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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ChoiceDirect on 2025-07-17 17:48:38.

I'm able to source a pair of these in 6.4 tb capacity and install them in my windows desktop (lighter usage, mostly reads) and I'm wondering is there any way to switch them to high capacity mode (7.2tb) as I don't realky need 5wpd endurance.. thanx!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/randopop21 on 2025-07-17 17:43:48.

Way back, RAID controllers could notify you via an email that there was a disk failure or that your RAID array was in jeopardy.

Today, IT is just a hobby for me and I have a bunch of ex-corporate PCs at home that are SSD boot/primary drive + a small SATA drive.

I use the small SATA drive to hold periodic image backups of the SSD primary drive so that if there is ever a catastrophic failure of the SSD, I can plop in a new one and reimage it and carry on. (I realize that I could image them to a shared drive on the network but the ex-corp PCs each have a 500GB SATA drive in them already and so why not use them.)

This backup/recovery scheme does require that the small SATA drive is working properly and has been receiving the periodic SSD images.

With just the motherboard SATA chipset and sata controller of the ex-corp PC, is there a way to receive a notification that something has or is about to go wrong?

I want the same functionality like back when I worked with Adaptec / IBM Megaraid / Dell PERC (etc.) RAID controllers. (Especially now when it may be difficult to have devices send emails because Gmail could erroneously block them as spam.)

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/mikestergame01 on 2025-07-17 17:26:10.

I've been storing stuff on mega creating a bunch of free accounts and had no real problems till today. Megabasterd all of a sudden will upload the file then at the end after it's done give me "Fatal Error! Mega API Error: -2" It'll create the folder in the mega account but the files do not upload. I can upload them manually just fine. Anyone else having a problem with Megabasterd to upload files?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Merkel77101 on 2025-07-17 16:43:16.

Im curious how many of you have a NAS and those that do what is your volume structure? How big is your setup? How do you keep all of your stuff organized?

I see alot of guides suggesting setting up a media volume but Id like to be more granular, and have TV and Movies on separate volumes.

Whats your NAS setup look like for hoarding? I just grabbed a Terramaster F4-424 Pro and 3 10TB Toshiba N300s. I mainly hoard movies, TV, books and educational stuff. Im hoping to finally get it all organized better with this NAS.

On a side note I am little sad because about a year ago I tried to stop hoarding and now I regret deleting some stuff I deleted, in particular I had almost 20 years of Howard Stern shows which alot will never be heard anywhere again. So dont delete stuff and continue hoarding because someday you might regret the decision.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/nov845 on 2025-07-17 16:20:08.

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Awesome deal!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Duldain on 2025-07-17 15:23:42.

I always thought me going nuts on HDD space makes me some kind of nutter, but it seems I am a small fish in a huge sea :)

I am building my own custom PC's since the end of the '90 and HDD space was always a top priority for me. And, it was enough once to have a disk die on me without having a backup to make me a back-up freak as well.

My current setup:

• 1TB SSD drive for Windows
• 250GB SSD drive for Ubuntu (dual-boot)
• 1TB SSD + 2TB SSD for games installed, used under Windows
• 3 Data storage SATA DISKS: 3TB + 2x4TB = 10TB

Back-up strategy:

I've written my custom rsync scripts that I run in Ubuntu to back-up:

• the 3 data disks are backing up between each other selected folders (manual RAID simulation, I guess :))
• the backed up folders are then in turn rsync'ed to 4 external WD passport HDDs (a total of 12TB).

I know that seems like a small amount but in my circle I'm considered a paranoid person :)

For the veteran data hoarders I have 2 questions:

1. If I want to back-up sensitive information on a separate, empty, HDD, what should I use to encrypt the data?
2. for backing up data on an extra SATA HDD's, what do you guys use to connect to the disk? I assume you don't open up your PC's every time you want to plug in a disk. Do you have some usb to sata recommendations for 3.5" HDD's?

Thanks!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/exiledfan on 2025-07-17 14:02:21.

I've figured out a way to use WGET on login-only Tumblr blogs for mirroring, and I've figured out a script that removes the privacy popup that seems to be inescapable, so each individual HTML file needs to be revised, but this is still a massive win in my book.

However, the problem is now that it only scrapes a handful of posts--presumably being tripped up by the pagination.

Does anyone have any ideas on how this can be worked around?

(Tumblthree is not a viable alternative as it only downloads a fraction of the posts in the first place...)

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Quesonoche on 2025-07-17 13:56:25.

The past few months I've been downloaded tens of thousands of my saved reddit posts via BDFR and then running them throught bdfr-html to view on my server. The problem is as my number of posts downloaded has grown and grown, running bdfr-html consumes more and more RAM. Are there any options for turning downloaded jsons and media into htmls that don't consume so much ram but trying to run the whole thing at once?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Big-Wolverine-6238 on 2025-07-17 13:06:59.

I am looking to restore two channels that were deleted by me which I heavily regret looking back on it

I have come to a sad realization that any content that is not archived or has no snapshots of any media (video, picture, or audio) is gone forever. However terrible a loss this is, I managed to restore videos from my second channel which had 7 videos 5 of which are recoverable.

So I was thinking is there any other I can at least try to restore the two that only have metadata I tried looking into wayback machine archives and ironically they were saved as webpages...... not as video snapshots......

So is there any way I can try converting them into video format

and what of the channel that was deleted in 2016 with only webpage saved on the wayback

and also for anyone looking one main advice from this post

DON'T DELETE YOUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL WITHOUT ARCHIVING YOUR VIDEOS ESPECIALLY IF IT IS A SMALL YOUTUBE CHANNEL WITH LESS THAN 1K SUBS

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/BobThePlantGuy on 2025-07-17 12:40:17.

I need to replace the backplane on a Supermicro CSE-743 case. I found one screw and removed it, but the blue plastic piece has tabs holding the backplane in place. The manual doesn't provide instructions. I'm sure there's an easy trick, I just can't figure it out.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Urban_Predator on 2025-07-17 12:28:38.

I currently bought a Seagate BarraCuda internal HDD of 24TB. They are cheaper than the HDD that I currently buy for my Synology NAS. My two bays are currently full and I’m thinking to add a second DX1215. I currently use two drives for Raid, so I will need 4 for the initial sync.

I see in the specification sheet of Seagate that these 24TB BarraCuda HDD’s are CMR. Can I use these to fill the additional enclosure, now they’re CMR instead of SMR?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/GillysDaddy on 2025-07-17 10:36:07.

I'm considering a backup NAS that starts up only once a week, runs its backups, does some maintenance / system updates, then shuts down again. Are enterprise drives still the best option for that? Or is there something that's more purpose-built / optimized for handling many spin cycles and longer offline times?