It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Sensitive_Comfort166 on 2024-07-27 02:04:11.

My mom has taken tens of thousands, probably hundreds of thousands, of pictures and videos for over the past few decades. She has stored the vast majority of these photos on SD cards, simply because they get put in the camera, the pictures get saved to them, and no further work has to be done. However, she was unaware that its not uncommon for data storage to fail, and so now she wants to move all of her photos to a different storage. I offered to build her a computer to store everything, but now that I'm researching it I don't know what would be the most reliable. Obviously SSDs would be very expensive, so I'm mainly looking at a combination of SSDs and HDDs, but are there any other systems that would stand the test of time better? I assume multiple of the SD cards have failed or lost data over time, since many are 10+ years old. Is data recovery possible for those? My guess for the amount of data is anywhere between 15 and 25 TB. Appreciate any suggestions, I'm fairly familiar with computer components but not involved in the world of data storage.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/bitpandajon on 2024-07-27 00:11:24.

I had a large program on an external drive and it stopped working. Drive is only about 70% full. It has been fine for 3-4 years. How can I tell if a drive is failing? Also, how often would you check your backup copy of a hard drive to make sure it’s good for when a main fails? Thanks for the advice!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/rynamic on 2024-07-26 23:42:48.

https://www.westerndigital.com/products/external-drives/sandisk-professional-g-drive-usb-c-hdd?sku=SDPHF1A-022T-NBAAD

I picked up this about a month ago, wanted to consolidate my cold storage/archive drives bit better, and move on from a lot of 10-15 year old 1-4tb drives. I've migrated ~20tb to it and seeing some interesting info in the SMART info via DriveDx on OSX. Start/stop count is at 2783 and spin up time at 359hr is showing 83% health. Also, showing higher temp than perhaps expected, and reporting lower 'health' rate as well. Anyone else see this on their Sandisk Pro drives? Note: I'm not a master at reading SMART data, and possible this is common in some regard.

Seems out of the norm, but this is also my first Sandisk Pro external like this. None of my previous GRAIDs or G-DRIVES have this type of parabola, and thought I'd ask here. Still within return period, and curious what you all suggest? PIA to remigrate, but not opposed to it at all for longevity purposes.

setup: this is externally connected via TB3 plugged into Studio Display, in a normally air-conditioned office. thanks in advance all!

https://preview.redd.it/exhopvei7yed1.png?width=1710&format=png&auto=webp&s=5a527b253effabbdfde28f3eece74000814175f4

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/AllSeeingAI on 2024-07-26 23:41:33.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Leftcoaster7 on 2024-07-26 22:30:28.

I am not super handy with building pcs so am a bit wary of going the DIY route. I've also used a Synology router for the past 7 years so I know their quality.

My use case is solely photo and video storage (I'm a diver, basically storing and sharing my underwater experiences), preferably with RAID mirroring. My current library is at 2TB and I estimate I'll need 6-10TB over the life of the NAS.

My budget is 400-500 USD including drives. I've been looking at the Terramaster F2/4-212 and Synology DS223. Would love to spring for a 423 but don't have the money. Have also looked at Buffalo LinkStation 220 but heard they have a bad reputation. Any thoughts? Please keep in mind this is mainly for storage and casting videos to my smart TV, nothing else

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/manpereira on 2024-07-26 22:08:37.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/PrimaryViolinist4470 on 2024-07-26 21:15:19.

I’ve tried saving videos on third party apps and websites, but it is really bad quality when u download it from third party apps. Is there any way to get the highest original quality video on Pinterest?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Ok_Exchange_9646 on 2024-07-26 20:41:03.

Say I have the Udemy Personal Plan subscription and I want to download those videos for offline usage. Is there a tool that will let me do this?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/johnnyutah1103 on 2024-07-26 19:40:02.

Hey everyone,

Recently I noticed some songs I have saved to playlists on Spotify were removed from the service. They're very small artists and their music can easily be lost, but it's stuff I really enjoy.

My question is, how can I create a backup for all these? I have a lot of playlists and probably have thousands of songs saved over all of them, so doing a little youtube to mp3 would take (probably literally) months to years to backup them all. So... does anybody have any ideas? Has anyone else set out to do the same?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/BigIreland on 2024-07-26 18:00:10.

I picked up a 20TB N300 Pro NAS from Micro Center last week for $368.99 plus tax. It’s working out really well and was thinking to get another one but now it’s showing at $549.99 discounted from $629.99. Yikes.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/txhammer68 on 2024-07-26 17:27:22.

Started rebuilding my movie library after HDD crash and decided to make a front end for my media library.

https://github.com/txhammer68/blueboxx#blueboxx-media-manager-app

Thought this might be a good place to share it.

Takes a bit of work to make it functional, but works great, lightweight and fast.

https://preview.redd.it/7jq3k06ydwed1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=0792b62990a0cfd580d877d5db9b41d9ff99f29d

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/robcourtney on 2024-07-26 17:14:34.

I am not a true data hoarder but I have a Plex server running on a very old Dell Optiplex 9020, which has an i5-4570 and 12GB RAM. Media is stored across four hard drives, all of which are attached to a single 4-bay enclosure, which is attached to the Dell via USB. Windows 10 is running on the drive inside the Dell, and I use remote desktop to manage it.

This is not a great system obviously but it does work. Media streams with no problem. My problem is that managing this system through remote desktop is terribly slow. Like, it takes thirty seconds to draw a window upon clicking something. This is when Plex is doing nothing. I realize that if the Dell were trying to interact with the media drives, there would be an obvious bottleneck, but this is happening at times when, it seems to me, nothing should be going on w/r/t the media drives. I have turned off as many indexing services as I can find. Can anyone think of anything I can do just to make management easier? I just want windows to ignore the media drives entirely unless Plex is actually using them for some reason. Any suggestions welcome. I am not super excited about starting over with Ubuntu. This is because the system is also creating local backups of certain Microsoft Onedrive folders—but before you ask, those are also stored on the internal HD, and not the media drives. Thanks in advance.

https://preview.redd.it/uy7vff3kawed1.png?width=619&format=png&auto=webp&s=e24c3844432f4b046a36d8469364f81dd4168d51

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/wonka88 on 2024-07-26 17:09:57.

I have a home Unraid server in a pc case that can hold 8 HDDs. Those are all in use and powered by 2 SATA connectors from my PSU via a 4 way SATA splitter.

I'd like to add some SSD's to the empty 5.25 bays I have but how will I power them? Is there any way to (safely) add more SATA power to my system? I know Molex is not the way to go. What about PCIe? The system is only a motherboard and hard drives. No GPU or anything that needs extra juice.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Superiorem on 2024-07-26 16:27:18.

Strange question, I know.

I'm building an Unraid box. It feels wasteful to use a USB 3.x 16/32/64GB flash drive as an Unraid boot disk.

Naive assumption: there exists leftover stock of USB 2.0 flash drives from the mid-2010s in sizes 2GB, 4GB, and 8GB.

Question: is there a good place to find these? Presumably even well-made ones sell for pennies now.

I know that modern USB flash drives are also dirt cheap, but hell, if I can reduce e-waste in some way, why not? (although maybe I'm misunderstanding how supply chains work).

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/IrishWhiskey556 on 2024-07-26 16:04:17.

Need something portable like an external hard drive but using 2 drives in raid 1. Okay so at home I have a 60tb NAS I built set in raid 1 for backup. I try and follow the 3-2-1 rule best I can. I have a recording studio, but also do live sound and often record the live shows for bands. Right now I just save the files to the laptop I'm recording into, then copy them over to my NAS when I get home. Obviously this has some risk to it. Im wondering if anyone knows of a 2 drive raid 1 external hard drive? Or a small portable NAS? Doesn't need to be large storage a 4 hour show running 34 channels at 48hz/16bit will only take about 10gb of storage. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/g0y7m-3r4d1r92 on 2024-07-26 15:30:59.

I tried this https://github.com/AlexCSDev/PatreonDownloader and everything works until i sign up in chromium at the patreon and nothing happens,normally it should start downloading these videos/files and i could see that in the powershell,but no,nothing happens.Can someone help with this software and if it doesn't work anymore,recommend another one?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/a0supertramp on 2024-07-26 15:11:08.

Does anyone know of any libraries in Canada that might focus on having complete collections of magazines (instead of just the most recent issues) and offer inter-library loans. Looking for a magazine that just went defunct that was never digital and not finding anything more than the past two years in local and neighboring provinces libraries.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/chocolatebanana136 on 2024-07-26 14:53:11.

Hey there,

I need some help regarding a certain website I want to download files from. The website in question is https://cytoid.io/levels?sort=creation_date

Example links of level files are:

https://assets.cytoid.io/levels/packages/OVPi0ttl8xeBU7jgq8Ggd8KEZL6KnWo3tpDT6C1hISjHZAxddmU9hzhDixObLzLj8?token=yYI2UG5P4K7Vprz3ruCqUIRWevrEs443nQuAdWPrAuk%3D&expire=1722008716260&level\_uid=lr.your\_name

and

https://assets.cytoid.io/levels/packages/FWP7HBWJPG67hZKxxPGv2PaFuLZ5rA3LHd5tO5u1bg5NZ3Qhc16Q2Dz0UNgdv0?token=Tzs2lrkytBQP54C%2FYvp1HrC%2FNJ87fdjHsxxMyxRWi30%3D&expire=1722008733696&level_uid=james.linearaccelerator

How would I go about downloading all these level files?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/LaundryMan2008 on 2024-07-26 14:04:20.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Stinnersmash on 2024-07-26 12:26:23.

hey All!

So im looking for a bit of advice. At the moment I have a Synology DS218+ which i only use for plex. its currently only got 8tb of space and running out fast. As part of my work i have come into 6 12tb HGST SaS drives which i would love to use to expand my Plex library. here comes the hard part, i don't know what the best way to go about it would be. Do I build some sort of DAS that can take the sas drives and plug that into the sinology box or do i build a new box to put these drives in and run plex from that instead. Any Advice on builds for a dedicated machine or a DAS that would work with the Synology box would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ThomasNoname on 2024-07-26 12:07:20.

I just found a 2.2 Terabyte seagate drive I had laying around, and it gave me an idea to start hoarding certain things I find, I want to be sure to keep. I already have another much smaller Western Digital drive on 900 gigs, I use as an archive. But I'm thinking of using the big drive as a cold storage device, I only open every now and then, and put things on, and use my 900 as my hot one. How long would this drive last? If we assume it doesn't have any defects from the start. Depending on this, I think I'll replace it every x years, maybe.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/antdude on 2024-07-26 06:46:15.

I have 2 SanDisk GB flash drive (256 GB with USB-A & USB-C ends, and 512 GB with old USB-A). They both get hot quickly both a 2020 Intel MacBook Pro and 64-bit W10 Pro. PC. :(

Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon. :)

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/collectable_things on 2024-07-26 05:31:55.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/outm on 2024-07-26 02:37:19.

Hello,

Recently I was looking at the market for two small SSD - one to carry around and use occasionally, containing business/personal data with bitlocker, and being backup up about once a week, and another for a Raspberry I have at home for AdGuardDNS and maybe as occasional SAMBA server (+reliability than MicroSD/flash pendrives)

What I value the most is for it to be reliable (physically and technologically), small and cheap. Yeah, I ask a lot, I know.

The thing is, I found on Amazon an offer on the Trasnscend ESD310C, a “pendrive” with USB-A and USB-C that they sell as it being an SSD on a Pendrive factor.

Small as a Pendrive and 11 grams, Google says to me it uses:

Silicon Motion's SM2320 native UFD controller coupled with Kioxia's BiCS5 112L 3D TLC NAND

Also, it appears to have a p-SLC cache of 32GB. And 256-AES hardware encryption (Anandtech says not available, but the manufacturer says yes) - and TRIM, SMART, available. All in that size of an aluminium bar.

I suppose it probably will catch a lot of heat when on use for big transfers, but even then, I have not been able to find a conclusion about this (I just hope it doesn’t catch that much heat as to not work properly)

So, at the end, between this and a another external SSD like a Samsung S7 or Crucial X9 (which is QLC!), at about the same price, do you think the Transcend have any shortcomings? Anything maybe I’m not thinking about and should care? The size factor and not having to use cables is a big selling point for me, just for convenience

I find too good to be true to have a TLC Kioxia (Toshiba) NAND based SSD on just a pen drive format, with cache and that price? Where is the catch?

As I said, my use case would be carrying around core info that later on would have a weekly backup (to another SSD and to the BackBlaze cloud) + another as Raspberry SSD

Thanks!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Warcraft_Fan on 2024-07-26 02:27:32.

repair hack

I was trying to tidy up the wiring before putting the cover back on when the power connector snapped off. I was not happy, those shouldn't break like a Christmas glass ornament from Walmart. Fortunately it's just the power so I got a spare power extension cable, cut it off, soldered on 12v and 5v and 2 ground and it works.

Western Digital 4GB, it was fresh from RMA just 2 months ago to replace the first one that died outright. I'll probably have this one scrapped, I already ordered replacement non-WD drives as it seems WD is selling garbage that failed while in warranty and broke easily so soon after it was replaced.