It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Limp_Fig6236 on 2025-04-26 04:37:39.

Would anyone recommend either of these 3 QNAP NAS for home use? beginners?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/guaranteednotabot on 2025-04-26 04:13:01.

I did some research and I was going to buy the DS423+. Now that Synology is planning to lock down hard drive options for 2025 Plus models, I'm wondering if it is still wise to buy a Synology NAS. Even though the DS423+ is not affected by the hard drive limitation, it is missing the upgrades from the 2025 version and Synology might potentially pull off some retroactive cripple hammer.

My use case would be mainly for backing up my photos and videos and editing photos. I might stream media via Plex, and perhaps run some servers through Docker, though these are not as critical. The main thing I would be missing is editing videos off of the NAS - the 1 Gbps ethernet and the lack of USB-C/Thunderbolt access means that I would have to copy the files off the hard drive before I could edit them.

I did some research on hard drive enclosures and the consensus seems to be that they are unreliable and may potentially corrupt my files. Also, they are barely any cheaper than a NAS and are hard to find in my region. I am not considering the 2025 Plus versions since I can't find a Synology hard drive in my region and they are expensive anyway.

So, should I just buy the DS423+ while I still can, or are there any other options? I would prefer not to build my own if possible since I am pretty busy and might screw up but might consider it if it's the only option.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/hyacinth_house_ on 2025-04-26 04:12:58.

Dumpster full of film reels apparently available to any who want them at 936 Seward St in Hollywood, from recently bankrupted Technicolor offices.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/BigMcLargeHuge- on 2025-04-26 03:14:44.

Very simple and probably 10 minutes of searching would have found the answer but it is nice to get a more recent thread started every now and again.

For my scenario is it movies and that's it. I have about 25TB spread over 4 HDD's (all WD Gold) but I have zero plan for HDD failure. What should I be doing because as we all know, some of those old movies are hard to fine seeds?!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Noversi on 2025-04-26 02:13:47.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ContestIndividual975 on 2025-04-26 01:56:43.

I have a container that can store 20 3.5" hard drives safely and securely and i personally don't plan to get a NAS or some sort of device to have them constantly on or on most of the time as a lot of people do.

So instead I plan to just put them into a dock to read and write when needed and place them back into the container and half of the hard drives will be copies of the other half just in case something happens to the main 10.Also I plan to expand the amount I have over time but currently I have the capacity to store 20 hard drives.

I would like to know if this is something reasonable to do and isn't generally a bad thing to do for long term and large amount of data storage.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Jacksharkben on 2025-04-26 00:31:25.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Dismal_Falcon_2168 on 2025-04-25 23:55:39.

I am a complete noob, I know nothing about the terminology or workings of all "this".

All I know is I have our personal family photos, videos from vacations that include some of the loved ones that are no longer with us.

I got some super old movies that I bought, even some games from early 2000s, lots of PS1 games as well that I owned since late 90s.

And I want to save it all.

So far I used CDs and DVDs but recently it hit me.

One of my first CDs ever that I burned, those 700MB ones from Verbatim, which contains lots of childhood memories, barely works.

Luckily, one of local tech savvy guys recovered it all to usb thumb drive, but its gonna happen again.

It came to my attention I can have a "server" running 24/7 that can hold my data safety

Can anyone point me to some type of guide where I can learn all the ins and outs, terms and options that your world has to offer ?

I scanned trough Wiki but it seems it assumes you already know things, which I do not.

Also , I do not want to use anything that someone else can shut off when they want to.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/DearPlankton on 2025-04-25 22:54:34.

Noticed ebay has their own included one-year warranty for refurbished items provided by Allstate. How reliable are they? Is it a seamless warranty process like goharddrive or spd?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Caranthir-Hondero on 2025-04-25 22:00:28.

Of course my files are already backed up elsewhere but I would still like to know if it is true that the blue screen can corrupt or delete files (in 10 days I had 2 blue screens, probably due to a power optimization problem). I wonder if it is worth reinstalling all my files on my PC from my backups on external hard drives.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/nrberg on 2025-04-25 21:52:35.

I have over 20 terabytes of music on dozens of hard drives. Would a nas be the answer for storage and accessibility. Would I be able to have an index of all my music?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Zeznon on 2025-04-25 21:41:32.

Hello, I'm new here, and realized I'm kind of a "data hoarder lite" after my old 512 GB sata 2.5" ssd randomly died on me yesterday and I was way worried about my files than having to reconfigure my system. Basically, ADHD and lack of money has prevented me from doing backups. Due to the ssd failure (probably due to too many reads/writes), I lost 400GB of old computer and console files and games. I guess the insanely large amount of tiny files made it worse faster? (like, 600000 files, with average size of 500kb, with some random larger ones not counted in the average) Sorry if I said atuff that's wrong; I'm very new to this stuff.

Thankfully, apparently my brother had an extra one that was actually supposed to be mine, and I had a 1TB hdd lying around, so I can start backing stuff up after I've redownloaded things. The dead ssd and the current one are identical, from a chinese(?) brand called kingspec, I bought one because it was cheap enough for my broke ass, and my brother bought another for an eventually dead laptop for my parents (from which I inherited the ssd).

What would be a good TBW value for someone like me? (obviously accounting for ssd size)

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Umbriyahoo on 2025-04-25 21:20:36.

Hi everyone,

I’m in a bit of a bind and could really use your help. I own a Fantec QB-X8US3R 8-bay RAID enclosure (JMicron JMB393 controller) that I accidentally bricked by cross-flashing it with a Lian Li EX-503 v0.957 firmware .bin. After the flash, the enclosure no longer enumerates any drives over eSATA or USB, and the RAID manager can’t see the controller.

I never backed up the original firmware, so now I’m stuck without a working image to recover. I’ve confirmed that the device originally shipped with Fantec firmware v0.958 (or possibly an even earlier build), which is the only version that will boot this specific hardware.

What I’m looking for:

• The exact factory firmware binary for the QB-X8US3R (v0.958 or earlier).
• Preferably the official Fantec release (.bin), not the Lian Li or Addonics builds, since those don’t work on my unit.
• If you have a direct download link, an archived copy, or can share your backup, I would be extremely grateful.

What I’ve tried so far:

• Flashing the Lian Li EX-503 v0.957 and an Addonics v0.959 image (both refuse to boot).
• Using the JMicron HW RAID Manager over both USB and eSATA on a proper port-multiplier card (no detection).
• Contacting Fantec support, but haven’t received a working download link yet.

Why I need it:

Without the correct factory firmware, the enclosure’s on-board flash chip can’t be re-programmed in-system, and the only recovery path is via an external SPI flasher—which I’m willing to do once I have the right .bin.

If you happen to have the original Fantec QB-X8US3R firmware (v0.958 or earlier) sitting in a backup or know where it’s archived, please DM me or drop a link here. I’ll happily compensate for your time/effort.

Thanks in advance for any help or pointers!

—

Model: Fantec QB-X8US3R

Controller: JMicron JMB393

Serial #: 306131465000037

Current state: Completely unresponsive post-flash

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/tonton346 on 2025-04-25 20:29:18.

Original URL: https://www.ebay.com/itm/387995113241?_skw=3.5+HDD+CASE&itmmeta=01JSQ9MHX5FSXFRSY9TA67RNSG&itmprp=enc%3AAQAKAAAA8FkggFvd1GGDu0w3yXCmi1caD8Qim18gkCMYo6GmHfz9MqEbXwHReCaNQCPp%2FLjWy7FVLK26rXEtiS0%2BZa1EvNXbvCXXo1u869mn7pZzlRo8PKrJwVWhP1ttkVttE4tWXkkDC%2Bxcqx6T6dQbXBNnoCsx97H0GSo8RwydlKckY2A7G%2FDyKvp5VIh%2BX3JORQWHeh8e7WEt29mjLOxvrG4UIJa8OsSJGMPBZUxdZWazDZQJQyPXka%2FrRFSOfM2Raucq79QcHsKawBPEw7ffsYdQjsOCjb27PxHaUx14U323--fdX9kUjYBkcLo5reECJKWoqA%3D%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR-qe0unNZQ

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/fifteenfountains on 2025-04-25 19:23:55.

Im sure every single person here has a big ol’ movies folder. Im curious to know different ways of managing them.

Do you do it by genre, year pr your ranking. I used to do it by my personal ranking with a 3 tier system.

Im looking to elevate this by writing a short review for every movie as I store.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/evild4ve on 2025-04-25 19:18:48.

This is on a blank 4TB WD Black disk from 2013, which I want to use as a dustbin.

I'm trying to shrink an empty partition to avoid some localized bad sectors

badblocks -svw /dev/sdd1 found these 28 errors:-

12316132, 12316133, 12316134, 12316135

2964743748, 2964743749, 2964743750, 2964743751

2964744768, 2964744769, 2964744770, 2964744771

2964768260, 2964768261, 2964768262, 2964768263

2964769280, 2964769281, 2964769282, 2964769283

2964770296, 2964770297, 2964770298, 2964770299

2964771316, 2964771317, 2964771318, 2964771319

This was a Win7 OS disk and I imagine it's more likely to be media degradation than physical damage, such as with 16kb being constantly over-written into the same file, which the disk firmware reallocated six times, exhausting its Reallocated Sectors Count in the process.

But the disk's blocksize is 4096 and I forgot to change the command from its default of 1024.

These are both very small areas of the disk <2GB.

My question is can I simply convert the 1024 block numbers into the equivalent 4096 ones? like:-

12,316,132 > 3,082,035 which is at ~12GB

2,964,743,748 > 741,185,937 which is at ~2830GB

And therefore a partition table like this to avoid those small areas:-

Unallocated: 16GB

Partition 1: from 16GB to 2832GB

Unallocated: 16GB

Partition 2: from 2848GB to END

Apologies that I couldn't quite understand this from the badblocks man page. I realized it was a big assumption on my part that two blocks that are consecutive in a 1024 numbering would also be consecutive in a 4096 numbering... given the medium is laid out as concentric rings and not a long line. Or in other words: does block 12,316,132 in 1024 numbering being logically equivalent to block 3,082,035 in 4096 numbering necessarily mean it's in the same physical location on the same platter?

And as a follow-up question, if my hypothesis is reasonable that this is media degradation, should I try to reset the disk's Reallocated Sectors count?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Kendrillion on 2025-04-25 19:18:43.

Pretty much as the title implies

I'm new to storing data and I want to know the best drive that can auto update my files when I back them up, this is because I'm an artist's and I tend to have to update my work on a daily basis

If there isn't a drive that can do that, I'd there like a 3rd party tool that can do the same or do I just have to do it manually every time?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Drenlin on 2025-04-25 18:22:10.

After a short discussion in another thread, I'm curious as to what the actual norm is among users of this sub. I know not everyone's will be uniform so I'm asking for a ballpark of the mean size of drives in your pools, so not counting OS-only drives, etc.

Round to the nearest if necessary I suppose.

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Doom_of__Mandos on 2025-04-25 15:29:05.

I'd like to get an external hard drive or SSD (not sure which is best) where I can store and play 4k movies from. I want to be able to connect it to my smart tv and play movies straight from the drive, without the need of having to transfer the movie on a smaller usb drive (which I've seen some people suggest), as I won't always have access to a laptop/pc to do the initial transfer.

So what would you advise I get that is best for my needs? Or maybe i'm overthinking it and it doesn't really matter.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/bitcrushedCyborg on 2025-04-25 17:29:10.

I'm a student and a data hoarder on a budget. I've noticed that used SAS drives routinely go for much cheaper than SATA drives of the same capacity (it's not even close - my local electronics recycler has SAS drives listed for less than $6/TB, while it's hard to find SATA drives for even $10/TB and when I do find them they're usually in lots of several drives 1TB or smaller). I'm Canadian and shipping + USD to CAD conversion rate + import taxes mean that importing large capacity drives from SPD or GHD isn't feasible, and I can't usually afford to add more than a few terabytes of disk space to my hoard at a time anyway (I'm also trying to avoid buying stuff from the US due to the ongoing tariff war).

However, I don't have any hardware I can just add a SAS card to. My daily driver is a laptop (Gigabyte Aorus 15p), and an old Lenovo Thinkcentre USFF is my dedicated data hoarding PC (no accessible PCIE slots on that particular model, and a SAS card wouldn't fit in the case regardless). I mainly rely on externally powered USB docks to use 3.5" SATA drives (almost all of my hoard is kept in cold storage whenever it's not actively being added to/backed up/verified/viewed/shuffled around), but as far as I'm aware no such thing exists/can exist for SAS. I also need to travel by plane on a semi-regular basis with all my stuff for my studies (parents live on one end of the country, my university is on the other - I've had my lifestyle described by a friend as "semi-nomadic"), so rack mount units and full-size PCs aren't really an option since I'm already running low on suitcase real estate.

Just wondering if the community has any suggestions for inexpensive and portable ways to add SAS drives to my setup? NAS, DAS, I'm not picky as long as it's no larger than a toaster, is inexpensive or can be readily found on the used market, and will give me a way to use SAS drives. I don't expect you nice people to hold my hand and tell me everything, but I would be really grateful if someone could suggest a direction to start looking in. This also might not be a feasible thing to set out to do and might need to wait until I have a more permanent place of residence and can use physically larger hardware, so please let me know if that's the case.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/SuperElephantX on 2025-04-25 17:18:00.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Endeavour1988 on 2025-04-25 16:28:43.

Obviously this is hypothetical, but lets say you hoarded on your drives all the plans for survival, harvesting crops, basically anything useful in a disaster. However a solar flare hits, a big one that basically fries everything that's not protected (personally not sure if you can protect against it) Is the data completely useless? Can it be recovered?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/FuzzyAttitude_ on 2025-04-25 15:33:15.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Cpt_Soaps on 2025-04-25 15:29:11.

is there any alternative to idm that can auto capture videos on a page?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/MrMiddletonsLament on 2025-04-25 15:22:32.

I download movies and seed on a private tracker from my mini PC. I'm using a 2tb external hard drive plugged into my PC on the floor and it's almost completely filled so I need to upgrade.

Is there any reason to just not buy 2 8TB externals. It seems to be the easiest and cheapest method. Backup isn't really that important so I think buying a second external is more than enough for what I need.