The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Chance_of_Rain_ on 2025-06-30 13:57:46.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/turtlecults1 on 2025-06-30 13:24:15.

Apologies for the potentially bad formatting - I’m sitting at work typing this on my phone as I browse for some tools.

I’ve been hoarding my data for years at this point and I have so much that it’s spread out across 4-5 different platforms and systems and I’m looking to consolidate everything. A big focus of mine is getting things like my Spotify playlists downloaded at a high quality but relatively cheaply, what sorts of recommendations would yall have for downloading some of my online only stuff that way I can keep it all stored locally on my own drives?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/DarkAntiMOD on 2025-06-30 07:53:18.

I have backed up my whole Spotify Playlist.. around 2600 songs and also my "Homework" Videos that amount to 76GB..

Above are kept in harddisks..

Next i want to Write all my favorite movies like Avengers batman etc.. (Around 50+ movies) to my empty DVD collection ( Dvd so that i can display them with printed posters)

I know that these sizes of media are barely anything compared to what all u guys have hoarded .. but i am just starting out ( I am 21)

Videos and Gif, Images

M4a and mp3s

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/jack_sparrow077 on 2025-06-30 07:23:05.

I couldn’t find a solid tool to download YouTube playlists in high-quality audio formats with full control, so I wrote a Python script using yt-dlp.

🔧 Features:

• Download entire YouTube playlists to .mp3, .m4a, .flac, .opus, .wav, etc.
• Choose bitrate: 128 / 192 / 256 / 320 kbps or max available
• Batch download multiple playlists at once
• Embed metadata: title, artist, album, and cover art
• Open-source, lightweight, CLI-based

I use it mainly for organizing music offline (e.g. for car or backup), but figured some of you might find it handy too.

🔗 GitHub repo: [https://github.com/dheerajv1/AutoYT-Audio/]

🎥 YouTube tutorial/demo: [https://youtu.be/HVd4rXc958Q/]

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/LongLineOfNumbers on 2025-06-27 00:22:36.

My boss owns a Mac and uses Disk Catalog Maker to organize his files. He wants me to sort through his files on my laptop, which is a PC. His worry is that the catalog files that are made using his program will not carry over to my PC and I would have to completely reorgainze all of his files.

Does anyone know a program that can run the catalog files he creates on my PC? I don't want to pay for a cataloging software that ends up not being compatible with his already existing files. Thanks!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/spur0701 on 2025-06-26 23:21:21.

About 10 years ago I bought a NAS, a Western Digital Sential DX4000, it had 4 3 TB drives and I hung it off the home network.  The family used it as a backup location for pretty much anything.  It finally failed last year, I haven't tried to recover anything from it yet but the kids are gone off to college and I think I've got all the data that was on it on other drives so I don't think it's worth trying to recover anything from it, which is fortunate cause it looks like it would be a pain since one of the drives is dead and the enclosure is dead.  

In the spring I bought 2 Seagate EXOS recerted 20TB drives and dropped them in my main desktop, its a Dell XPS 8930, it's a little older but it had 64 GB of memory and runs an i9.  

My plan was to RAID 1 them, since that would be the simplest, robust, and easy to recover if one dies.  I know I can do that with software but was looking for a recommendation for  PCIe card that wasn't too too expensive?  ....or is there another solution that I'm missing?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/r0sayo-at-reddit on 2025-06-26 19:17:22.

Like the title says, I'm just looking for a way to convert my whole library (160GB) to MP3 so it takes up less space on my phone. I wonder if I could do this with FFMPEG?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/CaseroRubical on 2025-06-26 19:14:51.

I'm just looking for a hard drive to backup my personal files, not trying to build a home server or whatever. Looking online, I can get either a 4 TB USB HDD or a (second hand) 12 TB SATA HDD and a simple adapter for the same price. Seems like a no brainer

I just want to backup my files and then put the drive in a box indefinitely. Is it a bad idea?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/jaq805 on 2025-06-26 19:13:09.

I’m debating buying a 4 bay to replace my 620 slim. My first plex library has filled it up and there’s no chance to expand it anymore.

I could buy a new ugreen 4 bay nas and fill it with 20tb drives minimum.

Or should I get a cheaper hardware raid - 4 bay enclosure and host it off of a spare Mac mini m1 I have lying around?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/NickMeAnotherTime on 2025-06-26 18:38:42.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Yabgas18 on 2025-06-26 17:06:55.

Want to build better Reddit datasets,

I’ll scrape any thread for you (free test)

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/wtf_ever_man on 2025-06-26 16:59:02.

I basically need/want to compile or make a list if all the things in all my directories... just in case... and if I'm ever having to check if I have something already.

So what do you all use to make a master list of stuff you have?

I presume there's software that will read and just give me a print out?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/mitchellcrazyeye on 2025-06-26 15:54:26.

Hey y'all. This is a very similar question to posts I've seen here before so I'm hoping I'm not too bothersome - I need someone who can properly look and see. I think they changed the system a bit as these don't seem to be the way things work anymore.

I'm trying to find a "1 button push" way to request the camera, download the stream on demand. INDOT makes you go through so many barriers to load a camera, so I'm trying to reverse engineer the video request system to it's simplest form, but the request seems buried and I cannot for the life of me figure out where it is.

If there's someone a bit more knowledgeable in this that can take a peek, it would be well appreciated. I think there's a small community that looks into this and then gives up - any insight would be helpful, thank you.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/sanernes on 2025-06-26 15:33:11.

Hello fellows datahoarders.

I am duplicating my HDD with personal data (another backup in the NAS) , its a WD 4tb usb 3.0 disk with 3,6 TB and 4M files and I am copying to a seagate 5tb 3.0usb HDD.

After a week using windows file manager and teracopy. I found that I had 4,3 tb of data copied so I had more data copied so I started again.

So I decided to try teracopy beta , FreeFileSync (failed to lack of ram) , Unstoppable Copier.

I need to try in another computer as I am using a relatively old laptop (usb3.0, 8gb ram) and I will try Copywhiz and fastcopy.

I sticked to several instances of windows explorer and a run with teracopy for long filenames and for verification. But its taken more than 1 week and going for the 2th week.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/radialmonster on 2025-06-26 15:05:47.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/preezyfabreezy on 2025-06-26 14:17:16.

I built a PC (with a bunch of help) for audio production. 8TB SSD boot drive, and 2 x 16TB WD Red Pro drives I wanna mirror to run all my audio files.

I’m only about “medium” computer literate. Really good at using the windows platform, know a little DOS, and am scared shitless of messing around with BIOS settings.

Are there any disadvantages to just mirroring the 2 WD drives with the windows 11 storage pool function? or is it just as solid as a traditional software raid 1 setup?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Enzissimo on 2025-06-26 14:09:56.

Hello everyone.

I have about a hundred CDs that I would like to recover. Some are badly read and have problems in recovery.

I am using ddrescue, dvdisaster and testdisk in combination on a computer that has these two readers mounted:

• Liteon dh16a6s

• Pioneer bdr-207m

Some sectors, with dvdisaster, have problems.

So now I wonder:

1. I have two other old readers (older) removed from an old PC. If I used them with an IDE converter could I have more luck? The readers in question are:

• Toshiba Samsung SH-S162L/BEBN

• Sony DRU-530A

2. I am thinking of buying the Jfj Easy Pro. At that price is it the best to try to recover the data or could I find something better?

Thanks

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/prompta1 on 2025-06-26 12:11:03.

I understand a raspberry pi is better suited but I was just curious.

I understand an Arduino just has like kB size storage on it, but is there a way to run a script and increase the storage ?

I also understand it doesn't have network, but I was just genuinely curious if there is any application in Datahoarding?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/stefans85 on 2025-06-25 21:13:30.

As title says. Currently I am using 8TB HDD disks with windows storages hanging out of my case as there is no place for them. I have found 3 4 bay NAS systems at my local dealer where I prever to buy locally not online.

• Asustor 4 bay NAS with 1,4 GHz Realtek 4 core CPU and 1GB RAM

• QNap 4 bay NAS for 50eur more with 2,0 GHz ARM Cortex-A55 4-Core CPU and 4GB RAM

• UGreen 4bay NAS for 100eur over the Asustor with 3.4GHz Intel N-Series N100 4 Core CPU and 8GB RAM

• Synology 4bay NAS for about between Asustor and QNap with 1,70 GHz Realtek 4-Core CPU and 2GB RAM

I don't know how important CPU and RAM are. Speed is maximum 1GBit/s as it is directly attached to my Gaming case and only is for data of my private programming and modding projects and photos so Raid 4 or 5 is a must have. Transferspeed is negligible as long as I can record and view full HD videos from games and portals like youtube premium and amazon prime. A nice to have would be an downloader were I just give my credentials to amazon prime and/or google if there is a possibility to attach my gaming PC second LAN cable to the NAS for internet access to the NAS as I only have wifi.

For sharing either NFS or SMB would be sufficient.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ighwrighwirh on 2025-06-25 18:01:44.

Hey every one!

I found "a list" online with drives who should support UHD 4k Blu Rays.

So I bought the BH16NS40. Its from 13.03.2014 who seem to old (nobody mention a Date before)?

I try to flash some FW and now the Drive not recognised any Optical Media anymore.

So did I brick them? I use them externally with an USB Adapter.

And is there a list of other one who works?

I also own 2 external BR Drives who maybe works?

Thanks

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/kaylor_18 on 2025-06-26 11:30:34.

Here’s my process for travel photos and videos I have. I go through them after the trip. Delete those I don’t need. Then start backing them up to my pcloud and external SSD. I organize them per album. I then, go through the photos again and only save the best ones in my phone (iCloud)

Then those best ones saved in Icloud, I organize them in an album. I find my overall process tedious. I don’t want to just enable sync though to Pcloud as it’s not organized.

So what can be my options to make it more efficient?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/nawakilla on 2025-06-26 10:55:29.

Going to cross post this on piracy.

Short and simple, I'm on the fence. My budget would be on the lower side so i might build it myself. I've built about 4 computers and torrent a decent ammount (usually just delete media files once I'm done with a show). Main things I'm considering is for reliable backups for the important stuff and maybe get rid of some subscriptions, netflix, hulu and what not.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/No_Patience_3148 on 2025-06-26 10:19:43.

I have a few older movies and shows that, unfortunately, never got an official Blu-ray release

I’ve been debating between two options:

• Use AI tools to upscale the original DVD to 1080p.
• Rip the HD version from streaming platforms (if available), and use that as the source to burn a Blu-ray.

Which one gave the better results in terms of quality and reliability?

Thanks for any tips!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/The-Rizztoffen on 2025-06-26 09:17:56.

I don’t have enough energy to build a PC especially since I’ve never done that before (I have swapped parts in various PCs before like CPU, sticks or PCIE devices but never assembled the whole thing together). I was initially planning to buy a QNAP or UGREEN but keep thinking that my own would probably be better in the long run because of all the things I’ve read on the internets

There must be full size Dell/Lenovo/HP towers that have 8 bays right? I have an old Mac Pro but it only has 4 bays (could remove the CD drive to make space for more I guess), but it produces too much heat and won’t fit in the networking corner (and I’d prefer to keep using it as a normal PC).

It would run Jellyfin and maybe separate music streaming. I would run Time Machine backups as well as backups for other things like family photos. Will be isolated from WAN (time to learn about VLANs as well I spose).

I am not decided yet on whether I will be running TrueNAS or something else

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/PusheenHater on 2025-06-26 08:44:05.

I have a PC that uses Windows 10 Pro. I have a hard drive that is encrypted using BitLocker.

Now, assume this PC blows up, but the hard drive is safe.

Questions:

1. Can I take this hard drive, stick it in another PC with Windows 10 Pro, and access the encrypted files there? Or is it bounded to the PC?
2. Are there better alternatives to BitLocker for encryption? I do not like that I need a Pro license to access my files. Keep in mind: I am super paranoid. I keep my important files in a separate PC where I do not install anything unless absolutely necessary.