It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/8BitFrostByte on 2025-02-17 02:05:41.

As the title says, i'm new to this kind of tech and i'm looking for advice.

i do game development as a hobby but eventually i will be doing it as a job and i also play a lot of games, as a result i'm running low on both internal and external ssd/HDD space which is becoming a problem.

so i was wondering would it be worth getting a nas to store both my games (not running them off nas) and store my project files? and if so then what are the recommended ones for someone new to this type of tech that's decent?

any help would be greatly appreciated thank you.

ps. Sorry if i posted this in the wrong place.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Brodie_C on 2025-02-17 02:02:46.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/gbeegz on 2025-02-17 01:47:58.

Apologies if this is not the best forum, but I figure the data hoarders might have some direction for me.

I recently thrifted a cool "old" internal hard drive external case, it's a ThermalTake one that can house an internal 3.5" HDD and has ports for USB2.0, ESATA, etc. To my surprise, it had a 40GB hard drive in it! I have already located the original owner, who has only asked that I remove his personal data (yes, I know, he should have done so, not sure what the story is there).

However, in addition there's tons of old programs on here. The HDD was last "updated" around 2009, so it looks like I have files for old versions of programs (Photoshop, Quickbooks, all sorts) as well as games (Roller Coaster Tycoon, Sims, iSpy95, all sorts). Some of the executables require the OG CD-ROM, but some seem to work standalone. In the interest of Data Preservation, Game Cracking, or whatever else these old program files might be used for, how can I go about seeing if I have anything useful?

Would I want to reach out to the communities for those games/programs individually? Is there a good way to spit out a more useful program list besides the directory ProgramFiles? Thanks in advance for any and all advice.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Nanoputian8128 on 2025-02-17 01:09:32.

Firstly, apologies if this type of question is not allowed on this sub.

I am currently doing a PhD, my research being using machine learning for hurricane risk modelling in the US. In the past I have relied on many (very excellent) datasets from FEMA for building ML models for my research.

Unfortunately, I have not been aware about this federal data purge (I am not from the US). I only realised a few days ago when I tried to download some datasets from FEMA and I got a message saying I am not able to connect. These datasets are essential for the current research paper I am working on. The one dataset that I especially need is below (there are many others that would be good to have, but this is the one I really need).

https://tools.hazards.fema.gov/hazus/maps/data/NationalDB/HazusInventoryNationalData.zip

This is what I have tried so far to download this data:

• Copy link in my browser (Chrome) - says I cannot connect.
• Based on a post from this sub, I tried downloading from this link using the Internet Download Manager (IDM) - says the IDM does not have permission to access.
• Used the Internet Archive to find an archived version of the webpage and tried to download from there - below is the link from the Internet Archive, it begins to download, but after ~30 mins the download fails (don't know why). https://web.archive.org/web/20241230204840/https://tools.hazards.fema.gov/hazus/maps/data/NationalDB/HazusInventoryNationalData.zip
• Tried to download the above link using IDM - after initially downloading quickly, it has become stuck on 73% status for several hours now. I assume it has failed. Again, not sure why.

https://preview.redd.it/fpriu8fumlje1.png?width=888&format=png&auto=webp&s=b9475b147ecdcb844298e3d523be8e3422724bef

Would anyone know how I can download this dataset? Even an older version of this dataset would be okay, better than nothing. Any help would be much appreciated!

Edit:

I forgot to mention, another post in the sub mentioned the below tracker of federal data that has already been saved. I had a look, however the dataset I need is not there unfortunately.

https://www.datarescueproject.org/data-rescue-tracker/

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/nostrademons on 2025-02-17 00:15:06.

I've got an existing System76 Thelio that's already running a Samba fileshare for home use. It's tucked away in a home office in a corner of the house (i.e. I'm usually not at the terminal, and its primary usage is as a server for fileshares, backup, data analysis, programming projects, and eventually Plex and Wikipedia and possibly Home Assistant). The other household users are all on MacBooks or tablets and like to move around the house.

I'd like to expand my storage by 70-80TB to support my increasing data-hoarding habit. The Thelio doesn't support 3.5" drives, so I basically want a box where I can throw multiple 14-20TB hard drives in it as my storage needs increase. Most of this data is non-critical, i.e. copies of Wikipedia in case the Internet goes down, some entertainment for the kids so I'm not out of my mind if there's an outage, the contents of the CDC website for when that's removed from the Internet, etc. We already have a backup solution for our actual important files that involves external hard drives + offsite cloud backup. RAID is not an important consideration. I would like to stay away from proprietary storage formats because data lives forever but hardware gets swapped out and mix-and-matched. Low power consumption would be nice (the Thelio consumes a fair amount, and its sleep/wake system seems a little wonky) but isn't an absolute must.

Would I be better off with a NAS that all home users can access, or a DAS (disk enclosure) that I hook directly up to the server and then share through Samba? At first I figured that it's not worth the extra price premium for the NAS since I've already got a server with Samba setup. But a lot of the posts here say that they've had reliability issues with USB or eSATA external enclosures. While it's not the end of the world if the data disappears, it would be pretty annoying, since the whole point of hoarding it in the first place is so that it's available when we need it.

I've been searching through the archives but I seem to get a different consensus depending on which thread I view and whether it's r/homelab vs r/DataHoarder. Also recs for specific products are welcome as well.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/hmmqzaz on 2025-02-16 23:40:07.

I hoard books, cables, and clothing. I am also a professional digital archivist. I want to organize my personal cables, some of which are old and discontinued, and which I save to access old connections.

I think the best way might be to first identify proprietary-ish USB cables and label them.

After that, put each cable in large bags based on the shapes of the connectors/adapters: USB-C, usb-A, usb C-to-A, serial, sata, vga, etc.

I don’t know of any way to determine transfer speed on USB cables, except that 1.1 will likely look old.

First, does this sound like a good way to organize?

Second, freezer ziplocs are absolutely brilliant for this purpose, but I’d like something that doesn’t accumulate static. Is there anything I can do to get large transparent bags which don’t accumulate static?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/incrediblediy on 2025-02-16 23:27:56.

Is there anything like FARM (for Seagate) like for WD drives? Couldn't find anything yet. I just ordered a pulled WD HC550 and would like to check it.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/mattbee on 2025-02-16 23:22:30.

Just trying to get set up with tape backup after the first time in years and am struggling with slow writes - hopefully someone can point me in the right direction?

I bought an eBay Dell LTO5 drive, Dell SAS card, brand new SAS cable. I had some LTO4 tapes from a previous run, so I unwrapped a fresh one and tried to dump 300GB of work-in-progress code, object files, builds - a few hundred thousand, mostly small files. It's all from a brand new system with a Crucial T705 SSD.

I'm on Windows, which I know makes this difficult. I've tried out both Uranium Backup and Iperius, and both seem to write very slowly - reporting 150MB per minute, which is too slow to be useful. The tape stops and starts all the time, it rarely settles into the high-speed whine that I recognise as a constant write.

When I last used tape regularly on Linux, I got this behaviour if I didn't put a big buffer between the outgoing data and the tape. But on Windows I'm expecting these all-in-one 199 EUR programs should take care of that, right?

If I get really stuck I will try booting Linux off USB for a bit and try writing some test data with Linux's tools which I know a bit better.

So is it buffering? Is it a broken tape drive? Is it LTO4 cartridges in an LTO5 drive? If anyone has a small personal-sized LTO backup regime from Windows that's working better than this, please tell me how you did it 😀

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/aimL0W on 2025-02-16 22:31:05.

So I have an opportunity to get this particular NAS for only $100. What are your opinions?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/northparkbv on 2025-02-16 22:28:32.

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ComicCruiser on 2025-02-16 22:17:50.

I'm new to data hoarding and I started a Jellyfin server last month with a 20TB HDD from GoHardDrive, but I stupidly only bought 1 at the time. I'm now running out of space, but the same drive went up in price by 30 bucks. My PC has space for 3 more so I want to fill up the rest, but I can't justify spending an extra $90 on the same thing. I know we're in unprecedented times with the stupid tarriffs but does anyone that's been in this game for a long time know if/when prices tend to go down?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/coolestbean4ever on 2025-02-16 20:29:34.

I have 12TB worth of videos, documents, and photos. I want to cold store them and have the ability to leave them unopened for at least 10 years. I also do not want to risk losing them.

Is the Verbatim M DISC BDXL 100GB 6X a good option? If not, what are better options?

Also, what is the best burner for the Verbatim M DISC BDXL 100GB 6X?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/1ArmedEconomist on 2025-02-16 20:11:58.

The National Survey of Children's Health has been taken down from all of the government pages that normally host it. I got them back online if anyone wants them.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/newfrontier58 on 2025-02-16 20:08:22.

So, long story short, I know someone who wants to download a lot of Pornhub videos, they have a hard drive ready to go while jsut getting into data hoarding, and they were using a site called saveporn dot net, but lately it became part of something called "Dirpy" and they have to create an account on and such, that they do not want to do. I'm not a downloader of this stuff since it seems so risky, but they asked me to find some app that can do it, since so many other sites they've found look shady, and now I feel at a dead end. There's many options but it's hard to figure which might not be malware. So, can anyone recommend an app for downloading videos that would work for this? They are not a very tech-savvy person, I tried going through yt-dlp but it flew over their heads, but if it's the best way then I'll figure something out. (They have a Mac, if that helps.)

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/jelsomino on 2025-02-16 19:57:35.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/gottago_gottago on 2025-02-16 19:54:20.

This article has previously been successfully saved to archive.ph, but it's been updated since the last snapshot, so I wanted to get a new one.

Sites will occasionally 403 archive.ph's crawler when they're busy, so I've waited a few days between attempts, but as of today it's still no-go.

I haven't encountered this with a site before. Trying to find a solution via search engine is, of course, futile. Do any of you know of a workaround?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/bAN0NYM0US on 2025-02-16 19:26:52.

Anyone have any good recommendations for data recovery in Canada?

Short story long, two Seagate Exos X16 in RAID 0 that I use for editing videos off of, I had various external drives as backups so I wanted to simplify and made sure the RAID 0 had everything on it from every backup, merged, organized.

I started zeroing out all of the various external drives and selling them so I could buy just two larger capacity externals to run a new back up with… the fucking RAID died two days ago and I haven’t even bought the new externals yet.

One of the Exos comes up in Windows as Unallocated space, the other is still showing the partitions but failed to mount for obvious reasons. So, I gotta send the drives off to a data recovery place now, and hopefully soon cause the 5 year warranty expires for me in June 2026 so I’ll need the failed drive back within time to still get a replacement from Seagate under warranty.

Seagate said the recovery service expired on these drives so I only qualify for a free replacement with no data recovery. They offered a third party partner service with ATP Data Service for $1064 CAD and an 8-12 month turn around time.

Got any other recommendations or experienced a place within Canada for a faster turn around time? Possibly better prices?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Pulkatz on 2025-02-16 19:07:58.

I was checking archive to see if they had the "Welcome to Los Santos" project for GTA V (which they did) but it hit me with the viewer, which won't let me download the tracks. Is there any way to bypass the viewer?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Baboo85 on 2025-02-16 18:49:33.

Hi all, as per title I need an advice for RAID1 software or similar solutions on Windows.

There are plenty of informations online but there are too different opinions and complicated setups, I just need something simple. I explain my situation first.

I have an old laptop with 2x2TB disks, sadly the integrated Intel RST can't use disks with more than 1TB of space.

I could use Windows integrated raid BUT I need to use Bitlocker and I can't, because it won't work on Dynamic disks.

I need a simple solution with a GUI, I just need my data to be safe like a RAID 1 disk.

SnapRAID is not a solution, it's too complicated using CLI and even Elucidate won't help much.

Windows Storage Spaces could be the solution but I read it has too many issues and I don't want to use that if my data is at risk as using single disk. Can you confirm that?

I don't know Drivepool, but if it's a solution like "auto sync folders" I already have Cobian Backup an it's NOT a solution.

Thank you in advance for the help.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/BrainFreezeMC on 2025-02-16 15:47:35.

While flash drives are technically not as reliable, they are CONSIDERABLY cheaper and when one fails, I would just replace it as I always have two. The same for hard drives. So basically, is it just as safe either way?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Evergreen16 on 2025-02-16 14:42:15.

Hi Data hoarder gang.

Since the cloud became a thing, I stoped doing physical backups (usually in HDDs and CD-Rs) for documents, family photos and videos and things like that.

The problem is that I have the files in multiple providers due to capacity or cost restrictions and, while losing data in the cloud is unlikely, I don't like much the idea of a 3rd party controlling access to my data.

So, if this was the 90's-00's, I'd just pack a bunch of CD-R/DVD-R and have a collection of them in some corner of the house but, what's a good choice nowadays?

I love the idea of having a NAS but I find it a bit overkill for what I need as I just want to cold store the data as a backup not for recurrent access (maybe it's a good idea?)

Are there any type of discs, HDD/SDD, tape (?) that last long and are easy to maintain that you recommend? Or any other like DAS or NAS.

Thank you!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ShawnStrike on 2025-02-16 14:40:43.

Hi, I'm running a home media server on Windows 11 and realised that I'm running out of storage on my first 8TB drive. I want to go ahead and purchase another one, but I'm not sure if I can merge the 2 drives together without formatting the first one.

Can it be done? And if so, how would I go about it?

Thanks in advance.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/zizo999 on 2025-02-16 14:31:39.

Is there a way to download my liked songs from YouTube Music as offline MP3 files? I want to put them on a microSD card for my car.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/PhonicSword on 2025-02-16 14:11:58.

I'm trying to repurpose an old computer as a NAS for storing pictures but I'm not sure about its limitations. I'm probably going to use TrueNAS with Immich.

I haven't powered it on yet so I'm not sure about the CPU, but here are the other specs I know:

RAM: 2x4GB DDR3

PSU: 300W

1 PCIe x16 port

2 PCIe x1 ports

1 M.2 E-key (WiFi card currently installed)

2 HDD ports (1 TB HDD in one port)

2 ODD ports

I've tried researching on my own but got a bit lost, so any tips or advice are appreciated. However, I do have several questions of my own:

RAM upgrade: I think the motherboard supports up to 16GB of RAM. Is it worth it to upgrade if I'm only storing pictures?

Boot drive: Since the system will be connected via Ethernet, should I remove the wifi cards and use a M.2 storage card for the boot drive? Or should I just boot from a USB flash drive?

Storage: Whats the best bang for buck HDD size/brand for longevity? I'd rather buy a large capacity once and then buy the same size later for redundancy than get new drives every couple of years

PCIe slots: I’m unsure if the onboard ethernet supports 100Mbps or 1Gbps. If it's only 100Mbps, should I add an ethernet card? Or should I add more storage? I think the PSU only has 4 SATA power ports, so is it worth it to add SSDs?

Remote desktop: This NAS will be an offsite backup at my parent's house. Does anyone have recommendations for good resources to set it up and remote in securely? Ideally I'd want to be able to wake on lan or something to turn it on in case it shuts down for some reason

Again, I'm a little lost so any help is greatly appreciated. Sorry for all the questions, and thanks in advance!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/throw_1627 on 2025-02-16 12:49:56.

https://www.selfstudys.com/cat/mah-cet-pyqs/online/exam/2024/mah-cet-2024-slot-1-solved-paper/advance-pdf-viewer

not able to download pdfs from this website using jdownloader or any method

anyone knows any tricks please share

thanks