It's A Digital Disease!

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.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/surelyunsure_ on 2025-07-07 14:38:27.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/xyz941823 on 2025-07-07 04:10:30.

When collecting large amounts of data, I found that managing proxies can get expensive and complicated. Recently, I tried evomi.com, which offers rotating residential proxies with no subscriptions and a straightforward pay as you go pricing of $0.49 per GB.

The proxies rotate automatically and come from real devices, which helped me avoid blocks during scraping. The dashboard is pretty minimal but gets the job done. It might be a good option if you’re looking for a flexible and cost-effective way to manage IPs for big data projects.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Astranauts on 2025-07-07 04:03:05.

I love MyRetroTVs (https://80s.myretrotvs.com/). I specially put these videos before I go to sleep.

Someone should download and store all of them, there's very valuable content there too.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/rangoMangoTangoNamo on 2025-07-07 03:43:56.

Seems like plex keeps adding more and more feees. I was trying to share my plex movie library with my friends but apparently plex is trying to make them pay a subscription to access my content.

Does anyone have any recommendations how to get around this? Or do you recommend something like jellyfin?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/matthew_levi12 on 2025-07-07 03:36:48.

Disclaimer: I'm a newbie to the subject. Trying to learn from the experts.

Let's say I have a server running ecommerce with millions of customer's sensitive data, hosted somewhere else far away from me. It's fully disk-encrypted with LUKS. So, nobody can see the files decrypted if they stole the disk.

But, I have heard that once the server is unlocked with LUKS passphrase, the key resides in RAM. Somebody with physical access to the server could just dump RAM and extract LUKS keys.

How could I protect my server from having LUKS keys stolen from RAM as well? Like a cold boot attack, for example?

Thank you so much for your help!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Kyxstrez on 2025-07-07 03:28:54.

I need to replace these 2 drives and I'm currently considering a few options:

• WD Elements 22TB (400€)
• Seagate Exos 24TB (400€)
• Seagate Expansion 22TB (350€)
• Toshiba MG10AFA22TE 22TB (350€)

The drive will be placed on my main desktop rig next to my desk, so it needs to be quiet.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/King-of-Plebss on 2025-07-07 02:33:26.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ZanyDroid on 2025-07-07 01:45:59.

Looking for a DAS array that exposes LUNs over Thunderbolt. This is exploratory, looking for budget <$1000.

LUN would abstract a device that has mirrored SSD write cache over some "parity" (IE not mirrored) coded HDD devices underneath.

The reason for this is that I want to move from Storage Spaces to something better, but still retain it as a local device from the POV of Backblaze Personal.

I also theorycrafted whether iSCSI would work, but have seen mixed signals about whether this works and how wise it is. But Thunderbolt is officially on the Backblaze supported list.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/DieingFetus on 2025-07-07 01:18:47.

I enjoy tinkering with projects using Debian. I get a lot of my stuff with git clone commands. I had my first instance of something not being available anymore and now I want to save everything locally now.

What would be a good way to add my files in my debian projects with terminal that would work simular to git clone?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/DaWizardOfThem on 2025-07-07 01:09:00.

This video was only released a couple weeks ago but they have taken it down. Specifically, I believe it was around June 20th, 2025. There was someone who re uploaded it but it was also taken down because Apple filed a DMCA complaint, but did anyone archive it? I thought it was a pretty good video.

What I’ve tried:

I’ve looked for the video on the way back machine by seeing if there were snapshots of it with the reuploaded video’s url but there were none with the video backed up. I couldn’t find the original Apple url so I didn’t check the snapshots on their channel. I’ve also looked far and wide on the internet archive but didn’t have any luck either.

The biggest fragment of this video I found is on tiktok which is only 2 minutes of the total 7 minutes. Here’s the link: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8hjRhap/

Does anyone have the video?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/TheUnknownOne315 on 2025-07-06 23:48:23.

Hey everyone,

I'm looking for an app or viewer to manage a personal archive of images, games, and other media — something more visual and organized than a regular file browser.

Ideally:

• For images (with folders like artist/ and metadata), something inspired by Pixiv: a smooth gallery feel, where you can browse creators and their works easily.
• For games/software, something that feels more like GOG, with cover art, description, and versions shown according to the files I provide.

It doesn’t have to support everything perfectly, but do you know any app that goes in this direction?

Thanks in advance!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/maxstenta1 on 2025-07-06 22:50:12.

I’m trying to automatically extract data (video/scene list) from a site that loads content dynamically via JavaScript. After saving the HTML page rendered with Selenium, I look in the code or API calls for the JSON that contains the real data, because often they are not directly in the HTML but are loaded by separate API requests. The aim is to identify and replicate these API calls in order to download complete data programmatically.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Vegetable_One8614 on 2025-07-06 20:14:54.

Hi sorry to bother you. I'm desperately trying to find a way to download content from Divicast (i already searched on Reddit with no results) and I'm going insane. Do you guys know any method?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/One-End1795 on 2025-07-06 19:52:58.

I am looking for NAS drives, and I am open to shucking. This seems to be a decent list, but are there better prime day deals yet?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Chumley_1953 on 2025-07-06 19:39:00.

I am assisting a nonprofit that is undergoing a hostile takeover by new board members. They have had an active Facebook page with thousands of followers. I am trying to help the founder, who still has administrator access, archive the pages and followers. Any ideas?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/jamiecruickshank on 2025-07-06 19:28:12.

Hey all,

Hoping someone here might be able to help shed some light on an LTO-7 drive issue I’ve hit. I’ve got an HP LTO-7 tape drive that was working perfectly a couple months ago—I backed up my whole NAS, no issues at all. After that, I put the enclosure in a cupboard for a bit of a break.

Took it out this week to run another backup and… nothing. It won’t start properly and gives me a POST error. Plugged it into my Windows machine and ran the HP diagnostics, and it’s coming up with an EC5 error. Tape head life still shows 99% remaining in HP Library & Tape Tools, so I don’t think the heads are worn out.

Looking through the logs, the main things that keep popping up are:

• RAS_FSC_MR_OPEN_HEAD_READERS_TEST
• LOD_FSC_SRV_NOT_DETECT_LANDMARK_ERROR
• RAS_FSC_OPEN_RDR_TEST_FAIL

For context, I’m an electronics engineer, so I’m fine with getting my hands dirty if it comes to component-level repair or replacing a part—I just don’t have a clue what these cryptic error messages are actually pointing to. Is there a known fix, or am I looking at a dead drive?

Would really appreciate any pointers, troubleshooting steps, or even service manuals if anyone has them. Thanks!

https://preview.redd.it/y4xbn3iidabf1.png?width=1159&format=png&auto=webp&s=8e864ff928fb560a0f927a9617f00e130791b1b7

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/daxliniere on 2025-07-06 17:44:50.

I would like to ditch Google and move all of my media in Google Files to my own storage servers.

I have used Takeout to to generate a list of 78 .ZIP files each 4Gb in size, but I can't work out how to 1) translate this into a table of direct links and 2) how to download at commandline, considering there is no ability to load a website for Google account authentication.

Anyone got any cool solutions here? Or another way to get all the media? I tried rclone, but no matter what I did (including setting up OAuth test user), I couldn't get it to download a single thing.

Thanks for reading this far. :)

All the best,

Dax.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/TheCuriousBread on 2025-07-06 18:18:36.

I've got a spare laptop or two that's just sitting there doing nothing right now so I decided to spin them up and do some seeding for Anna's Archive.

Well. I've downloaded the magnet links and they are on my computer now, 0 uploads for the week.

What....what even is the point of this exercise?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/rrredditor on 2025-07-06 17:18:43.

I need a PCIe card that will handle 4-8 SATA drives for use in a full tower case. I'm not seeing very many choices anymore. I have a cheapy 4 port card that only seems to work on 2 of the ports and doesn't secure the SATA cables very well.

I'd like something better. I suppose SAS cards are the next step, especially if I want 8 ports. I have the PCIe slot available (8X).

This is for local storage that is backed up on a NAS. I currently have 5 hard drives and two DVD drives and I'd like room to grow.

Any recommendations? I'd like to stay below $150 if possible. I know that makes it more difficult. Used?

I haven't had to buy anything like this for over 10 years so I'm a bit in the dark these days. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/impracticaldogg on 2025-07-06 14:26:21.

TLDR: I want to avoid data corruption on my small server by occasionally writing archived data from one disk across to another. From lurking on this forum this seems to be a simple way to avoid the quiet corruption of data that can happen if you simply leave it there and don't access it for years.

I'm running Ubuntu Server and just writing a cron script to activate rsync and copy data across every three months seems like an adequate way to do this. I'm thinking of keeping three copies of everything, and overwriting the oldest copy when I run out of space.

Does this sound reasonable? I'm not terribly technical and just don't get round to making multiple backups every month.

Detail: I have an old Microserver with a range of hard drives (512GB to 1TB) that ended up being surplus over time. About 12GB of drive space altogether, with 8GB being two 4GB external USB drives. This is about twice as much capacity as I need at the moment.

In addition I have about 4GB of "loose" external HDDs for cold storage.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/richiethestick on 2025-07-06 14:24:22.

Just counted—I've got around 131 movies stashed away, most clocking in at about 10 GB each. That’s well over a terabyte of cinematic intentions that somehow never make it off the drive and onto the screen. It’s not like I don’t want to watch them. I just… don’t.

Even with everything neatly sorted in Plex, I’ll spend more time browsing than actually watching anything. Sometimes I try to spice it up with a random picker, but that usually ends with me questioning my own taste in downloads.

To make things worse, I keep defaulting to streaming on Netflix instead. Something about knowing the downloaded stuff is “always there” makes it feel less urgent. Meanwhile, Netflix keeps throwing autoplay at me and suddenly I’m three episodes deep into something I didn’t even plan to watch. The hoard just keeps growing.

Honestly, I think I’ve started collecting more for the thrill of the hunt than for the viewing itself. It’s weirdly satisfying seeing the folders grow—even if my watchlist guilt grows along with it.

Anyone else living in quiet denial with a beautifully curated backlog you barely touch? Or do some of you actually make a dent in yours? Teach me your ways.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/theoldgaming on 2025-07-06 12:36:10.

Alright so let me start this by saying that where-ever i look i see that MicroSDs are not reliable at all or less reliable than any other storage media, which im pretty sure is true.

I've done a lot of research on the topic and do know about the NAND technologies being different (SLC/MLC back in ~2012 to TLC and QLC in 2024) and the differences of reliability of those, differences in Error Correction (BCH, LPDC), controllers, channels etc.

But all i managed to get is theoretical or manufacturer stated data or TBW's which tell me only the theoretical reliability not the practical one, i also don't have the time to test those MicroSDs (Cause doing genuine testing for long term reliability would logically take years)

On the flip side i had older MicroSDs survive over a decade with only minor corruption and hence my questions:

How reliable long-term are modern, High end high capacity MicroSD's (like the Samsung Pro Ultimate, Sandisk Extreme Pro or Sandisk Max Endurance)?

How long do these cards last practically (data retention) before the data corrupts?

Huge thanks to any and all answers, if i got something wrong also huge thanks for any and all corrections

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Echo8620 on 2025-07-06 12:25:59.