It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/demitrixrd on 2024-06-20 17:29:40.

I know many people on here already recommended SPD as a source for fair priced disks. I just wanted to add my $.02 after a recent experience with a failed drive I'd purchased a few months ago.

A week ago I woke up to a TrueNas notification that a drive was faulted. I did some troubleshooting and wasn't able to recover any kind of connection to the drive. Plugging it in to a external adapter resulted in what sounded like a rock tumbler, so clearly it was beyond rescue. I started a RMA with SPD, and went back to work; expecting a few hours delay before hearing anything back. Later I realized I'd missed their almost immediate reply to the RMA request. I explained there was no way provide smart test results, and attached a video of my new rock tumbler. In short order the RMA# was provided. I shipped the faulted drive, and didn't think much of it. The drive was delivered yesterday and my replacement shipped this morning.

Long story short, big kudos to ServerPartDeals for what is unprecedented customer service in the modern world; and to all the unsure shoppers, spend your money with SPD.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ChrisWreck on 2024-06-20 17:15:01.

I'm in the middle of migrating from Unraid to OpenMediaVault, where I'll be using Snapraid and mergerfs.

I have 3 disks, one parity and two data drives. They're using XFS in Unraid. I want to use ext4 in OMV.

I have formatted the parity drive to ext4, and planned to move data from disk 1 to the parity drive, then format disk 1 to ext4, and then move all data from disk 2 to disk 1 and make disk 2 the new parity drive for SnapRAID.

However, I just realized I have hard links from the arr suite, spanning over both data disks ...

How can I migrate and preserve the hard links? Preferably without having to move all data to one disk in Unraid before migrating.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/sav-tech on 2024-06-20 17:09:49.

Currently, the data is on an iMac Mid 2011, Google Photos and iCloud.

We also have spare devices that we want to recycle. Before doing that, we want to save the data on there and store it externally.

I am a tech-enthusiast by nature and think that this would be a good opportunity to setup a home lab.

I understand it may take some effort, but I am thinking of having folders for each person in our family and their data goes into an encrypted folder to access remotely via Mobile, PC and Samsung Smart TV...

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Captain_Starkiller on 2024-06-20 11:24:35.

Can anyone recommend some good tools for validating data integrity as a defense against bit rot?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/TURRETCUBE on 2024-06-20 09:58:37.

sometimes i see videos of cars in listings and i would like to download those, i've tried colbalt already.

there are tons of facebook downloaders but nothing liked the marketplace link i gave them

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Economy-Repair8926 on 2024-06-20 09:49:47.

not mine... but located in Australia

sas drives but man that is a lot of TB's

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/2669003823278091

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/bhudzallmighty on 2024-06-20 08:39:40.

I currently have a dedicated optiplex running linux with nextcloud docker for my iphone data. I would like to expand this system to a DIY nas with a single 20tb hdd storage for backup . What is the best software to do so? I would like to be able to backup once a day. Can i back up the whole hdd? Or just folders? Thank you

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/boosterbear on 2024-06-20 08:35:24.

Hello all! I have been hunting for the right location to ask my many, many questions. This may not be technical enough for this subreddit, but it seemed like the right place to go.

I'm a big fan of physical media, likely casual to most here but to my friends I am perceived as intensely pro-physical media. As such, whenever people have spare tapes, CDs, DVDs, etc etc, I'm the man they throw them at.

Unfortunately, I am horribly unfamiliar with the digitization process for everything except for CDs and DVDs, and even then I occasionally have hiccups.

Recently I purchased the JVC RC-EZ38S CD Portable System (link to user manual) from a flea market to play some of my tapes and CDs, and realized I had a few tapes I'm unable to find anywhere online. Usually I wouldn't worry about my tapes growing old from wear because I can download songs and save them that way, but these tapes (mostly Halloween tracks) were impossible for me to find elsewhere, so I've been trying to preserve them.

The JVC product I purchased plays CDs, cassette tapes, and the radio. It has one single 3.5mm jack, a headphone output. I have done some googling, and found my best bet to save the audio is through a combination of cables and Audacity. Unfortunately, my computer only recognizes my aux cord as headphones, and I cannot treat my JVC product as a microphone when using Audacity. I have two cables - one aux with two 3.5mm ends, and one cable that has a male 3.5mm on one end and the other end has two male parts, white and yellow RCA jacks.

How, if at all, can I use my JVC player to preserve the tapes I have? Is there a special cord combination I may be able to put together that won't put me out of house and home (I'm unemployed and in a somewhat difficult spot financially, even a $20 purchase has me aghast sometimes) or would I be better off looking for a different product to record my tapes? A friend of mine is currently looking to rehome an old car radio with cassette player - Do those typically have RCA plugs, and would that be a way to go about this?

Anything helps, even just correcting my terms so I can communicate what I'm looking for a little better - I'm in a space where I truly don't know what it is that I don't know. I'd love to be a part of saving some lost media, even if it seems a little silly. People put work into those Halloween tapes, dammit!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/StarLordOfTheDance on 2024-06-20 08:31:46.

Is it possible to transition my setup from mergeFs+Snapraid to zfs without a lot of spare storage that I don't have?

I currently have 2x4TB mergeFs setup, with a 4TB drive for Snapraid parity. (Total 8TB usable storage). - currently holding 7TB of data

I have purchased 2x4TB more drives. And ideally want to end up in a situation where I have 16TB of usable storage, with 1 parity. (12TB usable would be acceptable but not ideal).

The mergeFs harddrives are connected to a Ubuntu server. And I am moving the whole lot to a new server running proxmox (that has a Ubuntu server running in VM).

can anyone help me figure out if it's possible to migrate this to a ZFS pool that will do what I want.

I also have looked at unRAID because it supports adding disks, but that is its own hypervisor. So are there alternative ways of working that can work inside a proxmox VM?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Rayuzan_Mojavec on 2024-06-20 07:31:29.

I just got a 3.5 inch HDD. It needed 12 volts external power, but I only have 13.5 power adapter. Is it safe?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Carsonsgaming on 2024-06-20 05:05:55.

https://preview.redd.it/1i3wz54rsn7d1.png?width=550&format=png&auto=webp&s=c4d037840e71214dde90325467e0c281614a419d

As the title says. I'm not finding one anywhere. These are in a folder called AACS, then there's another folder with a bdmv file but that's it. I'm a complete noob to Blu-ray ripping so I'm hoping I'm just missing something. Only interested in ripping the audio.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/eakall on 2024-06-20 04:29:29.

So I recently got 35 2TB SSDs (mostly Samsung EVO 860/870) used and when checking the smart data for them I noticed very low power on hours. The PoH (80-400hrs) is variable across the large set of drives and TBW is about 2-6TB for most of the drives. I was curious if there’s a way to check if the smart data has been reset?

It seems a bit suspicious to me that these drives all are so low in PoH. Drives are also manufactured between 2020-2021 ish

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Small_Vermicelli9655 on 2024-06-20 00:48:14.

Looking to digitize a bunch of old family photos and was hoping for specific scanner suggestions. There’s lots of conflicting information online and I’m not very proficient in this area so was hoping for some insight lol.

I’ve heard automatic scanners can mark grooves on the photos and would feel more comfortable with a manual one as time is not a priority. Hoping to stay around a $500 price range and resell after use.

Thank you in advance!!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Smooth-Sentence5606 on 2024-06-19 17:16:12.

Hello,

I bought two Ironwolf Pro 16TB CMR hard drives. I ran badblocks on them and peculiarly I noticed that 1 drive inched ahead slowly over time and ended up finishing about 4-5 hours earlier than the other one. The test lasted about 4 days overall.

Afterwards, I ran some CrystalDiskMark and sure enough there is ~20 MB/s speed difference. I swapped the ports and cables the drives were connected to and still no change. Not sure what's going on here. Is the faster drive perhaps a higher capacity binned drive or something? I was going to use these in a RAID1 setup so not sure how important it is to match the speeds. And would there be any longevity differences between the two if one is indeed binned (extra read head/platter?). I have about 20 days left on the return window, wondering if I should RMA the lower speed drive for a replacement. Both drives passed the badblocks test with 0 errors.

CrystalDiskMark:

https://preview.redd.it/3nl71li6ak7d1.png?width=1156&format=png&auto=webp&s=b6256725d459ef7a2d939742b9f2adf0e6a2a537

Edit: Drive model number is ST16000NT001-3LV101. Both have the same firmware version and manufacture dates.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Yukinoooo on 2024-06-20 02:34:09.

I'm looking for an NVME SSD, 5 years warranty or more and a good controller but I don't know which NVME to choose because there are controllers : "InnoGrit IG5236", "InnoGrit IG5666", "Phison E18", "Phison E26" and "SMI SM2264"

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/AbsolutelyNoClue22 on 2024-06-20 01:56:39.

I want to use Plex to watch my movie library. I need transcoding to watch on the go, and on devices that need it. What is a good solution for this?

I've thought about buying something like the TL-D800C, connect it to my laptop and run the Plex server from there. Is this a good idea? Is there a cheaper option?

I'm new to all of this. I appreciate any help.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Real_Bad_Horse on 2024-06-20 01:04:38.

Hey y'all, I don't know that this is the best place for my question, but I suspect that folks around here will either have advice or know where to point me if I'm better served asking this somewhere else.

I built out my homelab to learn and get a job in IT. Mission success there. I've since gotten into all kinds of stuff and have a need to rework my storage, but I'm not sure how best to set things up.

Here's what I'm looking to do:

Complete separation of storage and compute Compute consists of a handful of VMs running on Proxmox, and critically, a Kubernetes cluster The cluster is currently running in VMs but I have plans to move just about everything into the cluster and move into SFF PCs This is partially why the complete separation is important, for flexibility and future migration

Here's what I have currently for equipment:

Brocade switch with 48x 1gbe and 8x10gig sfp 2x 12 bay 3.5" servers, one with Proxmox, one with TrueNAS 1x 24 bay 2.5" server Repurposed NetApp 24x 3.5" chassis, modified to work as DAS 4x 16gb spinners, currently in raidz1 ~32 old 2, 3, and 4gb spinners

I found that K8s cluster was very unstable with my first setup, which was an iscsi target on the TrueNAS server. The iSCSI share was mounted in Proxmox with LVM to create K8s VM OS and NFS storage for containers. This got much better when I moved to a local 3x SSD zpool on the Proxmox host. I understand that the latency with spinners and over the network was likely the cause, but this doesn't allow for the separation if like.

Use here is all over - media server is the main thing currently, which for transcoding needs fast seq read/writes, K8s app dev for work, and all kinds of testing containers for work and home. I'd also like to put all VM storage remote as well to play around with some different compute setups. I'd really love to be able to fully wipe Proxmox and try out XCP-ng, or Azure HCI, stuff like that... It's a lab, after all.

I'm competent enough to implement a solution, but I guess not enough experience yet to design. I'm not afraid of complex setup, but I do need redundancy, particularly if putting these small drives to use as I don't trust them - came for free with the NetApp shelf.

So... Any suggestions on how to set this up for minimal latency and fast read/write? Ceph? Mirrored ZFS using all those small spinners? Dedicated ZFS pools for each K8s node? Caching layers? Not against additional equipment, within reason, if needed.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/nickdrones on 2024-06-20 00:51:45.

I have been provided with a link to an hls stream (an m3u8 link). The streams that it point to are not online consistently, but I want to set something up to detect if the stream is online and if it is, automatically record the stream.

Recording the stream is obviously easy using ffmpeg, but detecting if it is online is the hard part. If I open the m3u8 link in vlc when the streams are offline, it still plays the last ~50 seconds (which I assume is the last chunk?) before the stream ends and VLC stops playback.

What would be the best way to identify when the stream is actually online and begin recording?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/GearFourth on 2024-06-20 00:40:27.

I ordered a WD Black 8TB, but now the Red Plus is on sale for $34 cheaper, do you guys believe the Black is worth $34 more?

The biggest difference that I know of is Black has a longer warranty 5 vs 3. Are there any other differences?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/RandonBrando on 2024-06-19 20:53:37.

I'm trying to transfer 1.6tb from a 2tb WD Easystore (5400rpm) to a 16tb ironwolf pro (7200rpm) with both drives connected through usb C. Both drives formatted in exFAT.

I'm getting ~~KB/s~~ bytes/s - 18MB/s max. NEW LOW SCORE

I need some help troubleshooting this because I'm not sure what else to check.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/-Rhialto- on 2024-06-19 20:51:58.

The Z is sold by Amazon and the A by Best Buy, could it be just that? Same disk but different number depending on reseller?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Apptryiguess on 2024-06-19 20:21:01.

I have a DAS and am pretty happy with the temps, but they could be slightly better since the DAS is in a closet and doesn't get that much airflow. My enterprise drives idle at 43-45 C which is ok, but could be a little better.

So i thought about adding a new and better fan to the enclosure (Icy Box IB-3805-C31), but the fan never changes speeds, literally never. I don't let my drives spin down but if they were to, the fan does stop spinning after a while, afaik that's the only control the DAS has over the fan. So if i were to add a 2000rpm fan, would it instantly shoot up to that rpm and always spin that fast? Is there a way to control fan speed? I can't see the DAS's fan on any program controlling fan speed so that's something...

Any idea on how it would behave? Any idea if there is a way to controll the fan speed? Thanks.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/nlj1978 on 2024-06-19 19:12:54.

So going through my old CDs, some of them are previously burned CDs in MP3 format. I have been ripping discs in FLAC format.

If the ripping software is starting with an MP3 file and ripping to FLAC is that problematic?

Compressing a compressed file sounds like a bad idea

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Sinnagangsta on 2024-06-19 18:28:22.

Hi all

I have a NAS with 1 4TB WD Red drive in it. I have 3 more that I want to add but am not sure the best way to set it up. I am not too concerned about losing data as it is not a huge deal. I don’t really want to run JBOD because it is then treated as 4 different volumes. Does anyone have any recommendations on how to run this? RAID, spanning, etc?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/iddrinktothat on 2024-06-19 13:56:08.

Thought id let you guys know because i havent been seeing a lot of discounts on Synology.