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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/YankeeMoose on 2025-07-08 13:54:27.

Greetings fellow data hoarders;

This might be an extremely stupid question, and I apologize in advance, but I'm looking for legitimate advice.

With the Stop Killing Games initiative going around, and the news I saw about EULA's stating to destroy copies of games once service ends.

( https://www.notebookcheck.net/Ubisoft-EULA-demanding-consumers-destroy-delisted-games-adds-fuel-to-Stop-Killing-Games-movement.1053106.0.html )

It got me thinking, would it be viable to get a large enough external storage solution to mass download all of the games across the various storefronts we use at our house? Between my partner and I, we've collected about 1500 games and I would really prefer not to lose access.

I'll take any suggestions or advice y'all might have, and thanks in advance.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/sabotsalvageur on 2025-07-08 12:29:17.

I have been presented with a challenge. I was given an old drive to attempt to recover pictures from it; it's a FAT32-formatted hard disk from an old Windows 7 system that crashed way back in the day; I have a .iso of the disk, tried using Autopsy to recover what files I could, only got some text content out of it. Does software exist that would assume a block of memory addresses in a moveable window is image data, then attempt to parse that data as pixel values in a trial-and-error basis? So far I've gotten about 100kB of email addresses from a disk image that occupies 16GB, and the pictures are the real prize

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ThePeoplessChamp on 2025-07-08 06:35:34.

Hello data hoarders,

I'm currently copying important VHS tapes to me PC. I will be copying them to new HDDs every 5-10 years or so. In addition to that, I'd like to burn them to DVDs as I'm under the impression discs are better for long term storage. Are there particular DVDs that are better suited for long term storage? Can you highlight the specs look out for and perhaps some real world examples as guidance?

Thanks

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/arch017 on 2025-07-07 20:01:44.

I have tons and tons of photos. Adobe sucks and is expensive. Like a good gallery app or file app for when viewing photos from hundreds of folders, something with a "favorite" options. Like when you have to find that embarrassing photo to embarasse your kids and family. Something that's also built with privacy in mind.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/bAN0NYM0US on 2025-07-07 19:31:42.

I bought some Seagate Exos X16 drives from the official Seagate store on Amazon.ca back in 2022. One of the drives failed and my warranty is still valid until 2027 but when trying to submit a claim for a replacement drive. It's telling me to contact support.

I contacted support and they're telling me that this "new" drive was actually registered in Asia on June 11th and my purchase was on June 27th. So these were open box drives being sold as new, and being sold with the warranty issued in Asia and they can't give me a replacement drive because I'm in Canada.

I just got totally scammed by Seagate and they won't give me a replacement drive even though I still have almost 2 years of warranty remaining because they were registered in Asia before being shipped.

Just a warning to anyone out there about to buy Seagate drives off of Amazon. It's a scam, you don't get the 5 year warranty they advertise with them because they register them out of region so they don't have to give it to you and it's obviously well past the Amazon warranty period to do anything about it so I just got totally fucked on this.

Buyer beware.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/BookShelfRandom on 2025-07-07 19:19:44.

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