It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/DieingFetus on 2025-07-07 01:18:47.

I enjoy tinkering with projects using Debian. I get a lot of my stuff with git clone commands. I had my first instance of something not being available anymore and now I want to save everything locally now.

What would be a good way to add my files in my debian projects with terminal that would work simular to git clone?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/DaWizardOfThem on 2025-07-07 01:09:00.

This video was only released a couple weeks ago but they have taken it down. Specifically, I believe it was around June 20th, 2025. There was someone who re uploaded it but it was also taken down because Apple filed a DMCA complaint, but did anyone archive it? I thought it was a pretty good video.

What I’ve tried:

I’ve looked for the video on the way back machine by seeing if there were snapshots of it with the reuploaded video’s url but there were none with the video backed up. I couldn’t find the original Apple url so I didn’t check the snapshots on their channel. I’ve also looked far and wide on the internet archive but didn’t have any luck either.

The biggest fragment of this video I found is on tiktok which is only 2 minutes of the total 7 minutes. Here’s the link: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8hjRhap/

Does anyone have the video?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/TheUnknownOne315 on 2025-07-06 23:48:23.

Hey everyone,

I'm looking for an app or viewer to manage a personal archive of images, games, and other media — something more visual and organized than a regular file browser.

Ideally:

• For images (with folders like artist/ and metadata), something inspired by Pixiv: a smooth gallery feel, where you can browse creators and their works easily.
• For games/software, something that feels more like GOG, with cover art, description, and versions shown according to the files I provide.

It doesn’t have to support everything perfectly, but do you know any app that goes in this direction?

Thanks in advance!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/maxstenta1 on 2025-07-06 22:50:12.

I’m trying to automatically extract data (video/scene list) from a site that loads content dynamically via JavaScript. After saving the HTML page rendered with Selenium, I look in the code or API calls for the JSON that contains the real data, because often they are not directly in the HTML but are loaded by separate API requests. The aim is to identify and replicate these API calls in order to download complete data programmatically.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Vegetable_One8614 on 2025-07-06 20:14:54.

Hi sorry to bother you. I'm desperately trying to find a way to download content from Divicast (i already searched on Reddit with no results) and I'm going insane. Do you guys know any method?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Chumley_1953 on 2025-07-06 19:39:00.

I am assisting a nonprofit that is undergoing a hostile takeover by new board members. They have had an active Facebook page with thousands of followers. I am trying to help the founder, who still has administrator access, archive the pages and followers. Any ideas?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/jamiecruickshank on 2025-07-06 19:28:12.

Hey all,

Hoping someone here might be able to help shed some light on an LTO-7 drive issue I’ve hit. I’ve got an HP LTO-7 tape drive that was working perfectly a couple months ago—I backed up my whole NAS, no issues at all. After that, I put the enclosure in a cupboard for a bit of a break.

Took it out this week to run another backup and… nothing. It won’t start properly and gives me a POST error. Plugged it into my Windows machine and ran the HP diagnostics, and it’s coming up with an EC5 error. Tape head life still shows 99% remaining in HP Library & Tape Tools, so I don’t think the heads are worn out.

Looking through the logs, the main things that keep popping up are:

• RAS_FSC_MR_OPEN_HEAD_READERS_TEST
• LOD_FSC_SRV_NOT_DETECT_LANDMARK_ERROR
• RAS_FSC_OPEN_RDR_TEST_FAIL

For context, I’m an electronics engineer, so I’m fine with getting my hands dirty if it comes to component-level repair or replacing a part—I just don’t have a clue what these cryptic error messages are actually pointing to. Is there a known fix, or am I looking at a dead drive?

Would really appreciate any pointers, troubleshooting steps, or even service manuals if anyone has them. Thanks!

https://preview.redd.it/y4xbn3iidabf1.png?width=1159&format=png&auto=webp&s=8e864ff928fb560a0f927a9617f00e130791b1b7

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/daxliniere on 2025-07-06 17:44:50.

I would like to ditch Google and move all of my media in Google Files to my own storage servers.

I have used Takeout to to generate a list of 78 .ZIP files each 4Gb in size, but I can't work out how to 1) translate this into a table of direct links and 2) how to download at commandline, considering there is no ability to load a website for Google account authentication.

Anyone got any cool solutions here? Or another way to get all the media? I tried rclone, but no matter what I did (including setting up OAuth test user), I couldn't get it to download a single thing.

Thanks for reading this far. :)

All the best,

Dax.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/One-End1795 on 2025-07-06 19:52:58.

I am looking for NAS drives, and I am open to shucking. This seems to be a decent list, but are there better prime day deals yet?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/TheCuriousBread on 2025-07-06 18:18:36.

I've got a spare laptop or two that's just sitting there doing nothing right now so I decided to spin them up and do some seeding for Anna's Archive.

Well. I've downloaded the magnet links and they are on my computer now, 0 uploads for the week.

What....what even is the point of this exercise?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/rrredditor on 2025-07-06 17:18:43.

I need a PCIe card that will handle 4-8 SATA drives for use in a full tower case. I'm not seeing very many choices anymore. I have a cheapy 4 port card that only seems to work on 2 of the ports and doesn't secure the SATA cables very well.

I'd like something better. I suppose SAS cards are the next step, especially if I want 8 ports. I have the PCIe slot available (8X).

This is for local storage that is backed up on a NAS. I currently have 5 hard drives and two DVD drives and I'd like room to grow.

Any recommendations? I'd like to stay below $150 if possible. I know that makes it more difficult. Used?

I haven't had to buy anything like this for over 10 years so I'm a bit in the dark these days. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/impracticaldogg on 2025-07-06 14:26:21.

TLDR: I want to avoid data corruption on my small server by occasionally writing archived data from one disk across to another. From lurking on this forum this seems to be a simple way to avoid the quiet corruption of data that can happen if you simply leave it there and don't access it for years.

I'm running Ubuntu Server and just writing a cron script to activate rsync and copy data across every three months seems like an adequate way to do this. I'm thinking of keeping three copies of everything, and overwriting the oldest copy when I run out of space.

Does this sound reasonable? I'm not terribly technical and just don't get round to making multiple backups every month.

Detail: I have an old Microserver with a range of hard drives (512GB to 1TB) that ended up being surplus over time. About 12GB of drive space altogether, with 8GB being two 4GB external USB drives. This is about twice as much capacity as I need at the moment.

In addition I have about 4GB of "loose" external HDDs for cold storage.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/richiethestick on 2025-07-06 14:24:22.

Just counted—I've got around 131 movies stashed away, most clocking in at about 10 GB each. That’s well over a terabyte of cinematic intentions that somehow never make it off the drive and onto the screen. It’s not like I don’t want to watch them. I just… don’t.

Even with everything neatly sorted in Plex, I’ll spend more time browsing than actually watching anything. Sometimes I try to spice it up with a random picker, but that usually ends with me questioning my own taste in downloads.

To make things worse, I keep defaulting to streaming on Netflix instead. Something about knowing the downloaded stuff is “always there” makes it feel less urgent. Meanwhile, Netflix keeps throwing autoplay at me and suddenly I’m three episodes deep into something I didn’t even plan to watch. The hoard just keeps growing.

Honestly, I think I’ve started collecting more for the thrill of the hunt than for the viewing itself. It’s weirdly satisfying seeing the folders grow—even if my watchlist guilt grows along with it.

Anyone else living in quiet denial with a beautifully curated backlog you barely touch? Or do some of you actually make a dent in yours? Teach me your ways.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/theoldgaming on 2025-07-06 12:36:10.

Alright so let me start this by saying that where-ever i look i see that MicroSDs are not reliable at all or less reliable than any other storage media, which im pretty sure is true.

I've done a lot of research on the topic and do know about the NAND technologies being different (SLC/MLC back in ~2012 to TLC and QLC in 2024) and the differences of reliability of those, differences in Error Correction (BCH, LPDC), controllers, channels etc.

But all i managed to get is theoretical or manufacturer stated data or TBW's which tell me only the theoretical reliability not the practical one, i also don't have the time to test those MicroSDs (Cause doing genuine testing for long term reliability would logically take years)

On the flip side i had older MicroSDs survive over a decade with only minor corruption and hence my questions:

How reliable long-term are modern, High end high capacity MicroSD's (like the Samsung Pro Ultimate, Sandisk Extreme Pro or Sandisk Max Endurance)?

How long do these cards last practically (data retention) before the data corrupts?

Huge thanks to any and all answers, if i got something wrong also huge thanks for any and all corrections

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Echo8620 on 2025-07-06 12:25:59.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/HonestiSwear on 2025-07-06 10:00:52.

Hi there

A previous partner of mine has received a message from an Instagram burner account, attempting a smear campaign against me.

I’m interested in finding out some more information about this account. Currently I only have the account names.

Iv tried the way back machine and other archive websites, but they don’t seem to work very well.

Any recommendations of how best to move forward would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/armavirvmqvecano on 2025-07-06 09:50:22.

Hello, hopefully this is the right place to ask this question, and I'm sorry if I phrase it poorly, I'm not entirely familiar with the correct terminology for this stuff.

I am trying to save a dreamwidth page to the wayback machine, however this page has a 'preliminary' page (not sure the correct term for this) that says "disgression advised", and on which you have to click "yes I want to view this content" in order to see the content of the page proper. The problem is that this is the page that shows up on the wayback machine when you try to save the link, and when you try to click the "yes I want to view this content" button there (in the way back machine), it gives you an error because it has not saved beyond this point when it saved the URL (as far as I can tell?).

I have read threads for similar issues discussing Ao3's "I agree to see adult content" button, but in that case clicking the "accept" button seems to modify the URL (?) & so can be archived separately, whereas that doesn't seem to be the case here as far as I can tell.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Expensive-Award1965 on 2025-07-06 09:49:41.

as far as i can tell i'll have to capture the whole thing from screen grab.

i usually use video downloadhelper on firefox but it's not working. i have a ticket i just want to watch it later. help!

looks like they're using theoplayer on backtothebeginning.com from the element classes but can't find any workarounds

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/TipmanTips on 2025-07-06 09:35:05.

I want to archive all my old concert footage and get them on a hard drive rather then have dvds everywhere. Quite a few of them are scratched and my laptop just isn’t able to rip them.

Any recommendations as I’m new to this? Thankyou

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Slowmadism on 2025-07-06 09:27:52.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Obvious_Archer2628 on 2025-07-06 09:20:11.

Guys i have been searching for free paid courses on telegram and found and an user providing the huge content , for proof he allowed me to join his private channel where all the huge content was there valid but then he asked for payment of it. so i wanted any technique or idea that would give me accesss or stored the all content before he remove me from the private channel within 10 min also it is not possible to me download the whole content within 10 minutes please help guys!

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.