It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/DiggsNC on 2025-06-10 20:16:53.

I sent a 14TB red pro back for RMA in early May. Tracking shows it was delivered to WD on May 13. The RMA case update page for my drive has never once been updated. I have disputed the RMA since they show no Tracking and the drive has not been received. I called over a week ago and the rep told me the drive would be shipped in 24 hours. I call again today, I was told my case has been escalated, and the rep refused to transfer me to a supervisor.

Is this common now with WD? I ask here because I could find a subreddit for WD and I know you guys are all about some storage. I have returned drives in the past without issue, and I really hope this is not a trend because I will admit I am a WD fan.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/akiakiak on 2025-06-10 18:15:17.

Hi! I looked far and wide, and found some old thing and the OWC Thunderbay mini (which is not USB), so I'm looking to you for help.

I need an enclosure that fits 5 (or more) 2.5" drives, is completely silent when disks are spun down (fans turn off), and connects via USB3.

I want to reuse a bunch of old laptop drives for cheap storage, but also for fun. I don't have a lot of space, and I don't want to hear any noise when I'm not reading/writing the drives. Individual access (so I can use zfs) would be a very nice extra, and linux support is a must.

I'm open to alternative solutions that don't make a mess of wires, and need one wall wart for power at most. I found an endless stream of enclosures with SATA ports, which I could connect with USB adapters, but I couldn't figure out a way of powering those - all of this will connect to a low-power, fanless SBC, which can barely power a single drive with USB-SATA adatpters.

Thanks everyone, and happy hoarding!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/AggressiveEmuSlut on 2025-06-10 16:52:45.

Hi guys, when I built my server 10 years ago I repurposed a GIGANTIC overkill CPU cooler I had laying around. And it covers my top PCIE slot.

I need to add another card into my server so now I need to buy a smaller cooler.

My server runs Truenas and is literally just file storage / transfers. Nothing else.

CPU is an 80w Xeon E3-1230 v5 Quad-core 3.40 GHz.

Any recommendations for something quality that won't break the bank and will give me my top PCIE slot back?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/lastninja2 on 2025-06-10 16:09:42.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/OwThatHertz on 2025-06-10 16:04:57.

I have kind of a massive collection of DVD and Blu-ray discs that I’d like to rip because our Blu-ray player is dying and a network drive is just a lot more convenient and accessible. I’m on a pretty tight budget, but I’d like to try to find an efficient way to get this done so long as it doesn’t break the bank. My target budget would be under $100, but cheaper is always better.

Searching this subreddit yielded projects like this one. While I’m no electrical engineer, I’m decent at soldering, have a 3-D printer, and have been building and upgrading my own overkill PCs for almost a decade. I would be comfortable putting together an enclosure like this if necessary. I’ve already got large USB hubs so, if I’ve understood that build correctly, all I would need is the drives and some USB adapters, and possibly to construct a basic enclosure.

Is this kind of set up the best path to inexpensively but efficiently rip my movie collection? What other solutions would people recommend on a sub-$100 budget? I probably don’t need as many drives as the post I linked because there’s no urgency to getting it done; I just don’t want to limit myself to ripping a single disc at a time.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Ldarieut on 2025-06-10 15:25:30.

I have a NAS server, with a zfs pool made of HDD and a SSD for vm & containers. I also have a remote VPS which is my main mailserver.

The zfs pool is under light use, to the point of the disks being spin downed most of the time. All the heavy lifting of the apps is done on the ssd.

family uses macbooks, sync their iphone with their macbook and timemachine to the zfs pool

I mount the remote mailserver with nfs on the nas and rsync maildirs to the zfs pool

I rsync music from the ssd to the zfs pool

I snapshot vms to the zfs pool

I save my pictures from my camera to the zfs pool with samba mount.

I use backrest/restic to daily backup the zfs pool to B2 (currently, only music and pictures)

I also have a restic job on the VPS to backup maildirs to B2.

Now, what is missing:

vm snapshots are not backuped (I think it's acceptable, it's already a backup).

timemachine is not backuped (maybe acceptable, would imply failure from the macbook and the NAS).

rsync are launched whenever I feel like doing it (not acceptable, I should script this).

restic is runing from different locations for the maildir (proper backup would be vps => nas => B2, not VPS => B2, VPS => NAS)

Would you make things differently?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/wells68 on 2025-06-10 14:13:34.

Are you interested in collecting these old issues of the magazine, The Lawyer's PC?

The 1984 issue has these articles:

• PFS:FILE Offers Easy-to-Use Database Management Alternative
• The IBM PC Product Line: Considering Different Models
• Additional Timekeeping/Billing Sfotware Vendors
• Fire Protection for Magnetic Media
• Publications Received
• Bits and Bytes

I came across these issues while decluttering. I offer to ship them via USPS media mail at the cost of $5.38 for two pounds. They are in mint condition. (Issues from 7/15/94-11/15/94 have my initials written on the cover page.) Please DM me if you'd like them.

| LAWYER'S PC | Volume | Number | |

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| | April 1, 1984 | 1 | 15 | | May 1, 1994 | 11 | 15 | | May 15, 1994 | 11 | 16 | | June 1, 1994 | 11 | 17 | | June 15, 1994 | 11 | 18 | | July 15, 1994 | 11 | 20 | | Sep. 15, 1994 | 11 | 24 | | Oct. 1, 1994 | 12 | 1 | | Nov. 1, 1994 | 12 | 3 | | Nov. 15, 1994 | Annual Software Directory | | | Dec. 15, 1994 | 12 | 6 |

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Mush332 on 2025-06-10 13:28:13.

Im converting my setup from mac to windows and it has become the worst experience. Im in the process of converting drives to ntfs and while doing data transfers my pc keeps locking up and becoming unresponsive. I have 2 enclosures in a daisy chain. Owc 8 bay and owc 4 bay. While doing “backups” from exfat formatted drives to ntfs my pc keeps crashing mid transfer after a hour or so. I have sleep set to never and now set shut off screen to 3hrs previously on 5 min not sure if that was causing a problem. Has anyone else had this issue? Once im doing migrating data and all my drives are ntfs and not apfs or exfat will this stop or is there another cause. I have some programs installed that can read apfs and im not sure if thats causing an issue or its something deeper like enclosure problems or drive issues? Any help will be appreciated thank you!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/TopdeckIsSkill on 2025-06-10 10:11:37.

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for some software to selfhost on my server to manage all my photos and videos.

I was looking for something that can automatically tag the photos based on the place and faces.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/NecessarySubject1442 on 2025-06-10 10:13:12.

been trying to seriously log my online casino sessions for patterns, rtp variance, specific game performance (slots, baccarat, craps). i'm talking win/loss, duration, specific bet types, streaks, bonus triggers, etc. right now it's mostly spreadsheets, but it's getting clunky. anyone else here track their play like this? what tools or methods do you use for efficient data capture and analysis? trying to optimize my tracking for better edge play.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/No-Line-3463 on 2025-06-10 09:17:07.

Hello everyone! I just built a free web app that you can compress your video files without loosing quality up to 2Gb per file. Its unlimited, no ads, no membership is needed.

I would be happy if you give it a try! :)

SquuezeVid

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/TomLakeCharles on 2025-06-10 07:50:25.

I was on a binge of crime movies and videos, and upon going to rewatch Kento Bento's content, I found that his video on the ¥300m heist was deleted (bullshit youtube content policies).

Now, I'm under the understanding that this subreddit is dedicated to the art of data hoarding as a concept, not to the data itself. As such, I must ask:

Where would I go on Reddit to find hoarded data?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/nullrevolt on 2025-06-10 06:21:33.

I recently picked up a tape drive off ebay for long term storage of my most important files (HP Quantum 8-00976-04 LTO6 UDS3 Dual FC DRV ASM). I knew this was used so it may be bad, however the description indicates it as "used but working well." I have set it up as an external drive connected via fibre to a SCSI controller pci-e card.

My reason for thinking the tape drive may be bad is that certain commands such as mt -f /dev/st0 erase do seem to operate at first, however the terminal never prompts for another command acting like the previous command never finished. I've tried to use pkill -9 [pid] to kill some commands such as tar cvf /dev/st0 or mt -f /dev/st0 erase but this never finishes. This usually results in the following from mt -f /dev/st0 status reporting dev/st0: Device or resource busy. This is with a brand new LTO-6 tape, so I think the tape may be fine. I have successfully used the drive on a tape previously without issue.

I'm not sure how I can further diagnose a device like this. I can and am willing to provide any information which will be useful, I am just not sure what would be helpful at this time. I'm no linux pro, but I have been around computers my entire life both as a hobby and professionally (just not in a SysAdmin role : D ).

dmesg

[210342.366641] st 10:0:0:0: [st0] Error 30000 (driver bt 0, host bt 0x3).
[210342.366647] st 10:0:0:0: [st0] Error on write filemark.

lsscsi

[10:0:0:0]   tape    HP       Ultrium 6-SCSI   J5WZ  /dev/st0

E: This may just be me being dumb. I think I may have cancelled a tar being written, and just refused to reboot the system to clear the process. It seems to be working OK now, but if I experience more errors I will be back.

sudo tar --acls --xattrs --atime-preserve=system --ignore-failed-read -c -f - /SOURCE| sudo mbuffer -f --tapeaware -s 1M -m 2G -L -P 80 -o /dev/st0

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Heavy-Amphibian-495 on 2025-06-10 04:48:00.

I have a spare PC that I want to run docker apps 24/7 like Immich and Nextcloud and other stuffs (as a sync/backup/files serving server)

I have 4 drives in total (ST26000NM000C 26TB) manufacturer re-certified from serverpartdeals.

And would like some advices on which raid config (or if to use raid at all).

For now I think a single 26 TB would be more than enough, so I figure that I would go with:

• 2 drives in RAID 1

• 1 drive as a primary backup

• 1 drive as a secondary backup

If there is better configuration please enlighten me. Thanks

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/soy_tetones_grande on 2025-06-10 02:53:30.

I have a X11SSM-F

I have an HP SAS 9205-8i (it's pcie 3 x8) which is connected to 8 HDDs

My free pcie slots are pcie 3.0 x4... But I believe x4 for 8 HDDs is more than enough and won't have any bottleneck.

I have 2x 125gb SSDs attached the motherboard SATA ports for my boot drive (mirrored).

So I want to add a New 2nd pool of 8x drives.

I'm wondering, would it be better to simple grab another HP SAS 9205-8i and use my last remaining pcie 3 x4 slot for the other 8 HDDs?

Or get a single 16i card and connect all 16 to pcie slot?

My initial thoughts after research:

1. I've read that the 16i gets very hot.

2. I'm assuming splitting the pools between different pcie slots on two separate SAS cards would also theoretically prevent bottlenecks? Since pcie 3 x4 is 4GB/s so 8 drives on each would be totally fine (~270 MBs x 8 = ~2GB/s).. where as 16 drives would push it to the max and maybe bottleneck.

3. I also would think it's maybe safer to have both pools on Seperate expansion cards? If one expansion card was to fail, it won't take down both pools?

Downsides?

1. I use up my final pcie slot

2. more power consumption with ~10w per SAS card. But hey, I'm running 16 drives of spinning rust so that's like a drop in the ocean.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/jimalexp on 2025-06-10 02:06:57.

I currently have a rack case but it's using a lot of space under the desk.

Would it be possible to put two hotswap cages for a total of ten 3.5 inch drives?

Idea being to have an mini-ITX motherboard with an HBA to run those drives.

Not sure how a PSU could be included.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/jimalexp on 2025-06-10 02:01:49.

I'm thinking of backing up some data to optical and other media.

To protect it from damage I'd like to use PAR files but have never given them a go.

How do you go about it?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/keylesschuck89 on 2025-06-10 01:39:26.

Hoping to run Seagate exos drives 20,22,,24tb but site only listed 10/14

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/lake_huron on 2025-06-10 01:38:14.

Any ideas about how to wholesale archive the current CDC site? I've used some utilities to archive selected areas but wonder if anyone is interested or able to recommend a simple way.

Sorry, amateur here.

Is it as simple as using HTTRACK and downloading the whole thing to a big drive?

Also immunize.org

The health of the US may depend on backups like these...

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/theseawoof on 2025-06-10 01:21:10.

Can anyone recommend a home NAS setup that I can run 24/7 to access my stuff remotely, stream Plex from etc? What sorts of storage constraints are there? Is tb too crazy to ask for?

Is it more practical to run a small PC with a drive in it for Plex stuff and keep NAS separate or something?

I'd like about 30tb+ for my growing media collection that I'd stream via Plex. I need to back up about 20tb of audio production libraries, perhaps another 20tb for my video production content that I actually want to keep. I also have a growing library of family media that I'd like to back up and store long term.

I figure buy once/cry once, but what does something like this run? What would you buy for longevity and performance? Would be nice to access remotely (if safe) so I can pull and backup current versions of projects to/from my laptop when I'm away for example. Any insight is appreciated!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/AggressiveEmuSlut on 2025-06-10 01:18:34.

Quick question. I know this is not ideal, but I have a 15 drive server chassis.

I have came into ownership of some new drives.

I have now 16 in total (2 pools of 8x).

My server chassis has TONS of space where I could fit the spare 16th HDD.

How bad is it if it's not screwed in and secure in a caddy?

Super bad? Or just not ideal?

With tariffs etc. a new 20 drive chassis is expensive!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/SchemeSilly3226 on 2025-06-10 00:19:31.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Altraic on 2025-06-09 23:04:33.

is there anyone interested in making a site that archives ALL leftypol threads? i am able to read seemingly all blue board threads on desuarchive but the current archives for leftypol miss a lot of good threads.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Discoveryellow on 2025-06-09 22:21:03.

How hot do you routinely let your drives get and what's your peak comfort temp under max load? Is 35C too much with active cooling and 55C with passive airflow?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Lectraplayer on 2025-06-09 21:02:50.

Something I have been weak about for decades is my backup plan, though I've finally got to where most of my important and currently relevant data is copied over multiple devices so that, say, I can send the same meme from one of several phones or my desktop. That said, I have to manage what I carry with me and thus can't carry much in the way of music, movies, etc on a phone. I'm wanting to find a way to back up around 10-50TB and am thinking about something like tape, though I think I've long since outgrown BD-RW (BlueRay writer) and am wondering how well hard disks are suited for cold storage, though so far the hard disks I have collected seem to be holding up for the most part. Most of the tape backup solutions I've found are quite pricey and require connection standards I don't think I can find in a consumer motherboard, so I'm wanting to connect it via USB or SATA. I also don't want to use cloud storage for multiple reasons. I would also like it to be as simple as using the TAR command in a terminal to .tar.gz to the media. Is there a backup solution where I can drop my media in, or a hard disk into a caddy, and run my command to do my backup? BTW. I'm running Linux on several computers, Mint on one, Manjaro on another, and subject to try others.