It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/wanhanred on 2025-02-14 03:10:24.

Hi. I’m totally new with huge storage devices and I already watched several YouTube videos about das and nas. However, I’m still hesitant which one should I go. I’m a one man team and I edit my videos alone. Should I go for a nas or das? And which brand should I go? I think if I can easily eat up a lot of storage since my video files usually has 40gb each. Thanks!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Beg0ne_ on 2025-02-14 01:25:56.

Makes me regret not archiving the things I've enjoyed earlier, but hindsight is 20/20. I've noticed that a lot of videos, have been removed off YouTube. My playlists which had videogame OST's I've enjoyed have been completely purged, and memes I used to watch back then have been wiped clean off the face of the earth. The strange thing is that the majority of this content is completely innocuous and not controversial, so I can't imagine this is for legitimate TOS reasons.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Rough-Technology4546 on 2025-02-13 23:53:55.

Hello horders!How would I go about making a backup of all the data from a website?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/MooseMe23 on 2025-02-13 22:48:43.

I’m beginning my data hoarding journey and I’m in the Apple ecosystem so I had originally bought an old HP Envy desktop with windows 11 and installed an 8tb hdd that was holding my media. The desktop wouldn’t turn on yesterday and after research I believe it’s due to a failing power supply, which is proprietary on the HP Envy.

So now I have 2tb of media on an 8tb hard drive that I can’t access and I’m not sure where to go from here. I was eventually planning on building an unraid server but that’s a ways out due to budget constraints (and I’m just not there yet anyways).

What would y’all do? I don’t really need a windows computer other than the fact that it was my plex server…my Mac mini serves all other purposes for me. The HP Envy was $140 and I’m having a hard time finding a comparable replacement!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/mctavish01 on 2025-02-13 22:46:09.

Just picked up a 16tb external from Seagate to shuck the exo drive, since I am just upgrading an old 6tb ironwolf from my server the thought was to just throw the 6tb in the enclosure and give it to a friend.

However, when the enclosure with the 6tb is plugged in it will spin up and power on for about 10 seconds then power off and spin down.

The drive and enclosure were both working just fine so I suspect this is some shenanigans, can anyone confirm that other drives are locked out or should this be working?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/DeathStalker-77 on 2025-02-13 21:28:43.

I know there are lot of "reviews" out there, but I'm wondering what other Win11 users (especially new upgraders) are using for Defragging - yes, I still have HDDs, internal and external. Thanks!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/AardvarkOmlette on 2025-02-13 20:32:35.

Making my Seagate X16 EXOS Enterprise drives work with a consumer PSU

I purchased 3 Seagate EXOS X16 14tb drives from eBay to elevate my data hording. This post is a PSA / Info share, after being surprised when 3 new HDDs appeared DOA.

The SATA power connector spec changed from SATA 3.1 to 3.2+ (2013 lol) where pin 3 (a previously standard 3v pin) is now used to signal the device to sleep. Most Consumer PSUs including those newer than the spec change will provide 3v to pin 3 preventing the drive from spinning up, preventing the drive from showing up in BIOS or, the OS. This can be resolved with, a compatible PSU (no one wants to buy a new PSU just for a hard drive), finding a compatible adapter (some Molex [old school] and SATA connectors are missing the 3rd pin), removing or covering pin 3 on your existing cables or HDDs, or by removing the 3 volt power wire from your SATA power cable (do this safely, 3v is not a lot of power but there is still potential for a cut wire to make contact where it should not.) I can't confirm that removing the 3v cable entirely (removing power from the first 3 pins) will work with all drives but it worked for me. Check your Hard Drives Spec sheet before cutting wires to see if it needs 3v power.

This isn't exactly a new issue but, I found the issue with a hard drive dock and a multimeter before finding what I needed on the internet. Post for awareness and hopes of people finding it in the future.

This made me consider starting a blog hosted here for now: https://sites.google.com/view/lokee-homelabs/blog/sata-spec-changes

Note: This most likely only impacts "Enterprise" hard drives

Tags: new hard drive wont spin, new hard drive not in bios, new hard drive no power, Seagate x16 EXOS no power.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Striking-Acadia7854 on 2025-02-13 20:31:13.

I'm a music creator looking to back up a few TB of data to a cloud service. My usual setup includes saving some files locally, archiving to an external HD, and using Google Drive. Now, I'm seeking reliable cloud backup for my main HD, which is about 6 TB. 🎵

I was using Crashplan, but for these large backups now, I get notifications of several months required to complete backups, which is far from ideal.

I'm looking for some recommendations for good (and affordable?) options for 6 - 10 TB of cloud storage backup.

Thanks for any help or suggestions you can offer! 💾☁️

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Harambesic on 2025-02-13 20:28:57.

Hi! I'm a lurker here, but I rarely upgrade my hardware. Now I'm thinking it's time to expand my backup system.

Here's what I'm thinking: SSD for backup (photos, documents, whatever), and then an HDD (of an equal or larger size) purely for redundancy. I don't have a desktop (rather, I do, but it's old and I'm just too sentimental to get rid of it), so it'll have to be external drives.

Right now, the two drives I'm looking at are Samsung T7 SSD and WD Elements Desktop HDD.

Anecdotally, I have a Seagate 2TB SSD that I like just fine, but it replaced a Seagate Expansion which crashed on me a few years back (almost a disaster, but I saved the data). I also have a SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD, which I use just for games, and it crashed two weeks ago. (They RMA'd it in no time!) Anyway, I'm trying to diversify.

Thoughts? Advice? Recommendations? Criticism? All welcome. Thanks in advance.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ComfortableCar8387 on 2025-02-13 20:14:26.

Hi everyone, a colleague of mine told me that it might be not wise to use RAID5 with drives that exceed more or less 12tb. He said the stress-time put on all that are left while restoring a failed one becomes a risk that one shouldn't take with these sizes. I've always used RAID5 for whatever I did when I wanted redundancy but in all honesty I never had a drive failing on me so in reality I never 'used' raid really.

I'm about to upgrade my 14TB Toshiba Enterprises and for space reasons I'd like to go for 24TB instead of buying more smaller drives. Also whenever I bought drives they too soon turned out too small so this time I want to really get some space for the space they take.

I would love to have a discussion about raid setups for these massive drives. If I remember right RAID5 was also created some time ago when drives used to be smaller. What's your experience?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/A_Toxic_User on 2025-02-13 20:08:01.

RFK has been nominated as the HHS secretary. While I don’t think a vaccine ban is in the cards anytime soon, I definitely think that he’ll use his position to put together junk anti-vax studies to push his antivax beliefs, and there is a real danger that Trump orders all vaccine recommendations and info scrubbed from HHS-related websites.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/AlexO-RSI on 2025-02-13 19:35:20.

Are there comparison tests of SSDs that are close to full capacity?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Fast_Edd1e on 2025-02-13 16:39:34.

Years ago when I was managing the server at an architecture firm, I used a free program called "Disk Pie Pro". It would scan the drive and in pie using a pie graph, show what files or folders are taking up space.

Unfortunately I can't seem to get this older software to load anymore. I think it was developed back in 2007 or so.

Does anyone know of current ways to see what's taking up hard drive space?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/endurerhkg on 2025-02-13 16:33:12.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/MarinatedPickachu on 2025-02-13 15:00:26.

And are there places to get up to date shucking recommendations? I remember I saved a lot of money a couple years ago when building a 100TB server

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ScrattleGG on 2025-02-13 12:40:57.

Hi there,

Help me clear up bifurcation vs HBA.

I am trying to make sense of connecting storage to a motherboard. I would prefer to go ssd over spinning rust as I do not like noise in my work environment and I do not need THAT much storage.

I can get some 960gb ssds for about the same price between m.2 or regular sata. It is my understanding I can connect sata with e.g. a 9207-8i and I would be good to go with most consumer hardware motherboard / cpus. It is also my understanding that if I want to connect m.2 drives I would need something like the asus Hyper M.2 X16 to keep the riser card cheap but then I need a cpu and motherboard that support bifurcation x4x4x4x4 for an x16 slot.

Should I just avoid the hassle of bifurcation and m.2 expansion cards and go for an hba and sata 2.5 ssds; or is it no problemo throwing in two of these asus cards, bifurcate 2 slots to x4x4x4x4 and run it that way? I realise I will hit heavy bottlenecks on pcielanes but I do not care that much about speed, I pretty much just want it quiet and if the m.2 cards are as easy as the sata cards then I would prefer that due to space.

TL:DR Is bifurcation hassle worth it to use m.2, or is an HBA much simpler in terms of config and compatability given the m.2 and sata drives are the same price -- Using proxmox if that matters.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Unlegendary_Newbie on 2025-02-13 12:26:52.

I use several disks to back up my pdf's, videos and games, like some disks for active use and they change frequently, the others for redundancy. Sometimes I replace a file with a different file of the same name, sometimes some files may be corrupted. Are there softwares for management of different versions of backup? Like, they should be able to tell if a file with the same name has been changed, or a file is corrupted, etc.

Currently, I have around 2T files, but it will keep increasing.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/trampled93 on 2025-02-13 12:16:55.

I need to figure out a better external hard drive storage and backup strategy and looking for help. Mac user with currently files spread through 4 HDDs 1 to 4 TB external drives with rare attempts at random manual backups on them.

What external hard drive enclosures and HDDs do you all recommend? This will be for archiving stuff mostly. I have a 1TB HDD that I run on TimeMachine to backup my laptop. I don't really have the need for RAID or a NAS. So to follow with the 3-2-1 strategy I'm thinking I should have 2 separate external enclosures with large capacity HDDs inside with one backing up to the other. Or should I consolidate and buy a 2 or 4 bay enclosure and have that housing both my HDD and backup HDD and random smaller sized 3.5" drives? Then backup the backup HDD to Backblaze also. What good quality enclosure(s) do you recommend? Drobo? Mediasonic? OWC? other?

Should I buy large used enterprise HDDs from GoHarddrive? Which brand/models? What software should I use to automate the backup? Carbon Copy Cloner?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/biograf_ on 2025-02-13 12:16:22.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/xodac on 2025-02-13 11:04:43.

I found some old family video originally on VHS. They were digitalized in 2013, the video codec is 720x480, 29.97fps, Planar 4:1:1 YUV color, in DV Video NTSC

And the audio is 16 bit SOWT.

The file is around 35GB for a 2.5 hr video. I calculated an average of around 31mbps

I still find the quality unsatisfactory, though I'm sure the 30+ year old tapes aren't great to begin with. Can I get any more image quality from re-digitizing now? And if so, what codec should I go with?

https://preview.redd.it/1xl6dm902wie1.png?width=552&format=png&auto=webp&s=5cc8d531e721ca0d4f549ae77505c8eecaef1340

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/WaterIsALiquid on 2025-02-13 10:36:28.

I hope this is the right place to ask this question 😓

I’m looking to get a new storage drive (4tb) for my gaming/daily PC to store media like documents and videos (gaming clips with friends etc.), some clips can be over 30minutes long but some can be 3minutes to 20seconds. So I’ll be trimming clips and recording stuff often (these clips are just for archival purposes for when I want to look back on some fun experiences).

the only 4tb hdds for daily pc use I can find are 5400rpm, other than WD Blacks (but those are expensive, I did find an affordable one that’s 7200rpm and 64mb cache but idk if cache matters). Otherwise the 7200rpm ones are NAS/RAID drives; would a drive like a Seagate Exos/WD Red be suitable for my use-case? Would the noise be an issue? Is daily booting an issue too?

Thank you for taking your time to read the post 🧎‍♂️

EDIT: also SSDs are way more expensive

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/salman2711 on 2025-02-13 10:03:25.

https://preview.redd.it/pqsirkrrqvie1.png?width=1292&format=png&auto=webp&s=b9588de28abfdcf2aea0470670607e9a51f69202

I while ago I came up with a dataset of how drives have insanely gotten cheap over the last 6 decades, and this is not that interesting, but still a common trend.

Data Source: https://buildmyspecs.com/disk/NVMe/?technology=NVMe&condition=New

I used claude to come up with this graph.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Awkward_Excuse_9228 on 2025-02-13 07:00:21.

I want to combine the capacity of multiple SSD into one volume. Not for long term storage, just to work with TBs data with some speed. I'm seeing mixed reports on what tools can make this work on Windows without breaking TRIM. StableBit DrivePool should be able to do this. Windows Storage Spaces only allows TRIM to work when you set up drives as mirrored. Is this accurate?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Giterdunn1 on 2025-02-13 06:47:26.

I'm building a new CAD workstation and my mobo has 4 m.2 slots. I went with a 2tb TeamGroup PCIE5x4 in the CPU m.2 slot for the fastest boot/program drive possible, and x3 2tb Samsung 990 Pro's in the other slots. I'm wondering if I should run those 3 in raid or ZFS? Or something else? I haven't built a system in a while so I'm not up to speed on this stuff. My #1 concern is data integrity, because I've had problems with loosing work on recent projects to data corruption and drive failures. I'm planning on using these 3 drives to store the "working set" of my CAD files, just the most recent stuff I'm working on. I keep completed files and backups on Ultrastar HDDs and I've never had any problems with those.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Automatic_Beyond2194 on 2025-02-13 05:14:49.

ST28000NM000C

I see them all over selling for $350.

https://www.techradar.com/pro/potentially-hundreds-of-refurbished-seagate-28tb-smr-hard-disk-drives-surface-online-at-unbelievable-prices-but-you-should-stay-well-clear-from-them-heres-why

I see this article saying to beware of 28TB Seagates refurbs that will flood the market. But this article says SMR drives and these claim to be CMR.

Also curious if these use HAMR which if it is the case would be pretty concerning as it’s a new tech that to me as a layman doesn’t sound good at all for reliability, but what do I know.

I was considering buying 2 of these but would like to know more about them if anyone knows anything.