It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Pl4y_ on 2025-07-03 22:04:45.

I saw a really good story on a celebrities' Instagram last week, I wanted to download it but he didn't put it on the highlights, does anyone know how I can see these stories or a website that will show me his stories from last week?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Mukha_Vertolet on 2025-07-03 21:35:02.

I need to download a playlist of ~1100 videos from YouTube, mostly music. I have a few questions I'm not sure about:

How much space will I need? I want to download full videos with the best possible quality. In general they're 3-7 minutes long, with some exceptions like super extended versions which I'm gonna skip. Will 4tb be enough? 8tb? Preferably, I'd like to have some space left for other things. Also, what exactly does the color of the disk mean? Which one should I look into?

What problems may I run into if I'm using yt-dlp? I've read that YouTube may ban you for downloading videos in a bulk. How should I go about this?

I've been thinking of doing this for a while now and couldn't really make up my mind, so any advice would be appreciated.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/omgman26 on 2025-07-03 20:43:39.

Hello, I would like to buy some of the 2tb SSDs on SPD for a small backup pool of my most important data, but I don't know much about those type of drives and I would like to know some of your experiences with SPD on those and with enterprise SSDs in general. Are they reliable, do they die often, should I be looking for something in particular?

I'm mainly looking at those HP (?) Drives with SATA (now that I just missed some of the Kioxia ones), but I find them as Micron on the internet, might be a whitelabeling thing, idk

Thanks!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Individual-Gas5276 on 2025-07-03 20:41:29.

Just found out about this — apparently some super cheap Android-based TV boxes come with pre-installed malware.

The FBI recently issued a public warning about it. The malware (called BadBox) can steal login credentials, access WiFi, and communicate with command-and-control servers.

It made me think twice about some of the random electronics I’ve ordered online in the past.

Worth checking if you’ve bought these kinds of devices recently.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/FullBoat29 on 2025-07-03 18:59:32.

Hi all. I'm upgrading my NAS and I have an issue. I had 4 20TB drives connected to a 9200-8i, but it was only seeing 2 of them. So I figured good time to upgrade to a 9300. But, I'm still only seeing 2 drives. If I connect them directly to the MB they show in BIOS. The FW is 12.0 IT, so not out of date. I have them currently connected to the board via a breakout cable, so I'm bypassing the backplane of my case. Any ideas?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/asagent7 on 2025-07-03 18:45:28.

I am building my NAS, which I also intend to use for homelab (currently running everything out of a mini PC). I have setup a Fractal Define R6, with i5-8400, refurbished Intel S4500 240GB SSD for boot, and a refurbished HDD for storing surveillance footage. I think the case can hold up to 8 more HDDs easily, which I can support by adding a PCIE sata expansion card. I will be running everything on Debian, with podman containers and openZFS for ZFS.

My plan is to add 4 x 8TB HDD in RAIDZ2 pool as my primary storage. I am leaning towards RAIDZ2 over mirrored RAID vdevs for more reliability over speed. Both options will give me similar storage capacity I believe. I do want to be able to swap out 8TB drives for 16 TB drives in future or add more drives to increase storage capacity if possible.

For backup, I am not sure if I should add a similar 4 x 8TB RAIDZ2 pool, or if that's overkill. Instead, should I go with a simple 2x16TB mirrored vdev and supplement it with a single 16TB HDD that I plug in once in a while and store offline.

My third stage backup plan is to upload to cloud storage like Backblaze B2 or Amazon S3 glacier deep archive.

Looking for any inputs/advice/recommendation

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/bmstinton93 on 2025-07-03 18:43:01.

I'm about to invest in my first ever NAS next week on Prime Day.

The bulk of my data I need to move over to it is my Music Collection, which also includes a load of concert films.

My data is currently all in C:/Music/.

Within C:/Music/Concerts I have all these concert films broken down by Artist, however within that same folder I also have a folder for Glastonbury (and other festivals) and within that any respective artists with a Glastonbury performance have been hardlinked through so I can have them in both places, and also have Plex to read them in both.

Further, I then have C:/Music/Albums which houses the rest of my music, again my artist. I've gone one step further and created a junction in here from each of my artists within C:/Music/Concerts.

Now, I need to find a way of moving there all over to my new NAS but without doubling up (or tripling in some cases) all the files which have been hardlinked. What's the easiest way of doing this?

I'd then like to find a way of regularly syncing these back the other way as a backup somehow, again keeping hardlinks and Junctions in place.

I'm using Windows 11 currently, and purchasing the UGREEN NAS.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/thinvanilla on 2025-07-03 18:42:17.

I set up my first NAS a year ago and bought 3x8TB WD Red Plus drives direct from WD, and they were £209 each (Before discounts). Now I'm looking at the page and they're £180 each, exact same model number.

Do hard drives normally drop in price like this? Is there a chance they go up in price? I'm almost out of storage so need to buy one, making me wonder if I should buy two in case this model gets discontinued or rise in price or something.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/AlwaysFlanAhead on 2025-07-03 18:39:17.

I had bought one of those ssd+nvme hubs for my Mac Studio that just sits on top and matches the looks. It had 4tb in raid 1 for things like my photo library, sample instruments, llm models … basically anything bigger that I want quick access to without bogging down my internal drive.

But apparently the power/cooling on these things is generally pretty bad and it seems to have cooked the ssd. Everything’s backed up to the NAS so no issues there, and since only one drive failed raid 1 did its thing and my data is safe with no downtime.

My question is: is it worth getting a new (hopefully better) dual enclosure and rebuilding the raid 1, or should I just rawdog with a single drive and rely on my NAS as a backup?

Any quality nvme enclosures yall are using? Preferably with thunderbolt and SMART data pass through (some of my cheaper enclosures don’t report)

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Key-Contact-648 on 2025-07-03 18:21:41.

Hello Everyone,

I’ve read on various posts here that many people want to download Erome videos on their devices. So, I created a lightweight, easy-to-use Erome video downloader.

I developed https://eromesaver.com/ to download Erome videos in HD or audio format. It is completely safe to use, responsive and lightweight. I am not loading any external scripts & I am not saving any videos on my servers, you're in safe hands.

There might be some other downloaders out there, but they're all full of ads, log in screens, popups & cookie consent screens.

Give it a try, and I hope you will love it!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/heygravity9 on 2025-07-03 17:59:34.

Hello! I am an avid picture taker, I also go to lots of concerts which equal to a big amount of videos and photos. Currently I am using the Toshiba Canvio Basics 4TB Portable as my external data storage, which I love very much. But I'm scared to run out of space and have my files in multiple different corners. For that I rather have maybe even an external hard drive that sits on my desk, that I can constantly connect too when I seek those data.

This is why I turn to you guys for hopefully some insight, what's the best external hard drive over 4TB that I could get? Happy to even get something between 6-12TB :3 12 is probably way too much but yeah.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/kt8t on 2025-07-03 07:53:31.

I’ve got a weird one. My old WD Green drive, with over 92,000 power-on hours (about 10.5 years), is still working perfectly. Zero reallocated sectors, zero pending sectors, zero uncorrectable errors. SMART data looks clean.

On the other hand, my 8TB Seagate IronWolf NAS drive, just over 3 years old, is starting to fall apart.

Here are the SMART numbers:

• 4336 Retired Sectors
• 120 Reported Uncorrectable Errors
• Seek Error Rate: Raw 3.9 billion
• ECC On-the-Fly Count: 75 million
• Reported Uncorrectables (ID 187): Value 1, Raw 120
• Power-On Hours: 24,230

This IronWolf has been running in a Synology NAS in a clean, temperature-controlled home environment. Same setup as the WD Green. It’s acting like it was built to fail right after the 3-year warranty.

Is this just a bad drive or is this a trend with Seagate IronWolfs? Curious if anyone else has seen failures line up this perfectly with the end of warranty.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/BlinkingJarl482 on 2025-07-03 13:09:38.

Should I return it my requirements for the HDD were 10TB of Storage and 5 years waranty. The HDD will be put in my Desktop and will need to do a lot of random Reads and writes and as far as I understand the ST10000NM0126 has better random write speeds so should I keep it?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Fgrant_Gance_12 on 2025-07-03 12:43:40.

How do I convert 50000+ hospital form with some hand written portion in jpeg to an OCR PDF format which then needs to be extracted to excel in proper orientation as of the form (without using AI or cloud services for privacy protection reasons)?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/SirBiggusBrainius on 2025-07-03 12:40:01.

I don't remember the original file system on the drive, it was a seagate 2tb HDD. I first backed up files from android and windows on it, and eventually moved files from my linux system with a ext4 file system. I only realised this an year later that the conflicting file systems might make the drive unaccessible in other OS. Have I messed this up beyond repair?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Green_Pride_8587 on 2025-07-03 10:20:06.

I’ve scanned a bunch of old letters, photos, and receipts as JPGs and want to preserve them in clean PDF format. Don’t want to use clunky offline software. I tested a few tools and found one browser-based converter that worked really well for batch jobs. Anyone here have a better workflow for this? Would love to streamline it further.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/guaranteednotabot on 2025-07-03 07:49:23.

I am currently running a Synology NAS. What happens when I lose power while the NAS is writing to the disk? Is BTRFS robust enough to recover from power loss while in use?

I’m deciding whether to buy a UPS. Would prefer not to buy one. I will have backups so in the event of data loss, the only annoyance would be to restore from them. I will not be writing to the NAS often, and most of the time it will only be for scheduled maintenance (snapshots, clearing recycle bin, data scrubbing, etc.). I don’t mind losing the written file since most of the writes will be copying from SD cards or exporting from RAW files

Edit: I’m using SHR with 1 drive redundancy

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/QUAKE on 2025-07-03 06:06:56.

It seems USB enclosures are unreliable. I use a 3.5" hotswap bay similar to: https://www.amazon.com/ORICO-1106SS-Trayless-Internal-adapter/dp/B0093FINMU

But its impossible to find a modern case with 3.5" bay today and this thing sucks for 2.5" drives and im never sure a drive is actually connected because i can't see it.

How do I connect an hdd to my pc on the outside? is eSata still a thing?

What about somthing like this? https://www.cablesonline.com/1posal7da15p.html https://www.delock.com/produkt/90418/merkmale.html

Why are these only molex, not sata inside, nothing uses 3.3v?

And something like this for one cable?

https://www.amazon.com/DKARDU-22-pin-Extension-Optical-20-inch/dp/B0969BKPSD?xpid=nP2ulAaUNfQdu

or a different route?

long sata cable? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0001Y7UAI

What about power?

sas to sata + LSI 9200-8e 6Gbps 8-lane external SAS ? https://www.amazon.com/CableCreation-SFF-8088-Female-Controller-Backplane/dp/B013G4EX9K/

https://www.ebay.com/itm/163534822734?epid=28034148027hash%3Ditem26136f5d4e%3Ag%3A5sEAAOSwdwlcX2E3

Please advise

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Broad_Sheepherder593 on 2025-07-03 05:14:33.

Hi,

I work in a corporate environment with the usual implemented security controls on our laptops - 2fa, sso, disabled admin account and usb. etc.

By habit, i usually take a backup of my work files to my personal account but IT informed us they monitor all the emails we send and check if we send to our personal accounts.

I discovered that our network does not restrict access to synology quick connect via the browser. If i do backup there manually via upload, any chance IT can see the files i upload?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/friendlylobotomist on 2025-07-02 22:15:52.

I can understand why you might hoard some adult video over threat of censorship removing it from the internet, but how much do you really need? The one guy who just posted said he had over 200TB of it. That's like multiple years of adult video. Even 1000 hours sounds insane to me. How could you justify needing that much for yourself or for others?

This kind of content doesn't have much artistic or historical value and negatively affects the minds of many. I'm not trying to sound like some worried Christian mother but I really just don't understand, I would love to hear why you think that saving this content is important.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/RegularVast1045 on 2025-07-02 21:36:14.

I tried Yt dlp and maybe Jdownloader 4kdownloader only aloud 10 videos for a trial. I’m not sure I can code from GitHub using python to download YouTube playlist.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Vipre7 on 2025-07-03 05:01:58.

I was going to just buy a new USB 3.2 Gen 2 flash drive, but to be more reliable, I was thinking an external SSD if they are more reliable? 64GB is plenty but I know the newer drives have a higher minimum capacity.

Curious the best bang for buck. Is 3.2 Gen 2 worth it? Speed is good but not necessary.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/metahades1889_ on 2025-07-03 03:59:03.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/MudAffectionate361 on 2025-07-03 03:00:11.

Had issues opening some of my video files - my multimedia app threw an input/output error, assumed it may just be bad Rclone caching, tilL I got home, and dug deeper - The Affected files were giving me this error.

I just hope this isn't permanent. This represents over a years worth of work......

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/TheRealHarrypm on 2025-07-03 01:52:03.