It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/mdragnev on 2024-12-22 18:30:04.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/uvuguy on 2024-12-22 18:24:11.

I love storage, not sure why but buying and setting up storage has become somewhat of a problem.

My wife thinks the problem is I keep buying more space than I know what to do with. And she's Absolutely Right. What should I start filling up my storage with I already have thousands of games saved thinking about doing movies soon what else.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/JohnTravolski on 2024-12-22 17:46:08.

I think the max capacity for M.2 NVMe drives has been stuck at 8TB for almost five years now. Is it because there physically isn't enough room on a 2280 M.2 gumstick for that many chips or is it because the demand for these would be too low?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ArtLongjumping487 on 2024-12-22 17:03:28.

Wondering if anyone has compiled a Playlist or folder with stop motion animation or any animated shorts and would love to share that would be great my old folder seemed to have gotten lost or deleted accidentally.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Throwaway137486 on 2024-12-22 16:53:14.

I have a synology 923+ that stopped working and now gives me the blinking blue light. The power supply is fine. I pulled the drives and tried to restart and it gives the same issue. I have 4 16tb ironwolfs in raid 5 in it and have only had it a month. I had non OEM memory upgrade and sold the old memory so I am going to rebuy and reinstall the original 4 gb stick to see if it's memory. Past that I assume the device is cooked.

If it is fried and i put the OEM memory back in, i presume they will cover it under warranty? If I have to put my drives into a new NAS how do I retain the data? I have a LOT on there I'd hate to lose.

Thanks for any help, this is my first foray into NAS and I'm thinking I should have stuck to external drives at this point, I thought a raid array in a NAS would give me peace of mind but this really sucks.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/1of21million on 2024-12-22 16:07:22.

i've decided that using nvme for backups (in addition to hdd) seems like a reasonable way forward, for many reasons, but i read a lot of conflicting information about them.

i have a 224TB thunderbolt raid 5 archive of hdd which i intend to continue using as my main consolidated archive, but it's mostly offline because of the noise, power use and also for security and durability/longevity. it gets used once a week or fortnight to update the archive with new work and serves its purpose well.

i also have an 8tb nvme m.2 as a working drive for current projects but have recently been pondering the idea of moving additional backups on to 1tb nvme's (this is in addition to the RAID archive; have been using additional bare sata drives for last 20 years and have waaaay too many) because they take up such a small amount of space and are quiet and easy to work with.

what is the latest opinion on archival storage of m.2 nvme ssd's? if i only write to them once and then store them offline, will they store well for 10 years? (probably something like a crucial p3 budget wise) some reports say 1-2 years, 5 years and some older at 20 which seems doubtful. do they need to be periodically powered up?

thanks in advance, any thoughts appreciated.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/IanProton123 on 2024-12-22 14:41:28.

TL/DR: Is it a terrible idea for someone who's never built a PC to try and build a PC/NAS using parts list made by people over at r/buildapcforme or Serverbuilds.net?

My desktop is old and needs to be replaced. Also, my storage (~20TB total) of various types & age HDDs is bursting at the seems. I want a newer PC that can also serve as a NAS/Plex Server that has 8 bays available for current & future storage needs.

I considered JBOD/exneral enclosure but they are $200+, don't solve the PC issue, and can have problems with the USB transfer. Synology is easy but expensive. I don't think there is an affordable pre-built PC on the market that can hold 8 drives well.

Is it a terrible idea for someone who's never built a PC to try and build a budget PC/NAS based on parts list made at r/buildapcforme or Serverbuilds? I'm too dumb to make a list from scratch AND have the parts be compatible AND fit inside the case BUT I can probably figure it out if I start with a good list.

Example 1

Example 2

Any insight from this group before I pull the trigger on a parts list that someone else has assembled?

PS: I wasn't sure where to post this question but other subs are mostly focused on gaming PCs. Considering my end game is to have 100TB+ crammed into this thing I figured r/DataHoarder was a good spot. Thanks.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/scoliadubia on 2024-12-22 14:29:17.

I currently have tens of terabytes of spinning metal in a Thunderbay 4 DAS attached to a Mac Studio via Thunderbolt, no RAID. This serves my needs for writing data from the network and for streaming data to the network *unless* I try to do both at the same time. When that happens, streaming HD video begins to stutter and pause unacceptably. I've tested the network and it seems more than fast enough. Given that everything is fast unless I'm writing to the server at the same time, it does seem like that's where the bottleneck is. (I suppose there's a small chance the server's network connection is congested instead of the disk, but that wouldn't be my first guess.)

Any suggestions for speeding this up? It's an Apple shop so I have a reasonably hard requirement to use AFP (not NFS or SMB) as the file sharing protocol and an only slightly softer requirement to use APFS (or just maybe HFS+) as the disk format. That isn't written in stone, but I've had very poor experiences in the past trying to use SMB, other disk formats, and Linux file servers to share files to Macs and iOS devices on this network.

I've tried a Synology NAS and trashed it for multiple reasons. It was unacceptably bad in so many ways.

So any suggestions (other than what I've already tried) for speeding things up? Are there better performing DAS boxes, fast NAS boxes that do support Mac disks and files (unlike the Synology), settings I can use to prioritize read speed over write speed on my disks, or anything that would improve perceived or actual performance?

The one thing that seems most certain to help is switching to SSDs instead of HDDs but that's too rich for my wallet.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ProfessionalBee4758 on 2024-12-22 14:16:28.

Hi, maybe somebody has different ideas.

I recently got 12 never uses 3.8 TB emc ssds and some u.2 ssds. a typical supermicro 216 case is to deep for my shelf.

bevor I get a silverstone RM46 case or a usaed Dell 7920 workstation: do you have any suggestions?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/BatsRule-info on 2024-12-22 14:11:06.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/SheSimonMyGarfunkel on 2024-12-22 13:08:54.

Hi everyone! I have a 1TB Samsung SSD that has basically all my data on it, and I'm looking for a backup drive. I think 2TB will be more than enough for me. I have a very crappy laptop so I just want to make sure my data is more or less safe. I'll be looking into cloud options after this as well but I'm not sure how I feel about putting old family photos there...

Anyways, I've read countless posts on this sub of people arguing for and against certain brands, and what I understand is that every brand has its flaws and every HDD is a ticking time bomb. But is it always better to go for the cheaper option? The cheapest option I've been able to find in my country is WD Elements, but I could also invest a bit more and go for a Seagate Expansion or WD My Passport. What would you guys do? I'll probably buy more HDDs in the future for extra backup anyway, whenever I have some cash saved up.

Also extra question if anyone feels like answering: what's the easiest way to copy all my data from my SSD to my future HDD? I really don't know much about computers so please try not to be judgmental, just trying to learn :)

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/diamondsw on 2024-12-19 21:32:46.

ServerPartDeals has broken into the mainstream.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcnWneULGAQ

(To be honest, I'd much rather people get drives from a great business like this than other sketch things (ahem, random Amazon sellers...), but I also want to keep these sweet, sweet deals for my own hoard!)

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/aislandlies on 2024-12-19 20:55:08.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/retrac1324 on 2024-12-19 20:19:18.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/VirtualEffort8 on 2024-12-19 19:41:17.

On my windows, a large folder, with thousands of files seems to slow down the PC.

I'm just curious if there is a better OS for handling large files and folders?

I have 32gb ram and atleast a ryzen 5 5th generation.

I've noticed that browsing large folders on my cheap android with a MediaTek G99 and 8GB ram seems faster and the previews seem to render faster too.

For those with experience, what have been your best OS for large directories? Windows, Mac, Linux or Android?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/nameless-87 on 2024-12-19 19:40:25.

I started ripping my blu-ray movies and got concerned about the space / image quality. I downloaded the same movie to compare (3 GB) and noticed that it has better image quality (at least in my opinion) than the one I just ripped (30 GB). I wonder if I can use another software, like Handbrake, to improve the quality and save some space? Maybe the settings were wrong when ripping my Blu-ray in MakeMKV? Anyway, what do you guys think? My .mkv on the left vs torrent on the right.

https://preview.redd.it/dqhc4gx8zu7e1.png?width=2560&format=png&auto=webp&s=40dd5c4ec1b195bd2c8177351b67872bb6ddabb5

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/evildad53 on 2024-12-19 19:09:28.

It occurs to me that someone needs to download and save all of the January 6th Committee's material before someone decides to delete it. The final report and supporting documents, interview videos, and other videos are available at https://www.govinfo.gov/collection/january-6th-committee-final-report?path=%2FGPO%2FJanuary+6th+Committee+Final+Report+and+Supporting+Materials+Collection.

Security videos from inside the Capitol are available at https://cha.house.gov/cha-subcommittee-reading-room-fe781e74-d577-4f64-93cc-fc3a8dd8df18

The Washington Post published almost 12 hours of video footage from the day at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EQfUbE4bL8

There's probably much more raw footage that was collected from cellphones during the insurrection investigation but I can't find a repository for it. It all needs to be hoarded, and probably torrented.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/cgard017 on 2024-12-19 18:07:59.

I am currently upgrading from my Macbook laptop to a true PC. I do mostly photo and video editing, and will primarily be doing them on the new PC. I use external SSD drives for both my photo/video backups as well as my working lightroom/davinci resolve drives.

I plan to use the PC for most of my editing, but may also want to use the Mac if I am traveling. I know ExFAT is a format option that allows for use with both windows and Mac, but with lots of small photos ExFAT takes up drastically more space than the other formats due to the clusters (I think). It also sounds like it's slightly more prone to data corruption.

Does anyone have any suggestions for solutions? Is using ExFAT essentially my only option other than buying paragon or another NTFS reader on the Mac?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Nandulal on 2024-12-19 15:33:49.

I've been running this for years and it's pretty solid but I'm out of space. Seems like it would be cheaper at this point to go to less drives. This thing just serves my family plex.

https://www.raid-calculator.com/default.aspx Tells me 7x read speed and one drive failure. I don't need backups and the parity is more just for convenience.

With newer larger drives would I even need all that read speed? I run Windows server since I know it. Not wanting to buy any new HW beyond drives. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/George-cz90 on 2024-12-19 15:08:15.

Hello, I had some VHS-C tapes digitized, Im happy with the result overall but there is this artefact around high-contrast scenes, where there is dark item in front of white wall. The dark item has this white aura on the left.

https://preview.redd.it/qdclo0t6mt7e1.png?width=456&format=png&auto=webp&s=27ce90640559045d8b8fce12f2eb8f7e5d6dd934

Is this something thats specific to VHS-C, or is this caused by the equipment?

Does this have a name? Is there a filter I can use in ffmpeg that would fix this?

Thx!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/chazwhiz on 2024-12-19 15:07:26.

I’m going to expand my set up with a new eight bay enclosure, which means I need four more drives. I currently have four that I shucked like five years ago. It looks like I can get an 8 TB easy share for 169 (US) or just pay 179 for a red plus and not deal with the shucking, which I may do unless the easy shares are pro or anyone has a better suggestion?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/mfr2vcb on 2024-12-19 13:57:07.

I have a M4 Mac mini with a LaCie d2 Pro 8TB which supports USB 3.2 Gen 2 (up to 10Gb/s) over USB-C. It. has failed twice - both times I've replaced it under warranty.

I use this drive to save my Lightroom libraries and video files. I backup this data with Backblaze and a different external Time Machine backup hard drive.

I'm thinking of either switching to a WD external, or something like a Mediasonic 2-bay RAID drive enclosure with 2 8TB WD Blue drives running a mirrored RAID.

What's your advice for me? My current data is about 5TB. TIA

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/sanaticat on 2024-12-19 04:30:56.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Hastur13 on 2024-12-19 00:47:28.

Title says it all. Basically, want to use it to house my massive collection of audible books and a shit load of PDFS. I've had bad luck with USBs so I want to overdo it. But overdo it within a budget, you know?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/mhoney71 on 2024-12-18 22:57:14.

I'm just curious; do hoarders have ethical boundaries?