It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/gamerlover58 on 2024-07-12 00:30:01.

On the website for snapdownloader they claimed they can download youtube videos through a browser extension thing. But when I tried to do it nothing happened. When I googled online it said that it’s not possible to access the video unless the tje owner gives you permission. So is there any software to access a private video without the owner’s permission or is that literally impossible?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/that_applecore on 2024-07-11 22:59:45.

A couple of videos from a YouTube Playlist (not mine) were deleted because of copyright infringement. I found them on the Wayback Machine but it says that the video hasn't been archived, only the page has, and I can't find them on any other site. Is there a way for me to be able to watch or download those videos?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/stinkybuttholefuzz on 2024-07-11 22:12:44.

i have quite a few rar archives, usually in dozens of parts and very big. one archive for instance is 680gb over 200 parts. these archives all have par files and recovery records in rar so i dont mind leaving them as is for cold storage. but periodically it would be good to check and make sure the archive has not become corrupted.

i wonder is there any way to check the integrity of these archives quickly without going through and unzipping each one? i have heard about checksum or hashes (forgive me i know nothing about this sort of thing). would a program concerning those things be what i am after?

any help would be great thank you

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Charcookiecumbs on 2024-07-11 22:04:48.

I’m trying to download my bookmarks , how can I set it download the images with the posters twitter name? The options confuse me.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Markie411 on 2024-07-11 19:20:40.

I saw a post way back from 2017 asking that question and at that point Scanner wasn't aware of file duplicates and marking those files as bad sectors. The devs had both programs working together and being aware of each other on their agenda.

My questions is: Have things changed since then? Thanks.

Edit: Thanks for the responses guys, I'll obviously give the free trial a go but wanted people's experiences before jumping in.

Edit 2: Turns out I misinterpreted what was going on per /u/shockguard's comment

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/MercurialMadnessMan on 2024-07-11 18:49:02.

I hoard documents, papers, and non-fiction books. But just owning the files doesn't feel like enough without semantic search and some higher order intelligence built with this data. With LLMs it’s now feasible to run open source models locally to turn these texts into knowledge graphs instead. You could have each atomic fact link back to the source document. I’m interested in going down this path and have a list of tools I would use; I have already experimented with Streamlit, LlamaIndex, and Neo4j. But I’m wondering if there’s anyone else out there even considering this? Has anything been purpose-built for this yet (local not enterprise focused)?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/CiaIsMyWaifu on 2024-07-11 18:30:23.

I like to save a lot of video clips, when I do conversion I usually use handbrake and retry converts using the quality slider til I get the desired filesize, though obviously depending on the length of the video and framerate that can destroy the video.

As an example I have some clips 1920x1080 at 60FPS, 11 seconds long at 23.6MB in good quality as an MP4, but I can't help but feel it could be much more efficient, since I've seen several minute webms look pretty good as well.

The goal is to convert my video library to be more space efficient while keeping the video quality as high as I can, or losing very little. I'm not familiar with any of the newer file formats so maybe there's something better I could be using

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Immolation_E on 2024-07-11 17:49:25.

I have a drive that I'm trying to return to a vendor for RMA that will no longer mount. I received it a few weeks ago and installed it in a DAS. It seemed fine at first and I formatted it APFS. As I was copying a folder it disconnected and started making whirring sounds. I rebooted everything and I could see about 4GB copied, but the folder is greyed and I can't see what's in it. After a failed reformat it stopped mounting on my Mac.

Windows disk manager sees it but will not let me format it. Mac disk utility doesn't even see it anymore. When I try to run DBAN on it, I get finished with non-fatal errors. Any other options?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Aggressive-Goat6654 on 2024-07-11 17:40:08.

I'm new to a NAS and a lot of the research makes it seem like they're these crazy advanced things and seem like overkill so I'm hoping someone can help me out. I would be using it to dump raw images and videos from my sony a7iv and would need it to be accessible from my macbook over wifi. Ideally I would want to access it from anywhere, not just at home and would be using the files in Danvinci Resolve and Lightroom Classic

Is TrueNAS the best choice if I don't want to spend money? What about NextCloud? I should have a usb to ethernet adapter laying around to be able to connect the laptop directly to my router but if I do that would I be able to get some sort of a usb-c hub that can take both a usb drive and ethernet at the same time?

Sorry for the newbie questions but I have the stuff laying around and figured it can be a cool project instead of manually connecting external drives all the time. I know RAID isnt a backup but this is all data that I wouldn't mind losing. I just want to see how useable this all is before I invest any real money for a proper NAS down the line

Hardware Lenovo Yoga 15 - 2 usb-a ports, 1 usb-c port, hdmi port. 2 1TB Samsung T5 SSD

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Insatiablecannabista on 2024-07-11 15:38:18.

Hello, I know that there are many different posts from others asking about duplicate photo finder apps to clean up phone storage.

However I have read through many of them and tried the apps, as well as other apps that just have high ratings in the Google play store, and unfortunately none of them seem to work all that well. They either want to scan your entire phone all at once instead of allowing you to only scan one folder at a time, or they just plain don't work and say there are no matching images when I know for a fact that there are.

So I was wanting to ask more specifically if there was an app similar to alldup which is unfortunately only for windows that allows you to have the image files scanned by different image hashes like all dups aHash, bHash, etc, as well as to specify what per entage of similarity you want it to display similar images. Like 90% or more similar, or 95% or more similar. Because while I know I have duplicates some of them are only slightly different in that one may be in black and while while another is in color, or may have like the legs of the subject cut off while another does not which is why I need it to be able to scan the entire image and then display it if it's a certain percentage similar to another.

So basically I'm looking for a Android version of alldup.

Let me know.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/_ch13 on 2024-07-11 14:36:39.

I am trying to help my friend to salvage data from a disk that failed. It's an old drive, and it appears that there are too many bad sectors that it is no longer detectable by his WD Cloud (or whatever it is called).

I have a QNAP TS-453Be with 2 free bays that I plan to use as the machine to do the salvaging work - the bad drive in a bay, and another for the drive to store the recovered files - as I expect the job to take a long time. I ran the Windows version of PhotoRec briefly and managed to recover a couple of files from it. But it would take a few weeks to finish, so I gave up as my PC would take up too much power, and I didn't have a good setup to hold the disk properly (small case, and now the PC is sold).

Since I have Ubuntu installed on the NAS, I am wondering if it is possible to ran the job on it (there is a Linux version), without initialising the source disk in QNAP (some kind of passthrough to Ubuntu?).

Does anyone have a similar experience? I tried to search for data recovery using NAS, but it is challenging to sift though threads about the other kind of attempt, i.e. to recover data from failed NAS.

Appreciate any inputs.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/DickWrigley on 2024-07-11 13:43:12.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/sajaljain_syd on 2024-07-11 13:05:07.

Hi all, I want to make a NAS for home environment will hold approx 12TB data (mostly 4k videos etc), possibility of few VMs.

Requirements -

6x Hard drives 1 x ssd for the OS (most likely TrueNas) 1G - 2.5G network interface mITX or mATX

Candidates-

1.) AsRock Rack C2750D4i (not sure if this is still good and powerful) - very hard to find DDR3 ram 16GB sticks these days.

2.) Any motherboard with 1700 LGA with i3. Will this have more power consumption compared to above?

3.) anything else?

The NAS needs to 24x7, transcoding plex media for single 4K stream is a want but not necessary.

Thanks for the help in advance :)

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/chalked_stove on 2024-07-11 10:59:09.

So I've got an old HDD which was running Win98 (possibly win95 even). I noticed that when I hooked it up to a SATA/USB to check what was on it, there was only some files and folders that would have been under My Documents (or something, I forget.). It was a super old PC obviously and I did not have many files on it, like images and documents - but I used it to browse the web, and I remember I had ICQ on it and stuff.

However, I cant seem to access anything else? Or to put it this way, the only files showing up are my personal files. I dont remember doing anything to this disk other than just putting it away when the PC was too old.

Normally, on other HDDS (winxp ++) I would see folders like Windows, Programs, etc. The whole ordeal.

I guess it's not impossible that I just literally deleted every single folders except those files, but that sounds kinda odd?

Is there any way to easily "run" the disk without having to set up an entire PC? Or any other way to check if there are folders that wont show through the USB?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Empty-Language-8593 on 2024-07-11 10:47:30.

Hello all,

When you look online you can find some stuff but it tends to stop at a certain date or only has data for countries that still exist.

I can find a few (and expensive for shipping) old brochures on eBay, but it’s only a snapshot

Where could I find old documents etc that have this data?

Ps, I have a neurological condition which leaves me very unwell and housebound so having to travel to get this data wouldn’t work.

Thanks!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/TeaBagMeister on 2024-07-11 10:28:42.

I picked up a few 12TB WD HGST drives for a very good price (£7 per TB). It says they have been refurbished and the box they came in was very well packaged. The box included a good amount of information about covering the pins they even included the tape.

They have been running for close to 4 years but no errors, I ran badblocks took about 4 days and had no issues. So my question is, are they safe for cold storage or a waste of time? Should I just use them for server etc until they die?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Altruistic-Travel-65 on 2024-07-11 09:39:59.

Currently the post was removed for some unknown reason trust me that might be the why no one wants to understand the data hoarders.

"I only want really open-minded people to open their mouth say on this topic"

I want to make a lecture library for myself based on the lectures available on YouTube<<<

I don't know much about coding so the option YouTube-dl is out for now. As this will take time for me to learn.

Problem 1>>>>> I was using 4k video downloader+

*(don't get confused with the name it can download 4k,2k,1080p,720p and this is not a promotion of the software)

which was a great software a month ago as it allowed me to download 30 videos a day leading to 900 videos per month. But they have changed the limit to 10 leading to 300 video per month.

****I want to know any software from which I can download youtube video that you know in your knowledge and is free (I am a student).

Problem 2>>>> I don't want my lecture library to become useless in near future due to h264 ***(I don't have much knowledge about codec before the 1st problem arises due to which I literally had to search the web but the information is not clear until I found one of the post of this reddit group related to some what this same issue)

I want to know which codec is better out of AV1 and h264 for my purpose keeping in mind that I want my lecture library to be there in future.

Problem 3>>>> this one is a doubt can youtube-dl support AV1 video download I searched some website say it does but it is not confirm. Need one line clear answer please let me know

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Kash687 on 2024-07-11 07:22:17.

iTunes has a feature where you can sync your entire library and downsample it to 128kbps to conserve space on your iPhone.

The reason this feature is perfect for me is because my music library is over 300gbs of FLAC music, and my phone has 120gb.

I’d use this feature, but the thing is iTunes only supports their proprietary lossless codec, ALAC. My entire library is in FLAC, and I’m not gonna convert it to ALAC just to use iTunes.

The only time I’m listening to music with my phone is when I’m out of the house with my AirPods, and since AirPods are Bluetooth I really don’t care about the bitrate, I just need to fit my whole library on my phone and conserve space, which is why I want to downsample it on my phone.

Is there another program that can do the exact same thing as iTunes sync but without iTunes?

I just need it to sync to a folder on my phone, not to iTunes on my phone.

Thanks.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/noideawhatimdoing444 on 2024-07-11 05:46:41.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Beanconscriptog on 2024-07-11 04:44:10.

A long while back I purchased a simple 4 bay DAS and threw in a few 14 TB drives with proper 3-2-1 backups in place. Now, several years down the line, I've realized just how nice a NAS would actually be to have, but I don't want to waste my current set up, instead I just want to make a simple change. Essentially all I want to do is disconnect my DAS from my workstation and connect it to a simple mini computer (like the one linked above) through USB-C and run it over Ethernet. Obviously the speed wouldn't be quite the same, but my current use cases don't need high speed and besides, I could just directly connect the drives for a bit if I need to do anything big. My main plan right now is to use it as backup for my workstation and to run jellyfin as I've been beefing up my media collection for a little while now.

So what do y'all think? Am I missing something here? Is there a cheaper / simpler solution? Would love to hear feedback if you got any. Thanks.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/SilentScreamsSilent on 2024-07-11 03:51:57.

From the cheapest to the most expensive:

• Seagate One Touch 20 TB
• Seagate Exos X24 3.5" 24 TB + NAS/RAID station
• Seagate SkyHawk AI 24 TB + NAS/RAID station
• Seagate IronWolf Pro 24 TB + NAS/RAID station

Storage needed mainly for videos and photos, sometimes will be permanently connected and also sometimes will be turned off periodically to the PC. For now, I don't plan on buying any more drives due to cost over the next 2 years. And I care about quiet and cool operation of them.

1. Which one to choose and why?
2. What kind of drives are they, what is their lifespan (especially Seagate One Touch), and what are the differences?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Altruistic-Travel-65 on 2024-07-11 02:27:01.

I am going through a bit rabbit hole lately and this is due to the confusion between AV1 codec and H264 codec

I am making a kind of lecture course for myself out the videos I found in YouTube Channel.

{Problem faced during the making}> Recently the changes made by the 4k video downloader had gave me trouble they have reduced the 30 free video download per day limit to that of 10 free video download limit. That is a massive bomb drop on me since I can't afford the fee of 25$ as I am not earning and I am a student. If they didn't drop this bomb maybe everything would have been working fine.

***But the main issue arise with the option it provided me to download videos 1080p H264 and 1080p AV1

I want help related to whether I should download videos in AV1 or H264. Because I am seeing a shift lately that I am not aware about. That is h264 is becoming old and h265 or AV1 is kind of the future. I don't want my lecture library to become useless in near future so please tell me in which codec I must save my video keeping in mind the future and device compatibility

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Itsallasimulation123 on 2024-07-11 01:46:45.

Is this because of onboard Solid state cache/buffer on the external HDD? Its reading from an internal SSD and writing to a regular disk drive. Just wondering why it is fast for the first two GB.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/AshleyUncia on 2024-07-11 00:55:51.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/C_huckChheese on 2024-07-11 00:16:34.

I'm making a website and I want to make a page displaying download links to zip files without the link going to another website like google drive or mediafire. I some how can't find a website that you can upload a file to for free, get the direct link for the file from, and the file not expiring after awhile. Please let me know if you know any websites, thank you.