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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/TheDuke2300 on 2025-07-29 05:34:29+00:00.

New 22tb iron wolf pro drives always seem to be out of stock. 18s and 24s seem easier to get ahold of.

What’s the deal, any ideas?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/luckyrunner on 2025-07-29 05:15:57+00:00.

I'm considering buying this drive (link to Canadian Amazon). Currently, the price for the 26TB model sits at CA$414 (around CA$16/TB). The primary use-case would be for storing a Plex library of movies and shows, as well as personal photos and videos.

I've never used an external hard drive before -- always stuck with internal drives as I've been told that they are faster and more reliable. But I'm not sure if that's the case anymore, as USB speeds may exceed SATA by now? Plus I just haven't found any internal drives of similar sizes for similar prices.

So, overall, just wondering if this is a good deal or if folks might recommend an alternative setup for a similar price?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/RewanDemontay on 2025-07-29 03:44:54+00:00.

As per the title, I'm wondering what are good/decent/not terrible external hard drive exist. I'm thinking something simple to have a main copy, a back up, and a back up back up. I think 1/2/3TB would be ample enough since I don't have all that much. Something I can keep stowed and take out/connect easily enough as needed. Something I can easily transfer to, delete from, and shuffle the copies around on of all my data. All in all I wish for something I can use with any computer/laptop as I might feel switching out with.

General advice/recommendations is the idea, please. I am not going to interrogate on the details of anything, just seeking leads to start with from those far more knowledgable than me.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Various_Candidate325 on 2025-07-29 01:01:40+00:00.

Managing cold storage for research lab's genomics data. Currently 500TB, growing 20TB/month. Debating architecture for next 5 years.

Current Iwe need RAID-60 on-prem, but hitting MTBF concerns with 100+ drives. Considering S3-compatible object storage (MinIO cluster) for better durability.

The requirements are 11-nines durability, occasional full-dataset reads for reanalysis, POSIX mount capability for legacy pipelines. Budget: $50K initial, $5K/month operational.

RAID gives predictable performance but rebuild times terrify me. Object storage handles bit rot better but concerned about egress costs when researchers need full datasets.

Anyone architected similar scale for write-once-read-rarely data? How do you balance cost, durability, and occasional high-bandwidth access needs?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/didyousayboop on 2025-07-29 00:37:24+00:00.

Archive Team is a collective of volunteer digital archivists.

Currently, Archive Team is running a project to archive billions of goo.gl links before Google shuts down the link shortener on August 25, 2025.

You can contribute by running a program called ArchiveTeam Warrior on your computer. Similar to folding@home, SETI@home, or BOINC, ArchiveTeam Warrior is a distributed computing project that lets anyone join in on a project.

For this project, you should have at least 150 GB of free disk space and no bandwidth caps to worry about. You will be continuously downloading 1-3 MB/s and will need to temporarily store a chunk of data on your computer. For me, that chunk has gotten as large as ~90 GB and that's only what I happened to spot.

Here's how to install and run ArchiveTeam Warrior.

Step 1. Download Oracle VirtualBox: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

Step 2. Install it.

Step 3. Download the ArchiveTeam Warrior appliance: https://warriorhq.archiveteam.org/downloads/warrior4/archiveteam-warrior-v4.1-20240906.ova (Note: The latest version is 4.1. Some Archive Team webpages are out of date and will point you toward downloading version 3.2.)

Step 4. Run OracleVirtual Box. Select "File" → "Import Appliance..." and select the .ova file you downloaded in Step 3.

Step 5. Click "Next" and "Finish". The default settings are fine.

Step 6. Click on "archiveteam-warrior-4.1" and click the "Start" button. (Note: If you get an error message when attempting to start the Warrior, restarting your computer might fix the problem. Seriously.)

Step 7. Wait a few moments for the ArchiveTeam Warrior software to boot up. When it's ready, it will display a message telling you to go to a certain address in your web browser. (It will be a bunch of numbers.)

Step 8. Go to that address in your web browser or you can just try going to http://localhost:8001/

Step 9. Choose a nickname (it could be your Reddit username or any other name).

Step 10. Select your project. Next to "goo.gl", click "Work on this project". You can also select "ArchiveTeam’s Choice" and it should assign you to the goo.gl project anyway.

Step 11. Confirm that things are happening by clicking on "Current project" and seeing that a bunch of inscrutable log messages are filling up the screen.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/First_Musician6260 on 2025-07-29 00:34:12+00:00.

Yes, the ex-Fujitsu mad lads have finally done it. They've beaten Seagate and WD to the chase. Now who will be next to match them...?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/AcrobaticPlenty5431 on 2025-07-29 00:29:39+00:00.

Hi all, this subreddit describes my problems perfectly, "What do you mean DELETE ?!"

I have a growing collection of mainly movies, family photos, and i have run out of internal storage. Ive got some hard drive laying around that i have stored things on, but without beeing able to easily access them, im finding myself probably downloading the same things or rebacking up the same things.

My PC is connected to my Nvidia Shield PLEX, so if solution is a NAS im thinking it does not have to be that powerful to do transcoding? I also dont need to access it all the time, maybe once a week transferring to/from

What should i do, im lost with the amount of way i could go, but not sure what right one is?

NAS, DAS, external HDD plug&play, something that i can use my various hdd's i have laying around? . On a budget too but happy to go with something second hand

Thank you all

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Beautiful_Banana_812 on 2025-07-28 22:28:02+00:00.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Wolfgang_Pup on 2025-07-28 21:39:10+00:00.

Hello! I recently retired and over the past 25 years have only accumulated 5Tb of data which probably isn't hoarding. What feels like newspapers up to the ceiling is that the data is on 2 laptops, 6 external drives and 12 Google accounts. Plus the duplication is boundless. Apparently every time I was getting on an airplane I would just do a full backup.

What would you recommend as a starting place to get a handle on all this and establish a secure backup plan?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/benevolentamatuer on 2025-07-28 19:56:42+00:00.

I currently have a Dell PowerEdge R730 2x E5-2697V4 2.3Ghz 36-Core/72-Thread 512GB RAM H730P X520-I350 2x750W - it came pretty barebones, and currently running ESXi 7 on a NVME drive. I plan to deploy Proxmox on this server when I get around to it. What I wanted to do was utilize this R730 to create a NAS server. However the SFF slots are just not useful for the amount of storage I want. I was told I should be looking into JBODs w/a RAID/SAS card to attach to the JBOD?

Doing some initial perusing on ebay and there are so many JBODs out there. I think i'm pretty settled on just needing 12-24 3.5 bays for SATA/SAS. The options seems pretty wide, and i'm not exactly sure which brand and type I should be honing into, alongside a compatible HBA for the R730 and JBOD. Would really love some some direction to fine tune my search in this regard.

More over, the HDDs I am after are the 28TB recertified enterprise drives off ebay. Most of the JBODs I looked into have only been tested for 18-20TB size HDDs, and I am not sure if there is a limitation on a certain generation JBOD/HBA to recognize these size drives.

Overall I am looking to focus my research and searching with some helpful advice about what to research, which reputable brand/generation are best. This will mostly be used for storing backups of family documents and media, uh educational iso, and hopefully the storage pool can be used for my future swim into a security cam system.

Don't be afraid to be rough with me, i'm a slow learner but I get there.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/naturesurviving on 2025-07-28 17:45:21+00:00.

Hi everyone! I have in my possession a rip of the Interstellar movie on 4K Blu-Ray that is 84.10 GB in size. I want to write it to an XL Blue-Ray disk but i don't want to play it on my computer, i want to buy a Blu-Ray player (because i am also thinking of starting a personal collection of my most wanted films) to hook it to my TV...problem is, I cannot find a decent priced (honestly i did not even went for the expensive ones) player that plays XL disks. I don't have the original disk to see what kind of disk it was so i am asking you, how do you burn or play these kind of media?

Thank you!

The original post: /r/earthporn by /u/yelirdubs on 2025-07-29 04:49:21+00:00.