It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Prime_Objective666 on 2024-05-22 10:35:29.

I was shocked at how loud the WD Pre-emptive Wear Levelling thump was! My 18Tb Elements got sent back. I then got in touch with Seagate and asked how they compere - I thought I would share my experience here in May 2024 and hope it helps:

Me:

Hi - I just got shocked about a WD 18Tb PWL thump every 5 seconds which I cannot cope with soundwise. So I am looking to Seagate to see if you offer 14+TB drives that do not have regular PWL thump sounds. I dont care about access noise nor motor whirr noise but PWL every 5 secs is like Chinese Water Torture! The ONLY issue is regular Pre-emptive Wear Levelling noises - and NOT access or drive noise

Seagate Agent:

Upon checking with the concern technical team, our technical team requested to inform you that, you will get a minimum sound with a lite vibration in our drives. As this sound will occur in all the hard drives, It will not be unusual like WD and this sound will not be disturbing to you. Other than that you can buy any Seagate drives according to the capacity and usage. PWL sounds will not occur in Seagate. But you can hear some minimum sort of sound and vibration can be heard slightly when the drive is in a silent room. You need not worry, you will not face any PWL sound issue in Seagate.

Me:

Second question: what is the best large drive that copes with regular power cycles? In my usage, the drive will be attached to a USB external dock cabinet which powers down the drive after 20 mins of non-use. This will occur 20 times a day, Out of the SG range, what copes best?

Seagate Agent:

Upon checking, Seagate does not recommend to use the drives in the USB dock or using splitters or any other external connectors. We recommend and request you to use the drives directly to the host device.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Unlikelyusername3 on 2024-05-22 08:22:16.

New to this. I’m looking for a program that allows me to stream videos from my pc similar to Plex, but with scrollable videos more similar to TikTok for some short….clips.

I haven’t seen what I’m looking for on google so I figured I’d ask the experts here. :)

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Boogertwilliams on 2024-05-22 07:05:36.

My old unlimited Google Drive went read only about a year ago. Been keeping the 100TB plex library still active as read only. Now finally, the message came it will be deleted in 30 days. Was a good run. But so many options now anyway, I wont really miss it. Plex Debrid, Stremio + Torrentio. Only the rarer stuff I had found over the years I put somewhere else. So long and thanks for all the fish.

I have learned that I dont HAVE to be a datahoarder, lol. Just "get what I need when I need it"

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/wherearemytoez on 2024-05-22 06:16:40.

Help explain and reccomend in layman’s terms which products and systems I should use. Basically everything is on my iPhone and laptop and I want to save this data and not be exposed to potentially losing it all if something goes wrong

TY!!!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Cranberry-Double on 2024-05-22 03:11:24.

I have google asst and car google map data. Is it possible to scrape any of the timeline takeout data to find more accurate location history? The actual location history is nothing.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/LoliSukhoi on 2024-05-23 00:01:06.

All I want is additional storage space for archiving files off of my PC that has some protection against drive failure. What is the simplest method of achieving this?

Until recently I used a Synology 4 bay NAS but I've outgrown it and since I never used 99% of the features of a NAS, I decided to get a 10 bay IcyBox DAS (I think it's a DAS? It connects via USBC) that I saw on sale along with 4 24TB Seagate drives. My idea was to then use Windows Storage Spaces to create a pool and mirror the drives to add redundancy.

But then I saw a lot of people on here really don't like Storage Spaces which sent me down a rabbit hole of Googling and reading threads which involved a million acronyms and other words and names I don't understand and now I'm thoroughly confused. Like what's the difference between a DAS and a JBOD? What's a Home Lab? What's ZFS? (I'm just asking these to show the kind of research mess I've ended up in, don't feel the need to spend paragraphs answering them.)

Is Storage Spaces good enough for what I want? Will it easily allow me to add more drives to the pool down the line? Did I buy the wrong thing? Should I have done something else?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/fals3illusion on 2024-05-22 23:32:12.

So, I am running out of drive space for my backups. I was looking at the Seagate Exos Brands.

What is the difference between the X Numbers (example 16TB drive)?

I read that the X16, in that lineup, 16TB was the largest drive made. X24, 24TB was largest drive.

But whats the difference between a X16 - 16TB drive vs a X24 - 16TB drive?

Is there a reason to go towards the X24 vs X20, X18, X16?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/NegativeNiek on 2024-05-22 23:02:51.

So my iCloud has been full for a while, and I wanted to transfer everything to my local pc storage, so I requested my data as rar files, and eventually got those, unzipped them and everything, but now I just have these 6 25gb folders with images and videos from random dates (because the dates didn't save and I don't know how to sort on EXIF data) and I don't even know how to find the most recent saved image inbetween them all.. Could someone maybe help me figure out how to get all these dates back into place?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Bern_Down_the_DNC on 2024-05-22 22:13:19.

I forgot to download Terracopy before doing the transfer. Is there a way to easily verify the data hashes for everything at this point?

Thank you.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Splitsurround on 2024-05-22 22:12:01.

Thanks for the guidance towards my new DAS, friends. It took a while for me to really understand the options, software raid vs hardware, how many bays I needed, the limitations of it, etc. So I've settled on the Terramaster 6 bay DAS D6-320. I will put 6 16TB drives in it. I'll be using Softraid with it, thus my next question:

since softraid doesn't do raid 6 yet, what flavor would you recommend for me? I need at least one disk failure protection, but wouldn't hate two. I don't understand what some of the raid options mean by "at least one disk protection" fwiw. Looking for the most usable space with the most comprehensive "realistic" protection

Thanks again, and looking forward to getting moved to something stable

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/SimplyDown on 2024-05-22 21:51:05.

https://www.westerndigital.com/products/internal-drives/wd-red-plus-sata-3-5-hdd?sku=WD140EFGX

Just posting in case anyone else has been trying to get their hands on one since they've all but disappeared over the past year. If you're wondering why it's anything special, it's the largest reasonably quiet HD if you're looking for a low noise solution compared to the typical enterprise HD.

I logged into my WD account and added 5 to my cart. Checked back a couple of times over a few hours and WD ended up emailing me a 15% off one time discount code to finish checking out. I'm also receiving 18% rewards on Western Digital through Capital One Shopping (after window shopping Western Digital site a few times on the app). Not sure if this is normal or some special push for Memorial Day Weekend. But final price for me ends up at $220.15 + tax plus $39.63 in rewards per HD.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Fantastic-Notice-756 on 2024-05-22 21:20:52.

So, a while back I got a 2TB flash drive from a friend. I needed a new one because I was having corruption trouble with the 1TB flash drive that I'd been using. Anything I backed up to the 1TB drive would be corrupted upon reconnecting the drive to my laptop There wasn't much on the 1TB drive, but I did have a lot of videos downloaded from YT that were clean. I thought the corruption might've been carried over, so I decided to alphabetically re download all the videos onto the 2 TB drive. Re downloading the videos going fine until I hit a bit of a snag.

I'd gotten to the R and S part of the video title alphabet. After I pasted some video files onto the 2TB drive I noticed there was external corruption being caused. I know this because I tried to paste a rar of the pc version of neversoft's spider-man game onto the drive (It was the lightest game I could think of) and the archive ended up being corrupt. I can tell when it's a clean paste, because the rar will paste slowly and the green meter resembles a set of waves, but when it's a corrupted paste, it'll look more like a straight line. I took those files off the drive, re pasted the archive and the rar was just fine. I re downloaded the files, some of them were copied to the drive and didn't cause any corruption, but others would still cause corruption. I even pasted some video files from the 1TB drive and some of them would be fine, but others would have the same corruption result.

I don't know if this is malware related or if it has something to do with the allocation unit size, But I have no idea how to fix it. And what's worse is that I have no way of knowing which files the 2TB drive will accept or not. I can't back anything up until this is fixed and my desktop doesn't have enough space. Any help at all will be appreciated.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/gidjun on 2024-05-22 20:52:10.

Recently decided to get into the hobby of burning my own physical media collection but ran into a frustrating problem: while the movies play perfectly on my laptop in varying media playback programs from the burned disc with no issue, popping them into my PS5 causes them to play the video and subtitles only, with no sound whatsoever. The console’s native sfx work perfectly fine, as does, weirdly enough, the music in the disc's menu. Futzing with the various sound settings in the disc player’s app, the general console, and my TV did nothing. Similarly, I tried it out on a friend's Panasonic bluray player and ran into the same problem. Already did a good amount of digging online to no avail - what am I missing?

For context, I converted .mkv files into bluray folders via tsmuxer and multiAVCHD and am using ImgBurn to burn Verbatim BD-R 25g discs in a Pioneer BDR-XD08UMB-S drive. Thank ya'll!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/uwishto on 2024-05-22 20:49:35.

Looking for advice of which one is best for long term storage. since the money between them is not big difference from why I am from.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/GibtNixZuSehen on 2024-05-22 20:29:30.

Is there any good alternative to paperless-ngx for archiving >5000 magazines and books in pdf format?

Would be nice to have full text search over all documents.

I'm running an paperless-ngx container on my proxmox server but several pdfs take ages to ocr and indexing. Still have >4500 files to go and the files I added so far took several days to complete.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Potential_Ad4240 on 2024-05-22 20:17:14.

i'm just wondering how much of it still exist today. Justin Kan streamed nearly 24/7 for about 8 months and even at the 2007 bit-rate they would have had that seems like an interesting piece of history that may have gotten at least partly lost. so, does anyone know how much is out there or how big it would be? (or do you have it, that would be kinda cool lol)

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/PaganLinuxGeek on 2024-05-22 20:09:52.

If you're using a Synology NAS, update. Several CVE posted with some issues on the OS.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/SuperElephantX on 2024-05-22 19:18:38.

Long story short, need some tools that could securely do file/folder encryption and output as smaller chunks of encrypted blocks.

Benefits: Easier to track small changes without hashing 1TB of data. Easier to sync to the cloud.

Had been using VeraCrypt for ages and worked fine every time (Container's too large).

Also heard of Cryptomator, but the reputation of the software made me stepped away from it (Corruption issues)

Any solutions that you guys could recommend would fit the need of mine?

• Backed by secure algo like AES

• Auto splitting chunks into smaller file sizes.

• Content change only affects the necessary encrypted blocks and not all of them.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Juaniesteban on 2024-05-22 18:16:36.

I have a lot of old labtops i dont use and some very old computers. Can i posibly use them as a nas? Is there a possibility that the computer dies?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ImaginaryCheetah on 2024-05-22 17:13:33.

"when in rome", as they say.

for someone generally ignorant on good verses bad HBAs, i assume there's a reason for the cult status of LSI, but is there any reason to not use the free HP ones i've got ?

having onboard cache seems like a useful feature, but might not be worth the potential issue with HP drivers.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ramy_chaos on 2024-05-22 12:53:07.

Hi everyone!

So ive got a bunch of external and internal drives and my pc just feels like a cluttered mess in terms of storage. Ive got files all over the place, some of which are duplicates, and it's driving me nuts. If anyone has any advice, id be super grateful!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/MikeTheTech on 2024-05-22 12:44:34.

My community didn’t quite appreciate my new data hoarder case. I geeked out over 14 modular drive bays. Lol. Figure this community might appreciate it more. Using this to store and run my Plex server, about 36TB of storage (movies and tv shows).

Also, not an ad or sponsor. I bought this myself.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Parking-Mirror3283 on 2024-05-22 10:58:04.

Hi guys, might be a little bit strange and not sure if there's anywhere better to ask this, but i was wondering if anybody had an idea of where to get a solid storage box for full DVD sized cases as opposed to just the discs themselves?

Have a bunch of PS2/Xbox/360 games collected and i want to do something better than just having them loose in a box but have had no luck finding anything.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/jfromeo on 2024-05-22 10:52:27.

I am planning to build a DIY DAS with external USB-C connection to host, just like some solutions out there, for example the IcyBox IB-3810-C31

https://preview.redd.it/1vx9qmg1jy1d1.jpg?width=764&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0b5fda0e343586ed387dbfa7d6b96fc28e805a0f

I know the way to go for data integrity is SATA/SAS controller/HBA, but USB-C is enough for my needs (JBOD with 1-2 simultaneous read access to mkv files, no writes at all).

I have a spare SilverStone DS380B with its 8-bay hotswap backplane, along with a SilverStone SFX 500W Gold power supply. I plan to power on the system with a Supermicro CSE-PTJBOD card, with power output for the 3x120mm fans I have installed in the case.

https://preview.redd.it/18q935qyjy1d1.jpg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e44108025ad574c4815347fce2f0f2ab0a51229b

But I cannot find a way to transform the SATA outputs of the backplane to USB inputs in a USB hub which I plan to install inside the case. All the cables and interfaces SATA-to-USB I find, include the power adaptor, which does not fit the backplane SATA connections of the backplane.

I would need 8 x cable adapter like the Startech one, but without the SATA power part, does it exist?

https://preview.redd.it/z2zpg6mbky1d1.jpg?width=400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=29c8a922a7b7c41a27eb8f3122a7a015d7ca9229

Thanks in advance.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/unable_To_Username on 2024-05-22 10:52:27.

Bing Chat always comes up with programs that are for data recovery or whiping without traces... but I just want a program that: Read binary... and Write binary at the exact same spot you've red it. (to newly write the magnetic information, to counteract loss of magentic field strength over years)