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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ThePeoplessChamp on 2025-07-21 06:52:32.

Hello,

I have 10x 900 MB family videos in VOB format (I know nothing about this format) after having them previously digitized from VHS by a service.

I bought some 25GB Verbatim M-discs and an M-disc compatible Verbatim UHD slimline Blu-ray writer. I want to burn the video files onto a disc for archival purposes.

The player came with Nero Burn & Archive but I'm reading a lot of praise for ImgBurn. All I want to do is copy the files onto a single disc. It would be cool to make each file selectable in a menu or something. Nothing fancy

I only just discovered the files were VOB format. Is this workable or should I convert to something common like MP4?

Thanks

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/MisakaMisakaS100 on 2025-07-21 06:21:33.

I have 2 hard drives with the same content and size. But after a few days later I open drivepool, it shows the 2 harddrive not consistent. 2 of the folder contents do not match. So I compared the folder for both drives and their size are different.

1. How does this happen?

2. Does this mean I have corrupted files?

3. Does smaller size of files indicate corruption?

4. Is this normal?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/PeeDieOlsen on 2025-07-21 05:47:19.

So I'm looking to buy the WD - D10 8TB External USB 3.2 Gen 1 Portable Hard Drive - Black from Best buy, it's apparently 80 bucks off right now. I've tried looking elsewhere and it's about the same price on other sites. So I wanted to ask if anyone has seen it drop lower of if this is a good enough deal. Thanks in advance!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/raidenorsnake on 2025-07-21 03:49:05.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Elfi on 2025-07-21 03:40:32.

Hello ! I have a 2 scenarios in my head that would involve creating a raid array over multiple partions across multiple disk and am wondering what would be the cons of theses solutions, would that be useful, efficient and/or secure ? And if it would cause a significant performance hit

Scenario 1

• I've heard that the OS can't be inside the raid array, so imagine I have 6x1 To, and that I wish to have a decent disk size for the storage. It would mean sacrificing 1 disk to get 5x1To and have 4To of usable storage on the raid with the possibility of 1 disk failure.

If I decide to partions my 6 disks into 12 partition of 500Go, it would means I'd have 500Go for the Os (which is sufficient) and 11x500Go for the raid array, with Raid 6 I could get 4.5 To of usable space instead of 4, with a tolerance of 2 partitions failure (= 1 full disk)

Scenario 2

• let's say I don't have to deal with the OS, if now I want a reliable array that could withstand 1 drive failure and even a failure of the raid itself (corruption, human error...) I would need back up of my datas.

So imagine I have 4x2To, if I decide to partions the disks into 8x1To I can make 2 raid array of 4x1To (with each disk having a partition from both array) this way I would have 2 raid of 3To across 4 disks of 2To with one of the raid array being a back up of the other one.

This way if one disk fail, both raid array would remain functional and if one of the array become compromised, the other one would still be accessible. In this setup even if a disk an array fail at the same time, the other would still work

Thanks for reading and I'm looking forward to your opinion!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Worth-Beautiful-1469 on 2025-07-21 03:34:36.

I understand the idea but at the end of the day. There are tons of things that are not actual guns that will be damaged here. I’m part of the nerf community we all modify nerf blasters to make them more powerful and more reliable. We also create blasters from scratch. There are 1000’s of file sets that will be lost here. There is a new page called blasterdownloads.com. I have new personal stake in it but I know it’s just for foam blasters. Is there a way to move them there or somewhere and save all these files. I’m new to this thread so any help would be greatly appreciated

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Spektre99 on 2025-07-21 03:25:52.

Does either Windows Storage Spaces mirroring or Windows volume mirroring provide a read speed increase?

I just tried volume mirroring expecting to see a read speed increase and saw no improvement over a single drive.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ansyhrrian on 2025-07-20 22:02:51.

I finally bit the bullet on my Synology DS918+ and swapped out my trusty 5-year-old 4x 6TB Toshiba N300 NAS drives for 4x 18TB WD Red Pro drives on volume 1 (RAID 5).

While volume optimization is humming along nicely, my parallel decision to upgrade from DSM 6.x to DSM 7.1 has been … a choice. It’s not terrible, but, frankly, reconfiguration just sucks. I have a lot of containers, which makes it easier, but it’s still having to remember or re-import the customizations I’ve made over the years.

For backups and cold storage, I’ve got a DX517 expansion unit with 5x 8TB Seagate ST8000 SMR drives in RAID 5, slated for semi-cold storage duties. I also have a Cenmate USB 3.0 enclosure filled with my leftover 6TB drives (3 reformatted Toshibas and a newer WD Red Plus) running without RAID for ad-hoc local copy and mid-term non-critical hot-swappable storage when needed.

My super-cold backup solution is a vintage 2015 Seagate business NAS with 4x 8TB WD consumer-grade SMRs in two RAID 0 volumes, network-connected over gigabit Ethernet. It’s going to my neighbor when new backups are complete.

Anyways, I guess I’m not looking for advice per se, but I wouldn’t mind if you’d like to share experience, pain or guidance if you’d like. It’s been a weekend of “fun” rebuilding and optimizing volumes, switching out drives and vacuuming old dust bunnies from behind the desk.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/EffectiveEmu809 on 2025-07-20 20:53:33.

I have an external hard drive that has about 3TB of RAW photo files from my hobby photography. In the past I have done a semi decent job at copying the data to another drive routinely. I'v recently realized one of my hard drives failed and I am down to one copy of all of my photos on a HDD that is 7 years old. I just purchased a new 4TB SSD to make my working drive and a new 8TB HDD that I will use to routinely make a backup of this working drive and then store in a safe place. In the past I have just copy/paste. My question is there a better way to get this copy? I have looked around in Time Machine but I don't see a way to just keep a copy of the external drive. I don't want other files from my computer on the external. I'd like to be able to just plug the two drives in once a quarter or so and click go and a process happens that adds any new changes/files to the backup disk and then eject and store the backup. Thanks in advance!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Nomad_76 on 2025-07-20 19:35:12.

Have a 16 bay dell r720 with 2.5bay drives I’m looking to fill so I can run a second NAS. My current one I bought with the drives already lovely 16 15K 300gb SAS HDD. Asking the people who’ve been doing this longer on a good SSD brand that won’t absolutely kill my wallet but are still reliable. Thank you for your time!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/drowned_phoenix on 2025-07-20 18:59:05.

Hey fellow datahoarders, I've been data hoarding for more than ten years, but only now I am starting to implement more serious backup and error prevention measures, as only recently I've discovered all the risks and nuances of this practice.

Today I have 3 copies of my data, the production copy in the HDs/SSDs in my machine and two copies stored in external hard drives, which are kept offline. These two HDDs use exFAT format. I am also researching for a good cloud solution to keep a fourth, off-site copy.

So, my main concern right now is making sure the data in these external hard drives doesn't get corrupted and that I'm able to identify and recover from errors.

What kind of strategies can I implement to better keep my data safe?

In terms of limitations, I'm not able to buy new hardware for the next few months and this data needs to be readable in Windows OS.

Thanks in advance!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/c0de854-T on 2025-07-20 18:52:11.

I am looking for a 3.5" hard drive with either 8TB or 6TB capacity. I want to store this hard drive for two years without power. Is this possible?

What kind of hard drive would you recommend?

I plan to use this case to store it - what do you think? https://www.orico.cc/index/product/detail/942.html