The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/kangruixiang on 2025-07-01 01:02:58.

Unlike most people who use Evernote for taking notes, I use Evernote for saving and organizing all kinds of things (images, videos, web clips, bookmark links).

Snippet Curator is something I built and have been using over last few months (over 7,000 notes now). It can import Evernote ENEX files, SingleFile HTMLs, other types of files, and help you rediscover old notes by ranking notes based on their rating, last view date, etc.

It is offline only, has no AI, no ads. It only focuses on your notes.

I'm providing it for free without any monthly subscriptions.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/UlfurGaming on 2025-07-01 00:25:28.

1 any good document storage /orginizer for fantasy i mainly use word docc for dnd campaign but finding certain things like kingdom history or homebrews can be bit of a pain i know theres world anvil but id prefer something free

2 similar thing as one but for organizing useful stuff like guides , wikis, recipes gardening advice etc

3 i use a old 16 gb hard drive rn but would prefer something that more durable and will last years

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Vacation_Level on 2025-07-01 00:18:12.

Hi guys,

What 3.5" HDD case/docking station/enclosure won't prevent corrupted disc/HDD failure that has NO sleep mode?

I have a 20 TB HDD that is being used in an 'Orico SATA Hard Drive Dual-Bay Docking Station'.

There is no option to turn off sleep mode, which has made my HDD corrupted on 4 different occasions due to constant HDD spin down/up.

Link below https://www.centrecom.com.au/orico-2535-sata-hard-drive-dual-bay-docking-station-with-offline-clone-function

How can I successfully prevent corrupt HDD issues? What do you recommend? An enclosure instead?

Thank you for your assistance!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/fl4tdriven on 2025-06-30 23:19:42.

Hey all, hopefully this is the correct place to ask this, but I’m planning to use a 16GB Optane M10 drive as a boot drive for my homelab hypervisor. I understand this is not their intended use, but seems to be a common application due to their high endurance.

What I can’t seem to find is what the data retention is for these in a power off state. I don’t plan on the hypervisor being offline for an extended amount of time, but kind of thinking in a ‘worst case scenario’. Any idea how long these will hold data powered off?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/plexguy on 2025-06-30 21:21:19.

I have a home NAS, and have what I call NAS2 which is a secondary backup of the NAS. If I were to put one of these on each computer and run a short cable between them would it be a 5GB network? Understand the potential bottleneck of the speed of the physical drives copying, but simply asking could I set up a network between the two and would it be 5GB. Cable is short as machines are next to each other.

Have to think I might missing something, but this looks to be a pretty cheap high speed local network.

Thoughts?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/CapitalDraw7901 on 2025-06-30 21:06:47.

Someone was giving away old drives in my Buy Nothing group, which was cool. Check out the Maxtor trapezoid!

Anyway, it included this ancient g-tech G-Raid 2 1000gb drive (on the right). It was easy to load it up as a 1tb external drive on my PC, but I don't know anything about RAID drives, and I haven't been able to find any of the configuration/monitoring software for this old drive anywhere. (The current G-RAID installer software GTC_Installer_1.1.1, downloaded from WD, doesn't recognize the drive at all).

I'm not going to start loading data onto this ancient drive without being able to check its health / search for bad sectors.

So my questions are - 1. does anyone know pc software that can monitor/test the health of this old G-Raid drive?

Alternately - is it possible to shuck out the two drives in this enclosure? Before shucking, do I need to do anything (like "delete volume" or whatever) to get them to work as individual, non-RAID, drives in separate enclosures?

Any help is appreciated. I hoard a lot of data but always just by backing up drives, never set up a RAID server (and have no desire to).

2 GO FLEX drives, a MAXTOR, and the GTECH

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/I-Achieved-Nothing on 2025-06-30 20:57:18.

I just set up Reddit Archiver Standalone and I could successfully download the HTML page, but it turns out it doesn't download the Media of the post, am I missing something or is it beyond its capabilities?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/CauliflowerProud2103 on 2025-06-30 20:38:44.

Been in the process of moving my data over to pooled storage, and I just discovered that hardlinks are incompatible with DrivePool. This is an issue for me as several of my media files require BDMV structure for 3D playback, and in the past I’ve used hardlinks of the core .m2ts files to create a separate folder readable by Plex without taking up another 5TB of my total storage. Unfortunately, symlinks don’t cut it, as they aren’t seen as a media file, just a 0kb symlink.

I’ve heard there are some convoluted workarounds to enable hardlinks in DrivePool by disabling load balancing, but for me that kind of defeats the purpose of creating a pool, I.e, easy rebalancing when I need to replace a drive so that snapraid is a last resort.

TL;DR is there a good alternative to hardlinks that’s possible within pooled storage without disabling load balancing?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/luckandpreparation on 2025-06-30 20:09:46.

In the past I had a 4TB WD_Black HDD that I fully encrypted with Veracrypt but it would randomly corrupt and lose everything on it. Like no movement on the USB connection or anything but it randomly corrupts. It was super cheap ($80) and had alot of language on the box about gaming so maybe it's more suited for that...I have it now connected to my xbox and it's been flawless.

I want to now fully encrypt a Seagate Ironwolf Pro 8TB HDD and then move data onto it. Does the size of the drive make it any less stable or ideal for encryption?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/wattiesbeans on 2025-06-30 19:47:53.

Some public profiles may display story archives but I haven't found a way to download them. Snapchat-dl only downloads current stories. Is there a workaround?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/activoice on 2025-06-30 19:31:31.

So this drive only has about 14,000 hours on it.

The reallocated sector count is 18 (18 hex = 24 dec)

I completed a full format on it, and the number of reallocated sectors remained the same.

Everything else looks healthy.. I was planning to use it as a backup drive in a USB enclosure...

https://preview.redd.it/pxlek7d194af1.png?width=674&format=png&auto=webp&s=bc21e880d5fb2d577346200c9189d4723c121aff

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/snakeladder22 on 2025-06-30 19:30:17.

Some public profiles may display story archives but I haven't found a way to download them. snapchat-dl only downloads current stories. Is there a workaround?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/DiodeInc on 2025-06-30 18:58:44.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/s/WvfGlkFQBV

I ended up going with Navidrome and Ultrasonic. I only have MP3s, but if I purchase CDs, I'll rip them as WAVs.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Candid_Leaf on 2025-06-30 18:11:17.

I scrolled and scrolled, didn't see anything pertaining to my problem.

I bought a WD Elements external hard drive. I have a brand new laptop. When I plug it in, I can hear the hard drive doing things... But nothing populates into the files explorer section (where I'm used to seeing "F: drive" or something similar when inserting a thumb drive.

Is there something I need to do to get the computer to recognize the device, so that I can begin using it? Thank you for helping me avoid a 120.00 paper weight!!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ImaginaryTango on 2025-06-30 17:58:02.

Short Version: I rip anything I buy on physical digital media to my server. (I keep the media, so I'm basically doing it for convenience and preservation, not so I can resell the media.) I use MakeMKV for ripping and a lot of the time there is no issue, but I need a way to rip video files from a damaged DVD. MakeMKV won't do that, so I need something more fault tolerant.

Long Version: I've asked about this on the MakeMKV forum and I've had it explained to me that MKV is to make a perfect copy of the original media. But DVDs are notorious for having flaws in them. I find ways to work around crappy DVD authoring programs, but when there's a physical flaw in the media, MakeMKV can't rip it. It's incapable of passing over an error and reconstructing the data stream after that. Most of the time (over 99.5% of the time) my discs are never played in a player, just ripped to my server, then stored. My understanding is that DVD/BD players are designed to keep going, so if there's a problem on the DVD, it'll keep looking for the next readable part and start playback from there. It may amount to nothing a human can notice, or it may show a glitch, or even jump to a few seconds later in the video. I can't find any ripping programs that can behave like this - that can handle an error in a DVD without failing to rip the file.

If my understanding is wrong or there is something I can do to read a damaged DVD with MakeMKV, I would love to hear about it.

(I had one TV series that was seriously damaged and bought a new version, that was bad, and found, over a year of trying, that the quality of DVDs from Acorn Media - is far worse than any other source I've dealt with. It's impossible to buy a season of a TV show from them and not find multiple episodes unreadable for the reason above. So when I want a show they publish, there's no way to rip the entire season due to this problem.)

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/NoYoureACatLady on 2025-06-30 17:57:05.

I've got a solid RAID Synology NAS setup that I trust, with that redundancy built in, but want to add that extra security layer of cloud storage. What's the cheapest way to backup 10-20TB online? Thanks!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/cinephiley on 2025-06-30 16:23:35.

Hi,

I want to download a bunch of private embedded Vimeo videos. There’s been a few ways described on here through the page’s source code, however, what I’ve tried doesn’t work.

Has anyone been able to find a way around this? Thank you!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/DiodeInc on 2025-06-30 15:24:36.

I figured you guys would probably know best. I'm trying to access my music collection from my phone. Similar to how YouTube Music and Spotify work, but not their servers. Just mine.

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?