It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/TwoRight9509 on 2024-06-07 03:12:42.

A decade ago you’d send a broken drive to a place in California to get a repair / copy.

How do we handle that now? Is there a best company to sent to?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Akura_Awesome on 2024-06-07 02:34:53.

I have about a decade’s worth of Time Machine back ups across a dozen external drives, all with disparate photo libraries on them.

Is there any sure fire way to pull these libraries out with metadata to throw on my NAS?

I’ve tried to pull them in before but I get notifications about version and key mismatches, not to mention they can be a pain to locate.

Any ideas are appreciated!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/GrayManTech on 2024-06-07 01:14:38.

Hi.

I have a bunch of DVDs that I want to convert to mp4 or whatever. I know I need a DVD player of some sort and software. I've seen here there are a couple of dvd players that don't need to be modified to use for this, but the posts I found were pretty old, have the available drives changed and if so which ones work out of the box?

2nd part, storage. Is it possible to setup a Nas or something to use wifi so everyone in my house can access it? My router has a USB port but from what I understand it's disabled by xfinity. Basically I'm looking for something that can hold both 2.5 and 3.5 hdd since I already have both.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ShyGuyGaming76 on 2024-06-07 00:03:59.

I listen to a lot of audio dramas, and with about two exceptions (The Magnus Archives and Kakos Industries) most of them are only on Spotify, so I'm not really able to archive them conveniently. What I'm doing right now is just screen recording them and converting it to an audio file. However, this is ungodly slow.

Any better ways?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/BinaryPatrickDev on 2024-06-06 22:58:43.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/klnadler on 2024-06-06 15:36:50.

Hi everyone, I'm on a long journey consolidating years of external drives to an Unraid server. I've been having a hard time managing duplicates, I am using Czkawka which is great at finding the duplicates but I'm having trouble with selecting the correct file to remove. I'll provide a screenshot of an example, after searching for duplicates I chose to select the newer file to delete and most of the files with -1 in the name are the newer file and it's from using exiftool to pool the files together. In the screenshot the one selected isn't the newer file according to any of the tags.

Photo

Another issue I'm having is finding thumbnails that were accidentally sorted into the folders along the way. Some of the thumbnails are of the whole image and others are of faces from iPhotos face detection feature. Any guidance is appreciated TIA!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Zombieteube on 2024-06-06 14:59:58.

TL;DR : If you guys could tell me with your experience what you think would be a great value disk in terms of speed/storage/price ? I guess my price would be 250/280€ max but if in your opinion one is REALLY better for a bit more then that can do it too

Hey all, sorry to bother you, life circumstances made it so I've actually stopped paying attention to the PC market altogether for a long time, so i'm completely outdated even when it comes to basic GPUs / CPUs. It's not hard to find HDDs to buy online, but I just don't know how to tell which ones are actually better in speed and overall value (kinda like how it's impossible for a casual like me to differentiate what type of RAM is better so you just take the more expensive one hoping it's actually really the best lol)

I'd like to add another 8 or 10Tb of storage to my PC but with the best reading and writing speed if possible since that'll be only for my evergrowing editing needs.

Thanks a lot for those who'll take the time to respond, hope you guys are having a great day !

edit: i saw the rules saying to search online before, but again, searching online doesn't show anything but sponsored links, outdated infos and untrustworthy articles. This is the only place I can actually get advice from real people with experience

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/NaAlSiO6 on 2024-06-06 13:18:21.

I'm currently looking at two external HDD/SSD enclosures and can't decide which one to go with.

1. The ADSA-ST SUPERSPEED USB DUAL HDD DOCK
2. The Asus TUF Gaming A1

The first one supports two SSDs/HDDs, but it's somewhat difficult to find reasonable priced (when compared to a same capacity M.2 drive) 2.5 inch SATA SSDs. Still, it's not impossible and it could give me a lot more room to expand in the future. However, I also wonder about the performance of the drives, as there will be no cooling

The second one however only supports one NVME SSD. Which couples with the USB 3.2 Gen 2X1 interface would give me better speed and thermals, due to the metal construction.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/mactep66 on 2024-06-06 11:13:56.

I just got myself a FC LTO5 drive along with a few tapes (haven't arrived yet) for the purposes of archiving old data and freeing up my HDDs.

What im looking for is a tool/tools that will keep a (hopefully) searchable index of all the files on all my tapes on my main SSD, one that would allow me to add/remove files from a tape at will and one for archiving large amounts of data as reliably and fast as possible.

Ive head of Uranium backup, Veeam CE and my 5 should also be compatible with LTFS, but i haven't heard the best things about it, how good is it?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/dropswisdom on 2024-06-06 10:44:12.

Sorry, had to re-post due to my previous post lacking in details.

So here: got the drives here: https://www.ebay.com.sg/itm/204806952151

It was slightly cheaper when I got it. But it's one of the cheapest options you can find anywhere even now. The next step is 24TB drives which are not sold factory recertified as of yet, so they would cost.. about 50% more than this. I was concerned that some of the disks will arrive damaged, but as you can see it comes very well packaged, and they all passed testing. I put them into a Xpenology home made NAS. which is basically a itx motherboard inside a NAS case (jonsbo N1). It works like a charm. with one disk redundancy, I got about 80TB of fast storage.

They cleared the hours on it when they recertified, but not the rest I think. But all the disks passed testing and are not making any suspicious noises or giving any issues.

https://preview.redd.it/j8twcye0lx4d1.jpg?width=2252&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=475f00412a29c91cfd843f91e5f9da83f440c8c5

Seagate 22TB Sata Hard Drives

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/mc_louis on 2024-06-06 08:46:34.

Hi everyone. I'm in the middle of some home renovation, and I decided that I want to reduce the space occupied by my all my stuff.

At the moment I have a whole tower pc with windows 11 that I use just to run my external sas hp lto5 drive, through THIS an lsi9211, which is a pcie 2.0 x8 lanes, everything working perfectly fine.

I would like to remove the tower pc, if only I can connect the tape drive to a generic usb to use it with just the laptop when I need. I found few adapters like this and I pulled the trigger. But it's not working, as I understand because my hba card is a x8 lanes, but all this adapters looks like they're just x4 lanes. I tried just covering the contacts on the card that correspond to the 5,6,7,8 lanes, as seen somewhere, but it's not working.

Does anybody ever worked something like this out? For what I understand, there are not pcie x8 adapters that are affordable... are there any hba card that are x4 lanes? I found something on ebay, like this, somewhere in the description says x8, but pictures and specifics says x4. Would this card work with my drive or am I missing something else?

Damn it would be a game changer for me a usbc tape drive...

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/shdujssnensisishs on 2024-06-06 08:01:58.

https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/import-and-export-photos-and-videos-iph480caa1f3/ios

The link above is to apple’s website that shows u how to move photos to an external device. More specifically the “Export photos and videos to an external storage device” section.

If I choose to do this, will my iPhone move the photos or just copy the photos and videos over and leave the originals on my phone?

How would restoring the photos work? If I import it back, would the dates and location and everything still be there? Has anyone done this and can I get insight on this? Thank you!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Da-Vin-chi on 2024-06-06 07:16:49.

I don’t know if this is the right place for this post but, I was wondering How I can encrypt my entire MacBook Pro 2019 SSD to prepare it for cloud storage and also if someone can suggest the best back up service that is the most reliable at the most reasonable cost. I’ve read Backblaze and Wasabi and Crashplan all have issues or use zip files or are scams. I want to be able to access my files when I need them easily Atleast 1TB, don’t want to have to worry about not accessing recently deleted files or losing files I don’t want to lose and the monthly price I’d like to pay is $15 or less a month. Preferably in the $5-$10 region. I heard good things about Arq, though it could have been people who get paid by them to make reviews, I don’t know. Any advice or assistance with this matter would be greatly appreciated! Thank you.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/dropswisdom on 2024-06-06 05:47:36.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/rmumford on 2024-06-06 04:34:52.

Long story short I interviewed my grandmother a decade ago on my iPhone 4 with the intent to capture some of her memories. Sadly an issue with the phone caused it to factory reset.

Has there been a discovery or method found to recover that video?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/MDCasino21 on 2024-06-06 04:32:25.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/cewong2 on 2024-06-06 04:11:04.

I’ve been searing around for a day and a half trying to find a way to transcode lots of videos I have stored in my Google drive. I haven’t been able to find anyone ever having a solution (lots of what I’ve found isn’t gets downloaded and reuploaded after transcoding). Hopefully this is posted in the right place otherwise please suggest a subReddit for me to post to.

Lots of my videos are in x264 format and I want to transcode them into x265 as I read there’s possibly a saving of at least 20-30% but it’s nearly 60-70TB which would take probably a long time compared just using Google’s free cloud trial. Can anyone recommend me a guide or tool that I can use to get this done?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/dietgilroy on 2024-06-06 03:21:51.

i tried using that but it didn't work at all, so i might use wfdownloader for that. i am considering trying to archive art from deviantart.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/nlj1978 on 2024-06-06 02:51:04.

While spring cleaning I stumbled across a long forgotten CD collection. Rummaging through it nostalgia is kicking hard. So of course I'm going to have to rip it all so I can enjoy.

Have ~200 CDs I've located to rip. Also have a previous stash of ripped CDs on one of my home computers

Googling a bit I'm reading about FLAC files being best to get the best rip and gather the music information. Exact Audio Copy along with a few others get mentioned alot for ripping.

What's the most user friendly and effective ripping software for someone new to this? Doesn't have to be freeware, will pay for solid software.

Is the FLAC file format relatively usable? For example I have a networked Onkyo receiver, would it be able to play those files from the network?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ChillCaptain on 2024-06-06 01:38:03.

https://www.amazon.com/SSK-External-Docking-Enclosure-Supports/dp/B08P1539VD/ref=asc_df_B08P1539VD/?hvadid=693495256271&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=2570617204095985210&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9057119&hvtargid=pla-1626594922711&psc=1&mcid=086ce8faf4d5351490f73a899c982a27&gad_source=1

I’m looking to get this enclosure to help with backups.

Can I insert a brand new drive and set up the drive in windows? Usually this is done in disk management where you select gpt vs mbr and select the drive letter. After setting it up can I take the drive and insert it internally through sata and use the drive?

I’m wondering if the usb connection limits this?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Suspicious_Dig_5684 on 2024-06-06 00:42:43.

So I have a server; what I am looking for is something to put 2 18tb drives in and be a dedicated photo backup for both IPhone and Android. Would love a way to pull the pictures from ICloud and get them local as well. The wife has more pictures in the cloud then she has space on the phone and I don't have a easy way to pull those down.

Is the ds223 worth it? Are there better options. Biggest concern is a simple way to backup the iPhone that doesn't require user input.

We tired nextcloud works great on android but with iphone I have to constantly remind her to open the app before it would backup anything.

Thanks for any help.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Mist17 on 2024-06-06 00:21:14.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Luz3r on 2024-06-05 21:57:37.

Hey everyone,

I recently had a power outage at my backup location, and it seems to have messed with my TrueNAS box. It got stuck in a weird state, but thankfully a reboot fixed it. The problem is, I don't check my offsite server that often since it's a secondary location. This time, I only found out because I got an alert about my ZFS replication failing.

My question is: How can I best check if my replication is actually working properly?

I was thinking about setting up Uptime Kuma to monitor the offsite TrueNAS web interface. While this wouldn't necessarily tell me if replication is failing, it might catch issues like SSH being unresponsive. Ideally, I'd like to get Telegram alerts for any problems.

Anyone have any suggestions for a better or cool way to monitor my TrueNAS replication health?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ThatGuyFilms on 2024-06-05 20:07:27.

I have a homelab setup that I do heaps of data transfers on, as I work in the video space a bunch of media coming in off external hard drives, NAS drives, an Unraid server and LTO tape.

I'm after a software (ideally that works on both mac and windows) that can give me realtime data into transfers speeds from attached drives, to LTO tape and bandwidth across the machines and switch.

I currently use the iStat menus (https://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/) which I love, however you can only view it in a small popup window and can't see combined usage (i.e. network traffic as well as drive speeds) so would love an all in one solution if one exists, that displays in a nice graph format that shows the speeds of everything. Any recommendations?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Anarcho_Christian on 2024-06-05 19:44:03.

I've got an extra Kingston NVME Drive lying around, and a lot of extra usb 3.0 ports.

Would the speeds be comparable on a USB 3.0 drive vs a PCIe x1? Not "theoretical" speeds mind you, but like, practical speeds?