It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/uwu__ on 2025-04-21 17:36:24.

So I upgraded an 8tb array (no parity or striping) and swapped out some disks to a total of 12.7tb. I added/removed the drives from the pool and increased the size in storage spaces. However, both disk management and explorer still only show a total size of 7tb and available capacity of a few hundred GB despite storage spaces showing 12tb and a few things free. Any help that doesn't involve backing up 7tb of data and rebuilding the array?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/mil0wCS on 2025-04-21 17:35:38.

My ISP keeps limiting my internet usage so I'm not able to be on as long as I'd like to be anymore because of the data cap. Was curious on what websites are worth archiving for use? Just fun stuff or useful stuff for learning a new hobby.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/piangero on 2025-04-21 15:28:33.

Hello folks! I hope you can help me. I've digitalized all my DV tapes. They are the smaller ones, the last type I believe. (I had a Sony Handicam around 2007, if that makes sense.)

However, my uncle passed away in 2002/2003 and he left behind a sort of DV tape that is a little bit larger in size, so I dont know how to transfer this one, as I dont have the required videocamera to playback this.

Do I have any options for digitalizing this tape? I have a VCR and a way to digitalize VHS tapes, and as mentioned, I can do the same with the latest type of DV tapes, the small ones.

But I dont know about the other size. I read somewhere long ago, that these tapes could be fitted into a VHS and played back in a special VCR, but I cant seem to understand how that would work.

I am wondering, maybe there is some sort of playback device for these, that only plays back and rewinds/forwards or something? Like, a mini VCR but with lacking functions or something? Cause I only need something to actually play the tape, so I could use the capture card to get it onto my PC.

Or is there another way around this? I just want to archive it so bad, and show my mom cause she's never seen the tape and misses her brother.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/PerspectiveOk167 on 2025-04-21 11:41:59.

Hi all,

I’ve spent weeks going round in circles looking at different NAS and server options, and I’m still not sure what direction to go in. Hoping some of you might be able to help me decide.

Here’s what matters to me:

Plex with hardware transcoding – I want to be able to stream media (including 4K) to different TVs, ideally without it hammering the CPU. Transcoding support is important as I have other people using my current Plex server (on a pc) and seemingly things like subtitles often need transcoding as well.

Future expandability – I’d like at least 4 drive bays, with room to grow. I’m not too fussed about mixing drive sizes, but I don’t want to be boxed in straight away.

Low maintenance – I just don’t have time to tinker. Ideally I’d like something that I can set up and not think about too often. I’m not looking to learn Docker or command-line stuff.

What I’ve looked at so far:

Synology (e.g. DS423+) – Seems like it ticks the low-maintenance box and has decent transcoding support, but I’m not sure how future-proof it is, especially with their newer models using AMD chips and possibly locking drives. If the 1523+ transcoded I would probably be buying that right now.

TrueNAS – I’ve seen it mentioned a lot and it sounds powerful, but also like something that needs babysitting or at least a fair bit of knowledge. Not sure it’s for me.

Unraid – Looks like a nice balance, and I like the flexibility, but again… I don’t really want to have to manage Docker containers or worry about things breaking after updates.

DIY build (e.g. Ryzen 5600G or Intel iGPU) – I’ve thought about using a Jonsbo N5 case and doing my own build, but not sure if I’d just be making more work for myself. I've built loads of computers in the past so that's easy it's just the non windows OS I'm not familiar with.

I just want something that works reliably and can grow with me a bit.

Would really appreciate advice from people who’ve been down this road. What would you go with, and why? Especially interested in how “hands off” it can be once it’s up and running.

Thanks in advance!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/manzurfahim on 2025-04-21 07:22:52.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/sr_dankerine on 2025-04-21 00:59:04.

Wanting to back up some old Hi8 tapes and I'd rather use the S Video port on my camcorder since it's higher quality than composite.

I feel like this sub would probably know which ones to avoid and which ones are actually worth their weight in salt.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Selfhostert on 2025-04-20 22:05:02.

Hi all,

Just a quick question: I air gapped my backup nas. By setting up a power on/off schedule and disconnecting the Internet.

Which made me wonder. Does powering a nas off daily increase or decreases the lifespan of the drive.

It makes the drive have less hours on, but a higher power on count.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Claude_Jan on 2025-04-20 15:44:19.

Hey folks,

I’m looking for a reliable OCR solution that works well with French text—accents and all. The catch is: I’ve got several hundred photos of book pages to process.

What I’ve tried so far:

• Tools that give very messy output (mud levels of quality)
• Others that only let you process one image at a time—which isn’t feasible at this scale
• ChatGPT's OCR is surprisingly decent, but not trained well for French: it struggles with accents
• I also tried some Python libraries locally, but I’m probably missing something, because results aren't better than ChatGPT—and way less convenient

So if anyone has an up-to-date OCR setup in 2025 that works for bulk image processing in French, I’d love some pointers.

Thanks in advance!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Kuuumaaaa on 2025-04-21 05:08:35.

I’m wondering I’ve collected lots of “dark datas” I want to prune and select which one to keep and which one to delete. What rules do you follow?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Heaven_dio on 2025-04-21 03:02:39.

I have a limit on storage, and what I tend to do is move anything downloaded to a different drive altogether. Is it possible for those old files to be registered in WFDownloader even if they aren't there anymore?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Automatic_Mousse6873 on 2025-04-21 02:30:14.

I read a old comment that most of us arnt truly about preservation and basically were just a bunch of 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️. Not gonna lie that's how I originally started. But then the whole cartoon streaming service purge happened, music on my lists vanished, I've even grabbed YouTube videos hours before getting taken down (think it was ironically a "take down with chris hansen") and I became paranoid. Now I dedicate most of my hoarding to shows ill probably never watch. Tons of toddler shows. Trash tv on the list. Really shitty first time YouTube videos of popular YouTubers. How about yall? Do you hoard strictly what you like and watch? Or do you hoard even things you don't touch?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/lordnyrox46 on 2025-04-21 02:12:16.

On April 9, I randomly decided to archive a YouTube channel I hadn’t watched or interacted with in almost 3 years. I used to love that channel, and out of nowhere, I just felt like backing it up. No idea why. I just had a few TB free, so I figured why not put them to use.

It was my first time doing something like this. I looked up how to do it, found yt-dlp, threw together a command, and it worked perfectly. For a few days, I was downloading around 30 to 40 videos a day, slowly but surely working through the backlog.

Then today, I ran the script again… and it failed. Said the playlist didn’t exist.

So I checked YouTube, and just like that, the whole channel was gone.

Deleted. Vanished. Out of nowhere.

Somehow, by pure luck, I managed to save around 530 videos before that happened. I started from the oldest, so I’ve got a solid chunk of the early content, some of it over 10 years old. I don’t know what made me archive that channel after years of not even thinking about it, but I’m seriously glad I did.

I’ve already contacted the creator and I’m waiting for a response. If they want the videos back, I’ll do my best to upload them somewhere and help out.

If there’s any content you care about out there, don’t wait. Archive it while you still can.

Tdlr: Randomly decided to archive an old favorite channel I hadn’t watched in years. A few days later, it got deleted. By sheer luck, I saved around 530 videos. First time doing this. Already reached out to the creator in case they want them back.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/BleedingXiko on 2025-04-21 02:04:41.

I built GhostHub as a lightweight way to stream and share media straight from your file system. No library setup, no accounts, no cloud.

It runs a local server that gives you a clean mobile-friendly UI for browsing and watching videos or images. You can share access through Cloudflare Tunnel with one prompt, and toggle host sync so others see exactly what you’re seeing. There’s also a built-in chat window that floats on screen, collapses when not needed, and doesn’t interrupt playback.

You don’t need to upload anything or create a user account. Just pick a folder and go.

It works as a standalone exe, a Python script, or a Docker container. I built it to be fast, private, and easy to run for one-off sessions or personal use.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Euphoric_Answer1967 on 2025-04-21 01:40:51.

When I plug the drive in, the indicator light blinks and my computer makes the “mounting noise”, but it doesn’t appear in file explorer nor disk management. I’ve tried with Linux and Windows. What can I do? Is it dead?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Brinners86 on 2025-04-21 01:39:31.

Hi, I'm trying to back up the new videos of someone I follow for research. They originally wrote on substack but has recently started releasing videos on https://www.educreations.com/.

Does anyone know of how I might be able to achieve this? Usually i use chrome extensions to facilitate the process but they dont seem to recognise the videos on the page

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/MyGardenOfPlants on 2025-04-21 00:50:03.

I'm working on converting the 100+ or so VHS tapes my family has to digital. Most of them are TV show recordings, and wondering if there is any good reason to keep the physical VHS tapes.

For those tapes I'm not even saving the digital copies I've created, they have no use to me, take up space and its not like anyone in my family is ever going to dig up these tapes to watch a really poor recording of Jeopardy from the 90's.

( all the tapes with recordings I want to keep I will still hold onto )

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/DiamondCutter_DDP on 2025-04-21 00:23:26.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/butterballmd on 2025-04-20 23:21:07.

What's a good photo scanner for scanning twenty years worth of photos in one week? I don't know how many photos there are, but assuming maybe hundreds of photos. What's a good and "cheap" option for this? Thanks.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/pupjvc on 2025-04-20 20:19:31.

Apologies if this is the wrong sub for this. I'm an amateur hoarder. I have an impeccable mp3 library. Sometimes I think my favorite program is File Manager. Running Windows 10.

Recently, my state enacted a porn law, so I'm scattering a bit. I'm really struggling to develop a suitable filing system. Porn is not like music, where everything gets sorted by artist or perhaps genre (and iTunes easily allows for both of those options). Sometimes I'm looking for a particular performer, sometimes I'm looking for particular acts, sometimes I'm looking for a theme or clothing or even phrase.

Is there a free or one-time-fee piece of software (with a similar interface to iTunes) that I can dump my whole library into, add multiple tags to each file, and serve as a player too -- or at least run VLC?

I want to avoid Microsoft's media player. I tried to create a new library in iTunes, but it only recognizes a few video formats and tagging is limited to adding a single genre.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Ok_Wolverine_4268 on 2025-04-20 19:48:33.

I got into data hoarding a few months ago for... reasons (🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️). Since then, I've been slowly building my collection, I have 16TB in total and only plan to increase this. Today, I downloaded my music with yt-dlp, and was just playing it locally. It felt so much better, so much quicker - Not having to wait for the pages and videos to load, being able to use the UI of my choice, knowing that the media is right here and that no third party can shut down a server, or take down a video, and that be the end of it. I'm honestly really grateful I got into this, it feels amazing to physically OWN my media

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/verbatim37 on 2025-04-20 18:00:15.

Hey all,

Quick question, has anyone here ever sent more than the 5 drives in a shipment to the recycling center? Max 5 mentions on their site.

I’ve got close to 50 drives collecting dust, and unfortunately they are all bad. I don’t have a local recycler anywhere nearby (at least not without a long drive). Think they’d mind if I sent in a bigger batch? 😅

Appreciate any insight from those who’ve done it before!

https://www.westerndigital.com/company/programs/easy-recycle

Update: I guess I could just do 10 shipments...

https://preview.redd.it/9bd6b7px31we1.png?width=710&format=png&auto=webp&s=f0aae968078e611376c5fb4b96f842c2069afbb2

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Amareiuzin on 2025-04-20 17:34:58.

I'm selling one of my machines, so I want to remove my HDD's, they are currently shown as striped on windows disk management, but I have no recollection if I've set up a RAID 0 with mdadm, zfs, or just the windows storage spaces utility..

I tried to find this info within windows and online, but to no avail.

And now I'm wondering, how risky is to remove the HDD's and install into another machine?

All the questions online seem be where the OS lies in the RAID volume itself, in my case, this is purely storage and I would be moving the disks to a new machine entirely.

Am I in the clear to just move it?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/fifteenfountains on 2025-04-20 15:11:40.

Currently I have about 50 GB of photos and videos. I had another 100 GB of movies, comics and books that I wanted to hoard but they got deleted out of my stupidity and I can't get them back.

Now looking to make sure my photos and videos are stored safely. I am hesitant to use cloud services because I want everything with me, locally.

Current plan is to buy a 128 GB San disk pen drive to store duplicates of my data that will also be stored on my laptop. I want to eventually switch to hard disks or ssd's in a few years but I am just a student right now and need a cheap solution.

Will this approach be reliable for a few years for storing my minimal data before I switch to a more expensive setup?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Canesh on 2025-04-20 21:00:31.

hey all.

I have a Synology DS1817+ (paid $800+ US for it) that I've had since it was new. With the new policy of Synology and the fact that my DS isn't as performant as I'd like, I've been thinking of a refresh. I would like something that I can roll my own OS on (so not Synology, or Terramaster, QNAP, etc), and I would like more bays. I see the 45 HomeLab series HL15 as the best bang for my buck. I'd just buy the case and get the HBA, PSU, RAM, MOBO Etc. on the side. The DS is on it's original PSU, but has had a RAM swap, and an M2D18 added. I may sell the DS locally to recover some of the cost. every feature I had bought the DS for is now obsolete for my homelab (such as surveillance station [Ubiquity does a better job IMO] or VM's [I have more powerful hosts these days]) except for the one: data storage (68% full at present).

Just curious as to which CPU I should go with? AMD or Intel? should I go super cheap and use a desktop processor, or should I go all out when I can afford it? IPMI or similar a bonus, so supermicro is a good choice of mobo. Lower power requirements are a bonus for CPU choice. ECC Registered RAM not mandatory, unless required by OS (some form of Linux). I was thinking of a processor like the Xeon e5-2620v2 as I have an abundant supply, but would also like something much newer, so that I can run a win 11 pro VM on it, should the need strike. For an OS I was thinking of TruNAS Scale, RockyLinux with Houston, or roll my own ZFS compatible system.

In terms of how much data I'd be hoarding, 35+ TB. I have 8 drives at 10 TB in SHR-2 in my current setup.

new setup will be a mix (two pools perhaps?) of 6 drives at 16 TB each and the 10 TB Drives. Both the 10's and 16's are used, but purchased new by myself.

I'd have to move my data first as well... which isn't backed up anywhere (due to cost).

I have my formfactor picked out for the new unit (ATX motherboard), and I have the LSI SAS2008 9200-8i HBA from another server that used way too much power.

Sorry for the rambling, but thoughts?

TL;DR: thinking of replacing my Synology device (7+ years old) with an HL15 for performance reasons (mostly). Need advice as to whether I should, and how I should (build specs, not process). Also, thinking of selling (after building the new unit) the old DS, looking for a good price to sell.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Armature89 on 2025-04-20 20:55:13.

Hey guys, I've been in the process of digitising my family's old home movies and pictures. Today I have come across several tapes that aren't my families. There may be more and I havent gone through them thoroughly but I know they're not ours. My question is this, should I upload them to a site in hopes that people may find them (I wouldn't want my personal videos out in public but that's just me), or should I put them in a cupboard and forget about them?

If I do go with the former, what site should I use? I know there's a YouTube channel out there that puts them on his channel but im not sure if he takes submissions or just his own collection