hardware was free/cheap, I'm a noob, and I have backups of all the data on the drive) Currently running Immich, Jellyfin, qBt, and whatever else.

I no longer care about compatibility with Windows, I just want Linux permissions to work seamlessly.

Both Jellyfin and Immich have been working fine (mostly) despite my setup's jankiness. But they could run better. I believe both XFS and EXT4 are stable and would be faster than EXFAT, plus they have journaling? which is good

Question: As far as I know,

XFS - better I/O for large files and multiple simultaneous operations, good for Jellyfin (video streaming), may be more CPU intensive? which is bad

EXT4 - better general performance, faster deletion, faster finding of files when searching?, better at dealing with little files. Should be good for Immich (photo library)

If I want to store files for both Jellyfin and Immich on this drive, which should I choose? Or should I make a "Jellyfin partition" with XFS and an "Immich partition" with EXT4?

Thank you for your time, you're helping me learn stuff =]

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Lonely_Commercial_99 on 2025-02-18 13:56:01.

A blessing, because I'm in the process of converting several DVDs of family videos in a - hopefully - more future-proof format, and a curse because some horror stories I've read made my level of paranoia skyrocketing.

In the end, I will have less than 2 Tb of images and videos to preserve, and my 3-2-1 strategy is the following: 1 copy on iCloud, 1 copy on internal HDD, 1 copy on external HDD.

For the offline copy, a dedicated NAS seems an overkill to me, I'm considering an external, non-RAID enclosure with a decent HDD (WD Blue).

Please let me know your view (even if I'm afraid I already know the answer...)

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/TheGrovester on 2025-02-18 13:55:25.

I'm a photographer working from a laptop. I often plug and unplug my external drive (new one about every 6-12 months due to storage and backups). Sometimes windows says there was a problem with the drive, do you want to repair it. Just this morning it said Windows wouldn't recognize the device and it didn't even show up in Disk Management which was scary. Using a different USB cord fixed that but it still wanted to do the Windows Repair thing. What is the safest way to handle this repeated unplugging and use of drives?

I'm using a 2TB Sandisk SSD.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Positive-Incident221 on 2025-02-18 13:43:37.

I'm getting into building my own home server/nas. I've been told to look into refurbished HDDs, but I'm having some trouble finding anywhere to purchase some in the EU. Anybody know some good stores in the EU where I can buy refurbished HDDs?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/xii on 2025-02-18 13:04:07.

So, I reinstall my OS a lot. Before I re-install, I go through the same ritual of backing up all of my settings for Notepad++, VSCode, Beeftext, ShareX, Discord, all my Adobe Products (Illustrator, Photoshop, AE, Premiere) and a bunch of other programs to another nvme drive I have installed on my machine. I also archive (7z) entire important data folders as well.

I'm really looking for a light-weight program that will let me pick specific files in specific folders to back up and specify the backup directory. I want this program to ALSO have the option to pick entire directories to compress (preferrably 7z) and transfer them to my chosen backup target.

So basically a combination of backing up specific files, and the option to backup (and 7z/zip/Archive) entire folders - specifying the target for each.

A freeware application would be awesome, but I'm willing to pay if the application is really good at this.

Can someone make some suggestions?

Really appreciate the guidance.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/SaHaRzZz on 2025-02-18 11:36:17.

Hi, so I am planning to run 16 drives in raid 5/6. My bandwidth will be way too much to handle by my NICs, and my capacity is tiny, so I thought about trading my new SSDs for used 2.5 HDDs.

I have 240gb ssds, apacer as350. Right now, I thought about going 240gb ssd for 1tb hdd used. Is that a good trade? Should I ask for anything different?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/YourMomsCorgi on 2025-02-18 10:17:11.

I'm trying to download livestreamed videos on X AKA Twitter broadcasts AKA X videos but they appear undownloadable. None of the typical web tools nor Jdownloader detect any downloadable file. I've pasted both the X post and X broadcast URLs.

Note this is NOT the same as a regular X/Twitter video which CAN be detected and downloaded by various tools.

Surprised that seemingly nobody on the internet has asked this in recent times. All I can find in search results are outdated garbage from 2-3 years ago.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/KeyJess on 2025-02-18 08:53:06.

I have a link of a reel I loved since it was giving good tips on marketing strategies, but the post has since been deleted. I still have the link and was wondering is there a way to download the video with the old link even though the video has been deleted? It’s a public Instagram account. Thank you

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/confnused on 2025-02-18 06:39:57.

Looking for an external ssd for gaming mostly on my laptop. Soemthing thats really cheap and fairly reliable. I dont mind waiting for price drops, it isnt urgent but would really like the cheapest way to buy it.

thank you!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Riddlesolver928 on 2025-02-18 06:03:08.

Hey DataHoarders,

I have permission to download an online course I paid for so I can access it offline during an upcoming vacation. The course is hosted on [platform name] and includes videos, PDFs, and text content.

I’m looking for an efficient way to download the files without saving each one manually. I’m familiar with tools like youtube-dl or wget but haven’t used them much. If you have recommendations for tools or scripts that would make this process faster, I’d greatly appreciate the help!

Thanks in advance!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Mantree91 on 2025-02-18 05:08:24.

I have been slacking on keeping my kindle library backed up, I use to send it all to an old Kindle that meant that they had to send it in a format that didn't have drm and then transfer it over to the computer but they no longer let my 3rd gen kindle conect to the server so I need to find a new way of removing drm. I have tried using dedrm but the plug in won't install. Dose anybody have a alternative t toyou can point me to?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Lopsided_Rough7380 on 2025-02-18 04:01:19.

Hi currently we are using crashplan for our main local (NAS) and cloud backup but we also have a secondary cloud backup which uses dropbox, its pretty bad since the dropbox client is constantly crashing since there is only a 32bit version. Currently dropbox is costing $650 per year for roughly 16TB storage. What are some cheaper/ easier to use alternatives (that also include a windows client preferably)?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/pagemap1 on 2025-02-18 02:22:04.

I recently purchased a used Western Digital Gold 22TB from eBay for about $250. It arrived DOA, but the drive was still under warranty. WD accepted my warranty replacement claim and after around a month they shipped out a replacement drive, which seems to be brand new. There's the retail label and no mention of "recertified".

I was expecting a recertified or refurbished drive as a warranty replacement, so I was a little surprised. Anyone else had a similar experience with Western Digital RMA replacements?