The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/FriedChicken_Chips12 on 2024-06-27 09:02:44.

I have family photos that I want to backup and save. All in all its under 5tb, I dont think it even reaches 1tb. not sure if I should get a nas or call it a day and get Toshiba hard drives to back my photos. idc abt speed, or whether I can access it on any device or anywhere in the world. A synology nas is pretty expensive, $300 for a 2 two slot, that doesn't include drives either and that doesn't include backups, while I can get two Toshiba 2tb drives for under $200

I just need a backup so I can free up storage on my phone and laptop

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ChillCaptain on 2024-06-27 07:33:52.

Imagine you have 2 identical drives with the same data but you bitlocker one of them.

How much less reliable will the bitlocker drive be in general as a backup. Assume data recovery services will not be used.

I’m not sure how bitlocker keeps the decryption key but if that portion of the drive ever gets corrupt then the data is lost? Or is that not how encryption works? The encryption key is baked into all the data and as long as you have parts with data you will always be able to retrieve the data?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/The_Real_F-ing_Orso on 2024-06-27 06:56:54.

For TL/DR; see below

I'm tired of juggling external disks for my backups.

What I really need is a disk array, but all the disk arrays I've seen are super expensive and highly restrictive in their management - one supplier, you pay him for everything, he owns your soul (or at least your wallet, or you can throw it all away when it doesn't fit anymore). There is no open source disk array software - that I've found.

But I don't need something that presents itself as a disk. I need something that pulls an array of disks together into a volume and lets me access that as something that windows can understand as any kind of file system object to which it can write data... like a NAS share. (I was thinking iSCSI first, but I read that it's performance is poor.

I have about 2TB of data on SSD (growing all the time) and about 7TB on HDD, also growing, ofc.

My PC has 10GB ethernet available just for backups and nothing else, which I'd like to use to connect to a backup system just for backup traffic. My thought is NAS has what I need.

I want to be able to extend my backup volume when necessary, without the crippled, overpriced solution, of TrueNAS (MUST buy their expensive HW, cannot extend a volume - you might as well simply buy all new set of disks and build a new, larger volume to copy the data of the old one to... oh wait, aside from the hundreds of dollars out of pocket for a set of disks for a new, larger volume, your TrueNAS box can't even hold all those disk(!!), unless you paid a fortune for 16 slots and only use less than half of them).

With OpenZFS you can extend a volume. Just throw a new disk in and add it and resilver = larger volume. Happiness for everyone.

My problems start with, what components to build a NAS server. It's really only going to be for backups. I don't need anything else.

I can only guess at which Linux (I'm a trained Unix SysAdmin (HP/UX, AIX, Solaris), and I've installed Linux a couple of times years ago, just to play around with it a little. Beyond that, no idea.

It needs to have good, stable Samba and OpenZFS to run on it. I'm sure I'll figure them out in the process (some ZFS experience already).

Everything I've googled about CPU's is years old and very outdated. Once I've got an idea of CPU, I can narrow down the search of a system board and other components.

TL/DR; ====>

So my biggest open questions are CPU and Linux for a NAS with OpenZFS.

Of course any useful, constructive comments on my above throughs are always welcome.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Deep-Egg-6167 on 2024-06-27 03:45:01.

I just saw the video for the flashstor 12 pro - and was curious if anyone made something similar with 32 nvme slots?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/androlyn on 2024-06-26 22:54:43.

I'm looking for a secure and private way to store about 1-3TB of photos and 500-1000GB of documents. I want something reliable and not too complicated to set up. Here are my options and concerns:

Background

• Moving Away from Google and Microsoft: I want to move away from their ecosystems for better security and privacy.
• Security and Privacy: These are top priorities for me.

Cloud Storage

• ProtonDrive: Buggy on Mac (wife) and Windows/Android (me), expensive, and slow.
• Mega: Bad reviews and trust issues. Based in New Zealand.
• Sync.com: Hate the UI. Just hate it a lot.
• Filen: New service, questionable longevity, and not the best UI. Slow.
• pCloud: Skeptical about popularity; only one vault is zero-knowledge encryption and costs extra.

NAS

• Considered Models: Synology DS224+ with two 6TB drives.
• Concerns: High costs (around £1,200), not very tech-savvy, and looking for a set-it-and-forget-it solution.
• Worries: What if the NAS hard drives fail? What if there's a power outage while I'm away?

Hesitations:

• Cloud storage feels like "someone else's hard drive."
• NAS seems expensive and potentially complicated to manage.

Looking for:

• Advice on cost-effective, secure storage solutions.
• Easy setup and maintenance.
• Personal experiences or recommendations.
• Solutions for NAS reliability and power outage concerns.

Thanks for your help!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/imdrake100 on 2024-06-26 22:35:56.

As of Wednesday afternoon, the sites for Comedy Central, CMT, Yellowstone airer Paramount Network and TV Land were instead directing users to the media conglomerate’s streaming platform Paramount+. On Monday, MTVnews.com was taken down, purging some 20 years of stories from the web.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/csuf33 on 2024-06-26 22:00:59.

I'm a teacher and amateur photographer and have tons of files stored in various locations like thumb drives, two external hard drives, dropbbox, google drive etc. I have two macbooks (work & personal), ipad, and an amazon fire tablet.

Since I have all of these devices with tons of files scattered and not always being accessible when I need it or having to take my external hard drives with me if I think I might need something off of it... I was thinking of purchasing a home cloud storage.

Would that be the best option to help with my dilemma? I was thinking a WD 8TB. -- I need something inexpensive and user friendly (plug in and go with easy set up). I want something to dump data and access anywhere.

I have no clue how to speak computer lingo... so talk to me like I'm a child. lol

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/nlj1978 on 2024-06-27 02:01:58.

Have a new small media server with a pair of 10tb drives. For now I want to keep a full backup of one drive on the second drive.

I've used macrium free in the past to do manual clones of drives. It works fine but they want a paid subscription for scheduled backups.

So I need:

Ability to schedule

Ability to just copy new data from previous backup

Not subscription based

Free would be better, but don't mind a one-time payment.

Windows based

What do you recommend?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/StrikingMaterial1514 on 2024-06-27 01:52:48.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/PopsicleBP on 2024-06-27 01:15:58.

Sorry if this belongs in the other subreddit, but I'm not really requesting for anything just asking about the status of it. MTV had thousands of video clips on their website, some of which weren't on YouTube or anywhere else online at all, but I never thought to download because I assumed they would still be there, which was a big mistake for me. Any chance someone tried to preserve these in the past or was it too unexpected?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ZsArtworkHeap on 2024-06-27 01:00:24.

What I'm referring to.

It's a website with text-to-speech voices I've heard in various memes over the years, but there hasn't been much discussion towards its upcoming shut down.

Is there anyway to obtain the voice models? The closest I can think of is training an RVC model using voice clips generated from the site, but that's not ideal; I'm looking for a way to use the voices (online and offline) like the website after its closure.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ppyporpeem on 2024-06-27 00:54:21.

Hello peeps, this might be a somewhat of a basic? question for hard drive enthusiast but, in the case where you need to travel a lot with a massive data storage, for example in my case, a lot of the data I have archived, is usually in need to be displayed in a bunch of locations around the country on a regular basis.

Although my hard drive is packed well to prevent vibration damage during travel, the fact that I need to plug and unplug the system a lot, makes me feel like I am going to break it faster that it should be.

So Instead, I am thinking of setting up a second pc and have people that want to access my data access that pc remotely instead. However, the main system that does the recording still needs to access that storage drive on a daily basis. Which means, although the traveling issue is gone, there's still a lot of plugging and unplugging every day anyway.

Is there a way to just share the storage between the two pc without resorting to cloud? or at the very least minimize the potential damage a drive can take physically to extend its life?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/KeptinGL6 on 2024-06-27 00:52:52.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Square-Ball on 2024-06-27 00:41:04.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/BearEatingToast on 2024-06-26 23:57:29.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Dnasrphotography on 2024-06-26 22:23:27.

Hello, I’m a photographer and currently use the BackBlaze Personal Backup Service. For the past 3 months or so I haven’t been able to get one of my HDDs to properly backup. I’ve tried a few times contacting support with no new suggestions that lead me to any solution. However I do wonder if the drive could be going bad. It’s formatted ExFat and sometimes when I plug it in to my Windows or MacBook Pro it doesn’t recognize it or it takes a long time. I don’t have this issue with my Seagate HDD and Samsung SSD that are also ExFat. I eventually do want to build a NAS system (need to raise the funds) but wanted recommendations on a data backup service that works well and I don’t have to constantly check it all the time. The 30 days retention is kind of frustrating. I’m also aware of BackBlaze’s B2 cloud service but keep seeing bad reviews of BackBlaze overall. I’ve heard of Crash Pro, Carbonite, iDrive, One Drive. Right now I have about 8TB total of data. This will definitely grow but not super rapidly as I don’t do a lot of video work.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ItsMeBrandon_G on 2024-06-26 22:10:25.

I saw an article about this case, 12" 3.5 Bays, SATA Backplane, Can fit more than just the mini-itx motherboard. Even though that's what I will probably use and a LSI Raid Card. I have a collection of 12x12tb drives that I can use and set it up probably under Proxmox. I can use it to back-up photos/4k video footage remotely along with some other plans I have for it.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Arnoxthe1 on 2024-06-26 22:04:54.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Hostile_18 on 2024-06-26 21:22:41.

This comes up a lot for tv shows, where no UHD discs are available. I just can't decide! What version of content do you personally choose a 1080p Remux or a 2160p Web download?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/yodathewise on 2024-06-26 20:32:27.

I purchased an 18 tb external easy store from Best Buy today.

When taking it out of the package it seemed lighter than any of my other external hdd. I plugged the drive into my windows 10 pc.

In admin disk manager I try to initialize the disk and it says “the device is not ready”

I also tried a different power plug and data cable, no change in status

Is there something else i should try or is this somehow fraudulently without a disk?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/PeterJonePolyglot on 2024-06-26 19:33:08.

There are two books I need for a class that I can't find anywhere else. One is a pdf and the other is an epub.

If I join Perlego, would I be able to download these two files for printing? I don't want to waste the money if I can't download.

https://www.perlego.com/book/1376271/the-korean-verb-structured-and-complete

https://www.perlego.com/book/4351742/beginning-korean

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Scryotechnic on 2024-06-26 19:29:13.

Hi all,

This has been driving me a little crazy over the last 24 hours. Any help is much appreciated.

I have setup a Proxmox hypervisor and Ubuntu Server VM to run my plex server. I purchased a Terramaster DAS and loaded an 8TB Iron Wolf. I wanted to test the drive on my pc before I plugged it into my laptop running the Proxmox and VM.

I began running chkdsk /r, and discovered it would take 10 hours to complete. I just wanted a quick check, and now realized my mistake. I tried to find the best way to interrupt this process, but found varying answers online. In the end the process had climbed to about 1% completed by the time I closed command prompt. I hoped everything was fine, then plugged it into my Proxmox laptop and formatted to XFS.

Then I see 52GB used on the 8TB Drive. I got worried that it was because something went wrong with me interrupting the chkdsk command and began investigating. Eventually I reformatted back to NTFS and ran a full chkdsk /r on the drive. 10 hours later and everything came back clear. I reformatted to XFS, and the same 52GB is showing as used.

I tried formatting to ext4, and discovered that it only shows as 28K used. So I went to just use ext4 (even though I have heard XFS is much better for plex media), and then my Proxmox hypervisor decided to start constantly writing error logs to the hard drive. I have no idea why, and troubleshooting that issue is a whole other can of worms I really don't want to dive down. Because again, XFS is the format I want, especially for expansion in the future of my 4 bay DAS.

So! I am hoping one of you wonderful fellow nerds can tell me if it's my fault that the drive is showing 52GB as used, or if there is some reason that it might be reserved or inaccessible for some reason.

Ultimately I am fine with the 52gb being used, but I am trying to learn and understand. Did I screw up here?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/SpiderKnife on 2024-06-26 19:10:41.

Apologies if this is the wrong forum for this.

Since I keep having goofy problems with OneDrive (just stopped syncing at one point and had to jump through multiple hoops to fix, then it lost it's "free up space" functionality for a while), I am looking for software to replace it that has the same basic functionality.

The functionality in particular that I want is the "Free Up Space" option that One Drive offers. For anyone unfamiliar, this is where any files you copy into the OneDrive folder get copied to the cloud. Then, at any point thereafter, you can select "Free Up Space" and the LOCAL copy of the file will be "deleted". It will still look like it is there, same file name etc, but there will be an icon next to it indicating that it is actually only on the cloud. If you go to open or otherwise use the file later, it will automatically download again from the cloud to your local folder.

Does anyone know of a good Cloud backup service that offers this same functionality?

Thanks. And again, if this is the wrong forum, I apologize. It SEEMS like the right place though ;)

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/AlexStoldt on 2024-06-26 18:41:41.

Two tapes where left in the sun, in a room with up to 38°C, there is a good chance, that they are toast.

Now, I heard, that damaged tapes could damage a lto-drive, but I can't find anything about that in the interenet about this issue.

Did you people hear about that, do you have any sources for that?

Is it safe to put the tapes into the drive?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/KingIradescense on 2024-06-26 16:25:02.

Hi, context: I'm working on my capstone project. Currently the plan is to create an app to help Instagram users leverage their content in the algorithm by making large-scale analyses of things like, for example, top performing hashtags within a niche.

Problem: We want the app to be able to hang onto these performance records for an indefinite period of time. It was already understood that the actual data analysis part of the program wouldn't be happening on the phone and instead just have the results communicated in some way, and it happened that I was going to be upgrading my computer setup soon, but I don't think I will have enough storage regardless. I probably would have set up an isolated VM for running the program.

I don't know if my groupmates have some kind of solution but at this point I've written the entire project charter alone and don't expect them to pick up slack for the implementation, so I'm anticipating supplying the hardware entirely on my own.

What do you think would be a sufficient data tower for this kind of project? Should I just invest heavily in a cloud service instead? Thanks in advance.