It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/goalwaysforward on 2024-06-04 17:02:28.

Hello all,

Total noob here. I’m looking to get a home NAS mostly for storage and as a media server using Plex. I have a budget of about $1K all in so I want to get the best value. My biggest want is the most storage I can get, and for it to be accessible remotely.

WD is selling a 28TB My Cloud EX2 Ultra for $800, though I know that WD is not everyone’s favorite.

I’ve looked at Synology but I don’t think I can put together a decent NAS with even near the storage capacity for that price.

Also, I’m definitely not technical enough to build my own.

Any reason I shouldn’t get this, or alternatives to recommend?

All help is appreciated!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/DieserCoookie on 2024-06-04 16:14:48.

So atm im using a external harddrive connected to my Fritz!Router but im starting to run out of space on that one so i was wondering if maybe it's time to invest into a NAS and some huge harddrives.

I stream the videos over network if that is a point to consider.

So any suggestions?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/mxz117 on 2024-06-04 15:35:38.

I'm looking at needing a storage upgrade for my plex server and a DAS seems to be the best option.

It's already running on a champ of a little mini pc, already have an external SSD but I need more storage.

I've found the QNAP TR-004 which looks like it would work well for me I've just got some questions about it. That I can't really seem to find answers about.

Do I HAVE to use server drives? They seem to be way more expensive, logically thinking the drives would only need to be active when somebody is watching something, which isn't constantly as there's only about 3 users.

Do I have to fill all 4 slots? Or could I fill 2, then add another 2 in the future when needed. (And do they all have to be the same drive/capacity/speed)

And how would this go for future proofing vs a NAS? Would it be viable to just buy another of these DAS's to add more storage and plug into the computer or would a more expensive NAS be a better option?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/pavoganso on 2024-06-04 14:26:26.

This looks like a Jonsbo-killer with a decent amount of drive bays. Looks like my dream case based on the form factor.

https://preview.redd.it/948ajvjeek4d1.jpg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=eaee113d6f6bc9b80e7c7dccdbc1e9ccf2f98a83

https://preview.redd.it/2kf5zl9gek4d1.jpg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=589a22d0aedbd55fe5b9224515d9ebe439c7ffde

https://preview.redd.it/6e3kutphek4d1.jpg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3d20e2a3dd6f3d9ebab7967373d0e995374b5259

Any thoughts or anyone tried it yet?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Vast-Avocado-6321 on 2024-06-04 14:23:48.

Hey all, I'm using "Photorec" that's included in "TestDisk" (i.e. free software that searches for deleted photos on storage mediums) to scrape some drives for .jpgs that used to be in an old PC of mine. Here's my conundrum:

I initially scraped this drive for all .jpg files and it pulled about 11,000 files (this was a year ago). I'm now running the same program again, and searching for .jpg and it's only pulling about 3,000 files. I initially thought that maybe the data search was interrupted so I ran it again, and it pulled about the same amount. What's going on here? Is this software just not as robust as I thought? Should I try a paid software? Did the jpgs disappear from the sectors during the initial scrape and now, even though the drive has not been in use? Thanks.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/xxpor on 2024-06-04 14:07:59.

My DS4246 came from ebay with the standard 2 PSU/2 Blank slot setup. I have the left side of the shelf totally full, and the right side partially full, but mostly empty. The drives on the right side were sitting around 45c, but the drives on the left side hit 67c (!!!!). I thought the drive sensors might be lying, since they were so high. I took a closer look at the empty slots and realized that the airflow that the PSUs were moving were likely coming mostly from the back of the unit since that's a path of less resistance than flowing over the drives themselves.

I printed 2 of these guys: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6514452. I stuck them in the slots, and within 10 seconds the fans spun way up and started moving serious air. Now the drives are all around 35-42c, totally normal!

So if you have a NetApp disk shelf, check your drive temps and make sure you block every open port. There's also an STL available to blank off IOM slots if you need it under the netapp category. Of course, they're available to buy as well.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ondsinet on 2024-06-04 13:22:57.

Hello. This might be a bit of an uncommon use case, so i haven't been able to find much info on the internet. I'd like to make a backup copy of my (videogame) cd collection to a more modern form factor (my computer doesn't have a cd reader). Instead of one big hard disk, I would like to dedicate an individual "device" to each game/game series, so storage space of around 1GB to 100GB, possibly in an easily stackble form factor. I know that CDs are perfect for this, i know i should just get an usb cd reader (i will), that's what all the search results said. I was wondering if there is any other medium that's suitable for this. USB sticks and SD cards fit every need, except they apparently won't keep data reliably when unpowered for years.

Sorry if this is a stupid question, or this isn't the right place, but i haven't had to deal with a similar issue before ( i just copy all my other stuff to normal hard drives, but i wanted to keep the collection feel for these games), so feel free to kick me towards the right direction if I'm missing something obvious.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/I-need-a-proper-nick on 2024-06-04 11:17:03.

Hi all,

While the usual practice is to trash (pre-)failing external USB-powered drives, I tend to like to keep them as additional backup storage (like a 3rd copy) and some served me surprisingly well over the years.

• First, I simply copied the data in there and leave it be.
• Then I wondered how to make the thing more robust and I used checksums over the whole content which were periodically ran in order to ensure integrity
• Now, I'd like to know if you had other suggestions on how to store data in risky situations such as failing or pre-failing drives? Ideally, I'd like to be able to have a way to check integrity or maybe have self-healing ability (I looked into Multipar PAR2 but there're too many files to do so) inside the drive itself

Thank you for your inputs.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/chilly_bang on 2024-06-04 08:43:50.

Hey!

Does somebody know whether (and how) Cyotek WebCopy downloads pages listed in remote sitemap.xml file? I tried to add https://example.com/sitemap.xml as a source file for additional URLs - but got an alert about non-local file.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/zuperfly on 2024-06-04 09:37:22.

Please share all the urls you know

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Jasonwj322a on 2024-06-04 08:22:45.

Desperately need new enclosures as my current sabrent ones keeps disconnecting randomly. I've tried new cables so I don't believe that is the issue. Maybe the connector is worn?

Either way, I checked out many options, but am having a hard time deciding since the well reviewed ones can cost upwards of $150. Sabrent offers a no frills enclosure for $30, but they also have a docking station which supports 2 SSD for $120. The latter also has a fan, which is neat since I have to point a cooling fan on my current ones. Though I am aware that it will be another point of failure.

Curious what you guys are using? I know ZikeDrive and Orico are also well reviewed as well.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/VikingLink on 2024-06-04 07:25:07.

I'm looking for a video series a Belgian bank posted in September 2012. The series was called Sh*t applicant say. They were 2 minute videos, and there were five of them. So far I have been able to find 2 on Vimeo, but that's it. The actor is called Stijn Steyaert, this helped me find the second one. I hope someone can help me find the others.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/kkgmgfn on 2024-06-04 05:46:59.

How do you backup TBs of data to cloud considering that we dont have unlimited home plans even on shelling money?

I am from Bangalore,India I have multiple TBs to upload, thats collected over 15yrs. Later in incremental backup is fine but initial is hard.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Wh0zie on 2024-06-04 05:31:56.

I feel I already know the answer, but who knows? Maybe there's some way.

I found my old youtube channel on the wayback machine. I have since deleted all my videos when I got embarrassed of them as a teenager, but now I resent myself for it. Someone luckily archived both my channel and the videos page from 2013, but that's it. None of the videos themselves have been archived. Clicking on them results in wayback machine telling me that page hasn't been archived.

To me, this seems like a dead end. It probably is. It just sucks I feel like I'm so close yet so far. I'm heartbroken.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/No-Balance-8038 on 2024-06-04 05:21:07.

I have had a btrfs raid1c3 out of 3x20TB disks myself. It was really unhelpful when I used AOSP (via USB) as it didnt tell me why it did make it read only... not using AOSP would have helped

Recently I switched over to a real server, with a HBA and immediate connection.

Then I googled, and the following points were made:

btrfs: Super bad because silently is overfilled and getting NOENT - all disk used, but regular rebalance is completely not recommended to avoid this issue altogether. Apparently misrepresents actual disk space.

ZFS: Super bad because will never be in Linux tree, and is hard to maintain, apparently "just hype"

https://www.reddit.com/r/zfs/comments/sfo1tq/linus_tech_tips_fails_at_using_zfs_properly_loses/

https://storytime.ivysaur.me/posts/why-not-zfs/

https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/labels/Type%3A%20Defect

And then we had that corruption bug in ZFS. Backups are most important!

But then people in ZFS IRC tell me to instead use multiple different filesystems and just hope to have one that doesnt break, and to start with ext4, cause its the easiest to repair...

[...]

So in the end I read, use ext4 or XFS on a single disk but have 2 offline backups offsite.

Whats your verdict? My server is as follows:

64GB registered ECC RAM (single bit correction)

Intel i3-9100

10x20TB HDD installed - 10 slots empty

2x2TB SSD

SuperMicro X11SCL-F Motherboard

My Data is unique in the sense of that I put lots of time in it, and that I would not want to re-do all that stuff at any given point.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/bananamuffinsareyum on 2024-06-04 05:02:03.

Hi, I’m transferring files from a Samsung T7 ssd to my WD passport HDD through davinci resolve clone tool. 1 TB of 6k Blackmagic video footage.

It’s taking about 10-12 hours estimated. Is this normal? I feel like my Lacie did transfers faster back when I used it. Wondering if anyone else has been in same situation.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/theresmorethan42 on 2024-06-04 01:59:05.

There are bits and kinda jumbled together things all over the place, bur does anyone know of a tool that just does the thing? ie. I feed it a list of channels/playlists and it dumps the right metadata/.nfo to feed emby properly?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/busybeeworking on 2024-06-03 23:23:17.

I want to archive a large number of documents, but don't want to do it on something that requires equipment that is expensive or could break.

I heard using a flashlight and magnifying glass would be possible but annoying. I also heard using photographic slides but I only saw information for that for images, not written documents. Thoughts?

Edit: I'm going to buy the archived material, the thing us I need a way to view it without equipment

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/19wolf on 2024-06-03 21:14:04.

I'm migrating my giant 8-bay CS381 into a 6-bay Ugreen, mostly for physical size reduction (and partly because the 8-bay model was $300 more expensive for some reason?). I bought two of them so I'll have an active+backup and I'm trying to decide how to set everything up.

1. I absolutely do not want to use UGreen's OS. Right now I'm using UnRAID, but previously used Debian/MergerFS. I'm thinking maybe I'll try out TrueNAS? Or else stick with Unraid.
2. I have 4x16tb drives (plus some 12/14tb), and am torn between buying 8 more to fill out the 6x2=12 bays, or going all in and getting 12x20tb drives.
3. I'm not sure how I want to lay everything out. Currently I'm using 68 of 80TB, and I think it grows slowly enough to still last me a bit. I'll have the backup system and don't really mind downtime so I'm wondering if RAIDz/1 parity is enough for my purposes? Or does it really make the difference to do RAIDz2 with 20tb drives? Or maybe I should just skip RAID/parity altogether?

What would you do?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Slowly_We_R0t on 2024-06-03 18:53:11.

So I'm trying to download several hundred radio broadcasts (mp3). I have an app that downloads the audio, but I can't get that to download to my phone. I just need it to my phone so I can play them on my mp3 file player and delete the other app. Probably a dumb question, but any help would be great. Thanks.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/osrott on 2024-06-03 18:30:25.

Hey, I'm looking for a new nas hdds for my ds215+. Can I safely use a Surveillance HDD?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/14paavang on 2024-06-03 18:10:39.

I have a truenas scale server with 18tb of storage, I have a windows pc. What free backup software is good for making backups from windows to my server? What do you guys use? Requirements: file type backup and not an image Budget: none

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Primary_Season7533 on 2024-06-03 17:52:46.

I got a Fujitsu fi-7160 to digitize my family's photos. Had really high hopes for this scanner since Fujitsu seems very reliable and it has CCD sensors. I've been very disappointed with the image quality from their own software, Paperstream Capture, so I turned to VueScan.

However, there seem to be something that's fundamentally wrong with this software or the combination of the software and scanner. I get really unpredictable results, cropping some photos but not others, settings not updating when I press the buttons – then updating next time I scan, duplex only works sometimes (not set to skip blank pages)... the list of bugs goes on.

Yes, I wrote to Ed Hamrick who asked me for a bug report. Did my best to write one but never heard back. Saw an April update (VueScan 9.8.32) was supposed to address Fujitsu scanner issues but seems to only be worse for me compared to earlier.

Have tried NAPS2 and it seems to work super well so hardware should be fine.

Anyone who got Fujitsu ADF-scanners to work with VueScan?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/gorhat on 2024-06-03 11:47:04.

Greetings! Recently I tried copying files from my WD Elements 4TB and noticed some files get stuck. Using Gnome Disks utility I found out I have around 256 bad sectors on the drive. I backed everything I could and I'm getting ready to fully scan drive with badblocks (or something similar). The question is - will that drive still be usable after repair of bad sectors or should I just toss it away and move on? Thanks for answers.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Ghosteen_18 on 2024-06-03 05:25:40.