It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Tacitquazer on 2025-04-02 01:39:44.

Hello Reddit,

Recently an SSD of mine failed, and I lost a lot of media. I was able to take it into a shop, and they got a recovery of all the files, but stored in folders based on filetype, not relevancy. The problem with this is that it includes all of the system images, and icons that are found all around the computer. Is there any way I can do a bulk sorting and filtering of filesize, aspect ratio, or any other property?

I was looking for the best sub-reddit to post this in, and this seemed to be a decent option. If none of you guys are able to help, could I get some suggestions on where I could turn next? Thanks!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Live_Ostrich_6668 on 2025-04-02 00:56:51.

For those out of the loop, back in December 2020, three big academic publishers—Elsevier, Wiley, and the American Chemical Society—sued Sci-Hub and LibGen in the Delhi High Court (High courts are only second to the Supreme Court in India, which is the highest judicial authority in the country) by filing a 'copyright infringement' lawsuit against them. The court then asked it to pause any new uploads, and the website has been inactive since then. There have been multiple hearings since then, but the case keeps on dragging with hopes dwindling for a verdict anytime soon.

Here's the full timeline of the hearings that keeps getting postponed:

https://www.reddit.com/r/scihub/s/otkFGlQKqh

Now the question is, was this exactly the kind of outcome that the publishers were trying to achieve? If yes, then why did they selected India? Why not any other country?

Lastly and most importantly, why did Alexandra Elbakyan (the founder) even chose to comply?

From Sci-Hub's wiki page:

In order to have a better chance of winning a lawsuit presented against her and Sci-Hub by Elsevier in India, Elbakyan complied with a preliminary injunction issued by an Indian court, and suspended in 2021 upload of new publications, except for some batch releases of content.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub

So it seems like both the founder and the publishers thought they had a 'better chance of winning' in India, which is quite baffling and incomprehensible.

What are your thoughts on the whole issue, and what do you think is going to be most likely outcome in this battle?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/No_Account_5605 on 2025-04-02 00:49:23.

I mean ones that go for £15 on amazon Also are they region locked Thanks

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/OverWims on 2025-04-02 00:17:00.

Ok, so, I have many shows that I have ripped from Blu-rays and I want to change their titles (not filenames) in mass. I know stuff like mkvpropedit can do this. It can even change them all to the filename in one go. But what about a specific part of the filename? All my shows are in a folder for the show, then subfolders for each series/season. Then each episode is named something like "1 - Pilot", "2 - The Return", etc. I want to mass set each title for all the files of my choice to just be the parts after the " - ". So, for those examples, it would change their titles to "Pilot" and "The Return" respectively. I have a program called bulk renamer that can rename from a clipboard, so one that uses this element is okay too, and I can just figure out a way to extract the file names into a list, find and replace the beginning bits away and then paste the new titles.

I have searched for this everywhere, and people ask to set the title as the full filename, even the filename as part of the title, but never the title as part of the filename. Surely a program exists for this?

If necessary, this can be for just MKVs. I can convert my MP4s to MKVs and then change their titles if need be.

Thanks.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Narrator2012 on 2025-04-01 23:31:59.

Can anyone speak to any significant differences between these two 14TB drives?

I just need one and will be using it in an external USB enclosure, loading it, and then powering it down until I need access from time to time.

https://serverpartdeals.com/collections/manufacturer-recertified-drives/products/western-digital-ultrastar-dc-hc530-wuh721414ale604-14tb-7-2k-rpm-sata-6gb-s-512e-3-5-recertified-hard-drive

https://serverpartdeals.com/collections/manufacturer-recertified-drives/products/seagate-exos-x18-st14000nm000j-14tb-7-2k-rpm-sata-6gb-s-3-5-recertified-hard-drive

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Dont_Forget_My_Name on 2025-04-01 23:28:26.

I think I have spent enough time overthinking the HDD sizes, new vs used and where to buy my HDDs that I finally got it down to 3 choices for my Backup server in RAIDZ1 x3 drives.

**12TB IronWolf New $16.67/TB from B&H Photo(ok price for new and can use one or 2 to replace used drives in current server) I guess I misread, they are just regular Irowolf NOT Pro drives

vs

12TB HGST HUH721212ALE601 Used $12.17/TB from GoHardDrive(Cheapest and best $/TB but Used)

vs

18TB IronWolf Pro New $15.00/TB from Seagate directly.(Best price/TB I have found for new but probably more TB than I need for a backup server and most overall cost)

So far I don't have experience buying from any of the sellers, how they pack drives for shipping and have never used Seagate drives. Normally I would just buy used drives but since used prices have skyrocketed it seems like it may be better to actually buy new drives and hope they last longer before they fail(since used will probably already have 5+ years of use).

Am I completely overlooking something? Is one objectively a better choice than the others? Are 18TBs too large for a RAIDZ1 setup? Am I still overthinking things and should just flip a 3 sided coin?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Mr_Heron762 on 2025-04-01 22:46:04.

Im using gallery-dl to download albums of photos. Is there a way to use it to download entire albums of gifs? Or is there a similar program to do that?

I've searched on Google and github and haven't been able to find anything.

Thank you in advance!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/foodisgod9 on 2025-04-01 22:28:10.

I currently have 2 drives in a WD ex2 ultra. I just got a new Ugreen 2 bay. Do I just remove drive encryption and install to the Ugreen?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Ninja-Trix on 2025-04-01 22:12:22.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/QLaHPD on 2025-04-01 22:12:15.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/326416346331

So, I remember reading a topic (or maybe just a comment, can't recall exactly) last year where someone said that Verbatim Blu-ray M-DISCs are basically "trash" because they're essentially just regular Blu-rays. According to them, Verbatim even confirmed that at some point they started producing only that type of disc under the M-DISC brand.

The one in the link above is supposed to have a titanium layer beneath the data layers, which I guess would offer extra protection against oxidation.

Has anyone here tested this disc?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/BartolosSweatSocks on 2025-04-01 22:07:24.

I'm new at doing this so please bear with me. The online components of Hunt a Killer fall into two categories: storyline elements of the cases they make and a hint/support section.

For instance, the case Baker's Dozen has a site that's part of the storyline at http://bakersdozenfanmail.com/ There's a faux chat box at the bottom where you're supposed to type in specific info. I've tried saving this page with HTTrack and Cyotek WebCopy but neither can seem to do it, I assume due to the chat box maybe being something they can't save.

The hint site is at https://members.huntakiller.com/bakers-dozen-recaps and has a login screen that only requires a password. The site behind the password is just a basic web page and should be easy to save, but when I try using one of the programs I mentioned I can't get them past the password. I've tried using the password for both the username and password, for just the username with the password blank, and just the password with the username blank. But it doesn't seem to like any of those combos.

Does anyone have any advice on how these can be preserved?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Ok_Nail_4795 on 2025-04-01 21:02:30.

So glad I decided to download it all months ago

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Live-Ice-2263 on 2025-04-01 19:50:10.

Greetings.

I had a hard disk storage that I used regularly. A month ago it fell from like 70 cm to hard ground, and I will have to pay like 450 dollars for data recovery. On my pc, I only have 256 GB SSD, so I can't store many images in there.

I might buy a new storage device for storing images and videos. I have two HDDs on my old computer but operating them is a pain since the computer is incredibly old and slow (4gb ddr3 ram)

Should I get SSD, HDD (cheaper but I can't trust them anymore) or DVD's for media storage? I will upgrade to new pc soon and I plan to have about 512 gb SSD there.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ElighaN on 2025-04-01 19:32:08.

I'm just wondering if this is how the RMA system works, or if I am missing something. I'd take a picture of the drive, but I'm not sure what numbers would need to be censored.

I have a TrueNAS Scale server with a RAIDZ2 setup. I'm not sure I want to add the replacement drive in before I know if I was scammed.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/cokefox on 2025-04-01 18:08:42.

Hi! I am trying to archive some rare finding on a lost website through wayback machine, and i found a little browser game on the site. it loads in a website named .asp and loads using Ruffle, so I am assuming some sort of flash/swf file? Is there any way to download this, so it doesnt get lost to time at the WBM? I dont care if it runs on my PC or not, I wont be playing it, I just want to archive the game in some way, offline.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/SeanPedersen on 2025-04-01 17:42:33.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Jadarken on 2025-04-01 17:32:31.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Antique_Plan942 on 2025-04-01 15:37:51.

Scanning family letters from the 1940s with Epson v600

I inherited love letters from my grandparents, and plan to scan and catalog into a "story", including envelopes. I also have lots of handwritten recipes that I'll be scanning as well.

I purchased an archival box for after they are opened and scanned, and I have a plan for file naming (Month_Day_Year_Author first name_0000)

Before diving in, I'm hoping for a bit of input.

I have an Epson v600 and plan to use Silverfast 9 SE. I am very new to both, as I have yet to begin an intended film scanning project (very overwhelming).

Is my best option to start at 600ppi and using TIFF format? I'm having trouble figure out the initial setup in Silverfast. Can I scan multiple pages as one file? What bit do I use?

This is my first of many archival projects, I have thousands of slides, negatives and photographs to scan as well. Any and all advice is greatly appreciated!!!!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Charming-Gas-2470 on 2025-04-01 13:50:36.

I having 2 windows servers that have a mapped LUN. On one server i can view the files, and i even have a VM running off of that LUN. On the other server however that same LUN is showing empty. Anyone have this happen before, or no how to resolve this?

Disconnecting from the iSCSI target and reconnecting didn't do anything.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/swaggnation2020 on 2025-04-01 13:44:12.

I'm struggling to find a good answer for this! I'm archiving a project and have two drives with folder structures that are different, but their contents are 99% the same. What I'm looking to do is compile a list of the files I have on one drive that do not exist on the other and vice versa. Working on a mac and would prefer something with a simple gui, but happy to learn if there's a terminal command.

thank you!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Bad-Adaptation on 2025-04-01 13:13:53.

I have a couple dozen large building blueprints that I need to have digitized/scanned. Does anybody have any recommendations for services that do this? Thank you!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/TrustLJC on 2025-04-01 13:06:25.

Which would be the better purchase?

Difference I notice is that the Seagate is much more bulkier and slightly pricier. WD is sleaker and cheaper.

Mostly interested in longevity and durability. Also good password protection software would also be nice.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/PinkSpanker on 2025-04-01 13:04:41.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/atotal1 on 2025-04-01 07:40:06.

I did a search and didn't find any info on TRIM support. I just found out that my Orico harddrive/ssd docking station doesn't support TRIM, only UASP. Not based in the US so its difficult to get some brands/models which I know support TRIM.

Does anyone know if other Orico docking station models support TRIM like the aluminium model ones?

The description says that TRIM is supported but I'd like to know if people have used it before and can confirm that TRIM works.

https://oricotechs.com/products/orico-alluminum-typp-c-sata-hdd-ssd-docking-staion

Ugreen has an upright docking station which doesn't say it support TRIM in the description, so has anyone used it and is TRIM supported? Thanks

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Wide_Dragonfruit1058 on 2025-04-01 03:37:13.

Hi everyone! I’m coming from this r/fednews thread, discussing ways to digitally preserve as much of the Smithsonian’s collection as we can before it gets wrecked by the current administration.

https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/s/KBzQOYOZCM

I’m trying to learn how to scrape the 5,166,433 images available on their Open Access site, please. And, ideally, to scrape each page’s info about each image, so we don’t lose the context and detail. I’m tech savvy but have never attempted downloading and storing at this scale before, so any helpful advice is welcome.

At 5.2 million images, I’m roughly, optimistically guessing 1MB per image, so we’re looking at 5-6TB of storage space just to start. I’m willing to buy the external storage space, and please correct my math and point me towards reliable storage options, if you’re willing.

What else should I think of or watch out for, please? Getting banned from my internet service? Anything unintentionally illegal about this idea? Other problems on the technical side?

I appreciate your help, thanks for your time!