It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/azimuth79b on 2025-04-20 20:48:08.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/FivePlyPaper on 2025-04-20 20:28:51.

If I were to buy these hard drives on eBay from GoHardDrive how ducked would I get by the duties and tariffs? (I’m in Canada)

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/mmori7855 on 2025-04-20 15:41:17.

I know there is that epson machine that is most talked about for scanning your old photos. But I was wondering if anyone has gone through the entire process already. Which method do you recommend? If one were to use the epson photo scanner, how exactly does it work? How does it pick up on the dates chronologically or do you stack them up chronologically first before you scan? After they are scanned, I hear it comes on a drive? A drive? How do you view it? Is it easy to view? I'm a millennial so let's say my current standard of use is a MacBook Pro, how do I view these photos on my MacBook Pro? How do I back them up in several copies protecting against lost like the rest of my current "stuff" where I have at least 1 backup on a hard drive as well as the hard drive in the MacBook so there is at least 2 backups. Also, the for example epson scanned photos, can they be viewed from iPhotos on the MacBook? If so, is it automatically chronologically. Yeah, how the heck does it actually work?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Specific-Judgment410 on 2025-04-20 15:19:56.

I'm backing up approximatley 25-30 tb, so i was thinking of getting a 5 bay synology nas (ds1522+) but everything seems confusing (I mean i am not even sure which synology one would work well for me there are so many product sku codes that my attempt to create a nas falls through).

I've picked 5 toshiba 20tb drives, so i'm hoping i can do dual redundancy and the odd disk (the 5th one) could be some sort of check digit disk if 1 drive fails?)

I've also seen Ugreen - not sure how strong this brand is and whether i can trust my data to be out in the open internet, or how secure it is (does it use truenas linux?)

ideally I want to have 40tb of space to play with (with redundnacy so actualy hard drives might be like 100tb capacity) but i need 40tb to play with

the other option is I have to make my own nas server, maybe using minisforum base hardware (although I haven't figured out which hardware yet)

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Tracker1122 on 2025-04-20 13:35:16.

It's 2 months since my PC got electrocuted due to sudden Power Surge

Everything was fried So I have manage to bought a new pc with a safe switch

My question is: Can you able to recover data from a electrocuted HDDs

HDDs was 2tb WD When i connect it doesn't respond and I hear clicking sounds from the hard drives

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/koberulz_24 on 2025-04-20 13:03:48.

Copied a bunch of files, and TeraCopy was in the middle of the post-copy verification when it crashed. I can't figure out how to actually use this MD5 file to check against the files that hadn't been verified at the time it crashed. I have a list of them, I have the MD5 file with the hashes of everything that I copied, I'm just not sure what to do with any of it.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/nagasgura on 2025-04-20 04:45:56.

I randomly decided to look at the Amazon listing for recertified 10TB HGST drives that I previously bought back when they were super cheap. I noticed that Amazon had two returned units (via Amazon Resale) in stock for only $57 each! I immediately ordered them since there's a 30-day return period, and they appear to be untouched and still have the tamper-proof seal. They also came with the 5-year warranty card, though I'm not sure if the recertifier will honor that since I bought it from Amazon Resale. They're sold by Worldwide Product Importer which I believe is affiliated with GoHardDrive as they sold them under the MDD brand.

They have zero bad sectors, and I'm running extended smart tests now to make sure they're actually in good condition, but I feel like I struck gold finding good-quality recerts for only $5.7/TB in this market. I just wish they had more than two in stock.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Worth_Performance577 on 2025-04-20 01:09:30.

Hello!

I want to buy a NAS SSD or Enterprise SSD, but beside the TBW and DWPD, I am not sure if there’s something else that I should look for in order to estimate their lifespan.

I understand that the usage and temps matters the most here, however for e.g. if you would have 5 SSDs, where each has up to 4000 TWB advertised, if you would only write every week 100 GB, would this mean it can last even 20-25 years (beside the fact it would reach the maximum storage capacity at one point) ?

Thank you!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/mikendoo on 2025-04-19 23:53:25.

Hey everyone, I’m trying to set up a system where my data is stored exactly the same on two drives, so if one fails, I always have a full backup ready to go.

Right now, I have files scattered across 10 different external hard drives. I want to consolidate everything into a single storage setup and make sure it’s duplicated automatically. Basically, I want two identical drives that stay in sync.

A lot of people recommend the cloud, but honestly, I don’t trust it to upload everything perfectly — I’ve had issues where things just seem to vanish or don’t upload properly.

What would be the best and cheapest way to consolidate and mirror my data locally? I’m not super technical but can follow guides if needed. Looking for something low-maintenance and reliable.

My thought was buying a internal storage bay, and two extremely large TB drives and do that RAID thing where it makes exact duplicates on both? Thoughts?

Thanks!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/drfusterenstein on 2025-04-20 14:20:53.

I am talking about that folder that has a load of saved memes, random wallpapers, images saved from Twitter and Facebook. Artwork saved from DeviantArt and ArtStation before the artist deleted their account to prevent their artwork being used in an AI dataset? Or at least that's where you think the artwork came from, as you wanted to set the artwork as your wallpaper...

... Only to find it came from a random site. I'm sure behind the amazing home lab setups, clean cables, fancy self-hosted open source software, network diagrams. Everyone here must have a hard drive or folder that has a load of files and folders on it that you simply do not know how to sort or move into any logical kind of folder structure. You don't want to delete it because It's very likely the content saved, you are likely never able to find despite doing a reverse image search numerous times.

Only to get no results, or to some deleted page that hosted the original content. Surly, everyone has better things to do with their lives, like listening to their MusicBrainzed music or watching films that filebot sorted for them in the evening. Not sitting for hours trying to sort file by file, picture by picture based on where the image came from, into some form of a folder structure.

Which sometimes conflicts because you do not know if the wallpaper artwork goes into the artwork or the wallpaper folder. So, do you say sod it and just delete that "to sort" folder to save space, mental space and the need to sort, as you have much better systems in place. Or simply sort though as best as you can with an attitude of "if I can't sort it, delete it"?

There have been some similar talks about this beforehand here, along with this reminder here.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/AmountComfortable499 on 2025-04-20 13:51:47.

Hey, I want to use a 1tb free Western Digital Purple hdd for testing operating systems and such. Basically nothing of high importance. My main OS is on another drive.

I just wanted to ask if it is okay to use it for my use case (meaning that it doesn't f up my motherboard randomly)

HDD details (HD sentinel):

Model: WDC WD10PURZ-85U8XY0

Power on time: 1263 days 10 hours [30k+ hours]

Estimated life: 561 days

Total start stop count: 828

Max Temp: 55 degree celsius

Health and Performance: 100%

(Also kinda suspicious that the health shows to be 100% even after so much use. I have tested on different programs and even different operating systems.)

Thanks in advance

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/BuckyDog on 2025-04-20 13:51:21.

I have a lot of work related video files and data files (75 TBs and growing slowly over time).

Planning on migrating to a new file server that has one 500 GB M.2 SSD, and sixteen hard drives (16 TB Each, 14.5 TB each usable).

What is the best what to configure this for storage and backup? I would prefer to use Windows 11 as the operating system.

Currently, all the SSD and Hard drives are all in one tower computer (Fractal Design 7XL) using M.2 to SATA Adapters for the many of the HDs. I am also open to ideas for other hardware setups.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/I-Achieved-Nothing on 2025-04-20 13:47:29.

What would be the best solution to download “the entirety” of the common 3D Printing websites data? I of course want the 3D Files and if possible the Webpage to look for any print instructions. What would be the most practical way to download all this data and match the webpage to the models?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/palepatriot76 on 2025-04-20 13:04:03.

Have a bunch of old shows from 50's to 70's and want them digitized. Is ripping using DVD Fab basic standard 2 pass at around 300 MB and of reproduction for the 20 minute TV shows decent?

This is the setup I did for ripping a 1960's TV set for my mom but never checked the quality really, it just worked so I gave it to hear on a thumb drive

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Morgennebel on 2025-04-20 12:57:48.

Hej,

• Seagate Exos 26 TB recertified for 329.90€ = 12.68€ / TB
• Seagate Exos 28 TB recertified for 387.00€ = 13.82€ / TB
• Seagate Exos X16 16 TB for 208.90€ = 13.06€ / TB
• Seagate IronWolf Pro NAS 16 TB for 233.90€ = 14.61€ / TB
• Seagate EXOS X24 24 TB for 309€ = 12.87€ / TB

I do not know the sellers - but the prices are nice...

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/loliboi322 on 2025-04-20 10:04:50.

So wanted to download a high resolution image off "digipeer". I've tried with Dezoomify but it won't work. It seems like the website uses a not supported format. Does anyone have a solution to this? Because I have reached a dead end.

Here is an example: http://www.digipeer.de/index.php?media=DBM_070410012805&size=2

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/CuirPig on 2025-04-20 08:41:48.

I have a pretty large porn/music/video/software collection that I have amassed over decades. I'm running a jellyfin server, a plex server off of an old pentium IV pc with a couple 20tb drives in it. I started to upgrade my plex server on a new PC , but didn't get very far. Though I haven't stopped collecting data, I am just not managing it very well at all.

In my PC I have 6 drives ranging from 1TB NVME to 20TB Sata. Nothing is backed up and things are not well organized.

If you found yourself in my situation, knowing all that you know now about data storage, reliability, accessibility, etc. what would you suggest would be the best way to get my data in order and make it accessible and reliable for as little cash layout as possible. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/dekoalade on 2025-04-20 07:48:05.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/johnklos on 2025-04-20 04:53:13.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/KingSupernova on 2025-04-20 04:14:59.

Any backup disk that's connected to the computer is vulnerable to the computer suddenly becoming an untrusted actor. This could happen because the user types something dumb, a poorly-programmed application has a bug, the user falls prey to ransomware, etc.

One way to guard against this is of course keep the drive disconnected and only connect it briefly for backups. But this is inconvenient. It occurs to me that a better method would be an append-only drive. Your computer can write new data to it at any time, but is incapable of deleting or overwriting any past data, enforced by the drive itself. (Perhaps with some external override like a physical button on the drive that the user can press to allow deleting.)

Does anything like this exist? Of course you can simulate it with cloud storage, just program the remote server to only accept new data and have no API command to delete the old. But I'm asking about a physical drive that implements this natively.

Edit: Ah, I see there's a name for this, WORM drives. So my question then is, are there any of these made with modern technology? Capable of connecting via USB, storing multiple TB at reasonable r/W speeds, etc.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Snoo82631 on 2025-04-20 03:27:48.

Basically that. I’m probably getting them second hand due to budget constraints.. any recommendations?

I don’t need all the software apps and quirks. Literally I need it to do is host my files and being able to access them via my phone and computers.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Anxious_Noise_8805 on 2025-04-20 03:26:56.

Hello everyone! So for the past few years I’ve been working on a project to record from a variety of cam sites. I started it because I saw the other options were (at the time) missing VR recordings but eventually after good feedback added lots more cam sites and spent a lot of effort making it very high quality.

It works on both Windows and MacOS and I put a ton of effort into making the UI work well, as well as the recorder process. You can record, monitor (see a grid of all the live cams), and generate and review thumbnails from inside the app. You can also manage all the files and add tags, filter through them, and so on.

Notably it also has a built-in proxy so you can get past rate limiting (an issue with Chaturbate) and have tons of models on auto-record at the same time.

Anyways if anyone would like to try it there’s a link below. I’m aware that there’s other options out there but a lot of people prefer the app I’ve built due to how user-friendly it is and other features. For example you can group models and if they go offline on one site, it can record them from a different one. Also the recording process is very I/O efficient and not clunky since it is well architected with Go routines, state machines, and channels etc.

It’s called CaptureGem if anyone wants to check it out. We also have a nice Discord community you can find through the site. Thanks everyone!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/PlayFlow on 2025-04-20 02:24:35.

looking to paste books into

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/maury234 on 2025-04-20 01:44:08.

So got a project that fell on my lap and I want to do it right the first time. Thinking about a large jbod enclosure ( https://a.co/d/fss2guL ) and filling it with either 10tb ( https://a.co/d/bBHLMKS ) or 20tb ( https://a.co/d/fWYwRj1 ). Tbh I really only use flashdrives and normal ext hdds so I'm wondering if this is a good idea. 80tb would probably be fine but 160tb is in the budget. Would there be a software yall recommend to manage the enclosure or just plug it into the pc and let it rip? There is currently a dozen or so 8tb wd externals in the house that and my pc doesn't like it when they are all plugged in and also wondering what's the best way to transfer large externals into the new enclosure. Downvotes are cool if this isn't the right place to ask but would love some advice from the pros :]

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/QuestionsToAsk57 on 2025-04-19 23:56:00.

Hello!

During the end of last summer, I became interested and then addicted to digitizing VHS, Video8, Hi8, Digital8, and MiniDV video tapes. I worked on this project for a few months then I got burnt out. But recently, I've decided I need to Get Back to digitizing as I have video tapes that are 40+ years old and I don't want anything to happen to them.

Obviously Digital8 and MiniDV are the easiest to digitize, but all the analog tapes are different. BTW, my Digital8 camcorder can play Video8/Hi8 tapes.

This is what I have (using all S-Video):

JVC HR-S35005 to Panasonic DMR-ES15 to Blackmagic Intensity Shuttle to my Windows 10 PC.

I've done a few VHS transfers using Blackmagic's software, YT link here (They are not deinterlaced). How do they look?

The reason why I am posting is that I got lost and then overwhelmed when I started this project. My end goal is to get archival lossless transfers. I would love to post my tapes online but I am worried that I might be not getting the highest quality possible using my setup as I don't really know all of the specifics of everything. I do know that what I am doing is steps head of using a crappy $15 device but I would like feedback and advice.

I was using/mostly learning VirtualDub for my digitizing software but I got all of the settings made me lost what are the most important ones for analog video tapes?

P.S. I know I am ranting a bit here but I'm trying to remember and pick up the pieces that I left 5+ months ago. I've got all the stuff lying around and I went to use them as I spent a few pretty pennies on them lol.