The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/activoice on 2025-06-30 19:31:31.

So this drive only has about 14,000 hours on it.

The reallocated sector count is 18 (18 hex = 24 dec)

I completed a full format on it, and the number of reallocated sectors remained the same.

Everything else looks healthy.. I was planning to use it as a backup drive in a USB enclosure...

https://preview.redd.it/pxlek7d194af1.png?width=674&format=png&auto=webp&s=bc21e880d5fb2d577346200c9189d4723c121aff

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/snakeladder22 on 2025-06-30 19:30:17.

Some public profiles may display story archives but I haven't found a way to download them. snapchat-dl only downloads current stories. Is there a workaround?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/DiodeInc on 2025-06-30 18:58:44.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/s/WvfGlkFQBV

I ended up going with Navidrome and Ultrasonic. I only have MP3s, but if I purchase CDs, I'll rip them as WAVs.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Candid_Leaf on 2025-06-30 18:11:17.

I scrolled and scrolled, didn't see anything pertaining to my problem.

I bought a WD Elements external hard drive. I have a brand new laptop. When I plug it in, I can hear the hard drive doing things... But nothing populates into the files explorer section (where I'm used to seeing "F: drive" or something similar when inserting a thumb drive.

Is there something I need to do to get the computer to recognize the device, so that I can begin using it? Thank you for helping me avoid a 120.00 paper weight!!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ImaginaryTango on 2025-06-30 17:58:02.

Short Version: I rip anything I buy on physical digital media to my server. (I keep the media, so I'm basically doing it for convenience and preservation, not so I can resell the media.) I use MakeMKV for ripping and a lot of the time there is no issue, but I need a way to rip video files from a damaged DVD. MakeMKV won't do that, so I need something more fault tolerant.

Long Version: I've asked about this on the MakeMKV forum and I've had it explained to me that MKV is to make a perfect copy of the original media. But DVDs are notorious for having flaws in them. I find ways to work around crappy DVD authoring programs, but when there's a physical flaw in the media, MakeMKV can't rip it. It's incapable of passing over an error and reconstructing the data stream after that. Most of the time (over 99.5% of the time) my discs are never played in a player, just ripped to my server, then stored. My understanding is that DVD/BD players are designed to keep going, so if there's a problem on the DVD, it'll keep looking for the next readable part and start playback from there. It may amount to nothing a human can notice, or it may show a glitch, or even jump to a few seconds later in the video. I can't find any ripping programs that can behave like this - that can handle an error in a DVD without failing to rip the file.

If my understanding is wrong or there is something I can do to read a damaged DVD with MakeMKV, I would love to hear about it.

(I had one TV series that was seriously damaged and bought a new version, that was bad, and found, over a year of trying, that the quality of DVDs from Acorn Media - is far worse than any other source I've dealt with. It's impossible to buy a season of a TV show from them and not find multiple episodes unreadable for the reason above. So when I want a show they publish, there's no way to rip the entire season due to this problem.)

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/NoYoureACatLady on 2025-06-30 17:57:05.

I've got a solid RAID Synology NAS setup that I trust, with that redundancy built in, but want to add that extra security layer of cloud storage. What's the cheapest way to backup 10-20TB online? Thanks!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/cinephiley on 2025-06-30 16:23:35.

Hi,

I want to download a bunch of private embedded Vimeo videos. There’s been a few ways described on here through the page’s source code, however, what I’ve tried doesn’t work.

Has anyone been able to find a way around this? Thank you!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/DiodeInc on 2025-06-30 15:24:36.

I figured you guys would probably know best. I'm trying to access my music collection from my phone. Similar to how YouTube Music and Spotify work, but not their servers. Just mine.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Chance_of_Rain_ on 2025-06-30 13:57:46.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/turtlecults1 on 2025-06-30 13:24:15.

Apologies for the potentially bad formatting - I’m sitting at work typing this on my phone as I browse for some tools.

I’ve been hoarding my data for years at this point and I have so much that it’s spread out across 4-5 different platforms and systems and I’m looking to consolidate everything. A big focus of mine is getting things like my Spotify playlists downloaded at a high quality but relatively cheaply, what sorts of recommendations would yall have for downloading some of my online only stuff that way I can keep it all stored locally on my own drives?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/DarkAntiMOD on 2025-06-30 07:53:18.

I have backed up my whole Spotify Playlist.. around 2600 songs and also my "Homework" Videos that amount to 76GB..

Above are kept in harddisks..

Next i want to Write all my favorite movies like Avengers batman etc.. (Around 50+ movies) to my empty DVD collection ( Dvd so that i can display them with printed posters)

I know that these sizes of media are barely anything compared to what all u guys have hoarded .. but i am just starting out ( I am 21)

Videos and Gif, Images

M4a and mp3s

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/jack_sparrow077 on 2025-06-30 07:23:05.

I couldn’t find a solid tool to download YouTube playlists in high-quality audio formats with full control, so I wrote a Python script using yt-dlp.

🔧 Features:

• Download entire YouTube playlists to .mp3, .m4a, .flac, .opus, .wav, etc.
• Choose bitrate: 128 / 192 / 256 / 320 kbps or max available
• Batch download multiple playlists at once
• Embed metadata: title, artist, album, and cover art
• Open-source, lightweight, CLI-based

I use it mainly for organizing music offline (e.g. for car or backup), but figured some of you might find it handy too.

🔗 GitHub repo: [https://github.com/dheerajv1/AutoYT-Audio/]

🎥 YouTube tutorial/demo: [https://youtu.be/HVd4rXc958Q/]

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/LongLineOfNumbers on 2025-06-27 00:22:36.

My boss owns a Mac and uses Disk Catalog Maker to organize his files. He wants me to sort through his files on my laptop, which is a PC. His worry is that the catalog files that are made using his program will not carry over to my PC and I would have to completely reorgainze all of his files.

Does anyone know a program that can run the catalog files he creates on my PC? I don't want to pay for a cataloging software that ends up not being compatible with his already existing files. Thanks!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/spur0701 on 2025-06-26 23:21:21.

About 10 years ago I bought a NAS, a Western Digital Sential DX4000, it had 4 3 TB drives and I hung it off the home network.  The family used it as a backup location for pretty much anything.  It finally failed last year, I haven't tried to recover anything from it yet but the kids are gone off to college and I think I've got all the data that was on it on other drives so I don't think it's worth trying to recover anything from it, which is fortunate cause it looks like it would be a pain since one of the drives is dead and the enclosure is dead.  

In the spring I bought 2 Seagate EXOS recerted 20TB drives and dropped them in my main desktop, its a Dell XPS 8930, it's a little older but it had 64 GB of memory and runs an i9.  

My plan was to RAID 1 them, since that would be the simplest, robust, and easy to recover if one dies.  I know I can do that with software but was looking for a recommendation for  PCIe card that wasn't too too expensive?  ....or is there another solution that I'm missing?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/r0sayo-at-reddit on 2025-06-26 19:17:22.

Like the title says, I'm just looking for a way to convert my whole library (160GB) to MP3 so it takes up less space on my phone. I wonder if I could do this with FFMPEG?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/CaseroRubical on 2025-06-26 19:14:51.

I'm just looking for a hard drive to backup my personal files, not trying to build a home server or whatever. Looking online, I can get either a 4 TB USB HDD or a (second hand) 12 TB SATA HDD and a simple adapter for the same price. Seems like a no brainer

I just want to backup my files and then put the drive in a box indefinitely. Is it a bad idea?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/jaq805 on 2025-06-26 19:13:09.

I’m debating buying a 4 bay to replace my 620 slim. My first plex library has filled it up and there’s no chance to expand it anymore.

I could buy a new ugreen 4 bay nas and fill it with 20tb drives minimum.

Or should I get a cheaper hardware raid - 4 bay enclosure and host it off of a spare Mac mini m1 I have lying around?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/NickMeAnotherTime on 2025-06-26 18:38:42.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Yabgas18 on 2025-06-26 17:06:55.

Want to build better Reddit datasets,

I’ll scrape any thread for you (free test)

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/wtf_ever_man on 2025-06-26 16:59:02.

I basically need/want to compile or make a list if all the things in all my directories... just in case... and if I'm ever having to check if I have something already.

So what do you all use to make a master list of stuff you have?

I presume there's software that will read and just give me a print out?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/mitchellcrazyeye on 2025-06-26 15:54:26.

Hey y'all. This is a very similar question to posts I've seen here before so I'm hoping I'm not too bothersome - I need someone who can properly look and see. I think they changed the system a bit as these don't seem to be the way things work anymore.

I'm trying to find a "1 button push" way to request the camera, download the stream on demand. INDOT makes you go through so many barriers to load a camera, so I'm trying to reverse engineer the video request system to it's simplest form, but the request seems buried and I cannot for the life of me figure out where it is.

If there's someone a bit more knowledgeable in this that can take a peek, it would be well appreciated. I think there's a small community that looks into this and then gives up - any insight would be helpful, thank you.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/sanernes on 2025-06-26 15:33:11.

Hello fellows datahoarders.

I am duplicating my HDD with personal data (another backup in the NAS) , its a WD 4tb usb 3.0 disk with 3,6 TB and 4M files and I am copying to a seagate 5tb 3.0usb HDD.

After a week using windows file manager and teracopy. I found that I had 4,3 tb of data copied so I had more data copied so I started again.

So I decided to try teracopy beta , FreeFileSync (failed to lack of ram) , Unstoppable Copier.

I need to try in another computer as I am using a relatively old laptop (usb3.0, 8gb ram) and I will try Copywhiz and fastcopy.

I sticked to several instances of windows explorer and a run with teracopy for long filenames and for verification. But its taken more than 1 week and going for the 2th week.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/radialmonster on 2025-06-26 15:05:47.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/preezyfabreezy on 2025-06-26 14:17:16.

I built a PC (with a bunch of help) for audio production. 8TB SSD boot drive, and 2 x 16TB WD Red Pro drives I wanna mirror to run all my audio files.

I’m only about “medium” computer literate. Really good at using the windows platform, know a little DOS, and am scared shitless of messing around with BIOS settings.

Are there any disadvantages to just mirroring the 2 WD drives with the windows 11 storage pool function? or is it just as solid as a traditional software raid 1 setup?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Enzissimo on 2025-06-26 14:09:56.

Hello everyone.

I have about a hundred CDs that I would like to recover. Some are badly read and have problems in recovery.

I am using ddrescue, dvdisaster and testdisk in combination on a computer that has these two readers mounted:

• Liteon dh16a6s

• Pioneer bdr-207m

Some sectors, with dvdisaster, have problems.

So now I wonder:

1. I have two other old readers (older) removed from an old PC. If I used them with an IDE converter could I have more luck? The readers in question are:

• Toshiba Samsung SH-S162L/BEBN

• Sony DRU-530A

2. I am thinking of buying the Jfj Easy Pro. At that price is it the best to try to recover the data or could I find something better?

Thanks