It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Mun1tion on 2025-01-13 20:38:52.

Hello all,

Lurker here. I have been struggling a bit with fumbling massive pdf documents that contain text conversations. Scrolling through reddit it dawned on me where to come to get advice for large amounts of data.

I have tried searching the sub, reddit, and internet, yet I'm not coming up with a whole lot. I think it might be operator error in not knowing what to look up in the first place.

I used the "legal text collector" app on Android to collect them, and the information collected spans different timeframes (months), and has:

From: [Party name] [Parties phone number], then the message sent followed by the date and time.

What I am looking to do: I will be archiving the original files, however I would like to compile the messages into a single program/file/working area/anything, so that I can better document certain events, make it searchable, and be able to keep track of where said message is in the original file.

Preferably, as always, I prefer the free or opened sourced option, but I don't mind paying for something to aid this. Kind of against monthly subscriptions if it can be helped (if not, all is well).

Thanks in advance!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/calvinwaran on 2025-01-13 20:17:07.

First problem: I currently have around 11 terabytes of YouTube videos (I use a script that downloads every video I like or add to my Watch Later list). On top of that, there’s my massive Reddit archive, backups from a Minecraft server I run, all my personal documents, pictures, videos, a huge music collection, and so much more.

Right now, I’m at a total of 21 terabytes (not counting backups).

My question is: how can I manage all of this as a low-income student? I can’t afford more storage or anything like that.

I came to this community because I feel understood here, with my fear of deleting anything. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Due_Candidate2064 on 2025-01-13 16:34:23.

Hi everyone,

I’ve been having trouble downloading YouTube videos lately, and I can’t figure out why. Neither 4K Downloader nor SnapDownloader works during these periods, and even online tools fail to download. The strange thing is that this doesn’t happen all the time—sometimes it works perfectly with the same tools and videos, and other times I can’t download anything for hours.

For context, I have lifetime legal licenses for both 4K Downloader and SnapDownloader. I’m not downloading playlists or doing anything excessive. I only download single videos occasionally, usually small clips to use as b-roll in my own YouTube videos (always giving credit to the original creators). I’m using a new Mac Mini M4 (base model).

Could this be related to YouTube’s restrictions or something else? Has anyone experienced similar issues?

Thanks in advance for any insights!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Competitive-Hotel671 on 2025-01-13 15:44:36.

If I delete photos from my iPhone which were included in my last iDrive backup, will they be removed in iDrive during the next backup? Or are the backups cumulative? Does iDrive collect backups on a timeline, or is there only one backup?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Azyx_kmg on 2025-01-13 14:50:28.

Hi guys! Need some help designing a backup plan for a friend photographer.

So currently he has the most common "backup" plan I've seen people use. A bunch of External USB HDs. And some of the photos are stored in multiple clouds to avoid paying premium (onedrive, google drive, etc).

He's not a tech-tard but also not that tech-savvy. We just started building a N100 NAS for him with a few 6TB WD Reds, but I'm not sure on the Cloud solution for him.

I've used Kopia and showed it to him on how to use it after we set it up. But the cost of a B2 storage from BlackBlaze is 6usd per TB a month, and a subscription from Sync.com is 5usd per TB. In this case with the ease-of-use for him, I'm not sure if I should recommend going Open Source instead of using Sync.

So, should I help him set up Kopia with a B2 storage or just get a subscription of Sync.com?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Dry_Measurement_1626 on 2025-01-13 12:21:50.

I subscribed to the annual service with the one-year promotion at 4.98 USD.

The upload is very slow, 10Gb per 24 hours.

After reporting it to customer service, the problem has not been resolved.

I asked for my account to be canceled and for a refund.

The refund was not made.

Today I received an email stating that I have to give feedback to Capterra to get my money back.

This is a joke.

I advise against subscribing to this service.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/joaobarros360 on 2025-01-13 10:42:42.

Hey guys! I’ve been trying to find a setup to save/dump stuff that I might need later as a reference — keyword might.

The briefing: Links, photos, videos, etc organized by subject (home ideas, office ideas, branding design, memes, etc), accessible on the go and not using my storage. Also, with link previews — and I’d like to be able to export/download it in case the world implodes.

Pinterest is generically unusable, so I tried a couple of other ways and gravitated towards chat apps: a Telegram group with different channels and a Discord server. Neither was perfect so I’m looking at the idea of a private subreddit with flairs and tags.

Would this make sense? Do you have alternative ideas? Thanks!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/rwarxie on 2025-01-13 07:59:46.

I've never posted here, but I'm desperate. Tiktok is going to be banned in my country, and I dont have a laptop. I've looked all over. Chrome, google, YT, tiktok, and got nothing.

I cant mass download all my saves at once without a laptop while using certain extensions and sites, and indont want to lose all my favorites videos and content.

Is there anyway to save them all without using any PC or Laptop? Running on a Samsung galaxy (dont know other info) if that helps.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/herereallygone00 on 2025-01-13 04:45:01.

Hey. I'm trying to assist in a group project of collecting International Dubs for the film Wicked. I found a Thai one today and was so excited but I can't for the life for me access the video. I am somewhat a novice. I know there's experts in here. Could anyone help me get this audio? It's the only place I've been able to find this version.

Here is the site that has the Thai dub. (warning for ads)

https://www.037hdmovie.com/2025/01/05/wicked-2024-%E0%B8%A7%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%84%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%84%E0%B9%87%E0%B8%94/

alternate

https://www.nung2hdd.com/wicked-part-i-2024-%E0%B8%A7%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%84%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%84%E0%B9%87%E0%B8%94/

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/pheasantjune on 2025-01-13 14:26:05.

Brand new 14tb Seagate Ironwolf Pro drive is currently working great. I'm cloning another hard drive onto it now using CCC (as Im using the 14tb as an archival backup) but I've heard this double beeping about 4 times in the last hour. Is it anything to worry about? Thanks!

https://voca.ro/12QCFopvwTHb

(its towards the end of the recording, you might have to turn up your speakers)

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Jayden92 on 2025-01-13 13:35:21.

Hi all,

I've recently been scoping out a new NAS build to replace my aging 4670K build. It has served me well but given I now have some 4K clients, I've been re-building my collection and the old CPU/8GB RAM just isn't cutting it, especially for transcoding to 1080p clients.

Over the weekend, I thought I'd install Plex Media Server on my gaming PC with a 12600K, and got a trial of Plex Pass to test hardware encoding. With this, I've also been testing the HEVC Encoding Preview build using the iGPU (UHD 770).

Source file: Oppenheimer (REMUX HDR10) (82.2GB)

RAM: 16GB dual channel sitting at 6GB utilisation at idle

Transcoding to H265 1080p High (20Mbps) on a separate laptop - results are below:

• One transcode - ranging from 20-30% utilisation on the iGPU and 7GB of system memory - no buffering

• Two transcodes - ranging from 30-70% utilisation on the iGPU and 9GB of system memory - no buffering

• Three transcodes - ranging from 50-70% utilisation on the iGPU and 10.5GB of system memory used - no buffering

• Four transcodes - pinned at 100% iGPU utilisation for a few minutes, then ranging from 60-100% with 12.5GB of system memory used - no buffering

• Five transcodes - pinned at 100% iGPU utilisation with 14GB of system memory used, and the fifth stream was buffering constantly

Once I determined that four transcodes was the maximum it could handle, I checked and the CPU was using between 20-30W (compared to around 10-12W at idle). I suspect that I am RAM limited but unfortunately I don't have any other DIMMs on hand to test further.

I've been a very basic Plex user for the last 10 or so years and this is the first time properly delving into all of this, so please bare with me if my methodology or findings don't hold any water. It's 11:30pm at the time of posting so I'll respond to questions tomorrow when I get the chance - cheers!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/GalaP2 on 2025-01-13 12:19:27.

I have some 4k videos on my pc and I want to keep them in a sandisk card, I read that Ultra can only " record" 1080p videos, but is that the same as reading and transferring? If i transfer my 4k videos to the ultra card, will they get a lower quality?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Agreeable_Repeat_568 on 2025-01-13 12:02:57.

I am wondering if anyone has figured out a way to make the Fractal Meshify 2 XL into a hot swappable enabled case. I have seen a few builds using supermicro backplane board with 3d printed cages or frames and I am wondering if anyone has done this with the Fractal Meshify 2 XL or Define XL (cases have the same layout)

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/xBraria on 2025-01-13 11:54:56.

Hi,

I've seen a similar post a few years ago, but it's since been locked.

I will post in the comments, copies of relevant comments and scraps of information I found (there and) all over the internet. But I am still fearing losing this data and would love to hear your experience.

I am interested in keeping as much metadata as possible for my photos.

I am a mom, so the dates of each picture are important. The locations where we traveled are also important. We use the face recognition feature and I've manually renamed hundreds if not thousands of photos and allocated them to the correct person, so this data is valuable to me. I have edited countless of photos (and it seems that backing them up traditionally only keeps the uncropped, unedited version) so I'd love to keep the edited versions of photos (I'm okay with storing each edited picture twice with both versions in theory). As a biologist, I use the information and "add caption" to pictures to add scientific names to different, mostly plant species. I also appreciate the albums (including automatically generated ones such as "screenshots") that I have the pictures in, and would like them to stay intact.

I'm at the point where I'd need to pay for 2 TB monthly which seems too much. We have a nice large empty disk I allocated to photos that is mostly empty, because neither of us is so far storing our own phone photos there. Husband uses his computer and I fear deleting them from the cloud because I don't want to lose all that's there.

I have a friend who suggested several 3rd party apps but I'm afraid to pull the trigger (for one, of giving them access to my gallery and for two, putting a shitton of effort in with no results).

I'd love any and all advice but especially personal experience - mine is only bad. I'm potentially open to a weird solution of purchasing older phones/laptops just for the storage space (hoping this will be improved in the following years), but idk if it's really worth it compared to just paying 130 euros yearly for 2 TBs of photos.

Thank you so much.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Agreeable_Repeat_568 on 2025-01-13 10:41:58.

I have an asus pro art x670e that has a pcie 4.0 x 2 port (x16 physical) that I want to use for a HBA for 2-4 sata ssds. pcie 4.0 x 2 is = to 4GB/s and pcie 3.0 x 2 = 2GB/s ideally I can get at least a pcie 3.0 HBA, I don't think I would max out all 4 sata ssds but even then 2GB/s should be close enough to max... idk if its worth the extra heat and energy for pcie 4.0.

I really dont know alot about HBS so please help me choose one that will work.

Note this with be installed on a proxmox host and will be passed through to a truenas VM

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Historical-Guava2308 on 2025-01-12 16:26:20.

I just got a recertified hard drive from Goharddrive . com and when I went to WD's site to check its warranty status it says it's out of limited warranty.

When I got it it said it had a 5 year warranty, so how does this work?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Leading-Geologist-39 on 2025-01-12 16:05:34.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/laselma on 2025-01-13 09:26:55.

The big difference is the TBW.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/CCotD on 2025-01-13 08:57:27.

I have had two OWC Mercury Elite Pro’s, both dying right after the 3 year mark. I would like a recommendation for a 4-8 drive USB-C enclosure that would last (hopefully 5-8 years). I would prefer no raid hardware built in as I use MDADM on the PC it is connected to.

Thank you in advance for any recommendations.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Supon_K_ on 2025-01-13 05:54:08.

I got a subscription from Drnajeeb video lectures as I didn't want to pirate those. I usually use IDM fro downloading any videos from any website but cannot do this form Dr najeeb dot com Is there any method or way to download the whole collection so that I can keep the videos downloaded to my portable HDD Whenever I try to download the videos using IDM pop up form browser it shows protected stream can't download due to copyright law or some bs. The android app seem to download but can't seem to able to access them also So any help or idea is welcomed.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ThinkPath1999 on 2025-01-13 04:01:12.

I'm a novice when it comes to this. I want to get into hosting a plex server, so I'm just learning as much as I can.

These two drive enclosures are from the same company, yet, one is around twice the price of the other one. Is there a major difference in specs or how you use them?

https://preview.redd.it/rvc0tmq4qoce1.png?width=571&format=png&auto=webp&s=87ff0f8539020725cda2036c04be00116ccef451

https://preview.redd.it/dh5fnic6qoce1.png?width=497&format=png&auto=webp&s=464528474dea58c6d9abb7b81dcd29e0635fb562

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/amazoncloth on 2025-01-13 02:15:07.

Hello, I'm looking for a 4+TB external ssd

I'm thinking about a Samsung T9 or Sandisk Extreme Pro right now

Which one would be better (are there other brands that you can recommend me)?

Sandisk SSDs is faster (3800 MB/s vs 2000, yes I have TB4), but searching through the subreddit it seems that their SSDs weren't reliable past few years

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/bicykiller on 2025-01-13 01:29:49.

So I run a small production company and when it came time to evacuate, I found myself with the pictured pile of drives and RAIDS to throw in the car... It's A LOT!

For years, I've been wanting to consolidate and pare everything down to just the essential and master files to keep and store properly. I don't have the cash to buy anything new like a NAS so the challenge would be to use what I have. As you can see, I have 3 Promise Pegasus RAIDS. I'm thinking I can use one (or more) of those as a DAN. Here are some questions/thoughts:

1. Does any one have advice on keeping or deleting RAW camera media? This takes up the lion's share of data and would love to dump it, but FEAR a distant client will want it the minute I delete it.

2. Is there a place to sell/donate all the drives that will be emptied? Like 50 of them.

3. Would love to work off this DAS as well.

4. What is the best RAID config to allow performance for editing but also keep redundant? I've been seeing RAID 5 or 6?

Sorry if this seems all over the place, basically, I'm looking for advice on how to pare down unneeded data, redundantly store and use the data I need, and what to do with all the extra drives I theoretically will have as a result!

Thanks fellow hoarders!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Cheap_Jackfruit_4487 on 2025-01-12 23:29:48.

Other than DVDFab or Leawo Prof. Media, are there any other programs that can convert Bluray or DVDs from files already in Bluray or DVD structure to . ISO? I'd like to maintain the Bluray or DVD menu structure and store it as an .ISO if I want to burn it to a physical Bluray or DVD in the future.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/JD828 on 2025-01-12 22:47:34.

So I have about 12 disks in a windows server 2022 in a JBOD configuration. All the data is backup and I use HD Sentinel to monitor. All disks are in a supermicro 846 cases. HD Sentinel recently alerted me to the following errors:

Disk 4 - SMART Error 197 - value 36205

Disk 3 - SMART Error 197 - value 36206

Disk 2- SMART Error 197 - value 47034

Disk 1 - SMART Error 197 - value 30134; SMART Error 198 - value 27624

Disk 7 - Smart Error 197 - value 40474; SMART Error 198 - value 30

I also have several disks that are reporting a SMART Error 199 (CRC Error Count). I see that Error 197 is Current Pending Sector Count. Does this mean that most of my disks are about to fail? I just ordered a new SAS cable hoping that fixes all the code 199s but I am really concern with the disks that have the code 197 as most of those disks are out of warranty (most of the disks are like 5 to 6 years old).

Thanks