It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/RedditNoobie777 on 2024-09-24 17:19:00.

Cheapest in order are Seagate Expansion, Seagate Backup Plus Ultra Touch, Toshiba Canvio Ready

Cheapest WD is Western Digital Elements

I can't find the speed for them.

Most are USB A, only USB C I find is WD My Password Ultra

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Should I get Internal with enclosure ?

I assume I need to plugin power adptor with it.

Purple is bad for desktop right ?

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Hot-Squash-4143 on 2024-09-24 17:08:38.

Some months ago I bought a WD easystore 16TB drive to store some archives I've downloaded. I use both Linux (Pop OS) and Windows on my desktop, so I formatted it as NTFS. Because it is NTFS, I needed to run a terminal command or two to get it to mount in Pop OS, but nothing too complicated.

That worked fine for a few months, but at one point when I tried to reboot my desktop, Pop OS got stuck during shutdown because it was unable to unmount the drive. I couldn't find a way to make it unmount, and I had an urgent task to complete, so eventually I did a hard reset. Since then the drive has been unusable in either OS, all the hard drive repair tools I've tried are unable to interact with it even for basic diagnosis.

Obviously shutting down a mounted drive is not good practice, but I was surprised by how fragile my backup solution turned out to be. If I want something more robust, what's the next logical step? Would it still be vulnerable to this sort of issue?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/CatharticSnickers on 2024-09-24 16:55:04.

I scanned 200 old family photos with an Epsom v600 as PNG file formats with 48bit color.

I’m pretty sure I scanned lossless also.

So my question is, should I rescan all the photos as TIFF if that’s the file format I want? Or can I just convert them all to TIFF on my computer to get the same result?

Thanks

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/darkwolfxz on 2024-09-24 16:05:41.

It's well known that as a best practice, it is best to eject a hard drive via OS before disconnecting it.

I recently purchased an HDD dock station like this one hdd dock .

So far speeds have been decent with 1 drive, and no issues with it.

I plan to connect a 2nd drive every once in a while, copy important data, and use it as a cold storage on the 2nd bay.

Most of the time I use this on Linux, but sometimes on Windows.

When I inserted the 2nd drive on the 2nd empty bay while computer was running, it said I need to eject the drive, but in reality, it is going in on the 2nd empty bay, I'm not hot-swapping the 1st bay.

Is this a false positive detection?

My question to you experts is, what would be the recommended approach to swap the 2nd drive with HDD docking stations. Do I need to umount and eject the 1st drive or even turn off/restart the computer everytime I want to insert/remove the 2nd drive?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Please_Go_Away43 on 2024-09-24 15:59:31.

I've just bought one from eBay. It came with caddies, but using the caddy confuses me. There are these rubber topped post things to hold the drive in the caddy, but (I assume) due to the age of the caddy, the rubber is crumbling, causing them to not hold in the place where they go.

https://i.imgur.com/QwZha5q.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/y0cl5QY.jpeg

So how do I get my drives to stay in the caddy? Do I tape down the post? Or use a regular screw?

EDIT: I used some blue electrical tape over each post, and the drives appear to be working.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Krimreaper1 on 2024-09-24 15:44:01.

My Raid set died. So I have reformatted my 8 drives, and been reusing the drives individually in a hot swappable drive, instead of starting over. Is there a way to reset the Raid enclosure (Mediasonic H8R2-SU3S2 ProRaid 8 Bay) to just access the drives as one large hot swappable 8 drive? I'm going to buy a couple large capacity drives, and back them up to them later. In the meantime I'd like all 8 accessible at the same time.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/cherisold on 2024-09-24 15:10:58.

I would need it scanned in a way in which I could turn the overlayed vellum on or off. Wondering if that's even possible. I currently have a plotter than can scan, but I wouldn't know how to scan the cover papers as a separate layer without destroying it. Has anyone done this before? Any advice would be helpful. Thanks!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/marci-boni on 2024-09-24 14:56:13.

i work on files on my mac , on external storage because i dont wanna kill my ssd ,to then move everything to my home server , i use a samsung t7 1tb which is enough for me in terms of performances , but it bulky and not practical on ther go . do you guys know of a drive like a pen drive if exists that i can buy to replace mine ? thank you

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/CyanoTex on 2024-09-24 12:46:27.

On September 23rd the Flibusta admin posted this short message:

This is Stiver. I am in the hospital, got diagnosed with late-stage glioblastoma. Unfortunately, it's over for me and Flibusta. Thank you everyone, this was fun. Servers are paid for a couple of weeks.

https://flibusta.is/comment/3561643

Flibusta is large russian e-book library that began as a fork of Librusec. As of right now, 633555 books are uploaded to this site. Of which:

• 84% of available books are in Russian language,
• 10% - English,
• 2% - Bulgarian,
• 1.57% - Ukranian,
• 0.44% - Spanish,
• 0.36% - French,
• 0.34% - German.

If you want to help to preserve it, the entire archive (FB2 only and FB2+USR) is available on Rutracker and Booktracker.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/RedditNoobie777 on 2024-09-24 12:18:17.

Most I find are 2.5" https://www.westerndigital.com/en-in/products/portable-drives/wd-elements-portable-usb-3-0-hdd?sku=WDBHDW0020BBK-EESN

Isn't it slower but both say upto 5Gbps

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/SaintTDI on 2024-09-24 12:08:16.

Hi all!

I use my Windows PC every day, and I use it also as Plex Server… locally and even streaming for 5 family members.

I don’t use for now a dedicated server for Plex because I always have my Windows PC on… having also a server for Plex it would be another energy consumption equipment.

I use StableBit DrivePool with 4x8TB IronWolf and one 6TB WD Red. I have only 400gb left :D and each driver is 4 years old. Never had issues with these HDD.

So for this reason… and even to reduce the number of HDD in my Fractal Define 7 case… with the open top panel so that 2 fans can out-take the HDD hot air during the hot summer here in Italy… I was thinking to get 2x20TB HDD to replace my five HDD.

I was thinking of Iron Wolf Pro… but I read on some reviews that they are noisy… I work from home… so less noise is better :) BTW the case is on the floor and not on the desk.

Are there some better HDD than the 20TB Iron Wolf Pro for this use case and less noisy as possible ?

Do you have some advise? Thanks in advance 😉

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/pretenas1 on 2024-09-24 09:30:26.

Hello, I want to build a Nas and I found an online shop that sells used PC parts. I found out that they sell used HGST HUH721010ALE601 10TB HDDs and asked them how many power on hours they have. They responded by telling me they have between 1700 and 2000 power on days and am not sure if they are worth buying or not, if it is too much or not. They sell them for about $110. (The price is for Romania, new equivalent ones are $500)

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Cototsu on 2024-09-24 08:33:05.

Sorry for the bad lingo.

I have a USB 2'5" 4Tb Western Digital external drive which I've been using simply for archiving large amounts of data and occasionally use it.

One time I noticed that one song I could previously play without an issue can't be played anymore. I suppose it was due to a bad sector and the fear of loosing my files due to the sheer size and, probably, lack of proper sorting has been beconning on me recently.

Would separating my drive on 4/8 (1Tb/500Gb) partitions be a good solution and/or should I try using programs that allow to sort and store the data in an optimized way?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/TheLostWanderer47 on 2024-09-24 01:50:40.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/tapdancingwhale on 2024-09-24 00:54:46.

I've browsed through the posts on this sub and r/datacurator and haven't found the right software that fits my needs.

I have a daily-growing collection, about 200TiB of data right now, spanned across LTO-4 tapes and HDDs. I want to organize/manage/deduplicate/keep track of all of this data (which consists of YouTube rips, Linux isos, game ROMs, photographs, music, movies, TV shows, various tarballs, website archives, ebooks, git repos, etc) and neatly have it accessible via tags. So instead of putting firefox-addon-0.3.6.xpi inside of /root/software/web_browsers/mozilla/firefox/platform-independent/addons/unsigned/xpi/firefox-addon/0.3.6/compiled/ directory, I can keep the file inside /root/software/firefox-xpi/, log it in this piece of software and apply all of my tags to it. I can then search for whatever tags in this software and it'll show everything with matching tags.

Hydrus Network sounds interesting but seems geared toward photos specifically, and crams everything (files too) inside its own database. I can't have that as I also seed a lot of this data too.

fs-viewer sounded interesting too but the idea of adding tags to files as xattrs sounds risky, as in, some kind of transfers between file systems or pipelines could easily lead to tags getting lost.

GNU/Linux support is a must, as well as being FOSS. It would be nice if it used some kind of database magic under the hood (like PostgreSQL or sqlite3) but this isn't a requirement. Mounting a virtual file system with all of my logged files visible at once would be the best, but isn't a requirement either (remember these are all spanned across tapes and disks. I use no RAID or LTFS). Recording of file hashes would be extremely helpful in cases where I need to verify the contents of a tape or disk, and I can just use this program to check X disk/tape's file integrity. Automatic tag application (possibly through the use of a hopper directory) would be very helpful, as I'm working with millions of files here. Backup-status for each logged file (would show how many copies exist on separate media, and which particular media) would be helpful too. CLI/TUI or GUI softwares are both okay, but being CLI sounds more scriptable. Web interface viewer/manager optional.

Does a software exist that does these things? I've been researching for years trying to find something that does what I've looking for and come up dry each time. I'm not a programmer but have tried making various management tools, all of which never fully come to fruition and are 1/20th baked (far worse than half-baked, trust me).

Any suggestions or advice would be highly appreciated.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/r_retrohacking_mod2 on 2024-09-23 23:42:40.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/JacobyJones13 on 2024-09-23 23:21:00.

I am looking for some advice on next steps for my growing hoard of data. I have accumulated eight external hard drives of varying sizes (1-5TB) over the last ~10 years and am hitting a crossroads where I need additional storage space, but also want to consolidate if possible. Total amount of data probably sits around 20TB.

Half of the data is backup and the other half is dedicated to Plex. I have looked into NAS but it seems overkill for my purposes right now as I am the sole user of Plex and don’t need a server constantly running. Would a DAS or some sort of hard drive enclosure with larger WD Red type drives be better for me? Or is it stupid to not make the NAS investment now?

Thanks in advance for your help!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/DunderMiffIin on 2024-09-23 22:24:44.

I have ~1.6TB of data so not much. I am really worried that if I replace my 4 drive 4x 2TB HDD setup with an SSD setup of equivalent sizes, the drives will fail because of so much read and write every day (Backups at 12am and 6pm every day). I read about SSD TBWs and got a little worried because of it.

These drives have been okay for the past 6 years. Will my all SSD (SATA) solution last just as long? Thank you!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/pinkcinnamon19 on 2024-09-23 22:21:48.

I recently ran into a situation that basically made my external disk useless, where I may have done a bad movement and messing it up. And while I lost it, all the files I had there (or at least a vast majority of them), luckily were still backed up elsewhere (including the laptop I have been using for the past three years).

However, my old devices and my laptop are already on their last legs and I am dreading all the moves I am doing to migrate everything to somewhere much safer. I know that eventually I may run into this same problem in three or five years, and I have been trying to look into free cloud storage alternatives, but my stuff is TOO much, some is too copyright-ey and/or heavy and, you know.

I have been looking around, and I'm inclining to go for Toshiba because I feel it's a brand "I could trust much better", however, the exact model, I'm not sure which and I know it can get pricey (I would preferably go for 2 TB, as it turns out I am not saving much these past two years).

My previous external disk was from ADATA, of 2 TB, I cannot give you the exact model because I haven't really gotten it back yet, and I don't have the box at the moment, so it's a bit of a vague memory. They tend to be okay (from what I've read) but for my unluck, I had to pay for the casualty.

I really need a guide on this because I feel this is becoming urgent and urgent and I don't know where to look to, it's too overwhelming to me.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Dante71 on 2024-09-23 22:14:26.

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/bxn_sxrling on 2024-09-23 21:53:54.

have an old HDD that i’d like to backup with lots of important photos and videos on.

i attempted to use unstoppable copier but in the first 5 minutes i ran into some corrupt bytes with a small file taking a very long time to copy over.

what would be the best and safest way to copy all the data from the drive, any other software ?

or just go for it and hope for the best.

thanks

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/IShunpoYourFace on 2024-09-23 21:09:19.

I was thinking of going with WD Elements 4TB external drive, It would be used as weekly or daily backup for windows file history (or some kind of manual copy) from 4TB WD Red Plus.

I'm planning of building a NAS in future by repurposing this backup solution and getting a new one in future.

Any recommendations? I just need my data safe. RAID is not a backup...

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Snoo-85489 on 2024-09-23 20:20:44.

Not even sure if this is the right sub, r/storage has a rule against anything non enterprise level but no pointer towards the right sub.

Im looking for a cheap but large backup external HDD. Something like 5-8 terrabytes for backups. Wont be accessed very often (like once a month maybe) but absolutely needs to not die. I plan on backing up all my data on it once a month so what are my options?

I paid about 120 (60 when converted to USD) for my ADATA 1TB external HDD a few years ago and its been good. Im looking at prices now on a local website and these 5-8TB drives range from 100 (used) to like 500 and even more, so, what price is too good to be true and do you have any suggestions for a specific model that isnt gonna break the bank? Thanks.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/duke3167 on 2024-09-23 20:08:22.

Hello Friends!

I feel like I'm at a bit of a crossroads about my next step in my home NAS. I was looking for some advice from y'all on some next logical steps.

First off, some context to help you understand my use case:

• My current setup is a:
  • Ryzen 3700x
  • 32GB of RAM
  • NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
  • 512 GB Boot NVME
  • 2x 4TB WD Red drives in a RAID 1
  • NZXT H510 Case (can only fit 3 x 3.5" drives)
  • Running Windows 11, RAID in Storage Spaces and Hyper-V VMs for Linuxy things
• I'm running Windows because of time. It's just been easier for me to hop in on RDC and open up the Hyper-V or Spaces manager. Running Windows 11 because I had a spare license. I've thought about moving to a *nix solution with zfs ... but I don't have as much time these days as I used to, so what is easy is almost always going to win as a solution.
• I backup locally to an external hard drive and also to BackBlaze.
• Until recently, the NAS was largely for my Plex music collection and photo backup.
• My tendency is to build for value today, but understand how I can scale it in the future ... but this first build started with an old gaming PC :)

What's changed:

• ..... I started ripping 4K Blu-rays

Where I'm looking for advice:

• I like the idea of eventually moving my home server to a Mini PC or a SFF case with storage connected via USB/Thunderbolt or whatever connection makes sense at that time. So, right now I'm looking at spending about $550 for:
  • Terra Master D4-320 - 4 bay external enclosure
  • 2x 18 TB Manufactured Refurb Ironwolf Pro drives
  • I'd likely stick with Storage Spaces for now and configure them into a RAID 1 configuration.
• I could also get a Define R5 + the 2 x 18 TB disks for about $475. This would keep me with a traditional case, I'd max out the SATA ports on my current Motherboard without having to share bandwidth with my boot drive. I could add controller cards as I need to grow.
• Both paths have their pros and cons. What is keeping me from really pulling the trigger on moving towards a more modular solution is I've heard mixed reviews about multi-drive external enclosures. I've read about folks losing their File Systems or having other data corruptions. Is this still accurate in 2024? What are bands to look at? What are brands to avoid?

It feels like the safe play is to get the new case and go with a more traditional setup, talk me out of it :D

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/michaellimn on 2024-09-23 20:08:20.

I have a WD Black Game Drive SSD 2TB that freezes file explorer whenever I try make changes such as creating a new folder, name changes or pasting files inside the drive. However, I can still access to the files and c/p them to my desktop. This is uniquely to my home PC and it works fine in every other computers. My SSD is formatted in exFAT and I have Win 10 on my PC. I'm at loss here and any advice would be really appreciated.