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The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/danichh on 2025-07-20 15:17:08.

You can get Spotify Premium for less than 2$/month.

You will need two things. A VPN to India, and an Indian payment method.

For an Indian payment method you will need to use gift cards, which you can get here: https://www.g2a.com/n/spotify-india-12months

Here is how to set it up:

1. Connect to an Indian VPN.
2. Go to spotify.com. Click your name in the upper right -> "Account" -> "Edit personal info". change "Country or region" to India.
3. Go to https://www.g2a.com/n/spotify-india-12months and buy a gift card. Copy the key they give you.
4. Go to https://www.spotify.com/redeem and redeem the gift card. choose any state.

Once the gift card expires you will need to redeem another one.

Notes:

• if you already have premium on your account, you need to cancel and let it expire. You cannot change location with an active subscription.
• You don't need to use the VPN continuously, just once to change your location in your profile settings
• this only works with individual plan

Enjoy.

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/7aBWFo8p7Wn4 on 2025-07-18 23:39:38.

I’ve been using the UDP over TCP option since I first started using Mullvad. What’re the benefits and drawbacks for each option? Thanks for ur help

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/lowdirt on 2025-07-23 03:07:07.

I have two identical 2TB external storage drives. I intend for their contents to be identical: one drive is to back up the other. Is there an app that could automate the change in one drive to trigger the copying of data to the other?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/rastyus on 2025-07-23 02:46:46.

My goal is to have one big logical drive jbod style for ease of use, with the ability to add and remove drives as my needs require. I have redundancy via other means.

As far as I understand a simple storage spaces pool, the data on the drive can only be read in that pool. Ie it's raid like, if your pool fails you lose your data, can't easily move an individual drive and data together to a new machine etc.

This making me lean towards drivepool as you can keep the original drive partitions intact, can pull a drive out plug it into another computer and read that data, if a drive fails you only lose what's on that drive.

I just want to confirm that I am not doing something wrong/missing a setup option with storage spaces before I buy a drivepool license.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/tinpanalleypics on 2025-07-23 01:31:52.

I don't want software that creates an image, I want these backups of files and media to do an exact copy of a main drive and be accessible when necessary. I have 3 backups now that I made with FreeFileSync. Is there any thing better now?

I need it to take basically D:\FOLDER\Content and compare with the one in my backup and only copy over what's different. I want to be able to take a backed up HDD later, scan it, and have software tell me "ok, these things have been changed/added/deleted from your parent drive since the last backup, so we'll get your backup updated to match the changes you've made on your main drive"? 

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/anvil-14 on 2025-07-23 00:48:13.

i’m looking to add a couple more 16 TB drives to my zFS pool that i use for backup. The NAS versions are $198 and carry a 5 year warranty. Does anyone have any experience with this brand?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/unmesh59 on 2025-07-23 00:19:35.

I have one of them running ProxMox in a mini server and was going to buy another for my second mini server when I saw reports that it might have a firmware bug that causes it to slow down.

Any recommendations for alternatives for ProxMox? The NVMe slots are Gen 4

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/PenileContortionist on 2025-07-22 23:25:55.

Hey folks, threw this together last night since seeing the post about ultimate-guitar.com getting rid of the download button and deciding to charge users for the content created by other users. I've already done the scraping and included the output in the tabs.zip file in the repo, so with that extracted you could begin downloading right away.

Supports all tab types (beyond """OFFICIAL"""), they're stored as text unless they're Pro tabs, in which case it'll get the original binary file. For non-pro tabs, the metadata can optionally be written to the tab file, but each artist has a json file that contains the metadata for each processed tab so it's not lost if not. Later this week (once I've hopefully downloaded all the tabs) I'd like to have a read-only (for now) front end up for them.

It's not the prettiest, and fairly slow since it depends on Selenium and is not parallelized to avoid being rate limited (or blocked altogether), but it works quite well. You can run it on your local machine with a python venv (or raw with your system environment, live your life however you like), or in a Docker container - probably should build the container yourself from the repo so the bind mounts function with your UID, but there's an image pushed up to Docker Hub that expects UID 1000.

The script acts as a mobile client, as the mobile site is quite different (and still has the download button for Guitar Pro tabs). There was no getting around needing to scrape with a real JS-capable browser client though, due to the random IDs and band names being involved. The full list of artists is easily traversed though, and from there it's just some HTML parsing to Valhalla.

I recommend ~~running the scrape-only mode first~~ using the metadata in tabs.zip and using the download-only mode with the generated json output files, but it doesn't really matter. There's quasi-resumption capability given by the summary and individual band metadata files being written on exit, and the --skip-existing-bands + --starting/end-letter flags.

Feel free to ask questions, should be able to help out. Tested in Ubuntu 24.04, Windows 11, and of course the Docker container.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Broad_Sheepherder593 on 2025-07-22 22:53:57.

So our government has a customs rule that regulates all manufacturing of optical media - hard disks, cds, vinyl, etc. in which we have to pay a usd 20 fee to get a permit to ship in and out - for my case processing RMAs.

Fine, usd 20 not much but the process of applying and all.

Their reason is to protect intellectual property! Oh, SSDs not included

Any experience in other countries?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/bsgapollo on 2025-07-22 22:25:31.

I'll start off by saying all of my nvme slots are occupied before I get recommendations for that, but I'd still like to get some extra storage, also at a cheaper price, I've done a fair amount of research myself, but I would really like to get a second opinion on what would be the best option for my specific usage case.

The models in question and that seem to make the most sense in my region (price wise) are the: Seagate HDD 3.5" 24TB ST24000DM001 Barracuda and the Toshiba MG10 20TB 3.5" SATA III MG10ACA20TE

• The 24 tb Seagate costs €289 (price per terabyte is €12.04)
• The 20 tb Toshiba costs €326 (price per tarabyte is €16.30)

Obviously the 24 tb looks way more appealing in terms of price and what you are getting for it, but the 24tb model has 2 years of warranty while the Toshiba one has 5 years of warranty.

• 24 tb seagate specs:
  • Maxmium data transfer speed: 190 mb/s
  • Cache buffer: 512mb
  • Rated workload: 120 TB/year
  • Load/unload cycles: 600,000
  • Noise: (unable to find in the manual)
  • Power on hours (per year) for annualized failure rate: 2400 hours
• 20 tb Toshiba specs:
  • Maxmium data transfer speed: 268 mb/s
  • Cache buffer: 512mb
  • Rated workload: 550 TB/year
  • Load/unload cycles: 600,000
  • Noise: Idle: 20 dB, Seek, 32 dB
  • Power on hours (per year) for annualized failure rate: 8760 hours

My specific use case for the hard drives would be storing movies & other forms of entertainment media, I would regularly access the drive probably up to a dozen times a day. So I'm slightly worried I would hit the 2400 hours per year on the seagate drive (6 and a half hours per day). In total I would probably write between 4-8 tb towards the hard drive on a yearly basis. Unless the hard drive had to be formatted/fully copied again, then it's more.

• In order, what would be most important for me would be:
  • Total amount of storage (price)
  • Noise
  • Total life span of the product (failure rate)
  • Quick access towards the drive
  • Data transfer speed

As a last thing, something important to mention is I would buy 2 of these hard drives, one serving as a back-up, and one which would see every day use multiple times a day.

I know this is quite a detailed post but I'm looking to make an informed decision before I make my purchase, would it still make sense to purchase the seagate drive for my uses? I've seen other reddit posts mention it should mainly be used as cold storage. Any feedback is appreciated, thank you.

These are the manuals I was able to find of both models:

https://toshiba.semicon-storage.com/content/dam/toshiba-ss-v3/master/en/storage/product/data-center-enterprise/MG10-Product-Manual//_rev.02.pdf

https://www.seagate.com/content/dam/seagate/migrated-assets/www-content/product-content/barracuda-fam/barracuda-new/en-us/docs/Seagate_BarraCuda_SATA_Product_Manual_210203200.pdf

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/iizakill on 2025-07-22 22:19:59.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/brimrod on 2025-07-22 21:50:32.