It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/hibby2000 on 2024-05-25 12:02:02.

I have hundreds of letters my grandfather wrote to my grandmother while he was a naval officer in WW2, and I want to digitize them with OCR. Can anyone recommend a high quality scanner that handles fragile documents like this? Most I’m finding are auto feed, which I’m somewhat apprehensive to use as some of the paper is like onion skin. Thank you!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/PM_BOBS_AND_VEGANE on 2024-05-26 05:07:15.

Hey everyone,

I remember a few years back, there was this site that hosted a really vast collection of vintage erotica novels, you could either download them or read them on the site. I think it had a couple thousand books and you could filter them with categories/tags. Also they all seemed to be from 1950-1980s or possibly even older.

Does this ring any bells for anyone?

If anyone knows anything, please let me know, lately I got a bit obsessed with this

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/lgittens on 2024-05-26 02:34:26.

A couple years ago I miss judged my storage space needs. I should have bought a 8 bay nas but only purchased a four bay. I currently run plex off a ds418. 2x8tb and 2x18tb hybrid raid. I also have a 10tb currently not being used. Not sure what my next step should be

1. Buy a two bay raid enclosure and a 10tb drive. This should last me a couple years. However I'm not sure what to get and if this may cause some lag while streeming.
2. Buy 2x18tb drives or larger. Then I will have 3 drives not doing anything. This seems like a big waste until I upgrade my Nas which should be in a few years

2.Replace my Nas with a 8bay nas and buy another 10tb drive. This is not my favorite option as this will be the most expensive. My current Nas I would have to find a good home for.

Somthing else to note is that my pc already has plenty of hd space. My goal is to use my pc for sorting and move all data to the Nas for storage.

Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/XDDEZZ on 2024-05-26 01:12:03.

as the title said im looking for a website to get this video "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyYYZSqpq0I"

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/DR650SE on 2024-05-26 00:23:23.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/KeptinGL6 on 2024-05-26 00:04:34.

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/molitar on 2024-05-25 23:42:01.

https://www.yountl.xyz/biniku/walkthrough

I have never seen anyone go through such a nightmare to stop someone from copying a walkthrough.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Gamba_Kufu_of_Huru on 2024-05-25 23:31:23.

So I have a little home theater with a 12" subwoofer, and in the same room, around 3 meters away is where my hard drives are stored, in a drawer. For security reasons they need to be in this room so they can't simply be moved for now.

I never play any music or movies or anything when they're plugged in and in use of course. I just want to know if they are safe from the vibrations when stored away. I listen at pretty reasonable volumes I think but ofc some movies can get very loud and bassy.

They work and I have no issues or anything, it's just me being the big worrier I am am wondering if they somehow may be getting some subtle damage over time that may cause issues down the line or reduce the lifespan etc.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Teh_Original on 2024-05-25 22:48:25.

I have maintained backups of my old computers over the years, and they are on one of my current PC's hard drives. Sometimes I was using multiple computers at the same time and they were never synchronized (and therefore have different folder structures sometimes), but had some of the same data on each computer.

I'd like to merge all of my backups together (probably with my current PC's file system) and eliminate the duplicates. What's the best methodology for doing this? Are there tools for this?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Dragonkindren1 on 2024-05-25 22:00:22.

Just change the watch in the url to ifr and then right click and save video

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/BigTigerM on 2024-05-25 21:22:23.

Hi! My name’s Tiger, and I’m struggling to keep my data stored.

Every external storage device I’ve purchased has eventually had to be sent to repair services and be promptly replaced within a two to four year span - I’m now on my third harddrive, and have decided that I need a change to my approach.

I am a college student with tons of personal digital memorabilia, from movies to OSTs and historical documents. After a period of time, the drives I’ve bought have consistently taken ages to mount & unmount, face a myriad of widely-spanning technical problems, and then promptly refuse to work. This has led to the decision that they will never, ever leave my areas of residence for fear of some whimsically-inclined failure. So I’m down on my luck, and thought I’d ask y’all for help since you folk seem dedicated enough to have some tips!! :D

I suppose a list of what I’m generally looking for in a storage device would be helpful:

• Can be safely relocated, but incredibly rarely
• Can be accessed with immediacy (ie direct cables and not network shenanigans)
• Loads files at an incredibly accessible speed
• Preferably functions out of the box, some set-up is fine if it needs updates or a wizard, hesitant if it requires additional purchases
• Doesn’t require a 24/7 connection to a computer
• Is not OS-dependant, can be formatted to be read by anything
• Offers 5TB of storage or more

Thank y’all so much for reading!! TwT If I sound douchey, do let me know.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/1823alex on 2024-05-25 21:21:41.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/jchocolate99 on 2024-05-25 20:32:43.

I'm trying to set up my new 6 bay NAS. I have four 20TB and two 4TB. When I set it up for raid 5 it says my usable space is only 20TB. Why wouldn't I have 64TB of useable space? I'm really new to all this and just trying to get an understanding

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/JamesJenkins55 on 2024-05-25 20:20:06.

I need to download 12k pngs but they are stored as blob files which makes downloading them more difficult. They can be/are found on the MSEdge devtool's network and/or sources panel. How can i download all of them without manually clicking download on 12000 images?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/flossy_cake on 2024-05-25 15:10:11.

I have the 12TB WD Red Plus drive. It thumps every 5 seconds due to PWL. It is annoying. I was able to shut it up with this specific type of anti shock bracket which suspends the drive on rubber posts from all 4 sides. You will need a 5.25" bay in your PC case which are getting rarer these days.

Available at the usual places like ebay, amazon, aliexpress etc.

WARNING: do not necessarily expect it to be a miracle solution for you straight away. I have two 5.25" bays and if I mount it in the top one I can still hear the thump. If I use the bottom bay it is completely silent. I don't know why. I think it is something to do with resonation inside the case. In the bottom silent bay I can put my ear right up to it and I hear no thump at all. I can't explain it. There is some trick to getting the drive suspended in just the right way that makes it not transfer any vibration. I have read on some silent PC review site that people were suspending their drives in mid air inside the case with elastic bands. Maybe it's like that. When you are mounting the drive on the posts, inspect each post to make sure each one is making a perfect circular maximal contact patch on all 4 sides. If one of the posts is bending slightly its contact patch will be smaller. It is easy to be slightly off and I think that affects how much vibration gets damped.

Now for the alternatives: I have two Western Digital 8TB blues (current model) which seem to not have PWL thump that I can tell. Maybe they do, but I cannot hear it. Or maybe it does it so rarely and quietly that I cannot tell it is happening. But the 8TB blues have more platter spinning whoosh noise like "hhhhhhhhhh" so the 12TB red plus with silenced PWL is actually quieter.

I will keep playing around with my top bay to get to the bottom of why it's still thumping despite the rubber mount. Maybe one of the rubber posts went out of alignment or something. I have it in the bottom bay right now and I can tell you there is no thump at all, none. The drive has not gone to sleep.

I was going to buy a second 12TB WD Red Plus but then I thought if they both thump every 5 seconds there is no guarantee both their thumps would be in sync so it could actually result in a thump every 2.5 seconds! Imagine having four of them, it would be a thump every 1.25 seconds, oh my goodness!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/just-ans on 2024-05-25 15:08:13.

Hey guys,

I'm so sad while writing this.

I had lost my photos and video of a month, the month was really memorable as well. But what is lost is lost.

I was able to recover some files but when I try to open those file they won't play or show the images. I guess it's corrupted do you guys know someone who has ever recovered corrupted Pictures and Video files?

I don't think it's possible to recover them from being corrupted at this point of time thus I saved them on the disk so that when someday the tech becomes powerful enough and I get some money, I will try to recovery the corrupted files.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/tealbull on 2024-05-25 13:37:19.

I have two U.2 SSDs in RAID 0 in my OWC Thunderbay Flex 8 using SoftRaid. I recently got an OWC U.2 Mercury Dual enclosure. I want to move these U.2 SSDs from the thunderbay to the mercury.

But I want to ensure the RAID 0 volume and data remains intact. Since it is a SoftRaid volume, I’m guessing the info will carry over when I change enclosures. What are some precautions I should take? Any steps I should follow?

I will definitely keep a back up of the data on the RAID 0 volume

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Darwinmate on 2024-05-25 13:25:58.

Several times a week machine(s) generate between 20 to 500gig of data that needs to be transferred to a large NAS. Currently I have an rsync script that runs continuosly monitoring for changes looped in a bash script with --partial to pick up where it left off.

However this is more of a hack. rsync is more a syrnconisation tool than a dedicated network transfer tool. So while it works great, it has issues resulting from frequent dropouts. It works okay but I'm after something more robust that can withtstand network dropouts.

To complicate matters, the NAS is running (ReFS)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReFS], the machines which generate the data run window10, others run weird Centos DE and finally the last one is ubuntu. All transfer to the ReFS. Ideally the tool would work on Windows/Linux/MacOS.

I have only one contender: https://github.com/fast-data-transfer/fdt

Speed is not priority but stability and tracbility is.

Any recommendations?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Canttalkwhatsapponly on 2024-05-25 12:45:07.

Ex: If you buy a 64GB iPhone, you should get 64GB of space on iCloud for free.

This would encourage people to buy higher capacity phones meaning Apple will make more profit which they can spend on cloud maintenance and expansion etc.. Its a win-win for everyone

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/GreasyBogs on 2024-05-25 12:43:18.

I have an idea for a system that involves cold storage and active storage. The idea being that cold storage is purely archival, not being accessed regularly, then active storage is on a NAS. All backed up, one copy offsite etc.

My question is, would it be silly for any reason to have 2x cold storage archival drives (one backup) be 18tb seagate exos drives? I understand they're for larger scale data servers, Raid configs etc. but if I used them in this context would I be jeopardising anything? Leaving them as purely cold storage?

I mainly look to this from a cost perspective. My thoughts are that if the Seagate exos have a 5 year warranty, they'll theoretically last me at least 5 years, at which time I can double check integrity and risk running them longer, upgrade to the newest medium (if not HDDs), or purchase more of these drives if necessary. And I've run some numbers between other drives and their warranties, these seem the cheapest and most reliable.

For the record I've also looked into archival discs, like the M-Disc range, with hesitance. Even though discs are still fully supported today, I don't have faith that they'll necessarily be "the" medium in 100 years (like the box says) or even 50 years. Plus it's a huge project to move dozens of terabytes onto 100gb discs...

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/theasianpianist on 2024-05-25 10:46:33.

Are there any tips for improving video playback from a server? I have a Lenovo tiny PC running Jellyfin and Stash. I'm able to play videos from Jellyfish using various platforms without issue - no skipped frames, everything loads almost instantly, no lag. However, videos served from Stash are the exact opposite - super choppy and they take forever to load. Is there anything I can do to try and improve performance here? Something like using a specific codec/file format, or transcoding on the fly?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/anonymous_2600 on 2024-05-25 10:07:20.

Is Crucial P3 NVMe SSD good? I am planning to use it with NVME enclosure..But my main concern is reliability and then speed, speed around 1000MB/s is quite good for me

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/raskolnikovbey on 2024-05-25 09:39:07.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/SorrowlessMess on 2024-05-25 04:55:19.

I just cant find any reliable and unanimous infomation about this topic: What really is BEST storage for LONG-TERM data archive / storge? I mean really long time - let's say 30-50 years, is it even possible?

I red that:

1. NAND Flash Technology - Flash Pendrives, ssd and other flash storage is bad choice due to physics around electrons which i dont know much about.
2. Magnetic media - Olschool HDD are better than ssd but still degrades in couple years - that would make it possible option only if having 2-3 backups of same data in case of one fails
3. Optical Disks - It seems discs like blu-ray have really long-term durability if handled well and there seem to be something made just for that - M-DISCs but i dont know if that is really good choice - anyone have experience with it?
4. Tape catridges - not sure how really durable it is but it can be writen only once and is quite problematic

I really need to know best options that are available right now. I wont even consider cloud storages for numerous reasons. Let's talk about it!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/evolution2015 on 2024-05-25 04:18:14.

Is there an archive format that is faster than ZIP for selectively extracting a few files or search the archive for file names when the archive is large (100GB+) and contains tens of thousands of files?