It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/NoOne_4084 on 2025-06-09 07:32:22.

I’ve been using a Zyxel NAS542 with two 4 TB WD40EFRX drives in RAID 1 for several years. It has served me reasonably well, but I’m now reaching its performance and flexibility limits.

• Main use cases: Kodi playback (SMB over LAN), torrent downloads, storing all personal media (movies, series, music, audiobooks, study material, solidworks models).
• No Plex for now, but I might try it later.
• Kodi will be moved to a TV app eventually, but currently I'm using Minix U9-H as the media player.
• All content is on the NAS, I don’t use cloud sync or have backups elsewhere (yet).
• NAS is wired via Ethernet to a Deco X20 mesh node, which connects wirelessly (Wi-Fi 6) to the main router.
• No HDMI needed, and I don’t use Docker or advanced server apps (yet).

I’d prefer to reuse my existing drives for now. Budget is around 400–600 EUR, though I might stretch it a bit if there’s a major long-term benefit. I’d like something that performs clearly better than NAS542 and could support modern features if I need them later.

Also, let’s be honest – my Zyxel NAS is probably near the end of its natural life (if not already past it 😅).

What would be a good step up from NAS542?

I’ve been considering something like QNAP TS-264 and Synology DS423+ – any experience or pros/cons between these two in this kind of use case? Or maybe an another contender?

Any help or insights are much appreciated!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/DReffects on 2025-06-09 11:14:13.

Hello there! After only 21 years one of my trustworthy German PAPST 92mm fans died inside an old Chieftech Mesh Big Tower Case and I nearly lost all my data since one of the HDDs got too hot and died.

Never again I say! Therefore I am looking for a case with the following features:

• ATX Board Support
• At least 8x 3.5" HDD slots, preferably more
• "redundant" cooling for the Hard Disks
  • meaning fans next to the hard disks from both sides.
  • If lets say the intake fan fails, a second fan from the other side of the hard disk will still be running, providing enough cooling until the primary intake fan has been replaced

I've started to sketch this up in tinkercad but find myself too lazy to actually complete a whole case with a 3D printer.

Here's what I mean:

https://preview.redd.it/w7nqn4s85s5f1.png?width=1860&format=png&auto=webp&s=56049486edd1f2a4ccf5fe6139cdcda011103a0d

If the fan on the front dies another one on the back is still around to keep things cool.

Do you guys have any suggestions? :) Thanks!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/andysnake96 on 2025-06-09 09:48:38.

Hi I've read quite some discussions about reliability of different types of optical devices.

I've read that MAM-A Gold Archival CD-Rs might be the best option for long term storage. I've found them for around 33 eur for 10 disk from https://www.genesysdtp.com/mama45501.htm Are there more well reputable sellers brands then this one ??

Currently I'd like to backup a small amount of data (order of 2gb) for a very long term, so cds might be fine.. but I'd love also to store some top contents of my hard disks in a blu ray m disk. Someone has advice for those last ones too ?? Could they be reasonably trusted more then another well preserved good hard disk? Someone has shop advises for a poor European ?

Thanks in advance for everyone will participate

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/lo_der_mo on 2025-06-09 09:12:35.

Hello,

I would like to buy a couple relative silent 8TB CMR HDDs, I would like to move away from WD RED disk (I have a few of them from past years, but the new ones are not reliable). So I am looking at Toshiba and Seagate offers.

As i see, there is no equivalent of 5400 rpm WD Red disk (which are silent), so both Toshiba and Seagate only offers 7200 RPM disk to NAS-like usage.

I will use them in Fractal Design XL R2 tower case (I will remove both side covers of the case)

I have red conflicting reviews / reddit comments / videos about which is louder - some say Toshiba is louder other say Seagate is louder.

Could you give me a definitive answer: which is louder?

Also I would like to understand some of the comment related to disk size vs noise level. It was told, that Toshiba 8 TB drives are louder than the 10 TB one, as 10 TB uses helium. Is it means, if I am concerned, I should buy 10 TB disks?

One last question: in the past the rule of thumb was: only but 2 TB, 4 TB or 8 TB HDDs, as 3 TB, 5 TB, 10 TB, 14 TB disks are unreliable because of these had odd number of plates inside. Was it changed? Are 10 TB drives are the same reliable as 8 TB ones, regadless of they have 5 or 6 plate?

Thank you!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/PizzaK1LLA on 2025-06-09 08:16:05.

Hey Music Lovers,

I'm here to share with you some datasets of MusicBrainz, Tidal, Spotify,

These datasets contain zero modifications from myself, they're straight from the source

Tidal, Spotify datasets were obtained through their API, took months of calling their API's 24/7

These datasets contain the following:

MusicBrainz: Artists: 2.5mil, Albums: 4.8mil, Tracks: 49mil

Spotify: Artists: 64k, Albums: 196k, Tracks: 1.1mil

Tidal: Artists: 118k, Albums: 403k, Tracks: 2.5mil

For more information and the torrent visit: https://github.com/MusicMoveArr/Datasets

Don't forget to say thanks, it took me many months to gather this info :)

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Own-Cookie-1161 on 2025-06-09 04:31:49.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/djtron99 on 2025-06-09 03:35:24.

I have a h97n wifi motherboard with an HBA (for 6 bays) that seems having problem with Windows 11 pro for suddenly not detecting drives (8tb Toshiba enterprise and 6tb Seagate ironwolf but 14tb WD elements is ok).

Before, I formatted the problematic drives to NTFS in Linux in another device and Windows detected them before but not now. Putting these drives in an external dock works everytime.

Last BIOS beta update is in 2016. Would it be advisable to switch to Linux? If yes, which distro and version (LTS?) do you recommend for plugging to TV via HDMI mostly for media and some casual light gaming (don't want to use network on this device). Thanks.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Pristine-Let7376 on 2025-06-09 03:14:07.

I wanted a small generic portable harddrive but they are all SMR. Planning to get WD Red Plus and an enclosure because, people say SMR is trash. Planning to do backups every 6 mos only

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/awolfwearingabanana on 2025-06-09 03:11:06.

I think there will be a Jan 6 situation where this will get whipped off the internet, are there any current efforts to archive footage and images from this current ongoing event? If not I'd think that's something that should be payed attention to at the moment.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/AggressiveEmuSlut on 2025-06-09 02:02:58.

I have two pools (both raidz2 - truenas core) one is 6 drives that are ~8 years old and chugging along fine. No critical data on them. (Hgst I think)

I have a 2nd pool that is 8 drives of Seagate x14 14th exos I got in 2021 - this is the one with a failed drive.

I was just alerted to one of the drives failing:

Device: /dev/ada4, ATA error count increased from 0 to 50.

Then

Device: /dev/ada4, 8 Offline uncorrectable sectors.

Then

Pool exotank state is DEGRADED: One or more devices are faulted in response to persistent errors. Sufficient replicas exist for the pool to continue functioning in a degraded state. The following devices are not healthy: * Disk ST14000NM001G

Questions:

1. I'm ordering a replacement drive will arrive within 2 days. Should I power down my server for now until new one arrives? Or leave it chugging along?

2. was considering adding more space anyway and replacing drives as I go along, so I might as well order a bigger drive now (26tb) and put it in. If I replace current dead drive with 26tb, and then in a few months replace the other 7 drives with 26tb.. it'll then increase my pool size to 8x26tb right?

Since I was planning on increasing my size and pulling these out seems like I might as well go ahead now and buy a 26tb.

Replacing 8x14 with 8x26 would give me a bump from 84 TB to 144tb (as I'm at 70% capacity at 84TB anyway).

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Curious-George532 on 2025-06-09 01:39:36.

Has anyone experienced an issue like this? I have 2 Toshiba 2TB Black USB drive that are experiencing strange behavior. I can copy and move files between folders on the drive, and I can copy files to the drive, however I cannot copy or move files off of the drive.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/20210330_PROS_IIQ on 2025-06-08 23:07:02.

I might not be using the right terms to search so forgive me if this has been discussed before.

I'd like to know how the individual cache of each drive effects RAID performance. Does it correlate with the RAID configuration? Does it matter much at all?

For example: Raid 0 of 4tb 128gb Cache 7200rpm drives = 16tb of storage and 512GB of Cache

My current setup is exactly that mentioned above x4 Toshiba N300 4TB in an OWC thunderbay 4 using softraid attached to a headless M4 mac mini with backups going to two separate 20tb HD. I'm a commercial photographer and often access that drive/computer from my studio machine, laptop while sitting on the couch or Ipad on vacation. It works really well but sometimes bottlenecks when I'm using two programs to access that one drive even when working locally off the mini via remote desktop.

The primary reason for my question is that I'm at a point where I need to expand that storage. I have two 12TB WD Red Plus with 256GB cache that were formerly used as backups before bumping those to 20tb. I'm considering just getting two more of those exact 12tb and making it a raid 10 but if I can make any significant performance/storage gains now I might consider that route. Although, I like the idea of using my WD now and then when the 20tb backups need to be upgraded I would reuse those when the RAID gets upgraded. I understand my network is another huge bottleneck here.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/DastardlyWarthog on 2025-06-08 22:06:22.

Hello, i’m new to all this and just getting myself setup with stuff available on the kwix library. There are certain .zim files I would love to put onto usb drives for redundancies sake, however even though I have much more storage left than than the .zim file is, it says the file is too large for destination???

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/YesThisIsi on 2025-06-08 20:58:14.

I'm losing my mind trying to find a reliable USB-A to USB-C cable that actually supports USB 3.1 Gen 2 (10 Gbps) speeds. Most listings are vague, misleading, or just max out at USB 2.0 despite the marketing.

I need it for a TerraMaster D6-320 connected to my server via a USB-A port (USB 3.2 Gen 2) on my motherboard. Minimum length is 2 meters, ideally 3 m. Located in the EU, so would prefer something sold on amazon.de

If anyone has a confirmed working cable for high-speed data transfer (especially for DAS use), I’d seriously appreciate any tips or links!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Morgant9233 on 2025-06-08 20:42:53.

I recently got tasked with this massive project, help

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/vodkaknockers on 2025-06-08 20:26:42.

This is model number STKP22000400

HD Sentinel is reading a max of 54 and seems to hover pretty consistently in the 50s. This is my first higher speed HDD since a WD Raptor back in the day and it's making me a bit nervous.

I have it setup vertically with the rubber feet on solid wood and plenty of breathing room around. Should I be concerned?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/SuperRust1 on 2025-06-08 19:55:58.

Sorry if my post is too stupid, but i aint found the answers in the internet....

So, i am chaning my phone to new one (S20FE to S23 128GB) and it dont have a sd card slot. Damn! I want to keep doing photos and videos in high res and save it, but now i cant use my 512GB sd card.

And i thought - what if i buy Raspberry Pi 4 or something what is the latest, stuff onto it M.2 NvME slot, put in there 512 or 1024GB SSD, install linux, and install there ZeroTier (which i used to control home server via ssh frum termux on phone). After every photoset i would connect to VPN on my phone, somehow send photos to Raspberry at home via VPN, and be happy. What the possibly bad and good things in this plan?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Astaillius on 2025-06-08 18:21:42.

As the title says I recently picked up a Seagate EXOS 14TB 3.5" SAS HDD ST14000NM0288 Hard Drive but when I tried to connect it to my drive dock it didn't fit. Long story short I found out that SAS drives exist and they don't fit SATA docks. Unfortunately, I bought it online and though I plan to contact the seller to see if I can return it, that might not be guaranteed. In the meantime I was wondering if I could get some help seeing if there was an economical way to use the drive on my Windows 10 PC. I've seen some adapters that look to just be male to female put my Youtube search indicates that they might not work. Apparently, I might need a controller or something. Would appreciate any help turning this purchase from a brick.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/MaleficentMaximum346 on 2025-06-08 18:14:10.

I am evaluating my current setup and I am curious about what others are doing. I have my own small ZFS RaidZ1 (8 TB usable) running on RPi and I wanted to do a secure offsite backup. I found a cheap VPS with enough storage, and I use Syncoid (sync management) and Sanoid (snapshot management) to send encrypted snapshots to a remote ZFS pool on that VPS.

What I like:

• I like the ease of sending diff of snapshots to a remote location - one command and it's there.
• I like that it is cheaper than conventional storage (e.g. Backblaze).

What I dislike:

• I dislike that I can't verify files are OK without mounting the pool remotely (which I don't want because I would have to put the password into the remote location) nor can I retrieve a single file if needed.
• I dislike that the cheap VPS already lost my data once (but because it was a copy, it was fine, just unpleasant to have to upload it all over again) and occasionally is unavailable.
• I dislike I can't really purge the data - both any individual files or the remote pool - without purging the whole remote storage.
• It was not so easy to setup properly - e.g. I forgot the -w for zfs send attribute and had to purge the remote storage and start over.
• I have trouble making Sanoid work with Timemachine backups - it is unclear to me how to make a snapshot when Timemachine is not writing into the storage, and I think Timemachine had trouble when I rolled a snapshot back.
• The snapshots are done on a dataset level - I can't have different number of snapshots for documents if they are on the same dataset as let's say photos.

What do you use to backup your NAS? What do like/dislike your setup? I am particularly interested if you have a cost-effective solutions (<5 EUR/USD per TB stored) for 5+ TB storage, or hearing why you chose a different approach regardless of cost.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/RainOfPain125 on 2025-06-08 17:01:39.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/skullking15 on 2025-06-08 16:24:12.

I want to add more storage to my PC and right now i am out of nvme ports. In my search to how add more more nvme storage i found this. It says it can run close to sata ssd speeds. Have anyone used it before?

There is not much info out there about it but i think i can raid 0 the drives in storage spaces and get close to full sata speeds.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Agile-General-7866 on 2025-06-08 14:53:27.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Barry_Mayfield on 2025-06-08 13:24:21.

I've entered rabbit hole: I want to digitize higher tens/lower hundreds of family tapes. I have no clue what they even contain. Those cassettes have been happily stored for decades in drawers.

Getting our old VCR fixed (Sony, from 1998 - just composite output), I was at least able to play cassettes! (For sheer volume of tapes, I don't want to pay for professional digitization)

Initial plan (A):

I googled articles and watched several people on YouTube talking about recording VHS tapes. I thought I was going to do VCR -> analog to HDMI converter -> capture card -> PC, but at the end I heard recommendations to just get "Elgato Video Capture" resulting in simpler chain of devices: VCR -> Elgato thing -> PC.

That was a mistake - for more than 90€ (!) I received device from past decade with obsolete software and legacy drivers causing Windows 11 headache. Editing Elgato software configuration XML file manually, I got to somewhat decent recording quality (considering how long the tapes were stored, original was taken on camera, and shape of 25+ years old VCR). I tried OBS, but never made it to work with sound (despite trying all possible inputs). Not impressed, returning the device...

Next plan (B) (more notes than specific plan):

Now I'm looking for better way of doing things, but still on budget. I'm reconsidering path of VCR -> (optionally TBC or DVD recorder to improve signal) -> analog to HDMI converter -> capture card -> PC, as I simply can't find any device with at least good reviews.

I've found another guy on YouTube using Yitrox AV to HDMI converter - and praising it as good option - but that's out of stock.

Blackmagic: I would need analog to SDI, and then SDI to HDMI converters. Even analog to SDI box is out of my budget, so I'm ruling this option as well. (Convince me it's worth it)

Buying SVHS player, or even SVHS player with TBC, is also out of question: I can't find any, and if I can, it's way too expensive, with no warranty, and would need to be delivered from another country (shipping cost). This is the same for option with passing the video signal through a newer DVD recorder - not many models seem to have TBC, and of course - those devices are not cheap either.

So, currently, my candidates are:

• StarTech VID2HDCON2

• SoundBeast AV to HDMI Converter

And then capture device:

• Cam Link 4K

• AVerMedia ... (but this is getting already too pricey)

Could anyone who went this route before tell me whether this make sense? What would you change/recommend (but still not break a bank)? (Europe, PAL, DVD-2)

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/JellySaurus97 on 2025-06-08 12:05:20.

I just ordered one of these from GoHardDrive and it seems like a lot. With a 5 year warranty does it matter though?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/zzzpotatozzz on 2025-06-08 15:34:59.

I use 2 HDD as my main back ups right now, and want to sort out a better storage system, but thats for another day. My issue right now is I have my main HDD that I use all the time, and my two back ups that are not synced up. I edit, change location, or delete files in folders on my main HDD, but when it comes time to back them up it just duplicates the file into the new folder location. (Example Grasspic.jpg in folder "grass" was moved to folder "grass on sidewalk" on my main HDD. So when i go to back up the main HDD to the 2 backups grass.jpg is now in "grass", and "grass on sidewalk") I am not very tech literate so maybe im just dumb, but now i have the same pictures, and folders duplicated across multiple location. My solution is to just wipe the back up HDD and just copy EVERYTHING again, but this just seems inefficient and silly. I plan to get a DAS/NAS for all my storage needs in the future, but in the mean time i havent dont a back up in a while and want to know if theres a way to sync them back up. Move grass.jpg to the right folder and remove it from the wrong one, or delete the old screen shots that I know i will never want again from the backup HDD.

Long story short how does one sync up their folder/file locations between their external USB HDDs without just deleting everything from the back ups and copying it all back on?