It's A Digital Disease!

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Where are you guys buying your hdd's now a days? (zerobytes.monster)

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Vast-Program7060 on 2025-04-15 01:32:52.

It seems like, ever since the Linus Tech video came out about how you can save 50% or more over retail with recertified drives, prices have gone up almost 100%. Let's take my favorite model, the WD HC530 enterprise drive. I use to get them on NewEgg via gohdd for $99.99 when on sale. If they were not on sale, i think the price was $110 - $120. That same drive on both serverparts deals and gohdd is now $189 or $199 depending on which seller you go with.

What blows my mind, is that you can get a bran new Segate Exos X18 14TB from Newegg, with Seagates 5 year warranty for $229.99. To me, its worth it to spend the extra $30 - $40 for a drive that does NOT already have 5 - 7 years of wear on it.

I also reached out to WD Direct, about buying the HC530 in bulk, because I need to finish my 36 bay SuperMicro server, and for 30+ drives they quoted me $219.99 per drive. The current market for used drives is upside down. I know tarrifs are playing somewhat of a segment on pricing, but a drive that came out 7 years ago, should not cost almost as much as a bran new drive from the manufacturer. Especially lower density drives. As bigger/larger drives emerge into the market, we should see pricing of older, lower storage drives dropping, especially used, but they are not.

Wtf is going on.

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How much storage is too much? Does having “just enough” foster efficient data management? (zerobytes.monster)

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/non-number-name on 2025-04-15 01:02:16.

Does it make a difference if it’s a daily-use mobile device?

Asking for a friend.

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How do I download files from a server and preserve directories/subfolders automatically? (zerobytes.monster)

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/problematicperiplum on 2025-04-14 23:57:55.

Relatively simple question that I've been searching for an answer, this has probably been answered already but I'm looking in the wrong places.

Are there any programs or tools to mass download files from a server and preserve the folder/directory structure? I know several mass download tools exist, but I haven't been able to find one that copies/preserves original directories.

Here's a sample of what I'm trying to download:

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I made my first program written entirely in Python, open source and free for backing up save file of any videogames (github.com)

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Matteo842 on 2025-04-14 23:03:35.

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I have three terabytes for the end of the world. What do I store on there? (zerobytes.monster)

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/dada_georges360 on 2025-04-14 20:42:39.

Pretty self explanatory. I just got my hands on a decently hardened and compact external hard drive and I'm trying to fill it with as much stuff as I can in case I permanently lose access to the internet. My country (Switzerland) has a bit of a prepper culture going on and that's my way of participating in that. So far I've got:

-> A number of .zim files (wikipedia in english, french and german, survivor library, project gutenberg, etc.) totalling 500 gb

-> Some movies that I love, totalling 200-250 gb

-> A backup of my photos and personal files, also 250 gb

What should I do with all the rest? Where should I look for it? I'm open to any and all suggestions, no matter how bleak or ridiculous they might seem.

PS: Does anyone know where to find good quality maps and phone books that I can download and view offline? I've found some ways but they're all pretty messy and involve either way too many steps, or too much time spent in the command line to be practical. Thanks!

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NAS - RAID/HDD configuration (zerobytes.monster)

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Inside-Collection20 on 2025-04-14 20:40:35.

Hi,

I have a somewhat old NAS (Qnap 453-Pro) with 4 bays, with hardly any use.

https://www.qnap.com/en-us/product/ts-453%20pro

I would like to set it up, as a primary use, to give it use as a central data system and, if possible, a backup system. It will be in the living room/bedroom (WAF problem) and HDD's are not exactly silent. Therefore, I don't think I will have it 24/7 on.

I have;

8-10TB of “stuff” data (If I would lose it, it would hurt, but it would survive).
2TB (more or less) of data, that if I would lose them, I would cry xD (Of the most important data, there is a copy in the cloud, of what I would like to become independent of)

Some concerns on how to do it. (I know a RAID is not a Backup) But I would like to have some “kind” of assurance that the death of 1 HDD, does not mean immediate data loss.(Yes, I know a backup, means duplicate and or triplicate data, like the 3-2-1 backup rule).

The questions:

I originally have two RAID 1's of

6TB x2

10TB x2

My questions are as follows:

Continue with the system now, (2x Raid 1).

Or create a

Raid 5, or a
RAID 6,

Buying bigger HDDs to be able to create the corresponding RAIDs?

The idea is also that the most important data will be copied to an external hard disk. A 2TB HDD/SSD should be enough for the most important data for the meantime.

What do you guys think or what would you recommend and with what arguments?

And the last thing, the NAS offers the possibility to encrypt the HDDs, taking into account that it is a Linux system and I work with Windows, I think we can save us the conversation of what it means, if something fails in the NAS, (sometimes the power goes out at home and I do not have a UPS yet) what happens to the data. (Still, I am someone who travels often and “a little peace of mind” if they break into the place, they can not access the data. It is clear that the idea is to have a copy “as up to date as possible” not at home, just somewhere, apart/remote).

Reading the above, would you recommend using encryption?
Should I expect performance problems, or very big ones, if I use it? I have read everything posible on the subject and I am afraid that the encryption would be through Software and not Hardware.

If you have been able to read everything to the end.

Thanks a lot in advance and Greetings!

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Accidentally ordered an SAS drive (infosec.pub)

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/masonicangeldust on 2025-04-14 20:35:25.

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Hoard the California Digital Newspaper Collection (zerobytes.monster)

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/tryingtobehip on 2025-04-14 20:24:00.

Longtime lurker here. The California Digital Newspaper Collection (CDNC), operating out of UC Riverside, is about to be defunded by the California legislature. It is state funded to the tune of $430,000 but is on the chopping block.

This is 40million pages of historical California newspapers, including a ton from the Gold Rush era and very small newspapers from boomtowns. I’ve helped get them clearance to digitize small local papers, myself, and tens of thousands of people use this resource for research and enjoyment.

I am going to see what I can do about backing it up myself, but thought I would share here in case anyone else is interested. It’s another sad loss potentially. California has some of the most relevant history to understanding American capitalism and workers’ rights, so losing this would be another way to forget history and replay the worst aspects of it.

Here’s their website: https://cdnc.ucr.edu/

(I’m trying to contact the CA budget committee, as well, but may as well have a literal backup plan). Thanks.

Note to mods: sorry if this belongs in the mega thread. It’s not federal and doesn’t seem to be censorship, but rather ignorant budget cuts at a state level.

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How to save a discord server (zerobytes.monster)

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Outrageous_Sell1599 on 2025-04-14 19:21:39.

I am involved in prosperity 3 contest by IMC. They have a discord where people are discussing stuff and honestly it is a good lerning experience. I want save the server as a backup as it will get deleted after the contest.

Is there a way to do it.

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Best Affordable Photo Scanner (zerobytes.monster)

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ArcticPete on 2025-04-14 17:25:31.

I’ve found some thread about this but couldn’t find anything from the past year. My family has tasked me with scanning all of our 8x10s and it’s a pretty significant collection. I was hoping to find some recommendations for a relatively affordable but good quality scanner to help preserve these photos. Thanks!

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Is fan necessary for aluminum HDD rack? (infosec.pub)

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Viver_Enola on 2025-04-14 16:58:17.

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Download Twitter bookmarks with image and video - no good solutions (zerobytes.monster)

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/tenclowns on 2025-04-14 16:22:15.

I'm looking to automate downloading twitter posts, including media, that I have bookmarked

It would be nice if there was a tool that also downloaded the media associated with the post as well and then within each post would link to the path on the computer where the file was stored. And when it was unable to download say a video it would also report that it had a download error for the video (such that i can do it manually later). I believe such a setup doesn't exist yet.

I guess this approach downloading using twitter archives is the best I can get?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwxxNCQpcTA

Issue:

twitter archives doesn't inlcude bookmarked tweets.
Does include "likes" but no media is included in the likes, and I have way too many liked posts that I don't want to store.
Organizing tweets is too hard because every time you download an archive you download everything anew

One solution to not including bookmarks could be to retweet everything I have bookmarked, and then start to retweet everything to make it store in the archive.

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Which NAS ? ZimaCube, Ugreen, Terramaster (zerobytes.monster)

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/CactusJ on 2025-04-14 15:57:34.

So my old Western Digital PR4100 is finally not meeting my needs after years of trusty service. I need to expand as well, so time to go from a 4 to 6 Bay NAS. I could build my own, but I don't really want to. I am 99% sure I prefer TrueNas or Unraid.

That being said, I am looking at the the following: UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Pro vs ZimaCube Pro vs TerraMaster F6-424

These all have very similar specs, and price points, with the ZimaCube having a bit more of "everything" for a bit less in price. (its 20% off today). Power consumption would be important to me, but they are all the same, so...

Is there any specific reason to choose one of these vs the other?

NAS Comparison: UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Pro vs ZimaCube Pro vs TerraMaster F6-424

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Duplicate photo finder for Windows? (zerobytes.monster)

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/derrida_n_shit on 2025-04-14 15:44:39.

Looking for a duplicate photo finder for Windows that will identify mirrored images, rotated images, images that might have a watermark or logo vs one without. I've scoured here and most of the suggestions don't do mirrored and/or rotated.

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Do you think this radiator mount has enough strength to trust HDDs to? (www.aliexpress.com)

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Jeep-Eep on 2025-04-14 15:19:33.

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Hard drive to cloud mail-in service? (zerobytes.monster)

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/SoftAd5130 on 2025-04-14 14:57:26.

Hi everyone! I have been tasked with trying to move the data from several hard drives to a cloud service. What would be best way to go about doing this? Is there some type of service where I can mail in the hard drives and they would back it up for me?

I am not very tech savvy and have no idea how to approach this. I personally have a macbook air and don't think I have any cables/equipment to connect to the hard drives, so I'm not sure if I can back the data up myself. I would appreciate any advice! Thank you so much!

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Cluster size when formatting - 64K ,128K, 256K - Windows 11 NTFS? (zerobytes.monster)

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Deep-Egg-6167 on 2025-04-14 14:29:33.

Hello,

I'm running Windows 11 24H2. If I add a large volume - it wants to know what size I should set the cluster for when creating the volume. I'll have a mixture of small files and large files. I see that for large files, a larger cluster size might be beneficial for performance.

I guess my question is if I have a lot of 1K files (in addition to the very large GB files) will I use up 128K of storage for that single 1K file?

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FC2WEB is shutting down on June 30th 2025, and taking countless Japanese websites and blogs with it (www.itmedia.co.jp)

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/specterthief on 2025-04-14 09:58:41.

FC2WEB has been running since 2001 and its loss without proper archival is going to be comparable to the shutdown of Geocities in terms of lost sources and dead links. A massive amount of information is going to disappear when FC2WEB goes and due to the language barrier a lot of people who may be impacted by this may not know until it's already gone.

I'm trying to archive what I can, and this is an open call that anyone with any interest in preserving Japanese web culture/online history in Japanese spaces/anime or JP video game fan culture/etc should try and do the same.

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How do you manage and organise data on external drives (zerobytes.monster)

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/sluisga on 2025-04-14 09:16:53.

I have several external usb drives and want to organise them so theres less clutter on them. I'm certain multiple drives have the same data in different places.

Essentially I'd like to content manage the data so I know what and where the data is stored.

I'm aware Western Digital used to make some software called Edge Rover for this but after a year or so during beta they ditched the project. Any apps anyone can advise works well and preferably free? Thank you!

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Questions on Rebuilding a RAID6 array with same/different drives (zerobytes.monster)

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/asdreth on 2025-04-14 08:22:36.

So I have an HP Proliant DL380 Gen9 that came with 5x6TB HP SAS drives (MB6000JVYZD) in it.

Naturally I used them since they seemed to be in good enough condition, and I set them up as a RAID6 just to be safe.

So now it's a couple of years later and one of the drives seems to be failing, so I need to replace it.

A brand new Ultrastar costs about 230€ here, ~~an EXOS about 250€,~~ while a MB6000JVYZD goes for about 300€ on ebay (brand new according to the shop).

At this point I'm leaning towards getting the original drive. But for future reference, could I replace a faulty drive with another brand?

I know that one potential problem is if for example the new drive has fewer sectors than the old ones. But are mismatches common? How could I check before ordering? Are they possible within the same SKU?

~~Then again, an 8TB EXOS also goes for 250€ for some reason... So I could just get that and waste 2TBs but play it safe.~~

EDIT: I just realized that EXOS drives are SATA, which I think disqualifies them.

Thoughts? Thanks!

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Is this worth it? Exos (infosec.pub)

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Phsyxian on 2025-04-14 08:14:49.

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How can I encrypt hard drive data to protect my privacy in case something happens to me? (zerobytes.monster)

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Counting_Stars5415 on 2025-04-14 07:54:58.

I have a few mini PCs to store data and many hard drives where I back up everything. I'm wondering if there's a way to encrypt the data on my hard drives so that no one can see what I store, especially in case something ever happens to me. Any suggestions or tools you recommend?

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High junction temps on 2.5 inch Toshiba HDD (infosec.pub)

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/staline123213 on 2025-04-14 03:15:19.

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anybody experience data loss with a raid 5 array after only one drive failing? (zerobytes.monster)

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Johnny__Derpp on 2025-04-14 01:55:19.

I have a RAID 5 setup with 8 1.5 TB drives and every time a drive has failed I've replaced it and rebuilt with no data loss, except for this most recent time. I had a drive start to fail and even though it came back up I replaced it and rebuilt it. However, a big chunk of the data is still gone and a partition of about 1.5 TB is unable to be accessed (maybe 2 TB total data). I have some old backups but they're like a year out of date so I'd like to know how best to try and recover this data if anybody has had this issue.

Anybody know the probable mechanism for this avenue of data loss even though I thought I had protection from a single drive failing? At least so I can try to prevent it going forward but more hopefully so I can start the process of googling data recovery software for that style of failure? (3ware 9650se with a couple of seagate 1.5TBs from like 2009 as the oldest drives, newer ones are 2-3TB toshibas and a western digital)

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Anyone tried this for syncing the ATX power of a DIY DAS? (zerobytes.monster)

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/sortbycolumn on 2025-04-14 01:07:22.

https://www.amazon.com/Thsion-Synchronous-Multiple-Adapter-Connector/dp/B08F9WGLP2

I'm thinking of putting some hard drives in an old ATX case and then getting a SAS HBA for my current server to connect them to. It sounds like this little guy would sync the PSU in that old case with my primary PSU. Comments say they sync shutdown too.

I have this server on a UPS that's helped it gracefully shut down during outages, so I want to have my DAS hard drives shut down too. Would this do what I want?

If not, would it be safe to use a manual switch like this:

https://www.amazon.com/SQXBK-24-Pin-Female-Starter-Braided/dp/B09XTYKHV5

In the event of an outage, when my server shuts down but the second PSU doesn't cut power to the drives, is that still safe?