It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Mysterious-Dark9595 on 2025-07-04 09:19:03.

Please, suggest me. I saw every reddit review that USB drives have lowest lifespan than any other storage devices. My pc almost full I need cut some 300GB from my pc. I can’t lose my 300GB data and always need, at least 400GB free storage for MacBook and iPhone. I will transfer files from pc, MacBook and iPhone maybe not that huge amount but frequently when I am not near to my pc. And most chances are I would play game on it with my pc or iPhone.

My priorities are- 1/ Better lifespan (I won’t have any backup) 2/ Speed (Direct gaming) 3/ Durability (I often wet in rain and during tour)

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Crazy-Red-Fox on 2025-07-04 08:46:43.

In the last couple of weeks, Adventure Gamers—a beloved game site dedicated to point-and-click adventure gaming since 1998—has become a cruel pastiche of its former self. The site, primarily run by volunteers and enthusiasts, has fought for the much-maligned adventure gaming genre through thick and thin for almost three decades, but visit today and you’ll find more “reviews” of gambling sites and slot machine games than the latest adventure releases. And for an extra kick in the shins, the new owners wiped twenty years of forum posts without warning. How did any of this happen?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/piangero on 2025-07-04 08:07:15.

So I have an old HDD, a really old. It's split in two partitions, where one is around 1.41 GB and the other one is a lot smaller, somewhere around uh 56 MB or something? I completely forget at the moment, but it's small.

This was a personal PC I used myself, I think it ran win98 or something. I used it up until around 2000 or 2001 I believe.

I dont know if I "cleansed" it of everything before I stored it away or not, because literally anything it shows me on both partitions are the same files from My Documents (which were only my documents, but I feel like at some point this disc was sectioned between me and my dad.) He could very well have wiped his partition clean before giving it to me, and that's all fine. But from what I remember, we didn't section it the way we'd do from WinXP with different users. I just remember he made a folder called [my names folder] and told me to dump anything in there, so our crud wouldn't get crossed. I remember being able to like sift through his files if I wanted to. I had no reason to wipe this harddrive, nor would I have the know-how at like 12 years old, so most likely I had just put it away when we dismantled the PC.

Anyway, that was a tangent. I am wondering, is there an easy way to like, see exactly what is on this disc? Or to see if there is an OS that will run somehow? (without putting it in a PC etc, that is not possible for me)

When I tally up the file numbers, it makes sense compared to what is on vs what is used in size, but I'm struggling to understand how I could have erased even the OS and all? It doesn't make any sense.

When I plug it in thru a sata-to-usb, it acts as if it's just a little memory card, ya know? There's no Windows folder or anything, which I believe is there on other/newer discs I have.

Is there a way to run it thru sata-to-usb but "trick" it to boot like a PC somehow? Or is there any other trick to get it to show me everything? (If there is anything more to show of course...) Maybe thru Linux?

Sorry if this post doesn't make any sense, lmao I'm trying t explain something I barely remember or understand.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/nicolaselhani on 2025-07-04 07:22:29.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/jlarimore on 2025-07-04 06:15:35.

I have an old machine i built in 2016 that I am currently setting up as a NAS to live remotely at a family cabin. It'll essentially run some home assistant automation and collect surveillance video. I've been a big proponent of nvme drives and i dont think i have bought a new magnetic disk since somewhere around 2012. I was thinking about throwing a huge 24TB one in this machine to collect all the video. But, i got a bit gunshy as I saw in the reviews that the power standard for modern sata disks has changed a bit and some folks are having trouble getting modern disks to spin up using older sata power cables. My decade old power supply cables might not drive a modern sata HDD? This machine has a corsair cs650m in it. Is that going to work? Would i need a new cable? New power supply? Seems insane to change the function of an existing power cable standard.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Glittering-Two2122 on 2025-07-04 05:07:32.

Hello all, please forgive me if this is not the correct place but I literally do not know who else to ask.

I finally found a live recording of an old song from 2008 and managed to download the video. I had almost considered asking the lostmedia sub for help. Its apparently heavily copyrighted as I tried to upload to YouTube unlisted just for me and it wouldn't even let me, so finding it anywhere was extremely hard.

Long story short, is there anywhere I can send the file for permanent archiving and make it available for the public if possible? Or am I best off just keeping it for myself? Id hate for it to become lost media just because of copyright.

If there is a sub better geared towards this please point me in that direction.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/MaybeNotTooDay on 2025-07-04 03:32:22.

I'm looking to build a new desktop PC and I'm not sure if I'm going to install an optical drive in it. It seems kind of pointless because even though I have tons of CD's and DVD's that I burned over the years way back, I can't remember needing to read one in probably 5 years. The important stuff that's on them has long been ripped to mkv's/iso/etc and backed up to my janky 42TB "NAS" (that I definitely need to upgrade but that's a project for later).

Still, it would be nice to have access to them as they are still a last resort backup of some my data.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/torrphilla on 2025-07-04 03:08:02.

Hi everyone, I just have a quick question on how to manage my screen recordings from my MacBook on a hard drive. I've been using a 1TB HDD from Toshiba, but I was planning to switch to an SSD from Samsung because SSD transfers are faster, and the speed of my file transfers is very important to me. I also plan on storing personal photos and videos from iCloud on my hard drive as well, and maybe even as a Time Machine backup for my Mac.

I know that's a whole lot, which is probably why I'm gonna get 4TB or multiple hard drives - but I just need to know if SSD is the correct solution, or if HDD is the better way to go. I'd love everyone's thoughts to weigh in on this. Thank you!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Majestic-Monitor-157 on 2025-07-04 00:42:25.

I noticed my backup drive has about double the used space of the data drive. I scanned the drive using Grand Perspective, and it labeled over 4TB as "Miscellaneous used space."

WTF is going on?!

The drive is a 16TB Toshiba NAS N300. Drive health on DriveDx, though I haven't yet run a full test.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Hellboymeep on 2025-07-03 23:55:43.

Does anyone know a tool for downloading soundcloud songs in its 256 m4a format. I dont have Go+ so would prefer if the tool doesnt need your account to use that.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/xxbrandon23 on 2025-07-03 23:48:42.

Somewhat new to hoarding I have a 14 TB seagate drive. A seller on Facebook has a 22 TB unopened external seagate drive for sale and I’m thinking about purchasing. Quick question why are these cheaper than some of the lower storage same model? Also is this a deal too good to pass up? I live in a big city and am able to haggle quite a bit but seems legit to me. If anybody has this same model and had some input I’D appreciate it.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Pessimistic_Gemini on 2025-07-03 22:24:15.

I had my eye on this 22 TB Seagate hard drive but was becoming a bit skeptical about whether or not the drive can actually be able to last a good long amount of time. These weird Avolution hard drives I've been seeing on eBay and Amazon and the like were somewhat interesting but I was never able to find any sort of legit review or opinion on them and what people's experience were with them.

I was aiming to get one at below three hundred bucks but with how skeptical I am with some of these drives and my recent luck with USB flash and external hard drives as of late, I grow more cautious about them more than ever.

So I have to ask: anyone have any suggestions here?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Ciapekq on 2025-07-03 22:10:22.

I want it cheap, kinda fast. I'm thinking about it since i'm living in a village and there's no fiber optic internet here and you know, it may be really unstable to download something because sometimes the progress may be lost and unrecoverable. I just want to download sometimes some stuff with tools and upload it to a file hosting and easily download it from there to my drive (or maybe just copy it directly from the rdp, who knows??). Please tell me your recommendations for the solution.

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.