It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/uuhhidontevenknow on 2024-05-25 03:45:14.

Hello, for some context, I am currently building a PC specially for the purpose of VHS digitization. Due to the specific old hardware I need to use (which allows me to capture the VHS as lossless), I am limited to using Windows XP, which supports a maximum storage size of 2TB. Anyways, I am looking for a hard drive for it. I will need to get two hard drives (as you all know, one for storage and one as a backup). I was thinking about getting a seagate barracuda, but I have heard that they are not the most reliable. What would your recommendation of a reliable, and decently quiet hard drive be? Thanks

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ChristianTerrorist on 2024-05-25 03:18:10.

Any replacements for this site? https://cdn.discordapp.xyz/

It helped to grab images from expired discord links, of which I have a lot of and should've saved to disk instead of just saving them for later.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/i_xm_nxsh on 2024-05-25 02:46:16.

Hey everyone! I did my research and narrowed it down to Synology 923+ to start my data hoarding journey however I recently came across a PC built to use as NAS.

Now, because of this, I am a bit confused as to which one should I go for since the PC helps me save a lot of money. However, I am not that knowledgeable when it comes to using NAS via TrueNAS, maintaining my NAS-related PC setup etc. I have used a Windows PC Tower (with monitor) in the past but I only used it for 7 years (without any major issues) and changed to a laptop.

It will be really helpful to know if the PC setup given below is a good choice for its price, good for my use case and if it will consume too much power as a NAS or not. This person is looking for $240 (probably can give the system to me for $220). Below are the system specs with my comments in (brackets):

CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1055T 6 Core Processor

Memory: 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 (brand not mentioned)

HBA: LSI SAS[hidden information]i Flashed to IT Mode and acted as a HBA (no idea what this is)

Supports 8x SATA/SAS 6gb/s Drives. Two SFF_8087 Breakout cables are included.

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H with Tower CPU Cooler

Case: Fractal Design Define R3 with 8 bays for HDDs

Power Supply: Seasonic 550W PSU

Thank you so much for reading this far and if you want to read further to know my use cases then here it is:

My wife is a beginner in photography. She started 2 years back and now has over ~400 GB of photos. I know it's not much but we know that she will need more space soon.

I have been using Plex (with Plex Pass) through an old laptop which has 2 TB HDD+SSD combined. Sadly, I have to delete videos to make space for new ones.

I am planning on getting 24TB (8x3) drives to tackle both the use cases mentioned above.

Thanks in advance for your responses!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Western_Bass_1491 on 2024-05-25 01:07:27.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/_cant_talk on 2024-05-25 01:02:20.

To save money, I’ll only buy drives for 2 slots, use raid 1, and when I need more space I’ll add more drives and use raid 5

Is that possible or will changing raid configurations screw everything up?

I don’t need a ton of storage right now, maybe 10TB, but I know I’ll need 40tb in the next 2 years or so

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Western_Bass_1491 on 2024-05-25 00:00:24.

I am giving a iMac a massive storage boost, however all the HDD’s I have are decently quiet. I am looking for one to give it the classic HDD sound, and that actually still exists and isn’t impossible to find. I don’t care about speed or rpm, just the sound and one that won’t make me broke lol

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Hamza77k on 2024-05-24 23:28:52.

I remember on a few PC's of people ive seen before they had collections of old games and they all had the same games almost, i'm talking about classic PC games like counter strike 1.6, gta san andreas and such and i remember before when my dad used to go to the computer shop, the windows they would install always had a folder of many classic games and i've started to wonder where i could find that folder for my own newly acquired PC. if anyone has an idea, please let me know :)

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ryanmatthews-reviews on 2024-05-24 23:04:35.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/TheFumingatzor on 2024-05-24 21:46:11.

There's some subreddits with extensive wikis. I'd like to download and archive them. How do I do that so I can browse them "offline" later?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/TexasBulldog74 on 2024-05-24 21:31:46.

Kind of an odd question in my mind as I always thought a hard drive plugged into the motherboard SATA ports would be faster and more consistent speed transfer compared to USB but im seeing otherwise on my setup.

I was waiting for a day off to move my 2 new WD Red Plus 12tb drives into my PC Case and had them connected through 2 different Sabrent 3.0 external enclosures and the write speeds were almost dead flat on both between 230-250 MB/s. Now that they are in my PC connected through SATA cables to the motherboard the write speeds are jumping all over the place from a handful of MB/s to 200MB/s id guestimate averages in the 120's.

Im backing up large media files between 10-60gig's each so its not like the head is starting and stopping non stop with small files.

I made sure my mobo drivers are up to date with same results. My system is an MSI X570 Unify, Ryzen 9 5900x, 32gb ram.

Is this considered normal?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/hi-pi on 2024-05-24 20:58:46.

The automatic photo upload from your phone feature was the primary selling point when I chose internxt, plus what I thought was a low price for a lifetime 10TB.

This feature is now removed entirely with no plan to return after I have only had the "lifetime" plan for 2 months. I understand things change, so I reached out to politely request a refund and they said it was out of the 30 day window for a refund. So I am 60 days into a "lifetime" subscription and they will not do even a partial refund, after they removed the most important feature they sold me.

Amazing business plan, offer many wonderful features and then remove them once you have customers money.

I would like to point out that the photo upload worked terribly and inconsistently to begin with, and I really should have canceled much sooner, but I wanted to give a new company the benefit of the doubt. Also they recently released webdav, but it requires running your own server, which kind of defeats the purpose of webdav. Practically every other service lets you upload many different ways and deal with your own encryption.

I made a terrible mistake and am out $1000. I should have listened to people's warnings that Internxt was not good, and that it was a waste of money. I really was foolish and Internxt did an evil bait and switch.

Do not give Internxt your money! pcloud, icecloud, koofr are all much more qualified companies

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/inhalingsounds on 2024-05-24 19:22:30.

I was thinking about this. If you have, say, 1M+ songs, even if they are mp3, how do they even load in any player? Even for foobar2000 which is very slim and optimized, wouldn't it take forever to load that amount of 10+ TB, process the metadata and have it in memory?

How about players like MediaMonkey that also digest all metatags? Doesn't this volume just crash the program completely?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/fgt67cam on 2024-05-24 19:13:55.

I recently purchased a used LTO-5 tape drive and some used tapes. LTO-5 has a rated capacity of 1.5TB (1.36TiB). When I've been writing data to these tapes (uncompressed) and they seem to cap at 1300 GiB which seems to be ~90GiB short. I write the tapes using the command:

tar cvf - /files-to-write 2> >(tee /Tape.log >&2) | mbuffer -m 14G -L -P 80 > /dev/st0

I recorded how much data was written to each different tape before I got the "tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors" message which usually means it has reached the end of the tape and can no longer write anything.

Tape 1: 1391776710636 bytes (1296 GiB)
Tape 2: 1424535198256 bytes (1326 GiB)
Tape 3: 1334993518029 bytes (1243 GiB)
Tape 4: 1383193282217 bytes (1292 GiB)

The tape drive I'm using is heavily used as well as the tapes. This is the sg_log for one of them:

    HP        Ultrium 5-SCSI    I6CZ

Supported log pages  [0x0]:
    0x00        Supported log pages [sp]
    0x02        Write error [we]
    0x03        Read error [re]
    0x0c        Sequential access device [sad]
    0x0d        Temperature [temp]
    0x11        DT Device status [dtds]
    0x12        Tape alert response [tar]
    0x13        Requested recovery [rr]
    0x14        Device statistics [ds]
    0x15        Service buffers information [sbi]
    0x16        Tape diagnostic data [tdd]
    0x17        Volume statistics [vs]
    0x18        Protocol specific port [psp]
    0x1b        Data compression [dc]
    0x2e        Tape alert [ta]
    0x30        Tape usage (lto-5, 6) [tu_]
    0x31        Tape capacity (lto-5, 6) [tc_]
    0x32        Data compression (lto-5) [dc_]
    0x34        Read forward errors (lto-5) [rfe_]
    0x35        DT Device Error (lto-5, 6) [dtde_]
    0x3e        Device Status (lto-5, 6) [ds_]

Write error counter page  [0x2]
  Errors corrected without substantial delay = 0
  Errors corrected with possible delays = 0
  Total rewrites or rereads = 0
  Total errors corrected = 0
  Total times correction algorithm processed = 0
  Total bytes processed = 0
  Total uncorrected errors = 0

Read error counter page  [0x3]
  Errors corrected without substantial delay = 0
  Errors corrected with possible delays = 0
  Total rewrites or rereads = 0
  Total errors corrected = 0
  Total times correction algorithm processed = 0
  Total bytes processed = 0
  Total uncorrected errors = 0

Sequential access device page (ssc-3)
  Data bytes received with WRITE commands: 0 GB
  Data bytes written to media by WRITE commands: 0 GB
  Data bytes read from media by READ commands: 0 GB
  Data bytes transferred by READ commands: 0 GB
  Native capacity from BOP to EOD: 1527775 MB
  Native capacity from BOP to EW of current partition: 1517690 MB
  Minimum native capacity from EW to EOP of current partition: 12239 MB
  Native capacity from BOP to current position: 17654 MB
  Maximum native capacity in device object buffer: 206 MB
  Cleaning action not required (or completed)

Temperature page  [0xd]
  Current temperature = 41 C
  Reference temperature = <not available>

DT device status page (ssc-3, adc-3) [0x11]
  Very high frequency data:
  PAMR=0 HUI=0 MACC=1 CMPR=1 WRTP=0 CRQST=0 CRQRD=0 DINIT=1
  INXTN=0 RAA=0 MPRSNT=1 MSTD=1 MTHRD=1 MOUNTED=1
  DT device activity: No DT device activity
  VS=0 TDDEC=0 EPP=0 ESR=0 RRQST=0 INTFC=0 TAFC=0
  Very high frequency polling delay:  16 milliseconds
   DT device ADC data encryption control status (hex only now):
 00     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
   Key management error data (hex only now):
 00     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00
  Primary port 1 status:
    non-SAS transport, in hex:
 00     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  50 01 10 a0 01 4a a5 9c    ........P....J..
 10     50 01 10 a0 01 4a a5 9e                             P....J..
  Primary port 2 status:
    non-SAS transport, in hex:
 00     3b 00 00 01 00 00 00 01  50 01 10 a0 01 4a a5 9d    ;.......P....J..
 10     50 01 10 a0 01 4a a5 9e                             P....J..
  Primary port 3 status:
    non-SAS transport, in hex:
 00     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00    ................
 10     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00                             ........
  Primary port 4 status:
    non-SAS transport, in hex:
 00     02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00    ................
 10     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00                             ........
  Vendor specific [parameter_code=0x8000]:
 00     80 00 43 06 31 17 00 00  00 02                      ..C.1.....
  Vendor specific [parameter_code=0x8003]:
 00     80 03 43 08 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00                ..C.........
  Vendor specific [parameter_code=0x8010]:
 00     80 10 43 08 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00                ..C.........
  Vendor specific [parameter_code=0x8020]:
 00     80 20 43 12 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00    . C.............
 10     00 00 00 00 00 00                                   ......
  Vendor specific [parameter_code=0xa101]:
 00     a1 01 43 04 00 00 00 00                             ..C.....
  Vendor specific [parameter_code=0xa102]:
 00     a1 02 43 04 00 00 00 00                             ..C.....

TapeAlert response page (ssc-3, adc-3) [0x12]
  Flag01h: 0  02h: 0  03h: 0  04h: 0  05h: 0  06h: 0  07h: 0  08h: 0
  Flag09h: 0  0Ah: 0  0Bh: 0  0Ch: 0  0Dh: 0  0Eh: 0  0Fh: 0  10h: 0
  Flag11h: 0  12h: 0  13h: 0  14h: 0  15h: 0  16h: 0  17h: 0  18h: 0
  Flag19h: 0  1Ah: 0  1Bh: 0  1Ch: 0  1Dh: 0  1Eh: 0  1Fh: 0  20h: 0
  Flag21h: 0  22h: 0  23h: 0  24h: 0  25h: 0  26h: 0  27h: 0  28h: 0
  Flag29h: 0  2Ah: 0  2Bh: 0  2Ch: 0  2Dh: 0  2Eh: 0  2Fh: 0  30h: 0
  Flag31h: 0  32h: 0  33h: 0  34h: 0  35h: 0  36h: 0  37h: 0  38h: 0
  Flag39h: 0  3Ah: 0  3Bh: 0  3Ch: 0  3Dh: 0  3Eh: 0  3Fh: 0  40h: 0

Requested recovery page (ssc-3) [0x13]
  Recovery procedures:
    Recovery not requested

Device statistics page (ssc-3 and adc)
  Lifetime media loads: 5288
  Lifetime cleaning operations: 195
  Lifetime power on hours: 48480
  Lifetime media motion (head) hours: 12747
  Lifetime metres of tape processed: 187049835
  Lifetime media motion (head) hours when incompatible media last loaded: 0
  Lifetime power on hours when last temperature condition occurred: 0
  Lifetime power on hours when last power consumption condition occurred: 0
  Media motion (head) hours since last successful cleaning operation: 66
  Media motion (head) hours since 2nd to last successful cleaning: 126
  Media motion (head) hours since 3rd to last successful cleaning: 187
  Lifetime power on hours when last operator initiated forced reset
    and/or emergency eject occurred: 20048
  Lifetime power cycles: 77
  Volume loads since last parameter reset: 5288
  Hard write errors: 2
  Hard read errors: 0
  Duty cycle sample time (ms): 27276000
  Read duty cycle: 0
  Write duty cycle: 0
  Activity duty cycle: 76
  Volume not present duty cycle: 15
  Drive manufacturer's serial number: 0
  Drive serial number: 0
  Medium removal prevented: 0
  Maximum recommended mechanism temperature exceeded: 0
  Media motion (head) hours for each medium type:
    Density code: 0x44, Medium type: 0x0
      Medium motion hours: 0
    Density code: 0x44, Medium type: 0x1
      Medium motion hours: 0
    Density code: 0x46, Medium type: 0x0
      Medium motion hours: 0
    Density code: 0x46, Medium type: 0x1
      Medium motion hours: 0
    Density code: 0x58, Medium type: 0x0
      Medium motion hours: 12747
    Density code: 0x58, Medium type: 0x1
      Medium motion hours: 0

Service buffer information page (adc-3) [0x15]
  Service buffer identifier: 0x0
    Buffer id: 0x41, tu=0, nmp=0, nmm=0, offline=0
    pd=0, code_set: Binary, Service buffer title:
      DT Device Error Log

Tape diagnostics data page (ssc-3) [0x16]
  Parameter code: 0
    Density code: 0x58
    Medium type: 0x0
    Lifetime media motion hours: 12739
    Repeat: 0
    Sense key: 0x3 [Medium Error]
    Additional sense code: 0x0
    Additional sense code qualifier: 0x2
      [Additional sense: End-of-partition/medium detected]
    Vendor specific code qualifier: 0x5098
    Product revision level: 1228292954
    Hours since last clean: 58
    Operation code: 0x1d
    Service action: 0x0
    Medium id number (in hex):
 00     49 43 32 47 4f 42 6e 36  38 30 00 00 00 00 00 00    IC2GOBn680......
 10     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00    ................
    Timestamp origin: 0x0
    Timestamp:
 00     00 00 00 09 6f 65
  Parameter code: 1
    Density code: 0x58
    Medium type: 0x0
    Lifetime media motion hours: 11121
    Repeat: 0
    Sense key: 0x3 [Medium Error]
    Additional sense code: 0xc
    Additional sense code qualifier: 0x0
      [Additional sense: Write error]
    Vendor specific code qualifier: 0x5083
    Product revision level: 1228292954
    Hours since last clean: 67
    Operation code: 0x0
    Service action: 0x0
    Medium id number (in hex):
 00     41 44 37 48 52 56 4e 55  58 4e 00 00 00 00 00 00    AD7HRVNUXN......
 10     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00    ................
    Timestamp origin: 0x0
    Timestamp:
 00     00 00 fb 62 2c 3e
  Parameter code: 2
    Density code: 0x58
    Medium type: 0x0
    Lifetime media motion hours: 1261
    Repeat: 0
    Sense key: 0x3 [Medium Error]
    Additional sense code: 0x14
    Additional sense code qualifier: 0x0
      [Additional sense: Recorded entity not found]
    Vendor specific code qualifier: 0x5090
    Product revision level:...
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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/may9899999 on 2024-05-24 18:30:53.

I have a PCIE to sata card that supports 8 drives. I had 5 installed on the card that all worked fine. I bought 3 new drives but they aren't being detected. I've tried changed cables with no effect. I've tried adding one at a time, nothing. I'm only seeing the original 5 no matter what I do. I thought maybe unplugging and old one and trying a new one could potentially let me know if I had too many, but then only the 4 drives showed up. They don't show up with fdisk -l, the don't show up in disks or gparted. I tried a USB enclosure to initialize them to see if that would help, and they did initialize, but once connected back to SATA, they don't show up. I'm just really at a loss of what's going on at this point. Below is the link to my previous post that I made trying to fix this issue. OS is Ubuntu 22.04

https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/1cz2jlb/new_hard_drive_not_showing_up/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Edit Issue solved below, TLDR: I needed an adapter power cable (which came in the box but looked like just an extension)

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/DevilryAscended on 2024-05-24 15:51:50.

I saw this post from 6 years ago,

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/a2k5y4/hoarding_to_lto_tape_primer_all_you_wanted_to/

Where it listed a price that is definitely higher than their current subscription price. Does anyone know when they made the change? I'm currently doing research into LTO backups/archiving as an option for system we're building out and a key thing I would like to avoid is any subscriptions but I did like how well documented using Yoyotta seemed.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Majestic-Owl-5801 on 2024-05-24 15:26:56.

I was transferring files from one hard drive to another and had to end the process, but now I cant open up the hard drive I was transferring files from.

I am sure I corrupted something by ending the process, but it ended on one of the windows that asked to clear space to continue. So it was on a single file rather than in the middle of a file. I clicked skip for all remaining and it froze, it was quite a lot of files. I closed the window because it was frozen, and now it wont show me the files on the drive.

It will load, show me the remaining space taken up, but wont load any files when I actually open the drive in explorer.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ByteArchivist on 2024-05-24 15:00:06.

I love deleting things.

After I download an archive of data I love going through it and choosing what is interesting to me, or might be interesting, and what is not. Seeing the amount of free space on my drives go up as I delete things is such a fun feeling.

If I ever must stand trial my only defense will be that everything I decide to keep gets saved forever in triplicate. But serial killers have their own twisted justifications for their heinous actions too.

I understand this is a mortal sin here, so I will excuse myself now before being detained.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/BiggieChezes on 2024-05-24 12:42:05.

I want to make a setup that lasts for a long time. I believe it would be best not to use a raid setup since it seems silly to have multiple drives running for basically USB 2.0 transfer speeds (Just fast enough to play Blue Rays), and I already have a backup of that data.

Preferably some external solution, a power cable, and a USB A output so it would be easy to plug into my media box

For now, I've been using a few USB thumb drives, which did the job. They were slow to transfer too and one of them died (tho it was easy to get it replaced via the manufacturer).

So I'm basically thinking about some smaller ssd, nvme setup (2tb each drive), but I'm having a hard time finding one that isn't just a single ssd or single nvme enclosure.

External hard drives also didn't sound so bad. Still, if I wanted a bigger capacity I would be stuck with Seagate One Touch Hubs and the question of how long will it last. In contrast, external SSDs seemed bad since they cost like 100 euros per 1tb while a decent 2tb nvme costs around 120 euros (150 euros if where count the enclosure).

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/The_B0rg on 2024-05-24 11:33:21.

I'm mostly talking about IPFS and systems built on top of it like filecoin and hivenet, both commercial solutions that provide file storage with guarantees over IPFS.

You can pay in money but lower your costs by providing storage in return in a P2P fashion.

I truly believe these kinds of services will only get better and are a big part of the future of the internet and data storage. The question is if anyone already has any experience with them and if they are already good enough or not?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/iconnectthebest on 2024-05-24 09:06:39.

Hi, what is the usual sweet spot for price per TB for HDD? I recall a number mentioned here often but forgot, and also I am trying to plan for a NAS so I need some numbers to work with

Also, is it good to keep committing to a specific storage size per HDD, or just accept that a NAS will have to have different sized HDDs for the sake of price efficiency?

(am asking since I unfortunately won't be able to buy all needed HDDs at once, had to do it piece meal)

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/edwardK1231 on 2024-05-24 08:51:48.

https://preview.redd.it/pdt9i82r8c2d1.png?width=389&format=png&auto=webp&s=970f7e7dae7129b3433f2ca79e2d23a4e0e5ad98

There was an error before saying one drive had a failure or something but the whole pool is fine. (makes sense as running Raid Z1)

The drive is fine I just didn't connect the power after I had added/replaced some fans.

How can I get rid of the error?

I have scrubbed the pool but nothing changed. I am a bit of a noob with truenas sorry.

Thanks in advance for any help.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Mewto17 on 2024-05-24 07:18:19.

The website is down now. Here is a Archive.org link. The zip file for the software is corrupt. Does anyone know where I can get it from? Thanks.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/BiggieChezes on 2024-05-24 06:40:41.

I want to make a setup that lasts for a long time. I believe it would be best not to use a raid setup since it seems silly to have multiple drives running for basically USB 2.0 transfer speeds (Just fast enough to play Blue Rays), and I already have a backup of that data.

Preferably some external solution, a power cable, and a USB A output so it would be easy to plug into my media box

For now, I've been using a few USB thumb drives, which did the job. They were slow to transfer too and one of them died (tho it was easy to get it replaced via the manufacturer).

So I'm basically thinking about some smaller ssd, nvme setup (2tb each drive), but I'm having a hard time finding one that isn't just a single ssd or single nvme enclosure

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/QueenAng429 on 2024-05-24 05:15:16.

Can someone please explain how to set ctbrec to auto record? There's zero documentation online, and all the posts here of people recommending it are years old without anything other than a recommendation. I can't figure out how to make it auto record, just a manual recording.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/mathscasual on 2024-05-24 04:41:00.

Right now I have two 16 TB hdds mirrored in raid 1. I want to change my raid configuration to increase speed and size. Give me an excuse to buy 6 more drives(or more) so I have both increased size and speed.

What raid configuration?

How many more drives?(can they be larger than 16Tb(was looking at 22TBs)

cacching?

Many pleases and thank yous