It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/CharmingThunderstorm on 2024-08-25 02:35:21.

(This is for personal use, not business. I'm on Windows 10. I'm only using my machine to sync, I guess I'm a normie. No NAS, no S3 buckets, etc.)

So, I'm sick of OneDrive, for several reasons that I won’t list here (unless asked, but it doesn’t really matter). I like the 1TB of data I get from Microsoft 365, but I hate their syncing client. So I've been looking elsewhere.

I tried RaiDrive, but it mounts my files as a network drive, which is not what I want.

I'm trying SyncBackPro, but I... don’t understand it. I've followed the instructions, everything seems fine, but it's taking literal DAYS to sync my stuff. It's so, so, so slow. And there's not a lot of documentation or help on the internet. (I really wanted to love that program. There's a lifetime license, and I was looking forward to NOT having to pay for another subscription.)

I'm looking into GoodSync, but the reviews are pretty mixed. It still might be my next step.

Rclone is very interesting, but I'm feeling a bit out of my depth. (Actually, that's what I used to make the initial copy of my ~200 GB OneDrive content on my machine, because SyncBackPro was so slow.)

Do any of you have any idea about:

1. How to make SyncBackPro sync at a decent speed?

2. What I could use to sync between my computer and my OneDrive cloud at a decent speed?

I'll make sure to update this post (or at least answer the comments) in my journey toward a sync client I don’t hate. Feel free to ask me to clarify if I've not been clear or didn’t provide enough info.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Xanthon on 2024-08-25 01:47:11.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Neldawg1848 on 2024-08-24 23:57:13.

Does anyone know of any legacy support for a S4 NAS I’m having trouble with setting mine up (was gifted and second hand)

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/theMezz on 2024-08-24 23:48:50.

What NAS uses normal DOS files. By that I mean .. if the NAS device motherboard or something besides the hard drives fail, I want to be able to pull the drive out - install it a Windows or Linus computer and be able to read the files.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Far_Marsupial6303 on 2024-08-24 21:38:03.

Just a theory, but because SPD and other sellers of refurb/recert and white label drives have to wait until drives are pulled from service or enough binned drives accumulate in the manufacturer's warehouses, they have a much more limited supply chain. They can't just go to their supplier and say "I want X number of drives at this price." This is reflected in their often limited inventory and price fluctuations. To be clear, I'm sure they determine what they're willing to pay. But there's a balance between having to pay more and profit less, and not having any to sell at all.

I think the above is illustrated by their recent offering of refurb/recert Seagate Mach.2 drives. It's been reported that Mach.2 drives have been found in some of their externals, which makes sense since they were likely binned at the factory. But enough refurb/recert drives, probably from returns didn't accumulate until recently.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/FourSquash on 2024-08-24 21:36:18.

I've seen an unfortunate increase in posts like this lately. Someone will ask for help on some subject, several people will reply with a lot of detail and knowledge, and then OP never replies to the thread again. It's actually not just this sub, it's other ones too, but I see it here a lot. Another forum I frequent has a pretty strict "no drive-by posting" rule that is very effective at stopping people from doing this. There are some subs on reddit with a rule along the lines of "no replies from OP after 2 hours" that seems effective.

Sometimes, it doesn't matter, because the OP doesn't really need to respond. But a lot of the time people put effort into trying to help and then just get ghosted which is just not a good use of anyone's time and the info they posted isn't particularly useful to anyone without some level of closure or interaction from OP.

I don't think it's too common on this sub, but there are also OPs that are just bots that copy/paste posts from other subs or are AI generated and they never engage in the comments. They'd also be caught by such a rule.

I submit this request with peace and love and may all your drives spin for eternity

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Pooch76 on 2024-08-24 18:58:45.

If i have 3 x 12tb (10.9) drives in a two-way mirror currently giving me 16.3tb space, but would like to gain more room to breathe. Can i simply add one more 12tb drive to get ~21.8? any trick to it?

And what exactly does the 'optimize drive usage to spread data...' checkbox do?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/RufussSewell on 2024-08-24 17:50:35.

I just bought a 4tb T7 for use with Logic on a Mac. I transferred all of my music files on to it, about 2.7tb. So 1.3tb of space left.

The initial transfer took quite a long time but I wasn’t paying much attention and let it go all night.

Now I’m seeing small transfers of 2gb taking like 20 minutes. Seems to be going at around 10mb/s.

When I test with Samsung Magician it says about 400mb/s. It also says the drive is healthy. Same with Black Magic.

Why are the tests running fine, but actual transfers taking forever?

Sumsung Magician also has a warning that I should be using a different USB port. I’m just plugging directly into the USB-C on my M1 mbp.

Any ideas how to speed up my drive?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Traditionel on 2024-08-24 17:50:10.

If I transfer lots of date, it does not seem to do any rhythmic clics, only when I am first using it.

If I transfer a small file every 5 minutes, it will do that initial click every times.

I think I was reading that Seagate big external are doing this initial click but I need some pros to reassure me.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/luka18697 on 2024-08-24 10:58:40.

Hi, I'm goin to build a NAS and was looking for hard drives, but the prices for new one are quite high here in Europe (specifically Italy).

I was looking for Ironwolfs or Ironwolf pros and a new 12TB is around 320€ for the standard and 350€ for the Pro, higher capacities are even worse so I was searching for recertified drives.

Looking both on Amazon and ebay I found many recertified drives, but it's not specified if they are manufacturer recertified or not, so I'm assuming they are not and thus I don't trust them.

Searching on reddit i found that while in the use there are a lot of places where you can find manufacturer recertified drives, here in Europe there doesn't seem to be many choices. I found:

• https://datablocks.dev/ but the only have 20TB and 22TB exos drives for 250€
• https://www.jb-computer.de/ but they don't ship to Italy

Are there really no other sites that sell manufacturer recertified drive in Europe?

I'm mainly look for Ironwolfs or Ironwolf pros, but if there's a good deal I'll buy an Exos (the NAS would be in a storage room, so it's not a problem if the drives are loud). I'm accepting suggestions for other drives though.

I'm buying a Synology 423+ (if I can find it for a decent price), so I would need 4 drives

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/NatSpaghettiAgency on 2024-08-24 10:16:18.

Here and in r/homeserver I see builds with 20 or 30 drives using consumer-grade hardware.

What expansion cards do you advice to use and which ones not to use? Thank you.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Ok_Stranger_1061 on 2024-08-24 10:02:52.

Hello. I was using Raindrop for my links and I am trying another website to organize links. I have downloaded all of the links from Raindrop into a HTML file but the HTML is huge because of how ridiculous amount of links I have. I had a problem with Raindrop and want to try another organization website like that to organize and declutter my links but I kind of want to split the HTML file because of how big it is, so it takes less time to download the file to the new website. You understand what I mean? I have tried https://www.filesmerge.com/merge-text-files which works perfectly fine for my normal text files, but it does not seem to work with HTML files. Btw, I am not a person who knows tons about technical stuff so I need an easy explanation or another website which do works for HTMl files. I have tried searching but could not really find any that works. I found https://pinetools.com/split-files which I guess is somewhat working but I can't seem to open them after downloading them... Do you guys have another solution? Please help!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ShiTakeMushiROOM on 2024-08-24 06:05:09.

How many of you scan bad sectors from new off-the-shelf hdd before real use? Like filling with random data so that sector scan can be done.

Is it more like paranoid checking or somewhat plausible, that some manufacturing defect is so common to cause bad sectors from start?

I once read comment, can't remember where though, that someone just in case does this if there was manufacturing defect.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/SpezticMusk on 2024-08-24 03:23:32.

I was using the acronis WD edition That came with my external hard drive and it was so slow.

I thought that that's just how backups are. I wanted to try a few different ones before settling.

I'm open to options like open source stuff and paid but the speed of Macrium Was shocking. I have not tried cloning only imaging.

Does anything else compare?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Steinkolab on 2024-08-24 00:00:16.

Hello everyone !

Please when storing stuff on external HDD , is there any sort of " required maintenance" that must be ensured in order to preserve data ?

Exp : some suggest just plugging the drive once in a while , others suggest other methods to " re-magnetize " the sectors after a long period of storage.

Thanks for your time & I really appreciate your answers .

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/MassiveRetard429069 on 2024-08-23 22:49:35.

All the answers are so technical and I am completely computer illiterate. I want to download various wikis/fandom sites for offline reading but it's ridiculously hard. HTTrack downloads everything including google data and outside links and I have no idea how to stop it, and I have no experience with python so trying to use Wikiteam and MediaWiki is nearly impossible for me (it seems to not work on Windows and I'm trying on Linux but Linux is extremely frustrating). The instructions are difficult to follow. Currently I'm using an extension that lets me save each page individually which takes me hours and I don't even get everything.

Can anyone ELI5 for how to use python/Wikiteam? I read all the FAQs and readmes but they expect way more familiarity than I have. I don't want edit history or talk pages, I SOLELY want the current wiki pages at time of download and images. Thanks!!!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/hazmatlol on 2024-08-23 19:09:34.

Before, simple plug and play. Now, it seems like either waybackmachine is incapable of dealing with modern-day X posts in 2024 or I am doing something wrong.

Take this link for example: https://web.archive.org/web/20240620113630/https://x.com/doaenel/status/1803729066920423846

Any suggestions, tips or news on this front?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/mastafishere on 2024-08-24 02:51:58.

I had success downloading from Aki-h using cococut video downloader but they recently upgraded to a 3rd generation (I don't know what it means but its on all their videos) that makes the site run a little slow and now I can't download a thing from it. None of my videodownloaders work on it. Any thoughts?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Dependent_Wafer3866 on 2024-08-24 01:35:54.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Tonizio on 2024-08-24 01:35:49.

What speaks against the Deep Archive option.

It gives me roughly 1TB per 1€ per month in the EU-West Ireland Server. 1-2 times a year retrieval with up to 12 hours, doesn't seem too bad to me.

I guess it will cost more when I actually need a restore, but is it that bad?

Or am I missing something here?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/steviefaux on 2024-08-24 01:30:05.

So, finally saved enough money to build a new PC after 10 years of waiting. I have a Fractal Design R4 case because I liked all the drive space and the 5.25 bays which has my Blu-ray burner and DVD-RW in.

Now looking and wondering if I upgrade to a R6. Still got a decent amount of drive bays from what I can see, so I can put more drives in for backup and other junk. I could keep the R4 case with the current setup and turn it into a NAS possibly however, it would be overkill powerwise. Its an old i7 chip.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Valuable-Speaker-312 on 2024-08-24 01:12:43.

I am thinking about building a large Unraid server in the near future. My goal is to fit as many hard drives as I can in a case - preferably hot swap but not necessary, use an old motherboard/CPU, and various old sitting on the shelf gathering dust hardware for the core build.

This system will be mostly a storage server - MIGHT run KODI or Plex but not necessarily.

What I know I need:

Case - obviously

MB/CPU - I have an old Ryzen board with a 3 or 4-series processor on it.

RAM - 16 or 32 gb of RAM sitting on the shelf

video card - I think I have a 1080 or 1070 sitting on the shelf but won't matter with unRAID

Controller - LSI 16e or something like that from ebay, cable adapter for SAS to SATA.

USB drive - unRAID runs off USB if memory serves.

Hard drives - ServerPartDeals is going to LOVE me.

M.2 SSD or something for cache

Is there anything I am not thinking of? I will be coming from a Synology DS1819+ w/ DX517 that is populated with drives in 2x SHR-1 arrays. Would setting up let's say 12x 20TB drives with 2 parity drives be something reasonable to do?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/WitchCulture on 2024-08-24 01:08:02.

I have an aftermarket adapter (universal power adapter using 5.5 x 2.5mm 12v 2.1amp 1300ma) and it’s only turning the hard drive on for a second or two, and then turning off, and then turning back on, and then back off. Is my adapter just not powerful enough?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/InsaneNinja on 2024-08-24 00:59:34.

I’m switching from a lockdown era hackintosh with multiple internal 10TB drives, to a M4 Mac mini this fall. What’s a good option for storing my photography/media on the desk? I have a 4 bay NAS but that serves mostly as backup. I know drobo is dead, but I wanted something connected.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/SnooDoughnuts9361 on 2024-08-24 00:57:46.

Currently have an 8tb and a 12tb external drives with a bunch of files that have now gotten to be a disorganized mess to keep track of. I had a need to centralize my storage and create redundancy through a storage array and I am very new to ZFS.

I just built a 24tb RAID10 configuration using 4, 12TB drives on ZFS. I also just installed samba and mounted my ZFS to a Proxmox container.

NTFS mounted on Laptop --> SMB (LXC) --> ZFS Pool on Proxmox

before I dump all my files from my personal 8tb and 12 tb external drives in order to centralize them, I was wondering how to ensure I won't lose anything of value.

For instance, Samba doesn't handle windows acls well, so it converts them to linux, which doesn't bother me, but makes me question, will I lose anything else? Is there anything I should ensure my configuration contains before hand (e.g. encryption) as it becomes much more difficult to change after its my "production" dataset.