It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/RufussSewell on 2024-08-28 03:46:23.

I just got a new T9 4tb SSD. I’m trying to move files over to it, but every time I try it says the files are in use.

They are not in use.

I’ve rebooted etc. Reformatted to APFS. I’ve never had this happen before. Any tips?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Haunting_Wear535 on 2024-08-28 03:43:46.

What model and size should I buy?

I recently lost half a year’s worth of photos when my iPhone got ran over, so I’m paranoid of something like that happening again.

I’m looking for something reliable, durable, and budget friendly.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Terrible_Onions on 2024-08-28 03:43:25.

I'm looking to get an external SSD to store 360 video in and I think these are my best bet.

T7 is 225 US, X9 PRO is 150 US, X10 PRO is 180 US.

Which one do you think I should get?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/stonewallj93 on 2024-08-27 19:20:00.

Update: so to clarify. If possible it would be great to access this via online/cloud by a phone.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/SquirrelParticular59 on 2024-08-27 13:28:48.

I recently acquired some family photos that I want to ensure will last.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Raghavan_Rave10 on 2024-08-27 13:20:44.

I'm resetting my Windows 11 PC to start it fresh and clean, So i wanted to backup IDM's settings, web tool tip excluded sites, download paths, download history, basically everything. I tried searching on web but found nothing.

Thanks in advance for any replies.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/BlumyDummy on 2024-08-28 01:41:15.

¿¿So is stardom a well known brand or at least reliable???, I almost found no information about the brand but I see this sas cabins going around 2nd hand and they look neat and a good alternative to nas servers and also interesting, but its just for professionals and that's why there isnt reviews or that sort of thing or is just a weird brand? or also the fact that almost all servers are nas and not das or sas. Thanks!!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Kitchen-Quality-3317 on 2024-08-28 01:31:22.

In 2016 I bought an 8TB WD passport for $160. Today it sells for $170.

In 2019, I bought a 1TB Seagate HDD for $47.80. Today, the same exact one (with the same Amazon listing) sells for $66.

Am I missing something? I thought prices were supposed to go down over time.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/backyarddweller on 2024-08-28 01:24:09.

Just wonder if my home printer will do a good enough job scanning old photos. I think it has 1200 dpi.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/SgtFolley on 2024-08-28 00:49:21.

All, coming to you for some assistance. I've gone through the standard searches/vaults and other archives I thought may have a particular podcast that was on amazon and am hopeful someone can point me in the right direction.

Trying to help a friend find the old podcast episodes that for unexplained reasons I can't get to anymore because the podcast is in transition. It looks like they decided to take them all down or unpublish the previous season.

The Podcast title is A Million Paper Cuts: Divorce Demystified.

Mods: Not trying to disobey rule 8, please take down if this I'm too far into the weeds there.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/i_reddit_too_mcuh on 2024-08-28 00:47:20.

I bought some anti-shock cases for my old HDDs and the cases seem mostly fine. However there is about 1/16" to 1/8" of space after putting the HDD in that if you move the case around, the HDD will move around too.

I'm thinking I can:

• Do nothing. It's not like you will violently shake the case or move them around all that often.
• Stuff with a microfiber cloth. How do I tell if a microfiber cloth is anti-static?
• Cut up and stuff with an old cotton shirt.
• Stuff with something else.

What do folks here do if the case doesn't fit the HDD exactly?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/BlumyDummy on 2024-08-28 00:36:33.

I want to have start building my nas and I will start with 2HDDS at raid 1 (so one drive can fail)

but then I will want to expand with 2 or more HDDS in black friday probably and idk if then I should do raid 6 or raid z2. I dont fully understand the diference.

Both of them can fail up to 2 disks... So what is better nowadays?? And how easy or secure it is to migrate from raid1 to raid 6 or z2? Thanks!! Probably going for 8tb or around that. idk if its overkill going to use it for 3d, 2d and programming also for videos and photos not movies or series or at least I can errese them if they take a lot of space..

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/trumee on 2024-08-28 00:21:16.

Hello,

I have a motherboard with support PCIe 3.0 and has a spare x16 slot which supports bifurcation. I want to run some M.2 optane drives to improve ZFS performance.

I came across these two cards with new Asus being half the price of a used HP card.

• ASUS Hyper M.2 X16 PCIe 3.0 X4 Expansion Card V2 - 50 USD
• HP Z TURBO DRIVE QUAD PRO ADAPTER CARD - 100 USD

Which is a better choice between the two? I am hoping both are compatible with my Supermicro X10Drit motherboard.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/TXAGZ16 on 2024-08-28 00:15:53.

I currently have truenas in a VM. I tinker way less with proxmox than I used to since I have kids now. I saw someone create a pool with their drives, create a samba share in docker that was hosted in an LXC container and then assigned that to the user group 777 (definitely my some terminology wrong there) so that everyone would have access. Not the greatest security but it’s only me using it, nobody in my family cares or even knows how to attempt to access it. I would think that’s pretty reliable. I currently pass through the HDD to truenas and do everything in TrueNAS. Do any of yall do that and how reliable is it? I use my current SMB share in TrueNAS for *arrs and personal data (videos and pix of family). Maybe 40-100GB a month added in an average month. I don’t do any heavy editing or really use any of the main features a NAS offers. I just need a place to drag and drop my data, occasionally go down memory lane with some pictures.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/sp00kylucas on 2024-08-28 00:09:39.

I've got a few drives I've swapped out of my truenas array, and I can't quite remember if the reason for swapping them out was justified, like a ridiculous amount of errors etc. I'd like to know what are y'all's procedures to properly checking that a drive is dying/dead/not worth re-using, regardless of the data stored on them.

Currently I'm using seatools to run smart tests and try to format/"fix" them, some of them haven't been able to even run a smart test, immediately aborting. I assume that is one indicator?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ragewinch on 2024-08-28 00:02:22.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/thhrrroowaawwwaay on 2024-08-27 23:27:28.

It's not completely obvious to me if this type of post is allowed, but I figure that if anyone would be able to provide some well-considered input on this, it would be this subreddit.

I have a 2tb USB solid-state drive. I have hundreds of gigabytes of samples (audio files) that I've collected over many years stored on it (amongst other things). Normally this drive simply stays plugged into my home PC, but I need to be able to take this drive with me on-the-go. However, I'm scared to death that it will become lost or damaged and I will lose my collection.

I'm seeking a local backup solution for this problem. I could simply make a copy of this folder to my PC and automate that process somehow, but I figure that a NAS might be a better long-term solution. I have no experience with such things, however. To that end, there are a few characteristics that I desire:

• Easy and simple to set up. As close to plug-and-play as possible. (But if I have to do something more involved, then I'll just have to suck it up.)
• Backups are automatic. I want to back up the entirety of a single, specific drive, and I want it to happen automatically whenever changes to the drive's contents are detected. Bear in mind that this is a USB drive that may not always be available, but when I plug it in, I expect this process to initiate without so much as a thought on my behalf.
• Securely accessible over the internet, without a subscription of any kind. I figure that if I'm going to be investing in a NAS, then I would benefit from being able to access this drive remotely should the need arise. I will reiterate that, ideally, I should be able to accomplish this with as little work as possible.
• Quiet. My AC unit is noisy enough as is. I don't need another humming thing.

It does not need to be particularly fast, as the primary use case is just a reliable backup.

I'm prepared to spend about $300 or so on the machine itself. I intend on buying a 4tb SSD for this purpose, which is itself not an insubstantial expense. Any input is appreciated.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/UnderTheRubble on 2024-08-27 23:18:20.

Hi all. So I have a DIY NAS running. For month it was having issues with disk failing (two in particular) and having to rebuild party, one disk would also switch from 6GBPS to 1/3GBPS randomly.

I first thought it was an issue with the HBA card, then an issue with the disks, but I swapped out the PSU and I have been running smoothly, and more quickly, ever since. Its been so nice, previously, the server felt like I was walking on egg shells, and I didn't know why for a long time.

What led me to replacing the PSU was the strange start stopping sound I noticed one day coming from the server, and then checking the attributes on the disk.

All my disks give a PASSED on their SMART, but... two of my disks have a power cycle count of, and it pains me to say: 3300 and 880.... Of course, these are the two disks that I was having to rebuild. I still don't quite know what the PSU was doing that made this happen. The two disks in Scrutiny are reporting as FAILED because of a high Command Time-out, but I would imagine this wouldn't be happening anymore now that the issue is resolved?

I guess my question is where should I go from here? Are these drives seriously in trouble?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/DragonBarks on 2024-08-27 21:41:52.

Read up on several posts of this same question on Reddit, but it seems to be outdated. I am looking at the Easystore 6TB USB 3.2 Gen 1 and the My Passport that is both PC and Mac ready. But it seems the Easystore is newer and is already mac compatible. I am using these store raw photos of my work.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Work-Adventurous on 2024-08-27 21:26:27.

Im getting a really good deal with this hdd at 108 $... (latam prices). but i havent found anything on the network about a 10tb seagate NON pro... things get worst if i search using its batch number or code whatever (st10000dm010). Am i being scammed or something?

https://preview.redd.it/8kbg9g52y9ld1.jpg?width=829&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e19ede92af0c9b250731dcb12cad8e51ec48a8c2

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Raddit667 on 2024-08-27 20:49:36.

I’m planning to upgrade my 2-bay NAS to two Seagate X18 16TB. Because im running RAID1 and regularly backup on external off-site drives I’m willing to risk buying recertified HDDs in order to save some money.

I want to run a full surface test on the drives first though and I don’t want the test to run on the NAS but on a desktop PC I have.

Which tool would you recommend (can be windows or Linux, CLI or GUI doesn’t matter) which could test both drives simultaneously in order to save some time/or at least the hassle to switch the drives and start another test? As I’ve read 16TB can take some time.

I have tested drives before with windows CHECKDISK /x /r /f wich ran in cmd.exe but I don’t know if 2 instances would work this way.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/justvibing108 on 2024-08-27 19:57:46.

I was bored so i decided to look at some old youtube videos for the fun of it. but when i go to the index i see some files are restricted with a lock icon by the file name. anyone know why?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/katrosha13 on 2024-08-27 18:09:39.

Looking for some advice on what software to look for in buying a printer/scanner combo.

Ex. One canon printer has a scanner with “auto scan” but a different canon one I was looking at doesn’t have that. Do I really need it? Would it be super helpful in my case?

My father recently passed and I want to scan a few hundred photos. I don’t mind taking the time to scan them in but I don’t want to spend a bunch of time cropping/rotating etc.

I also don’t want to use a scanner service and would prefer not to buy a scanner as I won’t use it for much in the future (plan to use the combo machine for one offs as needed).

Thanks!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/GullibleDott on 2024-08-27 18:05:01.

Hello.

I do a lot of different projects each year, and each one goes into its own folder on my active drive. Then, everytime at Christmas I clear all of my inactive projects onto my archive drive. Every folder goes into something like 2023, 2024 etc.

If I want to find something specific, It isn't that hard, since I only have a few years of data. And there is always the Everything tool.

But what if I forget the name of the project or file, and I would have 20 different years? It would get very hard quickly.

I thought about just using shortcuts to important stuff, but what If I switch to Linux (which I am planning to do), or what If I change drives etc.

Projects

Example year

This example year has some subfolders, which group projects together.

What would you guys do? Is there some folder organizing software?

I would want to be able to find for example all IT projects from each year (IT is a common subfolder in each year), or stuff like that.

Thank you!

Edit: Same with my photos. I store them by year, and then subfolders for each specific occasion. How would you manage that?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/P_G_R_A on 2024-08-27 16:02:56.

I've been planning a build and came across an interesting motherboard with 8 SATA ports.

aliexpress com/item/1005007227995344.html edit: (The consensus seems to be to stay away from it)

But I wanted to check if this was a bad idea and even if someone has experience with something like this.

Would I be able to buy a 12100 and plop it in there? Or can I trust the 12100T which can be bought with it?

Would this overkill memory work? https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-2x48GB-Memoria-port%C3%A1til-CT2K48G56C46S5/dp/B0C79K5VGZ