It's A Digital Disease!

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!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/EnHalvSnes on 2025-07-05 10:36:42.

I plan to replace disks in my current home NAS which uses mdadm RAID1 + LUKS.

I am looking at MG10 disks. Specifically MG10ACA20TA or MG10ACA20TE. Both are CMR. The A one has 4k native sectors. The E one has 512b emulated sectores.

I am not sure what difference this makes in 2025? I suppose everything should be able to use 4k now so 4k native should be fine. However, I am not sure if 512 would cause any noticeable overhead...

Part of me wants to just go with the 4K. But MG10ACA20TA is not in stock anywhere local. MG10ACA20TE is in stock everywhere.

Price is approx. the same.

Do you see any drawbacks from one vs the other?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/AshesTheCrow on 2025-07-05 09:22:55.

Hello, I ask myself a lot of questions concerning media storage, I never used a NAS or DAS.

I have like 6-8 tb of videos atm on NVME inside my PC and on an external hard drive I barely use.

I originally wanted to put some hard drives in my pc but it was too loud and I couldn’t manage to put the disk at sleep, dunno why (Seagate barracuda).

I never used plex or anything, only my PC. I have both PC in network together so I can watch movies stocked on my main PC with my laptop.

I originally thought about getting a NAS in raid 1 but it’s expensive and I’m worried about the nose and the risk always running for nothing. So I thought maybe a DAS in raid 1 with disk out asleep like 10 min after usage, I thought about the Orico 2Big with 2 12tb Seagate Ironwolf for less noise and the possibility to put them asleep.

What do you think about that ? Do I really need a Raid 1 ? Should I just get another NVME ? I’m kinda lost here…

Than you in advance.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Dilum2444 on 2025-07-05 07:53:47.

Over the past years, I've accumulated a large archive of images I've taken while visiting exhibitions and museums (over 70gb, more than 12.500 pictures).

Sometimes, I'm looking for images of shows that I couldn't visit, but it's sometimes hard to come by, especially outside of catalogues (or when one isn't made).

To help people out in my situation, I want to share my archive on a free hosting website. So far, I've found Internet Archive to be the best at doing so, but they don't offer a gallery view per exhibition, so it's a bit hard to navigate.

Anyone have any better ideas?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/sofia_tg on 2025-07-05 06:51:38.

I am looking to build my first NAS.

Any pros and cons for the above drives? Shop says Toshiba are Bulk version (MN10ADA600S)

Seagate in a email they said they are retail but the price is more in line with oem.

I usually use WD Mech drives and had mixed experiences with Seagate and their cust service.

Any info/opinion will be appreciated.

Setup will probably consists of 3 drives (2+1). I have not decided about raid or NAS OS.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/InfitialisExspiravit on 2025-07-05 03:34:48.

Hello everyone.

I'm pretty blind in terms of data transfer so I would appreciate a way out. So my phone now barely had any storage since I hoard many pictures for years to the point it reaches 120k+ files. I don't have access to any desktop at the moment as my laptop is broken, do you think it's recommended to get an SD Card to move these files? And if yes should I get the one with plenty space or decent transfer speed?

Thank you very much in advance.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/rafteran on 2025-07-05 03:21:17.

I am looking to upgrade to an Intel N series CPU, but can't find a motherboard that supports a combination of 16 drives. I am running UnRaid with a LSI SAS2008. I could consolidate a bit and drop it down a few drives if necessary, or do I just need to upgrade to an i series processor? Currently have AMD and could stick with it, but looking for something low power and can do transcoding.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/thevideogameraptor on 2025-07-05 02:03:44.

My 4TB Seagate drive (Seagate Barracuda 2.5 5400 model, one of the Playstation branded ones) is supposedly dying, and I've had it for just over a year, which feels like it's way too soon for it to die. My previous drive lasted for three or four years.

I've tried running disk health utilities and aren't sure what to do. I use a Mac, and Apple's own disk health utilities say it can't be repaired and needs to be replaced (though I can still open and copy files from it). I ran another disk health checkup from DriveDx, and it said that my drive is in perfect health.

I'll probably buy another drive anyway, but I'm not quite sure which checkup is correct.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Kevalemig on 2025-07-05 00:42:00.

Original Title: Got a new Mini PC, swapped out the NVME drive so I could experiment with different OS's. I wanted to keep the original NVME that came with Windows 11 on it. Is there a Windows app that can make an image of this NVME with an untouched Win11 so I can re-image later and setup Windows if I wanted?

I'm planning to experiment with creating my own NAS on the mini PC, then try other things like a dedicated VPN box.

I didn't want to lose the Windows 11 setup that came preinstalled on the NVME so I swapped out the drive. I currently have that drive in an external case with USB C so I can connect it to my Windows computer. Is there an app that I can use in Windows 11 that could make an image of the drive that I could restore later if I wanted to use the Mini PC with Windows 11, the way it was shipped?

The app I looked at, Clonezilla, needs to be installed on a USB and you need to boot the PC from it. Is there an app that can run in Windows 11, where I could just select the external NVME drive and have it save a bootable image to a drive on my computer?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/And56JamesofJam on 2025-07-05 00:38:38.

https://preservetube.com/

this website preserve youtube videos by creating a snapshot that will always be available even if the original video disappears or is taken down. (i created this post again due to title misspelling)

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/cryptospartan on 2025-07-05 00:17:19.

Hey everyone. My original setup was 2 separate zpools:

• Slow Data: 3x 4TB HDDs in raidz1
• Fast Data: 2x 500GB SSDs mirrored

I've now greatly expanded my capacity for HDDs and created a zpool for backups:

• Primary data: 8x 4TB HDDs in raidz2
• Backup data: 3x 14TB HDDs in raidz1

I also found a few extra SSDs I had lying around, this is now all of the SSDs that I have:

• 3x 500GB
• 1x 1TB

I'm tying to decide the best way to split my SSDs to get the best use out of them. While I know it's not the most ideal setup, the budget has been stretched thin and this is what I've got. Here's what I'm thinking:

• Create a special vdev for metadata for my primary data pool with all 4 SSDs in raidz2
• Create a "Fast Data" zpool like I had before
• split the 1TB SSD in half, create 1 vdev with 3x 500GB raidz1 and create another 500GB mirror. Could use 2 vdevs for "Fast Data" or 1 each for special vdev and "Fast Data" separately

Anyone have a good idea of the best use of my SSDs? ideally I don't want the extra 500GB of the 1TB to sit unused, but i'm able to be convinced if there's a solid reason/use-case.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Broad_Sheepherder593 on 2025-07-04 22:59:37.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ScarletIceRyu on 2025-07-04 21:45:09.

I'm looking to get more storage for my games as I currently have a 500 gig SSD and a very old standard harddrive at 297 GB. I'm looking at Toshiba X300 drives.

They have performance desktop and professional workstation versions that seem basically identical.

The performance desktop ones say they are better for gaming but the speed rpm and cache are the same.

The only difference I'm actually seeing is that the professional workstation ones have a much higher longer time until they are expected to start seeing any failure so I don't know why I wouldn't just want that one instead as the speed seems the same but it should last longer.

So can anyone tell me if I'm missing anything with this or give some recommendations? I always hate looking for PC stuff because there's always some weird niche piece of info that makes your purchase seem stupid after you find out like I had no idea what CMR or NAS was until 5 minutes ago. Like I saw some good NAS stuff but it seems like it doesn't fit standard computer set ups.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/0ldstrawberry555 on 2025-07-04 21:02:20.

Hello. Drive died, lost a ton of things... Learned my lesson.

Now I want to buy another drive, this time I'm buy two, so if one dies, I have the other.

What are your budget recommendations for a cheap, long-term storage solution?

I'm lost since all these options are presented to me:

• Refurbished external drive
• NVMe with enclosure
• Budget RAID solution too maybe?

Currently, from what I've found: Is $38 good for a PNY SDD with 500GB?

Full details: (PNY CS1030 500GB M.2 NVMe PCIe Gen3 x4 SSD - M280CS1030-500-RB)

Thanks