It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/DiogoAlmeida97 on 2025-04-13 04:46:38.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/peterinjapan on 2025-04-13 04:27:25.

Hello community. I am trying to set up a RAID to backup some data I need another copy of, so I reached for an (old, loud) 4-bay USB case I had, which had *four* different WesternDigital WD Blue drives at 6 tb. For some reason none of the disks would mount or be recognized by my Mac or PC. They seemed to be spinning (they were vibrating, or seemed to be), but nothing would cause them to be recognized. So I bought a new enclosure but they performed the same, with all six disks refusing to mount (despite the fact hat I've used these for RAID backups in the past).

I took a spare Seagate and put it in my old enclosure and it worked perfectly. Is there any reason why WE Blue disks could all fail in a way that caused them to not even be seen by the OS? I read something about pin 3 needing to be disabled from certain WesternDigital drives to work in USB and applied tape over that pin (and the two to the left of pin 3), but it made no difference.

Having trouble understanding why all four WD Blue drives of the same period and not even that old (all are Made in Thailand 2019 or 2020) could refuse to mount or be seen by any USB enclosure, including my ancient don't from 8+ years ago, as well as a brand new one.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/jaywaykil on 2025-04-13 02:40:36.

I'm building my first small NAS from an old PC just to see if I could do it. Four 4TB WD Red with an SSD Boot running OpenMediaVault. Everything going together nicely, and I'm dusting the cobwebs off my limited computer building and Unix/Linux experience from literally decades ago. Enjoying myself quite a bit, actually.

I'm fully aware that RAID "is not a backup", except in my case this RAID system is literally a backup. I don't plan to work off this NAS; instead it will be a place to back up other things. Phones, pictures, computers, etc. If I get everything working I will immediately start on a better (larger, faster) system with a goal of eliminating all cloud storage. VPN for remote access, media server, etc. But this one will remain as a backup.

It was taking forever just to create the RAID 5 on this old computer. I see that OMV wants a restart, so I start researching whether it's possible/suggested to reboot in the middle of a RAID build (consensus answer: maybe but DO NOT CHANCE IT!!!).

Now I'm seeing all the articles stating that RAID 5 is super risky, no one uses it anymore, etc. And even RAID 6 is getting risky.

I'm starting to get nervous. It's looking like 10+ hours just to create the drive. Maybe several days to rebuild in case of a single drive failure? And since all 4 were bought at the same time, if one drive goes down the chance of a second going down during the stress of a rebuilt is much higher. I've suffered a dual drive failure before (main drive and the external backup), and lost several years of pictures of my kids because of it. I want this backup to be rock-solid.

WD Red are reliable, and this won't be an enterprise device being accessed constantly. But should I just wipe this drive (it's empty) and go with RAID 6, or maybe 10? It'll reduce my capacity from around 11TB to 7TB or so.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/trishbaby on 2025-04-13 01:56:03.

I've been googling and searching Reddit and can't find an answer. For digital magazines or ebooks etc. that are hosted on their own sites, is there a way to download that I'm missing? The highest quality images I can get from the backend scrambles the image, making it worthless unless I want to go into photoshop and do a puzzle. This is something I've seen multiple times, so I'm guessing ebook sites use this method commonly, but that also means a good solution should be out there, right? If there is, could anyone let me know? Thanks!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Rotisseriejedi on 2025-04-13 01:18:54.

So I have a 20 TB WD Elements full of TV and movies but when I hook it up to watch video on my TV I get this option. I always choose to just open but curious to what happens if I choose to check and repair

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Halfblood200 on 2025-04-13 00:38:19.

I've been trying singlefile extension in firefox, but it simply doesn't load some pages. (the archives are from twitter)

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Zephyr_Bloodveil on 2025-04-12 23:55:09.

Hello all I am in quite a pickle at the moment. I would like to get a NAS but I'm at a loss of buying and between building one. Can anybody help?

The nas I want is just gonna be simple maybe 40T let's say (because i will regularly add more videos and pictures into it) let me preface this by saying I AM AN IDIOT. I have never built or bought hard drives or built a computer my knowledge of computers is me cleaning out my laptop and upgrading the ram. But I also don't wanna go overboard with it and buy the wrong parts or buy a external drive and it die on me because that can happen apparently? I just need help.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/dilydaly123 on 2025-04-12 23:30:04.

I have my data backup and hoard process up and running, wont make yall read through it. Its been working for 6 years, multiple sites.

I want to get an entry/budget level 2-bay Synology DiskStation DS223j. It will replace my two powered WD external usb drives that I alternate annually. I will use one bay for my 8TB "lifetime" archive, and the other bay to house a smaller media drive. I will not need to actively stream the media, but I would like to be able to download and pull full files from it onto other devices. I would also like to be able to remotely backup my phones to the "lifetime" drive. I do not plan on running anything extra on this NAS, just remote file access and backup.

Would this be a good use case for that model of NAS, or any NAS in general?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/hipiri on 2025-04-12 22:56:40.

Hello there,

Where can I find the best guide or information for this strategy? I'm trying to implement it for my Proxmox server.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Crowtservo on 2025-04-12 22:44:32.

I have a windows PC that is also being used as a media server (Plex) in my house. I currently have 1 WD Red Pro 18TB hard drive and I have purchased a second one that is on the way. I am wondering if there is an easy way to install it such that it shows up and is treated as a single 36TB drive on my system. I will be storing large media files (4K remux files mostly).

I have read that Stablebit Drivepool is likely the best answer for this, but I can't seem to find a clear explanation as to whether I can combine a drive with existing data on it and an empty drive. Ideally I would only see the combined drive in explorer.

I also plan to add additional drives in the future. Likely 2 more so that I can have 3 data drives and 1 parity drive. I will likely use Snapraid for this. That's a future endeavour but I mention it in case it's relevant to how I should approach this first step above.

If there is a guide for this somewhere please let me know! Thank you!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/m4a2000 on 2025-04-12 22:37:17.

So I have a ton of old Wink files i have saved from back when I was using MSN Messenger in high school. I recently found how to extract the data from them so I can relive, and regret, what I shared back before YouTube really took off.

For those that don't know Winks were images or gifs that could have sound. You sent them to friends like you would a any message. Unlike more current chat programs it was a one time send meaning the receiver didn't keep it in their history unless they downloaded it(from what I can remember). H264 encoding and decoding wasn't as wide spread as it is now hence the odd format. MS made Winks to be sort of like a Zip file.

Using 7Zip you can open up a Wink and look at what's inside and extract it. Normally it will look like:

Greeting

Icon

Image

Info

Sound

Note some Winks may not have sound. Files have no extensions

As these are small files, the biggest one I have is under 2MB, you can open in Notepad, Notepad++ is faster, and you can find the file type. I want to say Icon will always be PNG, but I can't confirm that.

Anyways I hope this helps someone out there. I had a hard time myself looking up any information on Winks and at the time they were really fun.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/regression_to_mean on 2025-04-12 21:05:19.

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Drivepool stuck on measuring loop. Has anyone had this problem before? Cannot the majority of data on the drives.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Mk23_DOA on 2025-04-12 20:35:44.

Can anyone explain why I would buy a refurbished 20TB Ironwolf Pro with 1 year warranty instead of a 18TB Ultrastar with 5 years warranty when the Ironwolf is €25.- cheaper? Especially just one year warranty is a no-go for me.

I need some space to consolidate my media library and am looking for 18-20TB drives and initially saw the refurbished Ironwolf as an option.

The 24-26 TB Ultrastars are just a bit too expensive at the moment

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Ryujin1998 on 2025-04-12 19:36:17.

I'm using gallery-dl to download specific artists from the site there doesn't seem to be a specific tag for the artist name. The most I've been able to do is put all the searched tags in but that doesn't work if you're searching multiple tags and not a specific artist.

Here is my config file.

"rule34":

{

"metadata": true,

"filename": "{filename} {search\_tags}.{extension}",

"postprocessors": [

{

"name": "metadata",

"event": "post",

"filename": "{id}-{title}Metadata.txt",

"format": "{content}\n{embed[url]:?/\n/}",

"filter": "embed.get('url') or re.search(r'(?i)(gigafile|xgf|1drv|mediafire|mega|google|drive)', content)"

}

]

}  

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/SebSeb31 on 2025-04-12 19:11:31.

Hey guys what´s up, I need some advice or guidance on how to modify my backup strategy. My current setup is the following:

A) I have my main drive which is 3.36Tb with 1.41Tb being used, this is all my info/data, from my businesses, to isos and personal/legal stuff.

B) An on-site 1Tb drive that´s a 1 to 1 copy of the main drive, except the isos which is about 600gb so all my important info fits in that 1Tb.

C) Basically another 1Tb drive with the same info as B, but this one is off site which I keep at my girlfriends house (she lives about 2 hours away).

I currently backup daily to B and weekly to C, but yesterday I purchased a google one yearly subscription for 2tb cloud drive so I´m currently backing up my whole A drive since it fits in those 2Tb, but currently I´m not really sure if i should keep Backing up only the important data to B daily and C weekly like I have, or bring C onsite and split the data from drive A between B and C, that way also keeping a backup of my isos. Because that way I would have 3 copies off my complete data, but the other I would have 2 copies of my complete data and 4 copies of only my important data.

When I say spliting the data bewten B and C, I don´t mean doing it in a raid or pool sense, I mean like actually selecting which folders go in wich drive...

I want to know what yall would do in this case...

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/anus-georg on 2025-04-12 18:49:16.

I have a ton of old HDDs and a handful of SSDs that still work perfectly fine for storage, but my partner and I want to keep them out of our desktop cases and we don't really like having them hang loose from adapters when we're accessing them.

We're hoping for a recommendation for something relatively cheap as an enclosure that'll hold between 4 and 6 of these drives (we have 7 right now and hope to condense enough to get rid of maybe 2 of the older ones). Ideally something that we can put them all into and plug in to a single USB slot or something to access them all.

Doesn't have to be fancy or need cooling or anything (we'd only really use it to dump files onto and access/copy them back onto our PCs when they're needed; not going to be an always-on media server or anything) I'd hope we can keep it under $100. Something cheap and that works.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/AdultGronk on 2025-04-12 18:40:31.

So I recently moved from Hentoid (android app) to LANraragi (Manga hosting service like Komga, Kavita, Mango, etc.). And with me I brought all my doujins (~60 GB). I still want to access them from my phone so I'm trying to setup LANraragi.

So, Hentoid stores the downloaded books in this way - The Source folder (like E-hentai, Nhentai, etc.) then Inside that Source Folder, it'll create another folder for the doujin/book. The name of the Doujin folder would be like this - [Artist Name] - [Title] - [ID]. Inside this folder would be the actual doujin, with loose pages (individual images).

Each page would be individually numbered like 01, 02, 03, etc. There would be another page inside every folder with the pages for the thumbnail of the book with the name thumb and a JSON file for the metadata with the name contentV2. I'm attaching a JSON file if anyone wanna take a look - JSON link.

As of now, I have put all the individual folders of books inside one Folder and would like to take necessary steps from here.

I've been told that if the doujin/books are in CBZ format, they'd load faster than loose images inside folders.

A lot of these books are non-commercial works like Individual works downloaded from Pixiv.

Now should I go about converting all these folders to CBZ files ? Is the speed and compatibility worth it ?

And If yes then how should I do it ? Doing it manually would take forever.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Dependent-Hyena9354 on 2025-04-12 18:36:18.

I have a bit of a miltifaceted issue I would love to talk about with someone: i have two failing 8TB HDDs. Would it make sense to move onto SSD storage? Something like multiple 4tb drives.

I mainly do some plex server stuff, dabbling in a few other things.

Besides that, I have a mini ITX motherboard in a Inwin Chopin Pro. I might upgrade to a bigger case. I want something that looks nice and has room for at least 4 ssds. I'm struggling to pick one, between the various Jonesbo models and the generic NAS cases on Amazon.

Feel free to tell me I'm out to lunch or whatever. I just feel like the sata ssds will last longer so its worth it in the long run maybe.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Mahvelous21 on 2025-04-12 17:59:03.

Just like the title says just wondering if there’s any software or program to download only certain patreon posts from creators.

I’m looking to download a series of 100 images from a creator and don’t want to do it individually post by post. Is there any way to say, search those up on Patreon, and then use a software to download only the posts showing on the search results or something along those lines as an example of what I’m asking?

Also even though it may be asking for too much, but is there also anyway the downloader can add the text description and the date/time the image was posted as well so once again I wouldn’t have to manually add it?

If there isn’t anything of the sort also by chance is there a software that say for example downloads every post, but organizes them in certain folders based on their title, so I could just delete the certain folders I don’t want or need?

Thanks

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/PoisonTheWell122393 on 2025-04-12 15:07:20.

Has anyone had this happen? Sent back a failed WD Red Pro 16GB and received a Gold 16 TB back under warranty. Are there any differences in the drives and should I request a direct replacement? Using it in a Drobo 5D with all the other drives being Red Pro. (I know, ticking time-bomb!)

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/andreas0069 on 2025-04-12 13:56:16.

Building a 170TB Server in a Standard ATX Case! | Using 3D printed parts.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/qalpi on 2025-04-12 13:38:09.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/stilljustacatinacage on 2025-04-12 12:29:06.

Just curious what the tariff situation is. Half the documents I read are telling me that new and used drives from the USA will be slapped with a 25% tariff, but then a CBSA page states pretty clearly that as long as there's a "made in not-the-USA" tag somewhere on the product, it should be exempt. I'm just looking for some confirmation if anyone's bought recently.

Of course I waited until Saturday to look this up, when the CBSA offices are closed, so I can't just call and ask.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Keeper-Name_2271 on 2025-04-12 11:57:46.

My concern currently is how to scan them? Mobile camera? I have a xiaomi phone. Or do you have any good ideas? It'd be an absolute pain to click so many photos manually for real. (I am digitizing my notes).

By manually I mean putting my hands on phone and clicking every pics, checking if they're fine or not....This is going to be one hell of a job.

I might use tesseract and ocrmypdf for the latter part though.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/100gamberi on 2025-04-12 11:17:54.

Hi,

I need to get an 8 TB SSD for work - I have two 4 TB ones, but it's kind of inconvenient when I move from studio to studio and they usually have very few usb C ports available. Also, when I update my library with Soundly I have to do it twice and it takes a long time.

So, I thought of getting one of these three: Samsung T5, SanDisk Extreme, WD_Black SN850P. I excluded HDD as they're noisy, cumbersome, and more prone to failing as I need an intense, daily use, moving them often from place to place.

By confronting them, I think the samsung it's too slow (although it's got a nice case), the sandisk is a middle way, and the WD the fastest one, but I need a case. I can't find one that I know will work for sure for that amount of storage. Can anybody suggest one? Or, if that's a bad option, which other SSD should I get?

EDIT: I've seen the Samsung MZ SSD too, would that be any different?