It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/jared_number_two on 2025-06-25 12:22:56.

I know other people in this community have enjoyed the excellent post incident reviews published by the CSB. As they are being effectively shuttered this is a general call out that it would be prudent to archive any of their videos you have found useful.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/GothBoiCliqueeeeee on 2025-06-25 10:16:07.

Hi all,

I have a mint/new SSD arriving from Amazon warehouse - with a claimed damaged box.

I know from past experience with general items, things described like this are brand new - with people literally returning because of a small rip on the box.

I've never bought a HDD like this though. I'm worried someone has swapped their old dying one in the box ect.

Is there some kind of software that can check how long the SSD has been used for - or to check if it has been used?

Thanks!

Edit: It's a Crucial drive

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Vegetable-Way-5766 on 2025-06-25 10:06:50.

It's a Seagate 4 TB hard drive I've only had it like for a 2 to 3 years.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Distinct_Law_3708 on 2025-06-25 08:11:26.

Basically, I'm a non-tech guy struggling to migrate from OneDrive to pCloud. I paid for RiceDrive, which sucks, by the way. I tried transferring in smaller chunks, but nothing worked; it took 18 hours to transfer 1 GB. I got a refund. Their support seems nice, but I need my data transferred, so I'm seeking help. Someone could access my device via AnyDesk or TeamViewer to help me set up the rclone CLI tool on my VPS? I've been struggling to set it up since migrating. I've watched countless YouTube videos regarding rclone; I must be dumb, or it's not working due to a bug. Either way, I need help. I've already tried web GUI apps like rcloneui and rclone-view, but none worked. Please, someone come and help me out.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Zrsxw on 2025-06-25 07:20:33.

Hi everyone,

I have four HGST HUS726060AL4210 SAS drives currently locked with firmware version A519, which disables standard SCSI commands like FORMAT UNIT, START STOP UNIT, and others. I've read that firmware A907 or ADD5 can restore normal functionality on these drives, as confirmed by several users in the community.

I'm searching for a copy of the firmware file HITACHI_7K6000_A907.bin, or the archive Drive_Firmware_1.13.tgz which is said to include it. If anyone can share it or point me in the right direction, I’d really appreciate it. I just want to revive these drives for homelab and personal storage use.

Thanks in advance for your help!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/vzoltan on 2025-06-25 07:18:10.

There are many posts about these Seagate Expansion Desktop Drive's having Barracudas inside, and the datasheet tells us a quite low number regarding "power on hours per year": https://www.seagate.com/content/dam/seagate/en/content-fragments/products/datasheets/barracuda-3-5-hdd/barracuda-3-5-hddDS2131-3-US2411-en_US.pdf

I'm considering to buy the 24TB model, and use it as a genuine external drive, no plans for shucking. That will be ST24000DM001 I guess.

Now about the 2400 hours / 100 days... I honestly dunno. Likely the HDD won't be up and running for 2400 hours, but I'm more worried about why this limitation exists in the first place.

Are Barracudas just low quality drives, and therefore better to avoid them? I'd pay then more for a WD external, but would like to understand what's going on here.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/harbourhunter on 2025-06-25 04:53:56.

Moreso historical or cultural significance

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Worldly_Anybody_1718 on 2025-06-25 02:55:47.

Just saw a post about sonarr and filebot being able to clean up and organize tv and movie collections. Is there something like that for music?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Necessary-Fan9736 on 2025-06-25 01:42:00.

My gaming laptop has reached it’s capacity to have games that I want on it (thank you so much Baldurs Gate) and I need something I can offload my games onto while I’m playing something else. I don’t need any crazy amount of storage as all I’ll be using this for is a few games really. If anyone has a few suggestions that would be really helpful!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/SuperIce07 on 2025-06-25 00:04:09.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Fuzzy-Zone-5535 on 2025-06-24 23:34:48.

YT-dlp doesn't work, I don't think it's DRM-protected so it should be possibly to download those videos somehow, but how? I don't think torrents of those shows exist as I've searched. Is my only solution to screenrecord the videos?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/SENSUAL_WATERMELON on 2025-06-24 22:18:42.

There are some old series I used to watch, that have been taken down, and the only choice now is to get them on Amazon Video. They're not even on Amazon Prime Video. All the torrents are dead since long, and I can't find it anywhere else.

Can I somehow extract them from Amazon Video, or do I have to go on a hunt for someone who has a physical copy (which is rare)?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/hellishdelusion on 2025-06-24 22:00:10.

I tried 5 or 6 downloaders for old twitch vods (about 5 years old) and they didn't seem to work. Does anyone know a good tool for this?

Id like to preserve some vods from a content creator that since passed and I'm not sure how long twitch will keep it up for.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/DandadanAsia on 2025-06-24 19:50:21.

I plan to carry my NAS (Synology) and hard drives to another country. Is it safe? Will airport security check the contents of the hard drives? I have a lot of "downloaded content".

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/kwajagimp on 2025-06-24 19:08:06.

Folks - so currently I have a 8 drive NAS with 12 TB drives with TrueNAS and a Z2 setup.

I would like to upgrade the total storage (who ever has enough?) but I'm not blessed with the kind of money where I can buy 8x 14TB (or larger) drives at one time. I've bought cars for less than that!

So let's say I buy one larger drive a month. (That would be doable on my budget.) I know that if you put in a larger drive into an array of smaller drives, the larger one will only use storage up to the capacity of the smaller drives.

So what's a better call here - is there a way to introduce larger size drives one at a time until the only drives are all replaced, and somehow then rebuild the array to access all of the extra storage space on each of the drives?

Or is it better to just acquire the drives and put them on a shelf until I have 8, then replace them all together, more or less? (Wouldn't this have the samw problem?)

What about creating a new NAS with a new MB and just make it a different pool? That would take longer to buy all the parts, but is potentially doable.

Or is there another option I don't know about here?

TIA.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Traditional-Cream691 on 2025-06-24 18:49:42.

How many domains do you guys own?

I started having ideas and buying domains for them like somebody was going to take them.

I now have 33 domains. I should probably get rid of a few.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ContributionHead9820 on 2025-06-24 17:57:13.

Basically the title. What’s the best way to backup my iCloud Photos to a NAS? It’d be nice If it could do it automatically like once a week.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Cr3eperboy on 2025-06-24 17:42:21.

I got a WD Elements Portable External Hard Drive 5TB to use just as storage for an arbitrary of things to store, that differ in file sizes. I also use Linux as my daily drive OS. ExFAT would be the best option right since it works with Linux, Mac and Windows. Where NTFS only works with Windows.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/jason2306 on 2025-06-24 17:25:47.

Hey there I would love some help since i'm going insane trying to get the dnd map zip attachments I subscribed for from creators on patreon. I can't download this by hand one by one. But most patreon related extensions either seem broken or bad for other reasons like asking you to pay to even use it per creator or some other nonsense

Patreon gui dl doesn't seem to download attachments in posts, it does download post previews but those are low res. How do you actually get the zip file attachments? Is this just not possible? Doing this manually would take a long time and would be a terrible experience, how do other people do this?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/nbtm_sh on 2025-06-24 16:20:41.

Unsure if this is the best place to ask, but I’m trying to organise DJ sets in a way that makes most sense and is searchable (especially for external users on platforms like Soulseek). My current music library is structured like this:

Label-Publisher/Album Artist/Album/Track

I’m a little bit unsure what fields to put for DJ sets, and how would you handle concerts with many sets. The structure I’ve come up with is this:

Label-Publisher = Event Organiser

Album Artist = DJ / Producer

Album = Event / Concert (Date)

Track = DJ Set name + queue file for set tracks

But this kinda falls apart if I wanna listen to all DJ sets at a particular concert, as they’re all different albums. If it’s organised like that, and we take an example, it goes like this: HARDCORE TANO*C/DJ Myosuke/DJ Myosuke Live @ TANO*C TOUR 2025 (Tokyo 2025-06-22)/Set.ext

This fits cleanly into the music organisation, but obviously makes it very hard to search for these things. I could put each set at a concert into its own album, but then having each track of each set be seperate would get very messy. If someone was looking to download all the sets from a concert, it would be hard as they’re all under the artist, not organised by the concert. Of course, this all falls apart when there is no concert, and it’s just a DJ set/mix someone published online. And I want all of this to present nicely in music player software, too.

I’m really struggling to find a good balance here. Has anyone done this before that can give some pointers?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/immascatman4242 on 2025-06-24 15:46:51.

I used a combo VHS/DVD deck about ten years ago to directly transfer some VHS tapes onto DVD-R, but I now no longer have access to that deck. Do the Philips DVP3150V or the Sony SLV-D370P have those recording capabilities? I've looked over each respective manual, but I'm new to this and am not fully sure of what to look for.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Theunknown87 on 2025-06-24 15:00:27.

So I have a 4Tb western digital NAS that I use data that I don’t really care about but I don’t want it taking up data on my main drives.

I’m only using 3.5tb of space.

I am trying to reorganize everything and using all dupe, there is a ton of duplicates.

Is there a dumbed down way that I could transfer the data from the NAS to my 8tb external drive so that I could get rid of most of the duplicates?

Then because for that old NAS, I care more about space so I’d reformat It and change it so it’s not in raid and make it become 8tb.

My most important data is already on my new synology and that whole thing is backed up to synology c2.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ope_poe on 2025-06-24 14:42:52.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/mdof2 on 2025-06-24 14:30:20.

Not sure if this is /damnthatsinteresting or /datahorder, because I fear for those that take it upon themselves to archive this. 20TB every 24 hours, for the next decade.

From the article: "Rubin will generate a whopping 20 terabytes of data every 24 hours. The latest iPhone holds up to one terabyte of data."

More here: https://www.wsj.com/science/space-astronomy/worlds-largest-digital-camera-snaps-its-first-photos-of-the-universe-68099904?st=1q5nHA&mod=1440&user_id=66c4c73d600ae15075a4db28

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Bewilderedfae on 2025-06-24 13:55:07.

Is there a searchable yahoo answers yet? I remember seeing some people on here saying they were working on it a while ago. I was looking on the wayback machine but I don't even remember what category the post was in let alone the url.