It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Captain_Starkiller on 2024-06-16 13:19:42.

I'm firing up a computer after it was offline for nearly two years. It's SSD is just a windows drive, the data storage drives are spinning rust. That said, I want to make sure the error protection has a chance to do its thing for the SSD, refill the charge traps so bit rot doesn't set in, ect. Does anyone have any idea how long I should let it run for, before turning it off again (for a month or two this time, not years) to make sure it does it's business?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/digital_monk10010 on 2024-06-16 09:18:39.

Hi Long time lurker first time poster

My issue regards samsung portable ssd software for the portable t7 ssd. My samsung s22 is currently not supported as the app is designed for older android software. I would like to be able to access my password encrypted drive to read and write data directly from the phone Is there any workarounds?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/andrebrait on 2024-06-16 07:24:02.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/zostj on 2024-06-16 04:59:26.

I know people typically separate their data storage/server/nas from their personal desktop so it can be left to do its designated tasks and so that it won't affect the performance of the desktop (if it has to serve a multitude of people or perform a lot of different tasks), but what if my server/nas needs are minimal and my primary focus is just a good personal desktop with a focus on datahoarding/data storage, some file sharing, running a few VMs, and possibly a few more server features? In this case, is it okay to just build a decently powerful modern personal desktop - killing 2 birds with 1 s tone, instead of building 2 computers, one for desktop (desperately need the upgrade now) and one specifically for a server/nas? Is this totally okay?

I live by myself so aside from being a personal computer with data storage, it'll just be serving me alone at home. To be honest, at the moment, I pretty much just consume media on my desktop, so even nas/media server features like plex, jellyfins aren't even 100% necessary - though nice to have perhaps in the future.

Summary: Decently powerful personal desktop with a focus on datahoarding/data storage that can also perform some server side of things like running VMs, and other homelab things down the road.

OS: FreeBSD with ZFS + ECC Memory

CASE: thinking of a big case like Fractal Design Define 7 XL that is capable of holding 14-18 HDDs.

MOBO:

SSD: What's a good NVMe 2.0 ?(maybe 1TB)

CPU: amd or intel? what series/models would you guys recommend?

MEM: looking for ECC ram as the main focus will be data storage. but how much memory will I need for zfs (assuming I will fill up the whole case with 18 HDDs down the road)?

GPU: a gpu capable of driving maybe a LG DualUp 2560 x 2880 with a 34" 1440p 3440×1440 ultrawide monitor. I will also be doing some photo editing with darktable, rawtherapee, etc. as well so a designated gpu that is good enough should be enough. (don't think there will be much gaming).

PSU: how big of a power supply? keep in mind the full capacity is 18 HDD, with dual monitor, etc.

CPU COOLER:

HDD: thinking of 18 or 20TB seagate exos (are they too loud to use in the bedroom in a personal desktop? should i go for ironwolf pro?)

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Shalmaneser_ on 2024-06-16 10:33:20.

With YouKnowWho going exorbitant $$$ and no torrent seeding, does anyone have the PHC archive handy?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Tikas92 on 2024-06-16 09:27:31.

Hello everyone. I have a question and I was wondering if anyone knows what's up with that. I recently transfered 3,53 TB worth of files from a 4TB Seagate to an 8TB Lacie but for some reason those files now take up 4,46 TB on the new drive. Why is that happening?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/kavakravata on 2024-06-16 08:05:17.

Hey!

I have a NAS with 16TB of active storage using RAID. As a newbie, I didn’t even think about the possibility of my NAS drives failing with time, especially after reading horror stories with seagate ironwolf drives which I’m currently using.

I hate SaaS and cloud, and would much prefer a local backup to my Synology NAS. What drives do you recommend? Been looking at the WD My Book 16TB or Easystore 18TB from Amazon, but I’m unsure. I don’t care about house fires / theft, so ignore that risk of backup solutions.

Taking all ideas! Thank you 🥰

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/curiousdoggo on 2024-06-16 06:17:34.

Goal:

I know people typically separate their data storage/server/nas from their personal desktop so it can be left to do its designated tasks and so that it won't affect the performance of the desktop (if it has to serve a multitude of people or perform a lot of different tasks), but what if my server/nas needs are minimal and my primary focus is just a good personal desktop with a focus on datahoarding/data storage, some file sharing, running a few VMs, and possibly a few more server features? In this case, is it okay to just build a decently powerful modern personal desktop - killing 2 birds with 1 s tone, instead of building 2 computers, one for desktop (desperately need the upgrade now) and one specifically for a server/nas? Is this totally okay?

I live by myself so aside from being a personal computer with data storage, it'll just be serving me alone at home. To be honest, at the moment, I pretty much just consume media on my desktop, so even nas/media server features like plex, jellyfins aren't even 100% necessary - though nice to have perhaps in the future.

Summary: Decently powerful personal desktop with a focus on datahoarding/data storage that can also perform some server side of things like running VMs, and other homelab things down the road.

OS: FreeBSD with ZFS + ECC Memory

CASE: thinking of a big case like Fractal Design Define 7 XL that is capable of holding 14-18 HDDs.

MOBO:

SSD: What's a good NVMe 2.0 ?(maybe 1TB)

CPU: amd or intel? what series/models would you guys recommend?

MEM: looking for ECC ram as the main focus will be data storage. but how much memory will I need for zfs (assuming I will fill up the whole case with 18 HDDs down the road)?

GPU: a gpu capable of driving maybe a LG DualUp 2560 x 2880 with a 34" 1440p 3440×1440 ultrawide monitor. I will also be doing some photo editing with darktable, rawtherapee, etc. as well so a designated gpu that is good enough should be enough. (don't think there will be much gaming).

PSU: how big of a power supply? keep in mind the full capacity is 18 HDD, with dual monitor, etc.

CPU COOLER:

HDD: thinking of 18 or 20TB seagate exos (are they too loud to use in the bedroom in a personal desktop? should i go for ironwolf pro?)

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/NextRedditAccount0 on 2024-06-16 06:16:12.

I have a new HL15 coming. I'm planning to use it for some docker for *arr, deluge, and as a NAS. I have a separate Plex server that will be accessing the files on the HL15. No plans of doing any VMs. I'm trying to figure out the best way to get good performance and some parity in case a drive fails. Yes I do have plenty of backups.

My current drives in my synology is 8x8TB, 1x 500GB SSD, 1x 1TB SSD in SHR2. I also have 3x 16TB drives coming.

My original plan was to run unraid but I don't want to lose out on performance due to the 8x8TB are all 5400rpms.

I'm open to running unraid or truenas or proxmox or etc. My end goal is to get as much speed as possible while being able to survive a drive failure. No future drive expansion is planned ATM but would be nice if the new solution could support it.

Also this will be on a 10gbps network.

Thoughts?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/romic007 on 2024-06-16 05:39:26.

Like the title states i have nearly 30 TB on several external hard drives. The files vary from (videos, fILms, series, pictures, music, documents, etc.) i looking for a permanent solution to keep my data as it continues to grow.

I am not very tech savy at all

I have seen things about nas, Synology stuff but im not too familiar with that stuff.

I have heard good things about icloud but im i bit worried since my files were LEGALLY downloaded. Im worried that they could look at my stuff.

I use my external hard drives daily and would like this permanent solution to be accessible whenever and wherever i am.

I use my external hard drives on. My laptop via usb port and do not have a pc.

I am leaning towards icloud or something equivalent to that since i wouldn't have to use external hard drives as much as i currently am now.

Im planning on using this as my main backup system with external hard drives as secondary but like i said i use these hard drives daily would icloud be the best solution for my situation?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Doodarazumas on 2024-06-16 05:04:33.

I'm putting together a nas and I saw several threads where people recommended these kind of 3x5.25 to 5x3.5 hard drive cages

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DWHLFMA/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_ZJWWH4ZW3JXHXF89RMN3?_encoding=UTF8&th=1

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DWHLFMA/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_ZJWWH4ZW3JXHXF89RMN3?_encoding=UTF8&th=1

plus silverstone/rosewill/etc.

Now most of these threads were from a few years back and since then the prices on all these things have tripled or quadrupled. Even no-name aliexpress ones I've found were about $150. Is there some secret method to finding or making something like that (5x 3.5 drives tool-less with a backplane in 3x5.25 bays) for a more reasonable $50-75 or am I just going to be a caveman with a screwdriver:

https://www.amazon.com/EMVANV-Stainless-5-25inch-Adapter-Bracket/dp/B0C1BQ36ML/ref=pd_ci_mcx_pspc_dp_d_2_i_1

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Glen_Garrett_Gayhart on 2024-06-16 03:26:24.

I've got a lot of urls like this: https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/alvinhew/annika where one or more images are displayed.

I want to use wget to get the images on these pages that have links like this: https://art.ngfiles.com/images/49000/49087_alvinhew_annika.jpg?f1254528733 but I'm not sure how I should configure wget to go from the first sort of url to target the second sort.

I could just open all of the www.newgrounds urls and copy the art.ngfiles urls, but that would defeat the purpose of automating it. I want to download a lot of these, and I've got a batch file that will go through them all. How should I instruct wget to look at urls of the first www.newgrounds sort, and then download everything from urls of the second art.ngfiles sort?

I don't mind if I get some extra files, like thumbnails and things, but I don't want wget spidering all over the website and potentially downloading things from pages other than the art.ngfiles links.

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Thanks in advance for any help!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Betelgeuse28 on 2024-06-16 02:40:39.

Has anyone managed to download the newer service manuals from ACDelco TDS site? I bought a 3 day access pass to the site but I've had zero luck so far. Ive tried wget, Offline Explorer, HTTrack, and Webcopy. I'm not really trying to save an 18k page manual by rightclicking and save to pdf.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/MasterDefibrillator on 2024-06-16 02:39:46.

Something like it, or the LBRY protocol itself.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/kyne_ahnung on 2024-06-15 08:29:43.

This is one of those questions where I don't know if I'm doing it wrong or so many other people are, but I can't work out why it's so hard to find a way to go through a big directory of videos or images in a gallery/viewer manually and easily say this one should go in folder A, that one in B, this one in D, that one in A; without having to - for each file - close the gallery (memorizing the filename), find it in the current directory among thousands of others, also find the destination and open that in another window, copy/move/drag the file to the destination.

What I'm looking for:

• A video and image gallery
• Some kind of sidebar with shortcuts to favourited/saved paths
• The ability to easily move the image or video that I am currently viewing to one of these shortcuts either via drag or clicking move>move to>shortcut to folder A

Am I crazy/stupid or is it unneccessarily hard to do this task in an ergonomic way? I have all my photos and videos sent and received on my phone over the years to sort through... deleting is no problem, finding duplicates is easy but how do people actually do the organizing? Any methods, software suggestions welcome.

Edit: or another plausible method is being able to easily apply a tag to each file from the viewer, so you watch a video and can quickly click on or type a tag..

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/BowzasaurusRex on 2024-06-14 21:25:35.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/elgato123 on 2024-06-16 01:48:54.

Noticed that a drive was filling up, saw it was mostly log files...49Gb of log files. Broke out the ol' 7-zip and in ultra mode, it compressed it down to 1.8Gb. Wow

I am wondering if there is any better compression or if this is about as good as it will get? Either way, I'm very impressed

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/SirMeili on 2024-06-16 01:34:54.

I know this is an old card. I've been using it since I bought it new in 2008. I'm prepping to do a migration to trunas and a set of larger drives and an also 9305 card but until I can get some new drives I'm limping along with this old card.

I currently have a RAID6 array of 9 4tb WD red drives. One degraded and it's been trying to rebuild. I'm currently running windows server 2016 essentials. I think something is causing the is to bsod while rebuilding the array. So I went into the cards bios to rebuild there.

Does anyone know if the card will rebuild while I'm in the bios screen of the card? I would rather leave it there and let it rebuild.

It could also be the drive is hosed and I need to buy a new one. Not sure why the drive went degraded except that we had a storm the other night and my UPSs battery apparently failed (less than 6 months old) and the server hard shutdown. The drives were unlikely to be writing anything as I don't currently write to that array. It's purely read operations.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

*Btw I have backed up data to external drives, but I would still rather not lose the data as I could mount the array and make copying to the new array in trunas faster.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/RhetoricalAnswer-001 on 2024-06-16 00:01:20.

Hope this is appropriate for the forum.

I inherited a full height rackmount cabinet with 12 HDs. It looks like it belongs in a data center.

I want to use the drives but my PC won't recognize them. Any tips on software that can "see" them, then wipe and reformat them?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/GigaDrillin on 2024-06-15 23:48:47.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Jatm4 on 2024-06-15 23:18:21.

Hi there, I've been having a serious storage problem for a few weeks now. I used to store the media generated by my projects on individual external HDD, but this is no longer an option for me. I found a storage unit on Amazon (WD Elements 18TB) that was exactly what I needed. The problem? I bought it and it came DOA, and after seeing some comments about that device, it seems they are very unreliable, so it's no longer an option. Now I don't know how to solve my problem. I just want a drive to store my backups and where I can access them when needed, not something that needs to be constantly connected, some simple, a NAS seems a bit excessive and I wouldn't want to use a cloud. What solution do you recommend me? Did I just have bad luck with the WD Elements? I live outside the USA, so I would need something that can be purchased and shipped internationally

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/uberkalden2 on 2024-06-15 22:30:46.

Genuinely confused here. Are any of the enterprise drives SATA, or are they all SAS? They all say SATA in the description, but the details will typically also say SAS. I was going to get a Sabrent external enclosure, but I don't think they work with SAS drives.

Maybe my understanding of SATA is wrong?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Cyan7988 on 2024-06-15 21:44:41.

Hello, a website is about to shutdown and there are many links that are only accessible after logging in, when downloading website with httrack it only downloads the non logged in version of thr site which I can't see the download links, how to I make it download the logged in version of thr site? I have the password and username

Using HTTRACK

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/CtrlAltSysRq on 2024-06-15 21:39:24.

Up front: I don't mind paying for it. I'm not asking for help doing piracy 101 or anything.

Hi fellow hoarders. I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this, but I figure this is a good place to ask fellow hoarders about what they hoard. Feel free to lmk if you think there's a better place to post this.

I'm trying to archive the different versions of Disney movies that have regional differences. For example, I have the different versions of Inside Out where Riley hates either broccoli (US) or green bell peppers (Japan).

Most movies only have a few variations, but Cars 2 and Planes each has about 7 variations each where the design of a car or a plane changes depending on the region. I've gotten nearly all of them, and almost all the variations of all the other movies, except for three:

• Chinese Zootopia (secondary newscaster is a panda)
• Russian Cars 2 (Car is styled as the Russian flag)
• Russian Planes (the "sexy" girl plane is styled after the Russian flag)

You can probably see why I'm having trouble with these. Disney+ isn't offered in those countries for geopolitical reasons.

I've scoured the internet that is available to me looking for ways to source these either physically or digitally, but even my non-public sources are not very interested in this kind of thing. So I'm reduced to looking for physical Blu-ray's of them and that is going about as well as you might expect.

So I'm wondering if anyone has ideas of ways I might be able to swing this. Thanks in advance!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/BroccoliSanchez on 2024-06-15 21:07:26.

I currently have a wd 14tb desktop harddrive for my digital backups of my home media. I know consumer drives have a decent shelf life but I was wondering if there is a particular brand or type of drive I should use to back up my main drive. I plan on keeping the backup drive in a fire and flood proof safe and only powering it up to do weekly updates of new files. External options are preferred for the simplicity