It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Torley_ on 2024-06-23 20:09:34.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/thatdiveguy on 2024-06-23 20:03:27.

My setup:

• JBODs with single ext4 partition on each
• a directory on each used with mergerfs
• some have directories that aren't merged when I want specific data stored on specific drives

What I want to do:

On two of the drives, have a directory on each that get mounted together as a mirrored partition.

I don't want to do physical partitions as I don't know exactly how much space is going to be needed for the mirrored directory vs the mergerfs one and I don't want to have to play partitioning games down the road. The best I can find as a possible solution to do this is maybe glusterfs? Any other ideas?

My goal is to get faster read speeds without sacrificing much write speed when storing files in this spot.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/shedfigure on 2024-06-23 19:50:16.

Any suggestions for a multibay external HDD Enclosure (either 2 or 4 bay)? Right now, I just have an old laptop hosting my Plex server, making use of an external HDD. Has some other stuff stored on there, too, but primarily Plex content. Works perfectly fine for my use, but starting to run low on space. I don't want to spend a bunch of money to overcomplicate things by going full NAS since this setup works fine, but looking at options to expand space.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/c2cherry on 2024-06-23 19:02:13.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Rob_Mortuary on 2024-06-23 18:33:05.

There's nothing in the world I love more than collecting obscure/classic/retro media and movies and TV from the past. I can't wait to show my kids as they grow all the great movies and TV that have been made. However, I find it so frustrating that none of my friends or family seem to give a shit about any of this stuff. I understand that scouring the internet for media isn't for everyone. But when I find some rare television show in a extremely high quality that's hard to find. I want to share with all my friends and get excited together but none of them ever care. (Cry me a River...I know). But apart from my wife and my parents, my friends are happy to let their kids watch YouTube kids brainrot endlessly. Or just watch nothing but the newest Netflix movie that is objectively awful. I do find some solace in knowing that all of you guys understand my passion. Whether it's an old cartoon that's been upscaled to look better. Or just recently someone shared a very obscure DVD set with me that is extremely hard to come by. And I want to tell my friends, but I know they don't care at all. Any one else dealt with this? By the way I'm just having some fun here I'm not genuinely upset. Just wish my friends cared about stuff that I think is extremely cool I guess.

Edit: So rad to read everybody's input. For the record, I understand not everyone's going to be into the same things as me. Just pointing out that I put in a lot of effort to find these things and it can be a little frustrating that I have no one personally to share them with. But how cool would a convention be? To meet all of you that agree. And be able to show off our finds! Could never happen for a plethora of reasons, but still a pretty cool thought

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/mihitnrun on 2024-06-23 16:33:21.

My wife and I love a great deal of movies and tv shows and over the years I’ve accumulated a lot of movies and tv shows that we use the app Infuse on the Apple TV. It can stream .mov, .mp4, .mkv, etc. which is great and the UI is simple enough that even my parents can figure it out.

We moved recently and got a system in place that I can no longer plug my external drive into a USB 3.0 onto the router. So I know I need to add a network drive. But I really am clueless on how to do so and do so for a reasonable cost… I’ve almost filled 8 tb’s worth of media so I know I want to expand.

But I really don’t know what to do at all. I don’t know what kind of enclosure to get, hard drives to get, or anything like that. I’d love to keep this all under $400 too since we just moved and moneys a bit tight.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/safety_monkey on 2024-06-23 16:04:37.

I currently have an older Synology DS412+ with 4 drives (2x 8TB, 1x 10TB, 1x 14TB) in an SHR config for ~26TB of useable storage. I'm at 80% capacity and will want to upgrade soon. I could stay on Synology and replace the three smaller drives with 14TB drives, but the downsides are (1) that would only get me 10TB more useable space, (2) it would waste the existing drives, and (3) the Synology is EOL and no longer gets updates.

I also run a dedicated Proxmox server. It looks like there are a few options to migrate my NAS over there: either setup a ZFS storage pool managed in Proxmox directly and pass it through to a NAS VM like OVM, or add a HBA card and pass the whole thing through to TrueNAS. That's appealing because it gets out of the EOL problem and gives me room to add additional drives in the future, but everything I've read says that you really shouldn't mix different drive sizes for RAID, so the only problem I'd really solve above is the Synology EOL. Plus, even though I'd have the capability to go above 4 drives, it sounds like migrating there isn't any easier.

In terms of usage: The NAS is used primarily as storage for a Plex server, but transcoding all happens on a VM on the Proxmox server. Speed is nice-to-have but not ultra critical and I don't need the NAS to do anything super fancy beyond being a JBOD.

I'm curious what folks here would do. Anyone made a migration away from Synology they're really happy with? Should I just stick with Synology?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/TheRealDarkloud on 2024-06-23 12:36:57.

Hey all! I am looking to build an 8 bay NAS very soon with these drives,

https://www.ebay.com/itm/156046813385

And I'm trying to make sure I'm buying the right HBA...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/156046813385

It's clear to me that I need to read up more on ZFS, but am I to understand that with freenas or unraid, I can use ZFS to combine the 8 drives similar to RAID configurations? I am wanting to have some redundancy as well, similar to RAID mirroring.

Off to research ZFS a bit more!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/giantyetifeet on 2024-06-23 10:43:59.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/YousureWannaknow on 2024-06-23 10:08:40.

So.. I managed to get my first backup for storage (tight on budget and stuff, and quite specific usecase where CD/DVD dominated HDDs, anyway) and I can't find one opinion about making it copied between two. No it's just cold storage drive I use when I need to access specific stuff, but mostly add to it, so there's no need to make sync after I will make copy of it (I'll just be adding on two different drives same stuff from another storage)..

What I found is.. It's reccomended to use software focused on that area of file operations. There are decent open source or free tools.. I have dilemmah wich of these I should use, but maybe there's some hidden gem you could recommend? Rsync - focused with good opinion, but commands line and no idea about speed FreeFileSync - GUI, rest as above did - I know that guy, I know it's missing a bit in speed but is quite tidy and could backup everything from one to another, right?

It's just rookie thing, about 4 or 5 Tb and 2 external drives connected via USB 2.0 (probably, tho drives use 3.0, but not device I want to use for it).. And I wonder what way will be best to make copy in less than few days 😅 sorry for language flops, I'm kinda messed recent days

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Y8 on 2024-06-23 09:55:19.

I somewhat recently built a PC with one 2TB SSD (Samsung 980 Pro). With all my games, schoolwork, and content creation, I'm beginning to reach the limits of my SSD. I also have a 1TB external Sandisk SSD, but that's meant for my MacBook (I run Final Cut Pro off of it. Can't use FCP on PC unfortunately).

I'm essentially looking for the best value regarding large storage, longevity, and decent read/write speeds. Max budget is $200 but preferably $100ish. I don't mind if the storage device is internal or external. I have an Asus Prime Z790-A WIFI motherboard.

Despite building my PC, my knowledge regarding them is fairly low. Any advice is greatly appreciated.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/MichaelAftonXFireWal on 2024-06-23 08:31:39.

So I use mp3juices to download my videos and I've been trying to download an age restricted video but every time it keeps saying error so I was wondering does that mean I can't download age restricted videos off of mp3juices?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/jreina2002 on 2024-06-23 05:56:27.

Hello all. Last year I had requested of a website to be archived, called as http://famitracker.com/ When that site had gone down a year ago it came back up, and I wanted to preserve the site and its topics as well as music. It turns out that they had some initiative in doing so, but the people at the famitracker.org Discord server also had things going on in real life so they were unable to help archive at this time. I would like to ask if you can please help me? Not all of the famitracker site and forums were preserved apparently, and now we have a second shot at this! They're some things you should know though. First of all we need to archive at a speed that's safe for the site. It musn't be too fast otherwise the site might go down, but I also have a question. Is it possible that it can be made into an archive that's readable by those wanting to look at it as in not on archive.org?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Jacksharkben on 2024-06-23 05:33:40.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Spiketop_ on 2024-06-23 04:15:12.

I AM ONLY LOOKING FOR HELPFUL SOLUTIONS. PLEASE BE RESPECTFUL. THANK YOU.

Earlier today I dropped my external hard. It fell about 2 feet. I did not have it in an enclosure. At the time, I didn't think anything of it and plugged it back in. I didn't realize until way later in the day it was not working as I was not on the computer for a while. It is not being recognized by any computer.

I am willing to pay to get it fixed if it's possible. I had about 7TB of the 8TB storage used up so it's really important to me.

If anyone can help me get this to work it would be extremely appreciated. I do not want to lost my files and if anyone can help get it fixed I will give them a small finders fee to help me if needed.

Thank you

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/AndroidAssistant on 2024-06-23 04:05:06.

I'm trying to digitize my father's ~500 comic book collection before his birthday in August so he can read them on his tablet. He gifted them to me a while back because, while he wouldn't admit it, his eyes are starting to go, and he couldn't enjoy them anymore. With the tablet he can zoom in as far as needed so I know he would love to revisit the comics once they are in digital form. Everything is in pristine condition with sleeves and backers, but there is nothing insanely valuable in the collection. He has a couple that are worth something, but most sit at >$10. That said, it would crush him if any were damaged so the scanning method must be non-destructive.

What I have tried:

Czur Aura Pro

• Super quick, but random cropping and glare for days, even using the side lights. I tried using it with the official light box, outside the box, with 1-5 additional lights, with only external lights at every angle known to man, in a diffusion light box, with polarizers, etc. The only thing that worked 100% of the time was scanning while sitting on my back porch on an overcast day. I opened a ticket with their support and the response was "Make your room light bright enough, but do not have direct light shining on the book.". They didn't address the cropping issues.

Epson Perfection V600

• Epson Scan - Impressive for OEM software but inconsistent and changing the framing is a pain unless things are at perfect right angles.
• VueScan - Sometimes it decides just not to scan, sometimes it scans and the image is black. When it does scan it does fine, but the auto skew is ~90% accurate which may as well be 0 because I have to adjust every single picture.
• Silverfast - I was surprised at how much better the scans look, but the scans take 2-3 times as long as the Vue or Epson software. Also I have to take a prescan every time I move the page?

At this point I'm ready to hire a service if anyone has any suggestions, but I would really prefer to do the scanning myself because I plan on at least completing the series that he has, and probably expanding on them. I do have an R10 and an M50, so I could try some sort of diybookscanner.com solution, but that is a lot of effort for something that may or may not have different results.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/trapexit on 2024-06-23 03:48:22.

After just having a drive failure (of course it happened while transferring data to a new drive) I was wondering if there was any tooling around that perhaps data recovery folks leveraged to help diagnose issues. I've got two drives right now (8TB Seagate Archive drives) that died suddenly. One seems like it could be a bad logic board and I do have another with not just the same general board but the same batch? (same qr code) but haven't transferred the ROM between the boards to see if that will address it. The other (the one that died today while trying to transfer data to a new drive) will spin up but then makes a sound like the heads are seeking twice and then spins down. As I understand that's likely a hardware problem and not as home fixable.

While the data one these drives aren't critical it would be nice to be able to better diagnose the problems to see if it is worth the hassle to try to recover them.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Top_Combination9023 on 2024-06-23 03:21:56.

I barely know anything about data hoarding, but I want to store PDFs, games and music outside my laptop and flash drives aren't enough anymore. After some research here I'm going to buy a 16TB Exos (I can't afford a whole 3-2-1 setup).

I just need the one so I was thinking an enclosure, but I saw mixed opinions on whether my enclosure needed a cooling fan. What would happen if I bought one without?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/chineke14 on 2024-06-23 01:08:49.

Just wanted to see if anyone has experience with using Easeus for surface test? I used HD Sentinel in the past, but figured I try Easeus in case it's faster. But in doign that, I am wondering if it's surface test is just as good as HD Sentinels?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/jacraest on 2024-06-22 22:26:50.

I guess a warning and a bit of a wakeup call to check your drives and not to take sellers for granted on amazon. Bought a drive advertised as new and was manufactured in Dec 2016. Warranty expired in Dec 2019. 200 reallocated sectors within 40 on hours. Same - age WD Gold drive with 20k power on hours has no issues lol.

This occured with the 3TB WD30EFRX model. Never had this issue on amazon before.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Ok_Pin1735 on 2024-06-22 22:20:06.

I tend to hoard "knowledge findings" from social media that I find valuable or want to implement to improve my life. Often, when I come across these findings. However, I never store them; I don't prioritize backups, I just dont care. I simply like or save findings within my respective accounts. But the inability to search through my scattered findings when I need them or to categorize them has been a frustrating pain point, especially since I only actively recall about 5% of what I save when I get the nudge to use something. Does anyone related? Recently, I started organizing my findings using r/ObsidianMD, and it's been very helpful. I started with Youtube watch later playlists and I went from 1789 videos to 21.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/braillegrenade on 2024-06-22 22:17:59.

I'll make this fast! I have:

• OWC 8-bay DAS
• RAID 5 via SoftRAID
• 8x 16TB drives in there now, about 70% full. Let's call this array "Alpha"

Questions:

• Can shut it down, I pull those drives, put in 8 fresh ones and build a new array ("Bravo")? (pretty sure this is a yes)
• I presume swapping the array back to Alpha and starting up will just act like nothing happened?
• What are the things to watch out for?
  • Drives must go in the same drive slot?
  • What might cause the array to not be recognized after removing and replacing?

Thanks so much!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Twofacedattic21 on 2024-06-22 21:48:37.

I was looking to buy a 2.5 hard drive for my ps4 but I’m tight on budget. I often use renewed drives for my other consoles like my ps3 cause they’re usually a lot cheaper. I buy off the amazon renewed section, but I’ve heard it’s not reliable.

My main question is, is the reduced price worth the risk of a faulty drive? Any help would be appreciated

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/SirLouen on 2024-06-22 20:21:26.

I've found this drive Exos X14 model ST10000NM0568

Here is the data sheet

https://www.seagate.com/www-content/datasheets/pdfs/exos-x-14-channel-DS1974-5-1912GB-en_AU.pdf

In the photo i can clearly read that HSMR

https://preview.redd.it/djsejf5vk68d1.png?width=744&format=png&auto=webp&s=d64fedd3681c358dd8632ff7c7c2e7f701d19408

But I can't seem to figure out which kind of disk are we talking about.

It's H as in Hybrid or as in Host Managed?

Not the same here, but is says that X14 used to be TDMR back in 2018

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12557/seagate-announces-exos-x14-a-heliumfilled-14-tb-pmr-hdd

Looking at the past threads, it appears that many of these HDD end to be very fishy:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/tfm7w9/what_is_st18000nm013j_exos_x20z_hsmr_18tb_hdd/

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Constellation16 on 2024-06-22 20:01:45.