It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Icy_Grapefruit9188 on 2025-01-22 03:15:48.

I bought the USB hub in 2019, I've never really unplugged it from laptop (I use laptop as desktop) or moved it around and it still works perfectly fine, but what will happen if it malfunctions suddenly for example if it fails to deliver adequate power? Will it damage my external HDD? Do you think this something I need to worry about? Or can I just use it without worry if I have backed up important data to a 2nd backup HDD?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/alexybubble on 2025-01-22 03:12:56.

I was wondering what you guy's suggestions would be for an external hard drive for someone on the go? I use a laptop for everything I do, and I like to keep an external hard drive available at all times (this includes my college classes, which means that my hard drive is being transported on a daily basis), since the 1TB on board storage isn't nearly enough for me. I've just had my second WD 5TB external hard drive crap out on me, though, so I was wondering if you guys had any suggestions for a more durable solution? I also bring a cooling base with me at all times, which gives me an ~3.5 length x 3.5 height tray for the hard drive to fit without issue, and I don't want to go any physically larger than that (unsecured positioning was what ended up killing my first drive). Budget is whatever, though I'd prefer not to go too expensive.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/rajmahid on 2025-01-22 02:56:51.

Over the years I’ve accumulated over 1600 burned CD-Rs. I also have an equal number of commercial CDs. My dilemma is how to properly get rid of the burned CDs. I can’t give them to a thrift store like the official CDs for obvious reasons — and my garbage collection service forbids media disposal.

Any suggestions?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/milkygirl21 on 2025-01-22 02:02:18.

as above - I'm currently using Photo Mechanic but each time I open on a new PC, it has to re-index and the indexing takes very long. Was wondering if there's a faster app, that can also do tagging so I can easily search for the images I want. My catalog is around 500K of images.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/supermariojerma on 2025-01-22 01:44:22.

Looking for a website that lets me download entire albums at once off Soundcloud and/or Bandcamp with metadata like title, artist, track number, and album cover. I've tried lucida.to and downloadsound.cloud, the first one would always hang on the second track and the second doesn't get the track number. I don't need the track number in the file name but it'd be appreciated. Hoping this is the right subreddit to ask for this, thank you!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/SemInert on 2025-01-22 00:38:04.

TLDR: data throughput (write&delete) of ~80 GB every day, speed doesn't matter but has to be durable and reliable, need >2 TB and 4 TB would be ideal, reasons for this absurd situation is below

I need an SSD recommendation for semi-inert video storage, as (I think) many people on this sub must be doing!

Normally I'd be going for HDDs for this, but my living situation changed and now I'm in a place that physically shakes a lot. So I thought I'd move all my videos to an SSD so I can stop being nervous about losing data.

These are videos that are pending editing, so they do need to be on the computer at all times. I do have an HDD for backup and I do it about once a year. But well, videos come in every day in sizes of ~80 GB (~200 MB each file), and after I edit them (takes about two weeks each) they are removed, so they're not even really worth backing up anyway (as it would just waste space on the backup drive).

So here I am, looking for an SSD. I don't care about read and write speeds because they are semi-inert and not for gaming. But I do need it to be very reliable and the endurance to be very high. I also need the size to be above 2 TB, preferrably 4 TB, as I have about 1.2 TB of stuff to move to the SSD. I heard that situations around MLC TLC and samsung SSDs changed a lot since covid, so I feel a little lost and need help choosing what to buy. I don't mind either M.2 or SATA, whichever one is cheaper.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/snarfpunk on 2025-01-21 23:54:25.

I've been accumulating a massive collection of print, negative, and slide images over the last couple decades - some from my own film photography days, but much of it is inherited from my parents. I plan to scan all of it and make it available online for extended families to enjoy.

I've been looking at both Amazon and Google photos platforms that would be "free" to me (as an already paying subscriber of various services). The one key thing I'm looking for though is the ability to share albums with others and allow them to either comment or more specifically, contribute to the metadata of various photos (e.g. where, when, who, what, etc) - as I dont have nearly any of the context and I'd love to empower (recruit) several of my long-retired aunts, uncles, cousins, etc who would not only enjoy the trip down memory lane, but would have the most likely chance of providing detail about each photograph that I would love to preserve for others into the future.

I'm not sure if either Google or Amazon is the right platform to make this viable - I'm open to other subscription platforms as well. Another key requirement would be the ability to export that metadata so that I can back it up offline in my local storage (where the original scans would also exist).

Any ideas?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/manzurfahim on 2025-01-21 22:24:44.

EDIT: I am talking about remuxes, I always download the remux whether it is 1080p or 4K

I have been doing this for a long time. For example, I download a movie, I extract the DTS track, convert it to AC3, get a proper .srt file for subtitle, mux it using mkvtoolnix with a name that I like, and almost whole of my collection is like this. If the movie has Dolby Atmos and AC3 but the AC3 is 448Kbps, I create a 640kbps AC3 from atmos track, mux it into the movie file. Remove all subtitles, just keep the english one and all that.

I was happy with this. Having a library customized the way I like, follows a standard and all. But since the last year I got serious about seeding and seeded 100TiB in less than eight months. And it got me thinking, I could've seeded a lot more if I hadn't changed the files. I am in a dilemma. I like the standard I follow, but I also want to seed. Getting frustrated every time I think about this. I found some files that do not have any seed anymore, and I could've seeded them but now they are changed.

What do you do? How do you organize your media library? Do you mix up the collection and the files for seeding?

I appreciate your look at this issue and how you do it. Thank you.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/CherubimHD on 2025-01-21 22:10:10.

I’m using Backblaze B2 as offsite backup of my NAS. Every night, a new snapshot is created. My question is, why do I need versioning for this? Why not always just keep the latest or the latest two (in case of ransomware) versions of the backup? On my Mac I frequently restore previously deleted files via Time Machine but on my NAS I don’t seem to do that at all because either I delete a file cause I really don’t need it or if in doubt I just keep the file cause the NAS got so much storage anyway. I don’t seem to ever have the need to roll back.

Do you do proper versioning with offsite backups?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/iamjames on 2025-01-21 22:01:51.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/peterto11 on 2025-01-21 21:41:25.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/CamaroLover2020 on 2025-01-21 02:46:59.

Hey guys, here's my number one link for acquiring lots of data

https://knaben.org/

Share yours please!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/CamaroLover2020 on 2025-01-21 02:42:17.

Does anyone know of a good FREE Image downloader that can mass download images from a gallery from Facebook and whatnot? maybe a Chrome extension too. Thanks!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/seekingadvice331 on 2025-01-21 21:36:11.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/chemistryGull on 2025-01-21 21:15:54.

Is it nowadays, with all the hardware encryption forcefully enabled by some external drives manufacturers (Looking at you WD) necessary or recommended to reformat the freed hard drive?

It will only be used on Linux, so the default exFAT is fine (Although i would be interested if there is some other file format you would recommend for my use case - which is just manual backups of videos and photos from time to time, no continuous runtime)

Main concern: Did WD do some shenanigans that would require a reformatting before using it via sata connection? Product in question is the WD MyBook

Also i would be interested if one can reinsert the drive into the shell after completely clearing it. Would it work again, or is there stuff on the HDD that is needed by the shells PCB and is lost by reformatting the drive? Just out of curiosity tho. Links to other sources also appreciated. Thanks :D

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Jacksharkben on 2025-01-21 19:52:23.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Fortnut420 on 2025-01-21 19:47:45.

I know. It seems pretty straight forward: 3 copies of the original file; 2 different storage devices for the data; 1 cache moved off site

The snag that I'm hitting is the 2nd verse.

Does that rule mean i have to keep my copies across 2 different types of storage devices? (Ex. Using an external SSD, and using Blu-Ray CDs)

Or does it mean I can use the same device type, but i need 2 of them. (Ex. Having 2 external SSDs)

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ItzzAadi on 2025-01-21 18:54:54.

Hi All,

As per the title, I have some data that is very near and dear to me (not porn), it might be atmost size of 4-5 GBs. It will contain mostly documents/text files and some photos (if I omit the photos then it would decrease the size SIGNIFICANTLY, obviously)

This data is just extremely dear to us and holds sentimental value to us down the road of 40 50 years. Is there any way I can ensure data availability?

Here is my current plan

• Using the 3-2-1 method of having 3 copies in the 2 different mediums with 1 being offsite
• Having the text documents printed, photos printed and laminated (in an album) and storing them in a locker

Any more suggestions to achieve this would be highly appreciated.

TIA!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Falcon_2122 on 2025-01-21 18:44:43.

Hey guys, have been in a dilemma about which one to go for. I have been wanting to get the 14tb version. My use case is to store many files and photographs and videos for backup, as a photographer. It’s not for full time use, which one should I go for and which is more reliable one.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Ok-Reveal6732 on 2025-01-21 18:41:45.

/https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=26231

Archive has the very first page saved, but all the following pages are missing. Did anyone here save this before it went down? It had a lot of great recipes

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Skeeter1020 on 2025-01-21 15:59:27.

I'm about to start digitising a bunch of family home videos. They will be captured through WinDV, so will end up as fairly hefty AVI files.

What should I do with them after?

I have the space to keep the originals. While I'm not worried about any AI upscaling or stuff, and I don't need to worry about deinterlacing (I think, correct me if I'm wrong), my only real aim is to make them smaller. 14.7GB an hour for stuff my parents will end up trying to stream down their crappy broadband ain't gonna fly.

So what's a quick and easy tool to make these smaller, and possibly repackage as mkv, for a complete noob to all of this?

Thanks!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/iamjames on 2025-01-21 15:07:56.

Looking to buy more storage and found this 2023 review of a 4tb m.2 retailing for "$200 (often less)" with a amazon affiliate link that now says the price is $259.99. https://www.pcgamer.com/lexar-nm790-4tb-ssd-review/

That's $65 a terabyte for ssd, but I'm looking at my 2023 amazon orders and I was paying half that, $33 a terabyte.

I'm just not use to prices of common PC components doubling, is there some kind of shortage causing this and prices will return to normal soon?

And for anyone blaming politics keep in mind all other PC components have dropped in price, ssd and m.2 are the only components that have increased significantly.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/shukrisagik on 2025-01-21 15:06:05.

https://preview.redd.it/qlv9imet1dee1.png?width=1621&format=png&auto=webp&s=dc5668a6b1a7a6aff99acf33afc6bdfe326d672e

Found this 4 port SAS HBA on eBay Germany, shipping free from China: https://www.ebay.de/itm/404473456286

After finding this, I found some other sellers, all from China, selling these for similar but slightly more expensive prices (20-30€)

Should I stay away from them, or are they a viable option to use in a diy home server?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Leftunders on 2025-01-21 14:20:46.

It's a strange question, I know. Why would someone want to find a page that they knew didn't exist? Right?

But the "not found" page for web sites can occasionally change, and earlier versions might have links to help a fat-fingered visitor get to the info they were looking for.

I doubt that it's even possible, but thought I'd ask anyway. This subreddit seems to be full of clever folks who might have figured out a way.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/GTurkistane on 2025-01-21 13:08:01.

i am a beginner to data hoarding (i currently have 2 22T hardrives that i have switch between them a single using SATA to usb c), but there are some files/folders that i do not want anyone to access if they had access to the hard rive (many people will use my hording drive), is there a way to do this? i remember there is way using CMD but am not sure if it is good or if the decryption will disappear if the hard drive was installed to another PC/android device.