It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/tropicalisim0 on 2024-08-31 19:51:33.

So let's say I download a pirated file from Mediafire or any other cloud file hosting site. This file is then found by authorities after someone reports it for piracy. Could authorities then ask the file hosting platform to give them the IPs of every user that downloaded that file(assuming the file has a small amount of downloads)?

And if so, how long do they log your ip for? Let's say I downloaded the pirated file two months ago, is my IP address still in their database?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Lets_Go_2_Smokes on 2024-08-31 19:14:57.

I'm trying to convert some old VHS home videos to digital. After finding the cost of professional conversion too high, I decided to try it myself. I didn’t realize how challenging (or expensive) it would be! I started with the Roxio VHS to DVD, thinking it would be a simple solution. Roxio Link

I tried using the Roxio software, but the file sizes were small, and the quality was terrible. I then switched to OBS and VirtualDub. The video quality improved, but the file sizes were massive (about 1GB per minute). However, I noticed the recording would randomly fail, showing a blue screen as if the connection was lost.

After researching VHS tech, I learned there’s a lot more to this process than I initially thought. The tapes had white grainy lines and video glitches, which seemed to trigger the blue screen recording failures. I have about 20 tapes to convert and don’t want to babysit the process constantly.

When I connected the VCR directly to a TV, the video looked great (for VHS) with no grain, cutouts, or other issues. It became clear the problems were due to the cheap Roxio capture card.

I ended up buying a RetroTINK 5x Pro, which was pricey, but based on YouTube reviews, it should fix the grainy video and cutouts—at least, I hope so.

https://youtu.be/Br6YRkOM9jA?si=nuLlKx_wH6g0coUC

Now, I need a standalone HDMI capture card (external or internal PCI) for my computer.

Any suggestions on which capture card I should get?

Any tips?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ProgrammerWeak3276 on 2024-08-31 18:34:29.

I visited lto homepage and it said that they have sustainable long term roadmap for decade which may lead to petabyte/tape.

To compare it with size of mainstream and highend medias, 1080p video was 5TB/year. 4k might be 20TB/year, and 8k might be 80TB/year. And most luxurious audio files like 32bit/384khz flac is 25TB/year And practical widespread audios like 320kbps mp3 is 1.25TB/year

It means that single future tape with 625TB can store acceptable quality media of 100 years.

At this point decision making becomes irrelevant as stastically unlikely. And you can bruteforce whatever you play.

To summarize. Ever increasing storage capacity will automize offline archiving as semi infinite storage capacity supply far exceeding demand will enable people to everything they recognize until they die.

Lack of mental demand to be selective about what to archive or to make long term plan budget for subscription Will make it mainstream. Leading to golden age of archiving.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Clawkikker on 2024-08-31 18:21:35.

I have an Dell r720xd with various drives including other sas/sata drives using a flashed raid controller. Seemingly the server was reset and now is facing an issue where the device won't spin up. I tried putting the drive in a bay which is known to work and still won't power on. I have used the drive in a hard drive dock and it works normal. It seems as if the server is not issuing a start up command to the drive through the sata interface or something. The only thing I can think that I did recently was enable to drive to go to sleep using hdparm -y /dev/sdX. However based on what I read, this does not last through restarts so it shouldn't be affecting anything. I tried covering the 3.3v pin if somehow that became an issue after a device reset but it did not change anything either (not that I expected it would).

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ak-guy on 2024-08-31 17:27:07.

I am in a remote location and I have internet but it is not the fastest. I currently perform regular local backups to an external drive connected to my pc in my house. I would like to put a backup drive in another building. That building has wifi using a TP-link mesh setup. The building has electricity but is not always heated. So how do I connect a SSD drive in the outbuilding to allow backups from the pc in my house?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/lukeflegg on 2024-08-31 17:17:51.

Hello!

Wow I've been searching hard and long for this. Closest I've got is Dropbox. I want a media archive for photos & videos - on the cloud so I can collaborate with a (non-techie) team so we can all (from our own devices):

1. upload photos/videos
2. download them
3. batch edit tags/labels of these photos/videos
4. quickly/easily browse the tags/labels

So I just need to see the list of all 30-50 tags and sometimes combine 2 or 3, like "erica" "horse" "teaching"

to get photos/videos of Erica teaching people horse riding.

Please recommend!

Definitely not looking to set up some NAS/ self hosted/ anything complicated. I just want Dropbox/ Google Photos/ etc but with tagging that isn't horribly designed and ineffective!

Thank you for any ideas : )

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Euphoric-World6339 on 2024-08-31 16:28:35.

CONTEXT: I joined a patreon and I was given access to videos and the ability to download them seems to be gone or disabled. But yet there WAS still a method to download the video via the "Inspect" shortcut on the chrome site. However I'd imagine they updated google drive and they fixed the "method" of downloading the mp4 files. Has anyone managed to download a google drive video with this new update?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/dumbdude001 on 2024-08-31 15:50:51.

Had an interesting question from a non-technical friend of mine. He recently had some corruption in his external HDD and was asking this question.

Imagine you have a video that is in the size of 1 GB, and then a corruption occured within the backup's storage medium or during transmission or some random bit flip. This corruption is of the size 512kB or 1MB.

Would any of the block-based dedup backup tools try to restore the 1GB video file? OR would these tools just skip restoring this file?

If some of these tools can somehow manage to restore the video, which backup tool would restore the video with the least amount of damage?

My 2 cents: I thought non-dedup tools like rsnapshot would probably be the best.

Thanks guys.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/complexrexton on 2024-08-31 13:13:48.

Hey Everyone,

A while back, I realized that many of the posts I had saved on Reddit for future reference were disappearing. After some search, I found a tool on GitHub called reddit-saved-saver that did a good job at saving posts and comments. However, it lacked a few key features that I needed:

• Capturing Additional Context: When saving posts, I wanted to include the associated comments, and when saving comments, it was crucial to capture the related post or parent comment for full context. Unfortunately, the existing tools I found didn’t cover these aspects. Preserving the full context of saved posts and comments is essential for my planned use in a local Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system.
• Automated Backups: I didn’t want the hassle of manually backing up my saved content. I’m lazy :D

So, I decided to build my own solution.

Introducing Reddit Stash:

Reddit Stash is a Python script I developed to address these gaps. It automatically saves your Reddit saved posts and comments, along with your comments and posts, including the necessary context, every day around 00:00 CET using GitHub Actions on Dropbox. This means you don’t have to worry about manual backups. The files are saved in Markdown format, making them easy to read and reference later.

You can check out the code and setup instructions here: https://github.com/rhnfzl/reddit-stash

I hope this helps those of you who’ve been looking for a similar solution!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/CFXSquadYT on 2024-08-31 15:25:59.

I have 10+ old external drives how to backup it all on one disk?

It’s about 18tb or something and it is a lot of old music, pictures from my old phones, video’s memories etc.

It is cluttered all around all the drives and I would love to have one big disk with everything organized by year / file. Sounds like a fun sideproject for me to unwind and have a beer with it.

How would you all approach something like this?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/MERKAT44 on 2024-08-31 14:23:20.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/dagdrommer94 on 2024-08-31 13:54:59.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Deep-Egg-6167 on 2024-08-31 12:25:08.

Hello,

I notice a shortage of these drives just recently. Has something changed at Seagate?

I realize there are other brands and models and yes, I've used all of them. I'm just interested in the X24 currently.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/TheUglyStranger on 2024-08-31 12:10:34.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Subfader on 2024-08-31 11:56:42.

I have two d2 Professional 18 TB drives and think about inserting them into an old 2big RAID enclosure.

But I can't find information which drive is inside it except for "IronWolf". I'd like to confirm it with the compability list https://www.seagate.com/de/de/support/kb/lacie/lacie-big-products-drive-compatibility-list-007780en/

Just want to make sure before opening the d2.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/jasonhelene on 2024-08-31 10:46:37.

Hello,

I'm trying to get the best of Ubuntu server LTS so i came to ask some times.

I saw on web you can get pretty close experience using ubuntu server + docker + portainer + cockpit.

Is anyone using such things and can give me some tips of configs and things i may want to add, plugins etc etc?

I'm building a home nas with a x99 xeon that i had on basement.

Thanks in advance.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/iznogoude on 2024-08-31 10:40:38.

Hi. I'm turning to the real hard drive specialists community to check which (hopefully free) programs you'd recommend to check a disk "health" (bad sectors and other problems). One shot diagnostic or resident monitoring both ok, as long as they would catch similar problems. It's sitting in a Windows machine so something locally installed would be easier but booting Linux via USB is no problem if that would be an alternative worth it.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/momokinou on 2024-08-31 10:30:16.

Hi,

For the context, I have a Truenas Scale NAS and want to seed my files because I like to share.

As said in the title, which VPN do you use for torrenting?

I wanted to use Mullvad but it seems they have changed their vpn and torrenting is not really good anymore.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/deluxedeluxe007 on 2024-08-31 09:37:35.

Hey everyone, I need some advice on organizing my photos on Amazon Photos.

My problem:

• I have both JPG and RAW files for my photos.
• When I upload both, I see every photo twice in Amazon Photos - once as JPG, once as RAW.
• This makes it hard to browse my photos without constantly seeing doubles.

What I've tried:

1. Uploading JPGs first, adding them to an album.
2. Then uploading RAW files separately.

This helps a bit because I can view just the JPGs in the album. But outside the album, it's still a mess.

What I wish I could do:

• Easily separate JPGs and RAWs in Amazon Photos.
• Browse only JPGs for casual viewing.
• Access RAWs when I need them for editing.

I've already used a script to separate JPG and RAW files on my computer. Now I just need a good way to manage them on Amazon Photos.

Any tips or tricks you use to handle this? I'd love to hear your ideas!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/cdospawn on 2024-08-31 09:08:23.

Searching for an old web comic that I have been searching for a while. Used to have is save to an old hard-drive. During my most recent move I ended up damaging my HDD where I can't use anymore (broke the controller board off bottom).

As title staes I am currently looking for a full web rip of a single web comic from the years of, 2002 to 2008 by writer and illustrated by YUKON Makoto.

I am able to get to aspects of the website with the wayback machine, but can not seem to be able to load the comic other then first page and extra chapter missing like 8'ish chapters.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/saiyan7701 on 2024-08-31 05:35:47.

Not sure what happened, never encountered this problem before. I used molex to sata for a few sata drives plugged them in power turned on then off now won’t power on. Disconnected everything and put it back the way it was and plugged up the drives back to original sata power cable and now the drive wont work at all. Doesn’t show in bios either. Any ideas ? The drive and everything worked fine before I introduced the ide to sata splitter just trying to add new drives in.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Vegetable-Way-5766 on 2024-08-31 03:26:26.

Just because I'm planning to maybe get another 4tb for gaming and also maybe for my Xbox series.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Valuable-Speaker-312 on 2024-08-31 03:00:55.

I am thinking about ordering 36 drives at once. I am curious if anyone has ordered that many before for their own, PRIVATE use - not for a business. I am debating which one to buy from - they will be 20+ TB depending on price once I get to that point.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ShaggyDragon on 2024-08-31 02:54:26.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/FrozenClear on 2024-08-31 02:33:04.