It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ADAMICradio on 2025-04-19 23:05:52.

I have an old Netgear Readynas 6 bay with 2 drives dead so 0 redundancy. The unit has been off for a few years. I would like to turn it on and copy whatever is on it onto my new Truenas Scale. Should I put new/refurbed drives into the 2 dead slots to build redundancy or should I just start copying the files off the Readynas? I know resilvering can be stressful on drives but what is more stressful the resilvering or grabbing the files for a backup? I believe in the past resilvering on the Readynas took 6-12 hours. I have around 6-7tb of data on the Readynas and believe it will take several days to move.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Head_Work1377 on 2025-04-19 22:35:23.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Teck877 on 2025-04-19 22:31:54.

So, to sum up, the site I use to read web novels (lightnovelcave.com) is going to be shut down and I'm devastated. I have a little over 20k comments on the chapters of the site, wrote over several thousand hours of reading, and it's just terrible to lose everything without being able to do anything about it. So my question is: someone knows how I can save my account data, because I know absolutely nothing about it

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/WonderingLurker on 2025-04-19 21:18:02.

The DOM is 10/2024 so I think it would be exos2x14 mach.2 drive based on past comments.

Ideally I leave it in the enclosure and if i can raid 0 them within, then I shuck it, otherwise I would return it.

Couldn’t find anyone doing it this way and seems most shucked it to do it.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Comfortable-Grand-46 on 2025-04-19 20:49:23.

Currently, I only have 1x OWC Thunderbay 8 with 8x 8TB Segate Ironwolf HDD and each of them are mirrored manually via ChronoSync and have BackBlaze for cloud backup. So basically 4x HDDs are original and 4x HDDs are mirrored. I have datas for photography, fine art, and 3D projects since 2008.

I do aware that I need another enclosure to make a proper backup but the budget is just a problem. Probably need another $2500. But I have several questions before I make a decision and move on. I have 20 TB of datas but they are separated on 4x HDD and I dont run them 24 hours cause it's DAS so whenever I go to sleep or dont use, I turn it off.

1. It seems many of you from this subreddit are hostile to RAID itself. I know that RAID is not backup but still, they dont recommend it. Tho OWC does not support RAID unless i pay their stupid software, are there any reasons why it's not recommneded?
2. I'm using Mac but any thoughts about macOS's RAID 1 instead of mirroring manually with ChronoSync?
3. I'm not using NAS cause I need DAS but can it be used as a backup and then installed it from other location just like a cloud storage? If so, what's the minimum internet speed? (My dad's house is using a slow internet so I gotta check)
4. Is there any software to check HDD's health for Mac?
5. Any thoughts about getting another Thunderbay 8 to make backups or other suggestions?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/MadCybertist on 2025-04-19 20:23:12.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/DigtialMenace333 on 2025-04-19 19:39:37.

So I can just tell it to, say copy 2 TB, but pause lie every 50GB for like a minute or similar? Thanks.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/The_CMYK_Avenger on 2025-04-19 19:35:49.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Jealous-Juggernaut85 on 2025-04-19 18:45:25.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/kamimie on 2025-04-19 16:52:53.

With the news from Synology about the plus series, I'm kinda at an empass. All of the posts that I'm seeing are telling me it's time to DIY or buy a ugreen and run TrueNas/Unraid. I don't want to do either of those unless I really have to. I really just want to be able to swap my hard drives into a new machine and have it work. I don't need the Synology to be a work horse. I have a m1 mac mini connected that will do everything I need processing wise. I just need more space (I'm currently using a 918+ w/ 2x20tb and 2x 14tb). I want to be able to mix and match hard drives while still having some parity drives. My only problem with my current machine is that if I want more space, I'm no longer getting much bang for my buck by getting larger drives. I would like the security of being able to pop in an extra drive or two (or four I'm open) to a machine. I like being able to have a machine with a small footprint, and I really don't want to build anything. Should I just buy a 1821+ swap my drives and call it day?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/maxi1134 on 2025-04-19 16:35:01.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/XavierOcc on 2025-04-19 16:27:39.

Ola gnt! Eu clonei meu SSD antigo para um novo Kingston nvme2, mas ao clonar e ir na BIOS para mudar a ordem de boot, eu me deparei com duas opções igualmente chamadas "windows boot manager". Escolhi a segunda para ser a primeira, imaginando que a segunda opção correspondesse ao meu novo SSD, mas ao reiniciar eu entro em uma tela preta com um mouse mostrando que está carregando alguma coisa mas nunca sai disso. Alguém sabe o que eu posso fazer para saber se estou entrando no windows a partir do SSD novo e como solucionar esse problema? Muito obrigado

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/shemp33 on 2025-04-19 15:45:28.

It says deal good through 4/21 but is sold out.

I did the "notify me" and hope I can either get one at this price or get someone else to price match it.

I'm assuming this is a really good deal, but it could have also been a pricing error. I would think BestBuy wouldn't leave a pricing error live, so I think it's real.

https://preview.redd.it/pa6wpzz1btve1.png?width=3082&format=png&auto=webp&s=520739bf16a448365599c3b05f94fd23a41adaf2

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Friendly_Ratio_3383 on 2025-04-19 15:19:53.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Soybeanns on 2025-04-19 15:02:54.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/supernate91 on 2025-04-19 15:02:40.

I’m building a new personal PC and planning to migrate over all my data drives. Across 6 HDDs and SSDs, I’ve got about 15 years of digital clutter across wildly different *file organization practices*. Some drives are semi-organized, others are just pure chaos.

The plan is to consolidate everything down to 1 or 2 clean drives and wipe the rest (yeah, I know — deleting data is heresy, but I’m trying to be better).

I'm thinking of writing a script that:

• Crawls each drive

• Filters for specific file types (starting with Office docs, maybe PDFs, code files, etc.)

• Moves them to a clean drive in a sane folder structure

• Optionally does deduplication (because I’m sure I have the same files copied across multiple drives)

I'm not a stranger to scripting, but I’m wondering if any of you have tackled a similar cleanup. How did you approach it?

• Are there tools you recommend for this?

• Any good dedupe strategies or software?

• Would you go full manual, visual, or automate as much as possible?

Would love to hear your war stories or lessons learned.

P.S. - I used chatgpt to organize my thoughts on this and I'm sorry.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/WaspPaperInc on 2025-04-19 11:59:28.

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Nstheboss90 on 2025-04-19 10:49:44.

Hi, I just need some advice, please. I have two 2TB WD My Passport External HDD's, a week or so ago the most recent one I purchased, less than a year ago, started making a periodic clicking sound every 3 or so seconds when I copied any data onto it. The drive is still under warranty so I am in the process of the RMA. Today, I plugged my second drive in that's just over a year old now, and it did exactly the same thing but when I was copying from it to another drive. Could this be a problem with my PC or USB ports, rather than the drives? The data is all still readable and the drives work fine. It would just seem a huge coincidence if both drives are failing at the same time. Any thoughts are appreciated, thanks!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/sudobee on 2025-04-19 08:58:11.

There are various high end drives with fancy names. Please tell me the best drives to use for reliability, speed and longevity. The names ranges from; Data center drive, Enterprise drive, Nas drive, Surveilance drive etc...

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/sudobee on 2025-04-19 07:38:42.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Cindy-Moon on 2025-04-19 06:37:12.

Hi there!

Right now we have a repurposed Dell workstation operating as our home media and file server. We access it as a network drive with SMB, have Plex running on it for media, as well as some other services that we run on it whenever I want to host something online. It's running Ubuntu 24.02 LTS off of a small SSD and has mounted a 10TB hard drive that I've been using as the network drive that's just about full.

I've been putting money back every month to save up for expanding the server and its soon coming time for me to make the purchases, but I lost my plans for it and am feeling a bit lost trying to create new ones. Here's where I'm at so far:

I want to significantly expand the storage available, so I was looking into Direct Attached Storage to add several drive bays. I've got one 16TB drive in waiting and want to purchase and fill it with more 16TB drives.

I know that RAID is something that I should look into? I've been nervous about data corruption becoming a thing someday and it seems like when we're getting into these high amounts of data that a level of redundancy so that I can swap out and repair dying drives would be important. I'm struggling finding answers about this here.

When I try googling it I get a lot of unrelated information and advice all over the place. "If you're using it as a network drive you should get a NAS instead of a DAS." Should I be using a NAS if I already have a dedicated Linux PC for this?

There's RAID and non-RAID enclosures. Do I need a RAID enclosure to use RAID? I've seen some conversations where others have said they actually needed a DAS that didn't have a RAID controller. Can I set up RAID via the Ubuntu PC itself?

What "version" of RAID should I be using? I've been planning to order all 16TB drives since I read RAID requires your drives to all be the same capacity, is this true? Because obviously if so I'll need to move pretty much everything from 10TB over to them.

I feel like there's a lot of factors that go into this that I'm having a hard time of unraveling and turning into actionable steps. Can someone help clear up what would be the best idea for my use case and current position?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/FadingHeaven on 2025-04-19 06:17:34.

x-post from r/environmental_careers

These NOAA databases are going to be decommissioned after 5/5/25: *Estuarine Bathymetry *Total Sediment Thickness for the World's Oceans and Marginal Seas *Geological History of the World's Oceanic *Crust Circum-Antarctic Paleobathymetry to 30 degrees South: Present to 75my *Satellite Products and Services Review Board *Index to Marine and Lacustrine Geological Samples (IMLGS) *Thermal (geothermal) Hot Springs List for the United States *Seismicity Catalog for Collection *Strong Motion Earthquake Data Values of Digitized Strong-Motion Accelerograms *United States Earthquake Intensity Database *Coastline Extractor *Shoreline/Coastline Resources *National Centers of Environmental Information (NCEI) Coastal Ecosystem Maps *NCEI Coastal Water Temperature Guide

https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/documents-reports/notice-of-changes

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Tarik_7 on 2025-04-19 04:31:03.

In recent light of Synology forcing users to use their own (overpriced) HDDs, I have been considering moving to a QNAP, but then learned that QNAPs die suddenly without notice. I've heard great things about ugreen, but they are a chinese company (privacy and security issues with backdoors), and specializes in cables, not storage or networking devices. buffalo NASes come with drives, but the storage advertised is the total storage of ALL the drives in the system, not the usable storage space. A lot of buffalo NASes can't even be opened without voiding warranty.

any nas company that doesn't suck? I've heard of Asustor but haven't looked into them enough to know.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/nmrk on 2025-04-19 03:59:42.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ramir2332 on 2025-04-19 03:09:37.

I'm debating whether to get a "online UPS" system or a "pure sine wave UPS" system. The brand is tripp-lite both are 1500VA. The online UPS is 810W and the Pure Sine Wave UPS is 900W. I will be using this just for computer use. Playing games, watching movies, data backup on external devices (expensive nvme, SSDs and HDDs over 20TB in two full docking bays). It's a Windows gaming laptop worth over $2K with dual Dell monitors. This is why I'm considering getting a UPS setup. More importantly to avoid unexpected power grid failures/ brownouts and blackouts without saving my work or shutting down properly.

From what I read regular UPS systems is suffice. I think the extra dollars for the pure sine wave is for "sensitive" electronics. But what electronics is not sensitive? I feel it's a gimmick. But as for someone who does not own a UPS or a pure sine wave UPS yet I don't know for sure. Does anyone own a pure sine wave or a regular online UPS setup? The price difference isnt far off as Amazon sells the tripp-lite UPS for $182 and the Pure Sine wave for $186. Which now leaves me to think it's not much difference. The purity of power seems gimmicky will I go wrong choosing a regular UPS rather than a pure wave?

Thanks for any help.