It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/anirudhpulikonda on 2025-07-01 20:32:20.

I'm looking for a 24TB HDD from Seatgate:

1. ST24000NM000C - Recertified but Exos, I assume it's server grade - $280

2. ST24000DM001 - Baracudda, Not server grade - $250

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Hot-Calligrapher9802 on 2025-07-01 20:07:13.

Hi friends!

I've got about 100TB of stuff, and our truenas isnt working right. It's shutting down gracefully. Nothing in the logs. We've made a fresh truenas install, imported the zfs pool, and still shutsdown randomly. The datas still there, we can still see it in TrueNAS Community Edition (SCALE) on Linux.

So thinking about how to fix this... possibly putting all the data on the cloud, wiping it all, and then put it all back? Also thought about burning stuff to blu rays..

but all of this is super expensive... even the temporary cloud storage seems to be like $400 for a month of 100TB.

Any ideas? :[

Thanks!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/steviefaux on 2025-07-01 19:53:16.

So I did a search and found the old threads. There were two main suggestions. Epson FastFoto FF 680W or ScanSnap iX1600. I don't really need the wifi option, fine with cable.

Looking at the reviews on Amazon for FastFoto a couple of people said the software was poor yet another said it was amazing.

Once done, would like to do the negatives as well but know would need a difference device for that.

Surprised the Epson still expensive considering how old it is.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Elk1984 on 2025-07-01 18:48:37.

I'm currently running 3 x ReadyNAS RN104s which have given decent service but are reaching the end of their useful life (at least for me). The last upgrade to 4 x 8Tb per unit (Giving about 21.5Tb capacity) was problematic. Apart from the time spent shuffling data to the new disks, I was finding regular BTRFS failures (with rebuilds that just took weeks!) until I turned all caching and performance options off.

I'm thinking of replacing the whole lot with a single self-built NAS based around a Gen-5 Core i7 processor, 8 hot swappable bays and a decent amount of on board RAM - probably 64Gb.

I'm also looking to fit a 2.5Gb Network card as Gigabit LAN isn't cutting it with my homelab cluster. I have the house networked with CAT 6e so think I've got the necessary networking in place (bar upgrading a few switches in key areas).

Disk wise, I'm looking at these:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0B94KG3J9?psc=1

Which would give a total capacity of 120Tb in RAID 6 (currently not supported by the ReadyNAS units) and far greater than the 63Tb I currently have.

Before I spend anything, I'd love comments on the suitability of this kind of build. Any warnings, things I should be considerig. Plus a recommendation of what software to run - I was thinking of TrueNAS Scale:

https://www.truenas.com/download-truenas-community-edition/

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ProfitValuable2130 on 2025-07-01 18:39:43.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Embarrassed-Sky5466 on 2025-07-01 14:49:17.

Are you happy with provider? Have you ever experienced a failed restore? What happened?

Want to know about your experiences

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/AllesMeins on 2025-07-01 09:22:38.

Hi,

I'm using an external 4-disk bay connected via USB-C for backup and data storage purposes. Since I still have one disk-slot left I was wondering whether adding a parity-disk with SnapRAID for an additional layer of security is a good idea. But before I make that investment I've a few questions, that hopefully some of you could help me answer:

• Is it generally considered a good idea using something like SnapRAID on external drives?
• I've currently about 25 TB of data spread over three disks in that bay, how long would a regular SnapRAID sync roughly take (just a very rough estimation, are we talking days, hours, minutes)?
• Does the Sync-Time depend on how much data is changed? Most of the data will probably stay the same, so will this fasten sync times or will it still do a complete disk scan every time?
• How does SnapRAID deal with being disrupted? There will be cases in which the machine isn't running long enough for a complete sync. How does SnapRAID behave if I turn it off before it has completed. Does it support some kind of resume?
• Are there any other tools I should look at instead?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/TheUnlikeliestChad on 2025-07-01 04:07:57.

I like '80s new wave and the only place I can find the old music videos is on YouTube. I've tried ripping them using various websites and video quality is often potato quality, which I can deal with, but when I play them all, the volume is wildly different for each song. I usually play them using VLC and connecting my laptop to a projector.

I'm more than willing to re-download them, or re-formate them. I'm willing to use a different program to play them all. I just want the ability to play them all at a uniform volume level and without needing access to the internet.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/WhenImTryingToHide on 2025-07-01 01:32:16.

Hi guys,

So as the title says, I've created images from the drives (4) that were in my Drobo that failed. I still have the physical drives stored away, but I'd love to know if there's a way I can recover the data on the drives? Simulate a drobo or something?

I've tried recovery explorer, but I assume either it doesn't work, or I'm not using it correctly. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Evening-Border-8960 on 2025-07-01 01:10:02.

Wondering if anyone else has had this problem.

Had two NAS drives I moved over from an old NAS to a new DAS system on a Windows 11 machine but they're not able to be accessed. Pictures and explanation below.

Connected via USB 3.0 and can see the drives in device manager.

Can see in Disk Management all my drives online and formatted. Disk 0 and Disk 1 are installed in current machine while Disk 2 and 3 are the NAS drives that are now attached via DAS.

However when I look in my devices and drives can't access the drives or see them as a USB device. Any suggestions?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/kangruixiang on 2025-07-01 01:02:58.

Unlike most people who use Evernote for taking notes, I use Evernote for saving and organizing all kinds of things (images, videos, web clips, bookmark links).

Snippet Curator is something I built and have been using over last few months (over 7,000 notes now). It can import Evernote ENEX files, SingleFile HTMLs, other types of files, and help you rediscover old notes by ranking notes based on their rating, last view date, etc.

It is offline only, has no AI, no ads. It only focuses on your notes.

I'm providing it for free without any monthly subscriptions.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/UlfurGaming on 2025-07-01 00:25:28.

1 any good document storage /orginizer for fantasy i mainly use word docc for dnd campaign but finding certain things like kingdom history or homebrews can be bit of a pain i know theres world anvil but id prefer something free

2 similar thing as one but for organizing useful stuff like guides , wikis, recipes gardening advice etc

3 i use a old 16 gb hard drive rn but would prefer something that more durable and will last years

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Vacation_Level on 2025-07-01 00:18:12.

Hi guys,

What 3.5" HDD case/docking station/enclosure won't prevent corrupted disc/HDD failure that has NO sleep mode?

I have a 20 TB HDD that is being used in an 'Orico SATA Hard Drive Dual-Bay Docking Station'.

There is no option to turn off sleep mode, which has made my HDD corrupted on 4 different occasions due to constant HDD spin down/up.

Link below https://www.centrecom.com.au/orico-2535-sata-hard-drive-dual-bay-docking-station-with-offline-clone-function

How can I successfully prevent corrupt HDD issues? What do you recommend? An enclosure instead?

Thank you for your assistance!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/fl4tdriven on 2025-06-30 23:19:42.

Hey all, hopefully this is the correct place to ask this, but I’m planning to use a 16GB Optane M10 drive as a boot drive for my homelab hypervisor. I understand this is not their intended use, but seems to be a common application due to their high endurance.

What I can’t seem to find is what the data retention is for these in a power off state. I don’t plan on the hypervisor being offline for an extended amount of time, but kind of thinking in a ‘worst case scenario’. Any idea how long these will hold data powered off?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/plexguy on 2025-06-30 21:21:19.

I have a home NAS, and have what I call NAS2 which is a secondary backup of the NAS. If I were to put one of these on each computer and run a short cable between them would it be a 5GB network? Understand the potential bottleneck of the speed of the physical drives copying, but simply asking could I set up a network between the two and would it be 5GB. Cable is short as machines are next to each other.

Have to think I might missing something, but this looks to be a pretty cheap high speed local network.

Thoughts?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/CapitalDraw7901 on 2025-06-30 21:06:47.

Someone was giving away old drives in my Buy Nothing group, which was cool. Check out the Maxtor trapezoid!

Anyway, it included this ancient g-tech G-Raid 2 1000gb drive (on the right). It was easy to load it up as a 1tb external drive on my PC, but I don't know anything about RAID drives, and I haven't been able to find any of the configuration/monitoring software for this old drive anywhere. (The current G-RAID installer software GTC_Installer_1.1.1, downloaded from WD, doesn't recognize the drive at all).

I'm not going to start loading data onto this ancient drive without being able to check its health / search for bad sectors.

So my questions are - 1. does anyone know pc software that can monitor/test the health of this old G-Raid drive?

Alternately - is it possible to shuck out the two drives in this enclosure? Before shucking, do I need to do anything (like "delete volume" or whatever) to get them to work as individual, non-RAID, drives in separate enclosures?

Any help is appreciated. I hoard a lot of data but always just by backing up drives, never set up a RAID server (and have no desire to).

2 GO FLEX drives, a MAXTOR, and the GTECH

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/I-Achieved-Nothing on 2025-06-30 20:57:18.

I just set up Reddit Archiver Standalone and I could successfully download the HTML page, but it turns out it doesn't download the Media of the post, am I missing something or is it beyond its capabilities?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/CauliflowerProud2103 on 2025-06-30 20:38:44.

Been in the process of moving my data over to pooled storage, and I just discovered that hardlinks are incompatible with DrivePool. This is an issue for me as several of my media files require BDMV structure for 3D playback, and in the past I’ve used hardlinks of the core .m2ts files to create a separate folder readable by Plex without taking up another 5TB of my total storage. Unfortunately, symlinks don’t cut it, as they aren’t seen as a media file, just a 0kb symlink.

I’ve heard there are some convoluted workarounds to enable hardlinks in DrivePool by disabling load balancing, but for me that kind of defeats the purpose of creating a pool, I.e, easy rebalancing when I need to replace a drive so that snapraid is a last resort.

TL;DR is there a good alternative to hardlinks that’s possible within pooled storage without disabling load balancing?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/luckandpreparation on 2025-06-30 20:09:46.

In the past I had a 4TB WD_Black HDD that I fully encrypted with Veracrypt but it would randomly corrupt and lose everything on it. Like no movement on the USB connection or anything but it randomly corrupts. It was super cheap ($80) and had alot of language on the box about gaming so maybe it's more suited for that...I have it now connected to my xbox and it's been flawless.

I want to now fully encrypt a Seagate Ironwolf Pro 8TB HDD and then move data onto it. Does the size of the drive make it any less stable or ideal for encryption?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/wattiesbeans on 2025-06-30 19:47:53.

Some public profiles may display story archives but I haven't found a way to download them. Snapchat-dl only downloads current stories. Is there a workaround?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/activoice on 2025-06-30 19:31:31.

So this drive only has about 14,000 hours on it.

The reallocated sector count is 18 (18 hex = 24 dec)

I completed a full format on it, and the number of reallocated sectors remained the same.

Everything else looks healthy.. I was planning to use it as a backup drive in a USB enclosure...

https://preview.redd.it/pxlek7d194af1.png?width=674&format=png&auto=webp&s=bc21e880d5fb2d577346200c9189d4723c121aff

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/snakeladder22 on 2025-06-30 19:30:17.

Some public profiles may display story archives but I haven't found a way to download them. snapchat-dl only downloads current stories. Is there a workaround?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/DiodeInc on 2025-06-30 18:58:44.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/s/WvfGlkFQBV

I ended up going with Navidrome and Ultrasonic. I only have MP3s, but if I purchase CDs, I'll rip them as WAVs.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Candid_Leaf on 2025-06-30 18:11:17.

I scrolled and scrolled, didn't see anything pertaining to my problem.

I bought a WD Elements external hard drive. I have a brand new laptop. When I plug it in, I can hear the hard drive doing things... But nothing populates into the files explorer section (where I'm used to seeing "F: drive" or something similar when inserting a thumb drive.

Is there something I need to do to get the computer to recognize the device, so that I can begin using it? Thank you for helping me avoid a 120.00 paper weight!!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ImaginaryTango on 2025-06-30 17:58:02.

Short Version: I rip anything I buy on physical digital media to my server. (I keep the media, so I'm basically doing it for convenience and preservation, not so I can resell the media.) I use MakeMKV for ripping and a lot of the time there is no issue, but I need a way to rip video files from a damaged DVD. MakeMKV won't do that, so I need something more fault tolerant.

Long Version: I've asked about this on the MakeMKV forum and I've had it explained to me that MKV is to make a perfect copy of the original media. But DVDs are notorious for having flaws in them. I find ways to work around crappy DVD authoring programs, but when there's a physical flaw in the media, MakeMKV can't rip it. It's incapable of passing over an error and reconstructing the data stream after that. Most of the time (over 99.5% of the time) my discs are never played in a player, just ripped to my server, then stored. My understanding is that DVD/BD players are designed to keep going, so if there's a problem on the DVD, it'll keep looking for the next readable part and start playback from there. It may amount to nothing a human can notice, or it may show a glitch, or even jump to a few seconds later in the video. I can't find any ripping programs that can behave like this - that can handle an error in a DVD without failing to rip the file.

If my understanding is wrong or there is something I can do to read a damaged DVD with MakeMKV, I would love to hear about it.

(I had one TV series that was seriously damaged and bought a new version, that was bad, and found, over a year of trying, that the quality of DVDs from Acorn Media - is far worse than any other source I've dealt with. It's impossible to buy a season of a TV show from them and not find multiple episodes unreadable for the reason above. So when I want a show they publish, there's no way to rip the entire season due to this problem.)