It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/CaptainxShittles on 2024-09-14 15:27:17.

Hello, I'm going to make this a quick question.

Simply put, I currently run some 20TB Seagate Exos x20 drives. I was looking to purchase more for a mixture of things. I am on server parts deals looking at new and recertified.

For the same price point I could get 5 new or 6 recertified. The main goal is using 4 and the rest are spares. So for the new option if have an additional spare or get the recertified and have two additional spares.

Thoughts on which is the better route to go?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Rev0d on 2024-09-14 15:17:50.

Original Title: Twenty percent of hard drives used for long-term music storage in the 90s have failed. About a fifth of the hard drives it receives from the media industry for service are completely dead, said enterprise information management company Iron Mountain

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/SciFiIsMyFirstLove on 2024-09-14 15:02:54.

A serial over USB fan controller that can lie to the motherboard about the fan speeds to ensure there are no fan alarms, while controlling the fans itself and if there is a problem with a fan sending one of the faked signals as zero - you might be wondering why??? My board has two fan Zones which is insufficient for being able to minimize RPMs and keep things cool - in the event one fan drops below minimum RPM's all fans go to max speed and it sounds like a jet.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Hi7u7 on 2024-09-14 14:00:53.

Hi friends.

I searched for tutorials and video tutorials to extract 3D models from a 380º 3D preview and open them in Blender.

Unfortunately I could only find quite old tutorials, but I managed to do this:

I'm using Linux, so from Firefox, I opened the 380º 3D preview, pressed F12, selected the "Network" tab, pressed F5, selected the search field and searched for ".binz", then I downloaded the following:

• file.binz
• model_file.binz
• model_file_wireframe.binz

How can I now extract the 3D models from these files and open them in Blender?

Is there perhaps some other way to do this that I am not aware of? I would like to learn how to do this, if it is currently possible to do so.

Thanks in advance.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/gmichs12 on 2024-09-14 13:45:18.

I copied a vhs tape to a dvd-r file 10 years ago and now when I play the dvd-r from a dvd writer external drive to my macbook, it just plays the video and I don’t see any TS_video files in finder. I am trying to copy my home video dvd’s (that I burned 10 yrs ago) to a digital format. Is there a way to do this if I might have burned the actual video to disk with no files? Fyi..I used a vhs / dvd dual player to burn the dvd-r’s. Hope I don’t have to find a vhs player and then copy original vh’s directly into the macbook.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ewlung on 2024-09-14 13:17:34.

Edit: Apparently external SSD with Thunderbolt 3 is very expensive. So, I don't want that. I think USB A 3.1 Gen 2 should be good.

I'm looking for external storage which will be connected to Intel NUC10I7FNH. It via USB A 3.1 Gen 2 ports. It also USB C on the back.

Capacity 12TB, and preferably quiet. I will use it mainly to store photo and video files (mp4, hevc, etc.) from my phone and camera. And I will do photo editing using Adobe Lightroom. All just casual home uses, not professional.

So, what would be your recommendation?

The Intel NUC pc itself has 1TB SSD for OS and 2TB SSD, but they're nearly full. And I also have a few external SSD, 2TB, 4TB. A bit tired buying those, therefore I am now thinking much bigger storage 😃

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Inmyprime- on 2024-09-14 13:14:30.

Has anyone bought drives from China like this one?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/156233568432?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=znlvjhk8st6&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=bVssSHQvS_a&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

Does anyone know how the cost is so low? I bought about 4 and I have to say they work fine. I haven’t noticed anything dodgy (so far, been a few years and no failure so far).

The only issues I noticed:

• if you order above a certain threshold (in UK it is £135), you might have to pay import duty
• when I tried to register for international warranty with Seagate website, the model or serial number was not recognised so you have to rely on the company selling those drives

So are these drives from Seagate or a knock off? I can’t figure out. But they do work. I have had them for a few years. They are about 40% cheaper generally than getting them in Europe.

I use these for backup plus I backup on Backblaze. But I still live in fear something might break or fail. I do t think they are complete fakes (like some pictures I have seen online with a usb drive inside). But I am also not sure they are Seagate’s.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Garbage_Humanoid on 2024-09-14 11:05:58.

So recently I have been having issues with my QNAP TR-004 in which my 49TB JBOD resides "turns off" disconnects in a weird way. The status light turns red and the USB light stays on however the HDD light for HDD1 and HDD4 turn off and the HDD2 and HDD3 lights get very dim. I have tried swapping the placement of the drives but every single time I have this issue the corresponding lights behave this way. I have noticed that the issue seems to happen whenever I either read or write data for a long period of time.

Contained Drives: Seagate Exos X20 20TB, Seagate Exos X20 18TB, 2x Seagate IronWolf NAS 8TB

It doesn't matter if the amount of data is large though if it is then it seems the happen a lot faster. I tested this by downloading a 100gig file at 10KB/s and in maybe about 6-7 hours time the device "turned off" in this manner. While If I download something at 15MB/s then it happens in a few hours and if the device is left alone it does not turn off.

I read somewhere here on reddit that QNAP devices are known to have faulty MOSFETs and that could possible be an issue? and I found mention that if you improve cooling by replacing the fan that might "fix" the issue. I have already contacted QNAP about this issue and was told that "yes" it "might" be a hardware issue and that they would fix it for 140€ as it is (I think) about 6 months past its warranty period.

These issues started only a after I added the Seagate Exos X20 20TB drive which I recently acquired and recreated my JBOD with it. I have tested the drive with a few disk health tools and all of them as well as the "QNAP External Raid Manager" say that the the drive is healthy.

I would like to know what is the biggest, thickest fan which will fit inside? I was thinking of maybe getting one of these.

(POST GETS REMOVED IF I ADD ANY LINK SO WILL POST THEM IN THE COMMENTS)

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/lowlifeguy on 2024-09-14 10:27:43.

can someone convert this or tell me how to download ive tried alot of methods and it just rbings me to 404 error even tho this link still works?

https://web.archive.org/web/20130810024059/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2en_H9bYAj4&gl=US&hl=en

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/evyjb on 2024-09-14 09:33:08.

My personal archives are made up of 4To HDD numbered 001, 002, and copies named as follows: 001A, 001B, 001C...

They are stored in a pellican case most of the year, but once a year I run a SHA-256 checksum on each HDD. My thought process is that it helps prevent bit rot by making them activate once a year, as well as check for bit rot by creating a checksum that I can compare to the original checksum of each HDD.

If the checksum is different, I run Freefilesync to "resync the bytes" from another copy.

Is that good enough?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Bismarck_seas on 2024-09-14 09:20:35.

So i am using the samsung PSSD encryption software that comes with my samsung ssd, which it is supposed to be aes256 encryption and require a password to access the drive.

I am wondering if after like 10-20 years, will the software or encryption fail, like being unable to decrypt the data even with the right password or the software did not recognize the password? That would be a really bad day...

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Ok-Garbage4439 on 2024-09-14 07:04:10.

So my hard drive is dying, it has some bad sectors and every time I put stress on it the driver fails and disappears from my drivers list until I restart the lap top again, I have bunch of pictures that I would like to save, some of them died for sure but there is still a lot of them that can be opened

so now my question is how to copy them out of the drive without hitting the corrupt files which make the driver fail ?

I appreciate any help

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Far_Temperature9567 on 2024-09-14 06:54:35.

I've been reading a good deal about home NAS devices and am looking to set up my first system. Likely with a Synology 1522+.

I'm thinking of using 24TB Ultrastar HC580 drives in their base (SE) firmware version.

Has anyone used these? Is there anything I should know or consider before getting them? Other options include the usual suspects: Exos, Ironwolf, Toshiba, etc...

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/c9898 on 2024-09-14 04:57:37.

Just looking for a simple plug and play DAS enclosure that can fit 2-4 HDDs. It will primarily be used as a backup for my main drives in my PC.

I'm looking at these three units:

Mediasonic Probox

Terramaster D4-300

Syba SY-ENC50104

I've looked around and the first two seem to be the most recommended ones. I won't go wrong with either of them right?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/tecepeipe on 2024-09-13 23:39:22.

My BIOS has Hot Swap option for SATA, so with the pc powered on, I click on eject icon, and done. Then I remove the power cable.

But sometimes, the HDD gets stuck on windows, some file handle still opened on Explorer or some app. Using Process Explorer sometimes I can find it, and close the app, or forcelly close the handle.

But sometimes not, so I just run SYNC.exe tool as admin (from Sysinternals, same as the linux command) and just ignore ejecting.. and remove the HDD.

Anyone doing this crap method too? Seems to be reliable, over 5 years with no corruption.

My HDDs are kept in the drawer, safe from ransomware, reducing the mileage. If I need the data, I use from cloud (with rclone) the HDD is just the cold storage, that I plug from time to time for updating.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/sarkara1 on 2024-09-13 23:31:55.

I've been using IDrive for a few years now, and honestly, I'm fed up with it. Here are a few reasons why:

1. Price Hikes: I think I initially signed up when they had an unlimited storage option, though I could be wrong. Even so, I didn't need unlimited storage, so it didn't bother me. However, I got a discounted rate for switching from my old backup service. Fast forward a few years, and now the storage is capped at 5 TB, and the pricing just keeps going up. The latest jump was from $79.5/year to $99.5/year, a 25% increase. It feels like they're squeezing me more and more every year.
2. Backup Mess: The way IDrive handles backups is a joke. When files or folders get moved around on my computer (which is normal), the old empty folders stay in the backup. So if I'm looking for something, I'm stuck sorting through a bunch of non-existent junk. It's a total mess. I've contacted customer support about this more than once, but all I get is a canned response: "We will let the development team know." Nothing changes. I'm still dealing with this as we speak.
3. Slow Mobile App: Ever tried to restore/view a file using their mobile app? It's slower than a Penguin walking from the South to the North Pole. Even the smallest text file or image would leave the app spinning forever, which is beyond frustrating.
4. Customer Support: Their customer support is just bad. They've got first-level tech support people who seem outsourced and only able to handle the most basic "technical" issues. If you've got a billing or account problem, they pass the call off to someone else who may or may not answer. And even if you get through to the right department, they usually just escalate it by creating a ticket. No one seems to have the power to make any real decisions or fix anything, and there's no clear timeline for when a manager will even look at your issue.

So, has anyone else been having these issues? I'm considering switching to something else - would love to hear about your experiences or if you've found better alternatives!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/JamesRitchey on 2024-09-13 23:31:47.

This question applies to organizing your archived data, not use instances.

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Professional-Lab5080 on 2024-09-13 23:12:29.

Hello, I am looking for a manager/search engine that has the OCR capacity to import 4 TB of PDFs that I have. I am looking for a solution that can handle this amount efficiently and that of course, can use a graphic that I have to do the OCR if possible. I know of some solutions but I have heard that when they handle a certain number of documents, performance drops considerably.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/selinoick on 2024-09-13 22:33:02.

I follow quite a bit of tech podcasts, but have never come across one(s) specifically covering how to care for our beloved digital archives (thinking of preferred setups, interviews, use cases, general banter,…) Any recommendations? Or someone here ready to take up the challenge;) ?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/MaiChaMH on 2024-09-13 22:28:41.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Important_String_281 on 2024-09-13 22:20:23.

I've got 2 10tb drives with one having about 3tb of data on it, the other will be empty. Can I create a RAID1 array with these 2 without wiping the first one? Sorry if this is a dumb question, all the results I was seeing while researching was people trying other RAID forms to expand the data, I just want a redundant backup with faster read speeds.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Thynome on 2024-09-13 21:26:04.

Hi, I'm the creator of nHentai Archivist, a highly performant nHentai downloader written in Rust.

From quickly downloading a few hentai specified in the console, downloading a few hundred hentai specified in a downloadme.txt, up to automatically keeping a massive self-hosted library up-to-date by automatically generating a downloadme.txt from a search by tag; nHentai Archivist got you covered.

With the current court case against nhentai.net, rampant purges of massive amounts of uploaded works (RIP 177013), and server downtimes becoming more frequent, you can take action now and save what you need to save.

I hope you like my work, it's one of my first projects in Rust. I'd be happy about any feedback~

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Claymater on 2024-09-13 19:51:49.

Hi everyone! It looks like there is now a product page available for the Jonsbo N5. There is no information on when it will be available, as far as I can tell, but it's exciting for those of us who have been waiting for it!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/SFX200 on 2024-09-13 18:21:44.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/badincite on 2024-09-13 18:13:19.

What's the best deal on on a 12TB+ size drive with a 5 year warranty right now? Looing at the 14TB ST14000NM001J for $219 right now.