It's A Digital Disease!

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

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/bduggs97 on 2025-07-04 20:19:47.

Hi everyone, I am a relative newbie to the Networking and storage side of IT. I am trying to upgrade my setup so I can make my Plex server bigger to handle the current media I have plus my friends collection (12 TBs in total. My plan is to buy some 14TB drives and setup a RAID5 setup using Drivepool/Snapraid and I am fairly solid on all of that. However I cannot for the life of me figure out a DAS enclosure that is under $200 and not trash. I was scouring the stores and I found Amazon had the best prices on things however I am still struggling so I have two questions.

1. Do you know of any <$200 External drive enclosures that will last me a bit?
2. If I can't find a DAS solution I have found a NAS case I would be happy with (Jonsbo 8 Bay) however I am unsure if I can use the USB 3.2/3.0 connections it has to function like a DAS because I do not have the time to build a NAS at the moment. Can you use NAS cases for a DAS situation?

Thanks!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/HyperCalcium on 2025-07-04 18:12:16.

I tried searching for this but I must not know the magic words!

On my iphone the native text search of images is automatic, and fast. It's probably selling all of my data (presumably to some company that wants a bunch of serial numbers from old motors?) but that's an issue for future me. I want to find a web-accessible server that can search the text in all of these images, return a preview, and the image. As long as I'm wishcasting, the iphone auto-highlights the text in question in the image so that would be nice.

Like any sane person I have 3 terabytes of scanned documents, receipts, diagrams, books, the usual. I haven't see a PhotoStructure feature (or plugin?) that does what I need. I've been looking at various tesseract gui's but I'm not finding anything that quite fits the bill of the above features, and that the scanning functionality runs *only* locally, for sure, no tricks.

I see that OneNote has some of this but I don't exactly trust Office not to upload all of my images to OneDrive, and I didn't see a web accessible front end.

I'm willing to go through some trouble to make it work and if I absolutely have to code some dang thing I can write it in Golang, so if there are libraries that could help with this I'd love suggestions.

Any help is appreciated, thanks!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/miyyup on 2025-07-04 16:55:05.

Good morning, I'm looking for a storage medium to keep my photos/videos. Is it better to take an external hard drive or an internal SSD that I put in my laptop? Does this change anything? THANKS

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Worldly_Anybody_1718 on 2025-07-04 16:22:47.

I have 5 5tb portable drives full of data. The biggest files are video are around 3 gb. Much of it is duplicate for obvious reasons. I've recently picked up a 20 tb drive from go hard drive. I'm looking for the fastest way to copy all my data to the 20tb. Currently all drives are usb. I could throw together a quick desktop with usb3 and drop the 20tb in it. I could install windowz or a linux distribution. I also have a spare laptop that could be utilized. There's 10 ways to skin a cat. What's your preferred method? Thank you in advance. My ultimate goal is to set up true nass and I'd like to not have to erase my hard drive when I set up the pools. Currently just planning on mirrored drives.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/KindImpression5651 on 2025-07-04 12:29:11.

Some ads, you can find on the channel of the brand. But most of the time, they are not visible to the public. Is the only way to grab them to screenrecord them, or is there some other way to get a download url?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/MolleDjernisJohansso on 2025-07-04 12:26:49.

Need new disks for my home NAS. I am looking at Toshiba MG10 Series MG10ACA20TE 20TB but have not been able to find sure info on whether these are CMR?

I think all the earlier MG models are CMR but what about 10?

Having once been burned by WD REDs, I want to be sure.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Vincent-Ferro on 2025-07-04 11:51:11.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/corpjones on 2025-07-04 11:34:44.

Hi everyone

We have ripped quite a few VHS home videos but due to the codec limitations when ripping, the resulting filesizes are very large, VLC shows the below info:

https://preview.redd.it/7vfcy1cxfuaf1.png?width=372&format=png&auto=webp&s=f24c550c500e58f66454aa81891bd96a5bfddfa7

Is there any way to work out (or any rules of thumb) the optimal re-encoding settings to lose the least quality while making a difference to the filesize? I was thinking H.265 but I can see H.266 is also an option.

Advice appreciated :)

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Quebranta_cielos on 2025-07-04 10:34:33.

Salutations my digital librarians, old hoarder here, im looking to buy some new equipment for my data and i wanted to know which brands or models are the best in terms of durability(and price if possible), my principal option for acquiring them will be amazon and if anyone have any recommendations i will be happy to read it. the size of the hard drives will be from 10tb to 20tb maximum( And one of 1tb), cheers and long life to your storage devices