It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/CandidateStriking843 on 2025-06-01 08:14:06.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/searchjobs_poster on 2025-06-01 07:09:40.

guide on downloading youtube playlists:

https://www.reddit.com/r/downr/comments/1l0gi4f/how_to_download_an_entire_youtube_playlist/

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/No-Vast-8000 on 2025-06-01 04:00:48.

Hey all, So I'm having a kind of weird issue. I've got a number of drives combined via Stablebit and have been running a tool called MKV Optimizer to strip away extra audio tracks that aren't needed.

If I go and look at a specific file I can see the size reduce, however, for some reason the overall free space doesn't seem to be updating. I let it run overnight and the drive actually LOST a small amount of free space, when it should have freed up what would have been hundreds of Gigabytes.

It just doesn't seem to be accounting for the filesize changing.

I'm not 100% sure this is related to Stablebit but it seems like the most likely culprit to me.

Anyone know of a fix for this?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/DrDoom229 on 2025-06-01 02:41:48.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Negative_Avocado4573 on 2025-05-31 23:53:11.

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Amazon Link

I have 20 drives ranging from 500GB to 10TB but I'd like to magnetize and throw away the lower ones and keep about 5-10 HDD only.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/avsameera on 2025-05-31 23:38:00.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Haorelian on 2025-05-31 23:34:52.

Hey folks,

I’ve been working on a personal project: a doomsday-ready PC/phone setup packed with everything you'd need for survival and entertainment.

Right now, I’ve got a solid base going. Around 10GB of resources—over 200 books and PDFs—covering blacksmithing, water purification, wildlife ID, medical stuff (treatments + pharma), basic maintenance (car, electrical, general repairs), psychology, and more.

I’ve also set up a local LLM (Llama 3.1 8B), downloaded the entire Wikipedia, offline maps of my country (via OSM), and built a bootable USB with a portable Linux OS that has everything preloaded—plug in and go.

For entertainment, I’ve loaded enough content to last 10+ years: manga, light novels, classic literature, etc. I’ve also added ~30 practical video tutorials.

I’ve mirrored the whole setup across two laptops—one of them stored in a Faraday cage in case of EMP—and also cloned it onto my phone.

Now I’m looking to fine-tune it and get some outside input:

If you were building your own doomsday digital datahoard, what would your must-haves be?

Also, if this isn’t the right place for this kind of post—apologies in advance, and thanks for reading.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/peyton_montana on 2025-05-31 23:29:41.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/kmrbtravel on 2025-05-31 13:25:38.

My friends call me a 'data hoarder' irl because I like to keep my life archived and I'm also a writer, but finding r/DataHoarder and like-minded people makes me feel like I'm home :')

I know this might not be a traditional 'data hoarding' question (and I used the search bar), but how is everyone saving where they went during their travels? And before you say Google Maps or My Maps:

Google Maps:

-Seems to have implemented a 3000 pin limit, which I'm about to hit

-With Google and its bugs being somewhat unreliable as the years go on, I've seen people lose pins randomly (especially when they implemented the limit last year) which would devastate me

My Maps:

-Finds clunkier to use, though it's my main right now

-I don't know if this is an unfounded fear, but a part of me thinks Google will get rid of My Maps sooner than later as literally no one in my life (who's not into tech) even knows about My Maps, since Google Maps just does everything better

Other options I've looked into are Wanderlog and FindPenguins which aren't bad, but more for travel than a catch-all mapping system. But I guess I can stick to them since archiving the places I've been to is my primary goal.

Curious to know what other data hoarders use!

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Bonus q: I've recently gotten back into photography and I've been saving all my RAWs in 2 copies of 4TB HDDs (one as a backup.) Am I doing this right, or are there better methods to saving my photography?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Kyxstrez on 2025-05-31 21:48:48.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Massive_Resort2535 on 2025-05-31 21:05:42.

My mom passed away recently and I found a small carry-on suitcase and large plastic tote full of childhood photos and memorabilia. I have a cheap HP printer and scanner combo I’d been using, but after several hours of scanning them one by one and having to crop them, rotate and save them, I became fed up and new there was a faster solution.

There are companies that specialize in this - one being LegacyBox. But it can get pricey and worst of all, I worry about them losing or misplacing photos.

So, I’d rather do them on my own. According to Reddit, the best scanner for this is the Epson FastFoto FF-680W Photo Scanner. It’s perfect for scenarios like this.

However, the only issues I can think of is:

1. There are several larger school photo sizes than I’m not sure if it can fit to scan. Does any know the largest size it will scan?

2. I’d also like to find a printer/scanner hybrid. I have to print a lot for various legal matters. I currently can’t print on the cheapo HP printer I have now.

3. I’d also like the ability to scan documents in the legal size format. I’ve been receiving a lot of official mail in legal size that is too large for my current printer to scan.

I’m just trying to avoid buying a separate high tech scanner and printer. If I can find one that will do both (but bulk scanning photos), that would be ideal. Any ideas?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/jackzzae on 2025-05-31 20:36:35.

Hey everyone! This is a project i've been thinking about doing for a while now, inspired mainly by SearchCord.

I only scrape servers that are publically available. Maybe later I could add a feature where you guys can suggest servers to scrape?

I made a version for people in the European Union aswell, to comply with GDPR rules.

You can opt-out using a form aswell.

I'd love to hear feedback on it <3

https://skrycord.web1337.net/

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Silent-OCN on 2025-05-31 20:36:05.

Bit of background I have a 16TB WD or seagate hard drive. Used for backup of my whole pc. I stupidly put encryption on the drive a while back but got sick of the slow time to unlock the drive. I’m not sure why but the decryption got stuck and I ended up turning the pc off. The drive was removed from the system up until this week when I found the drive and decided to plug it back in.

Initially the drive works ok I can load the files from it and windows sees it. The problem is the decryption has resumed but it’s taking forever and a day. It’s literally taking a day for 1% decryption at best and now it is stuck at 38.9% decryption.

Another issue is if I restart the pc the computer doesn’t load and it’s sheer luck I can get the pc to post with the decrypting drive installed.

Anyone know what the problem is here? I would really like to use it for backup but it seems the decryption is causing real issues.

Thanks for any advice. Sorry if this is the wrong sub I just figured if anyone is gonna know it’s this sub.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/philcolinsfan on 2025-05-31 18:56:01.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Spektre99 on 2025-05-31 18:51:38.

"Degraded"

I currently have a 20TB RAID 1 array in Windows Server 2019. Is it possible to create a degarded RAID 5 array with only 2 disks? If so, I could do so, copy my 20G data over from a new backup disk, Add that disk to the array and let it rebuild, effectively converting my 2 disk RAID 1 to a 3 disk RAID 5 with only the purchase of 1 disk.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/OneChrononOfPlancks on 2025-05-31 18:23:52.

Proud owner of "Scene It! Star Trek DVD Board Game," but without a hooked-up DVD player, and desiring to preserve the DVD in case it gets lost or damaged, I opened DVDShrink and created a "No Compression" decrypted ISO rip. (edit: My wife and I played the game this way last week).

This is the method I use for all conventional DVDs.

Scene It! runs via Kodi like any DVD ISO, including the menus, and it's mostly playable, but there are bugs:

1. The "How to Play" tutorials seem to run in some combination of a) unreliably, b) at the wrong speed, c) without sound, and d) difficult to control playback.
2. The "Final Frontier" challenges at the end of the game don't run properly and aren't responsive.
3. Some forms of question don't pause on the question, they only flash the question and then play right to the answer immediately.

These issues, I assume, won't replicate if I use a real DVD player.

Does anyone know what might be wrong with the rip, maybe better settings I should use in DVDShrink?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/JJPath005 on 2025-05-31 17:37:03.

Every Year I get like 1 TB of content. It adds pretty quick and its been a bit over 3 years and my 4TB hard drive is kinda iffy right now. What is the best tool to archive important content, and keep it safe without damage for a long time.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/JJPath005 on 2025-05-31 17:35:26.

Every week I take like 15 GB of footage and it adds pretty quick. What is the most efficient way to upload and store this content. Im saying 1 TB as it allows me space to leverage and avoids bigger crashing issues. Is an SSD Disk the best option.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/shellshock321 on 2025-05-31 16:05:45.

The Reason I ask this has to do with the Ports. the 5tb Enclosures premade has to do with some weird ass Ports. Like its a variation of micro usb apparently. Just Awful.

Usb C seems to be more modern. However is there a real difference? Or am I just screwing myself?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/wifi_cable_rental on 2025-05-31 15:44:44.

Hi,

Are the Seagate Exos X18 - for 230 euri a good deal?

Its refurb with 2 year of warr.

Thanks

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Affectionate_Day8849 on 2025-05-31 12:36:25.

hello everyone, I’m new here, but I’ve been on a mission for the last 4 1/2 years to collect all of a old Internet radio station called WFUCKOFF RADIO, I was pointed here as a way of possibly finding more. I have a list of all dates that I’m missing.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Captain_John_Price on 2025-05-31 11:14:02.

Has anyone used both MEGA and pCloud for a long time? What’s your take on them, especially in terms of privacy?I used pCloud back in 2019, but then I switched to MEGA and have been using it since. However, MEGA has increased its prices recently, so I'm thinking about switching. I’ve seen a lot of reviews saying pCloud is better than MEGA.Should I go for pCloud's yearly plan, or would it be better to stay in Mega? Also, for those who use pCloud,should I get the additional encryption add-on?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/babybuttoneyes on 2025-05-31 10:29:19.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/srosenow_98 on 2025-05-31 09:20:40.

Hi,

I saw a thread here from a year ago where someone was asking on how to download from AmericanArchive.org.

There are some Mount St. Helens-related raw video files I'm looking to acquire, and I've tried the Stream Detector method as well as the "Convert/Save" method in VLC, however when trying to do the Convert/Dave method, it only saves the first video in the playlist, which is a ten-second clip of a gameshow promo. The entire video is almost 50 minutes in length.

I've also tried developer tools to no avail, in efforts to locate the media that way.

https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-153-25x69s4f

Is there a way to download the entire video?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/General_Category_736 on 2025-05-31 08:59:36.

Hey all, I’m planning to upgrade my TerraMaster F4-210 NAS, which currently has 3x 20TB HDDs in RAID 5. It’s been solid for storage, but I’m running into performance issues and want a more powerful NAS (better CPU, software, or features).My biggest worry is keeping all my data safe during the upgrade. Can I transfer my RAID 5 array (drives and all) to a new NAS without losing anything? Are there NAS brands or models that support this kind of migration? I’d really like to avoid rebuilding the array or restoring from backups if possible .Any recommendations for NAS models that can handle 20TB drives in RAID 5, steps for a smooth migration, or pitfalls to avoid? Thanks for any tips!