It's A Digital Disease!

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.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/HonestiSwear on 2025-07-06 10:00:52.

Hi there

A previous partner of mine has received a message from an Instagram burner account, attempting a smear campaign against me.

I’m interested in finding out some more information about this account. Currently I only have the account names.

Iv tried the way back machine and other archive websites, but they don’t seem to work very well.

Any recommendations of how best to move forward would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/armavirvmqvecano on 2025-07-06 09:50:22.

Hello, hopefully this is the right place to ask this question, and I'm sorry if I phrase it poorly, I'm not entirely familiar with the correct terminology for this stuff.

I am trying to save a dreamwidth page to the wayback machine, however this page has a 'preliminary' page (not sure the correct term for this) that says "disgression advised", and on which you have to click "yes I want to view this content" in order to see the content of the page proper. The problem is that this is the page that shows up on the wayback machine when you try to save the link, and when you try to click the "yes I want to view this content" button there (in the way back machine), it gives you an error because it has not saved beyond this point when it saved the URL (as far as I can tell?).

I have read threads for similar issues discussing Ao3's "I agree to see adult content" button, but in that case clicking the "accept" button seems to modify the URL (?) & so can be archived separately, whereas that doesn't seem to be the case here as far as I can tell.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Expensive-Award1965 on 2025-07-06 09:49:41.

as far as i can tell i'll have to capture the whole thing from screen grab.

i usually use video downloadhelper on firefox but it's not working. i have a ticket i just want to watch it later. help!

looks like they're using theoplayer on backtothebeginning.com from the element classes but can't find any workarounds

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/TipmanTips on 2025-07-06 09:35:05.

I want to archive all my old concert footage and get them on a hard drive rather then have dvds everywhere. Quite a few of them are scratched and my laptop just isn’t able to rip them.

Any recommendations as I’m new to this? Thankyou

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Slowmadism on 2025-07-06 09:27:52.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Obvious_Archer2628 on 2025-07-06 09:20:11.

Guys i have been searching for free paid courses on telegram and found and an user providing the huge content , for proof he allowed me to join his private channel where all the huge content was there valid but then he asked for payment of it. so i wanted any technique or idea that would give me accesss or stored the all content before he remove me from the private channel within 10 min also it is not possible to me download the whole content within 10 minutes please help guys!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Irinescence on 2025-07-06 03:39:50.

Hi, I'm not really a data hoarder but I thought you all might know more about HDDs than the average bear.

I bought a 6tb refurb helium 7200 rpm drive from goharddrive to put in my new pc, just to have some cheap secondary storage (main is a 2tb m.2 ssd partitioned into .3/1.6). I was thinking I'd only use the spinny drive rarely to keep the ssd from filling up or if I downloaded a car or whatever. And that I'd set it to power down after 5 minutes and I'd rarely hear it.

But although it's not loud I hear it always. I looked in process monitor and although there's nothing on the drive yet, perfmon.exe and powershell.exe are checking it constantly. (maybe svchost.exe and chrome.exe and nvidia overlay too, but I don't understand what process monitor is telling me). I got windows defender to leave it alone.

I can't figure out how to tell windows to chill out about my E drive and let it go to sleep. The best plan I have to make my pc silent again is to leave the hdd in the bay but unplug it from my power supply unless I'm actually needing it. or returning it or ignoring it. I don't like any of those options. Why bother giving me the power option after x minutes of unuse if windows is going to "use" it every second anyways?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/pastelmoonart on 2025-07-05 22:40:12.

I’m wondering if anyone can help with some capture issues.

I live in the UK, where getting hold of a Japanese or North American VCR is really difficult. Instead, we mostly have PAL/NTSC players. The VCR I’m using is an AIWA FX7700, and it’s actually a really solid machine - NTSC tapes look fantastic, and the manual says it supports “true” NTSC playback.

I’m also using a Panasonic DMR-ES10 as a passthrough device, along with a Diamond VC500 capture card.

When I capture PAL tapes in VirtualDub2, everything looks great. Honestly, I’m really happy with this setup - but when I try recording NTSC tapes (after switching the DMR-ES10 to NTSC, of course), I’m getting this:

VCR to DMR to Capture Card

black and white when using video (composite), and chroma issues with S-Video or SCART. There are no frame rate issues (which are easy to spot in animation), and interlacing is just as sharp as with my PAL captures but the colour issues just won’t go away. Even when capturing directly from the VCR without the DMR, I get the same results.

I’ve captured many LaserDiscs from my Pioneer player (which also supports PAL/NTSC playback), connected to the DMR-ES10, and I don’t have any issues there. The picture and frame rate are perfect.

I feel like I’ve tried everything: different cables (SCART, S-Video, composite), tweaking VirtualDub2 settings, using OBS, EzGrabber, PowerDirector (just to see if it looked any different) - even connecting directly to my CRT and trying to record on DVD with the DMR-ES10. I also tried a few cheap AliExpress capture cards - one of them actually worked in colour, but the quality was something else...

aliexpress capture

Is this happening because my VCR is actually PAL60 and not true NTSC, and the capture card and DMR just can’t handle it? But then, why doesn’t my LaserDisc player (also PAL/NTSC) have the same issues? I just want to understand why this is only happening with VHS tapes. Ideally I’d like to buy just one thing that will address the issue (a different capture card? An American NTSC VCR? Something else?).

When I use a SCART to HDMI converter and plug it into my HDTV, the picture looks perfect. But when I connect that to an HDMI capture card, it just doesn’t work. Not sure if that’s because I’m using a cheap one from Amazon or what, but the picture was completely black. Besides, I’d prefer to get a proper capture from the DMR - not an upscaled HDMI signal.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Ok_Exchange_9646 on 2025-07-05 22:30:51.

I'm logged into my susbribed account. I want to download all the videos for offline watching. Is this possible? Tried youtube-dl, to no avail. As I said, I'm subscribed and paying for the streaming service.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/kearkan on 2025-07-05 21:50:34.

I have a bunch of 2tb drives that are connect to an LSA HBA passed through to an OMV VM on proxmox in an old HP elite desk 800 G3. My issue is powering them.

Currently I have a SATA extender going from one of the SATA power cables to 2 of the drives outside the case and the other 2 are powered by the other built in sata power.

I don't really want to continue doing this as I believe it's risky and doesn't allow me to fill the HBA. I don't really want to get a new case (yet) as this would mean building a whole new machine since the HP mainboard is one of the ones with proprietary mounting etc. but I also can't swap out the PSU as it's one of the narrow ones custom made to fit the case.

So I've landed on getting an ATX power supply and jumping the pins to power it on.

My question is what particular features should I be looking out for? Is all I really need just a modular PSU with as many sata connectors as possible? I figure 500-600watts should basically be overkill for my use case (at max I'm looking at 8 drives, either WD reds or HGST ultrastar).

Any guidance is appreciated, thanks.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/joetaxpayer on 2025-07-05 21:05:35.

Is it me or does it seem that there are more new companies offering NAS in the last 6 months than ever before? As if we’ve gone from about 4-6 to over a dozen over night. None are at a price point that stands out, just competing on features. I guess time will tell.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/brewsqueues on 2025-07-05 20:38:46.

I'm starting to digitize personal paper files (receipts, forms, medical, taxes), plus a few photos and sketches.

Scanner - r40 Failure

I tried the Canon R40, but a driver issue on newer macOS versions prevents scanning long receipts, which is a deal-breaker for me.

I don't scan often (probably monthly) and want something compact but reliable.

Now considering a Brother ADS-1800W (their printers have always been drama-free for me) or a Scansnap iX1300 (or other suggestions in that price range).

Document Management System

I'm leaning toward DEVONthink after also looking at paperless-ngx and Keep It, but I'm open to other suggestions.

I'm unsure where to store the DEVONthink database; their forums advise against using thumb drives or cloud storage, leaving my Mac Mini SSD as the main option (which seems like it would have the same shortfalls as an external SSD?)

I want to avoid filling up the Mac Mini and would prefer a setup with local backup and automated cloud backup (S3/Glacier or similar).

Thanks!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/murrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrb on 2025-07-05 18:16:14.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/hlloyge on 2025-07-05 17:44:46.

Greetings, fellow DataHoarders.

If you're like me, you probably have a NAS device holding your dana which you hoard with utmost love and is curated to your own pleasure. But, how do you download your data? Well, there are various options, for me it's mostly torrent and soulseek, with a dash of pure http(s) download.

Since that can be a few days or weeks job, depending on size and speed, I had to do it on machine which is most of the time online, and doesn't burn electric power like it's a heater.

I tried it on NAS, and it's awful - disks are loud, and frankly, NAS job is to securely hold my data, not reading/writing all the time.

I had old J1900 Asrock motherboard laying around without purpose. I've acqured 8 GB of RAM and an old SSD disk, 256 GB. Also, found 1 TB 2.5" disk in my work drawer, tested to be good. So, what's next, LINUX! And I've tried few distros, apps were there, but also a problem, no proper remote desktop app. All of them work but I have to log in first. Since it's a headless box, that is out of the question. Next, server versions of Linux. Got torrent client working, but slskd was a shit show - you have to run it through docker, and for me it just didn't work properly. Mind you, I am not Linux noob, but something is messed up with slskd in docker. I get it that people make it work, but I don't have that much enthusiasm. Probably PBKAC.

So, logical answer, Windows. Ah, crap. Bloated piece of crap, will do everything but the job it's supposed to do. Searching for options, I remembered that there is a version of Windows made for just this type of job: LTSC IoT. And this little computer is going to be IoT device, so to speak, doing three jobs and nothing else. There is Windows 10 and Windows 11 version, and Windows 10 version is supported until 2031, I think, if I didn't misread. So, I went to Massgrave store, got my installer ISO on USB, installed it, let it update, and in two hours time I had fully working Little Downloader Machine to which I can remote desktop to check GUI apps, without any Store apps and Some Other Things I Did Not Care About. I love the OS, it's simple, clean, and lower memory footprint.

Apps I have: Nicotine+, qBittorrent, FileZilla server for accessing the torrent watch folder from outside, in case I have to put something to download remotely. Nicotine, I check once a day for messages, qBit is controlled from main computer with Electorrent app, ftp server is, well, ftp server. There will be, probably, some other apps when the need arises, and the download disk is easily exchanged when it dies. At one time I'll make image of system disk for easy restoration, but considering how easy is to setup this whole thing, I probably won't bother.

Whole system pulls around 40 W, less when idle. And the whole point of this post is that Linux isn't always answer to a problem :) always use what's easier for you to manage.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/PositiveEnergyMatter on 2025-07-05 16:49:52.

Hey I created a new app that should make it easy to manage, search, play, etc your video files for MacOS. its great for managing your video files, probably even better for you guys who want to manage your p0rn collections, however does anyone have any suggestions on where I could download a pack of video files I can use to demo it. I would prefer not to use p0rn in the videos. Anyone have any suggestions?

Also anyone who wants to try it out, or wants the source, or even wants to give suggestions feel free to comment as well!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Lexinonymous on 2025-07-05 16:42:05.

I'm beginning to overflow the amount of disk space I have available on my local drive, and have been considering DAS solutions for storing data that I'd like to hold onto, but never access from more than one place at a time. I already pay for Backblaze, so I'm considering a JBOD or DrivePool setup.

However, it is not at all clear to me how to tell a quality DAS solution from a bad one. The unit that I keep gravitating towards is the TerraMaster D4-320, mainly on the strength of recommendations of this subreddit and this video which describes the differences between a SATA splitter and using a USB hub, but this sort of information is surprisingly difficult to source on other devices. There are other units from lots of other brands - QNAP, Yottamaster, Cenmate, Syba, Mediasonic, ORICO, SABRENT - some cheaper, some more expensive, but the reviews are all over the place.

So....which way is up? What are my actual options for four-bay 3.5 drive enclosures, and how can I tell a good one from a bad one?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Open_Counter7881 on 2025-07-05 06:00:24.

Hi,

I use a NAS for FTP sharing with collaborators. I am looking at expending and trying to the best upload/download rates. I am keen to keep a NAS for easy management. Can I get faster upload/download with a 10 Gbe NAS? Does it help to get a NAS with a bunch of SSDs in addition to the array? For info, I can get fiber to the node and 100 Mbps download, 40 Mbps upload. I think I am currently at the level below, 50 Mbps.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/AMysteriousDiscovery on 2025-07-05 13:46:58.

Hello! This is my first post, so apologies if I’ve missed any important details.

I’m currently using a Beelink SER8 Mini PC running Arch Linux (my preferred distro) as my NAS. Right now, I have five external 1TB drives connected via two USB-C hubs. While this setup technically works, it's not very power efficient — the hubs often struggle to provide enough power, and overall it’s become a bit of a mess to manage.

I briefly considered upgrading to a wall-powered USB-C hub to keep the current drives, but at this point, I’d rather just increase the overall storage capacity and clean up the setup.

What I’m looking at now is the ORICO 5-Bay Daisy Chain Hard Drive Enclosure. These enclosures support daisy chaining, so I could potentially connect up to three of them for a total of 15 bays. With 22TB drives, that would give me up to 330TB of storage, all still connected to the same Mini PC.

The NAS is running a number of Docker containers, including Jellyfin, FreshRSS, PhotoPrism, Syncthing, Linkwarden, Kavita, and Yamtrack.

My main question is about drive noise. I’m fairly sensitive to sound, so I’m trying to find the quietest 22TB hard drives that would work well in this kind of enclosure. I’ve read that it’s best to use the same model across all bays for reliability, so I’m planning to stick with a single model once I decide.

Any recommendations or advice would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance!