It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Lysander_Au_Lune on 2024-12-05 21:18:53.

This black friday, I purchased two 20TB WD elements for media storage and photo/video editing archive. I already have two other 3.5" external drives (16TB and 8TB).

I will be also getting a Mac Mini M4 and I am looking for an affordable solution to to share these drives between my PC and Mac.

I need fast read/write speeds (200+ MB/s) and I don't need to access these drives out of my home. I am not inclined toward NAS because my router has only one 10Gb port and the rest are at 1Gb. If I do NAS, I will have to get a beefy router and the DS423+,at that point I will be looking at $1500+ CAD price tag.

The solution that I have found is a multi-bay dock station + 10 Gbps USB switch which will be around $350 CAD)

On the other hand, I have heard of horror stories of disk corruption due to SATA to USB interface and controller in these kind of docks.

This Sabrent enclosure seems to be half decent and I really like the separate on/off switch for each drive (quieter working environment).

DS-SC4B

I Also have this Ugreen USB switch which I got recently and from initial testing, I see that it can manage 200 MB/s speeds through USB-C.

Should I go ahead with this setup or is there a better solution that I am missing?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/tedfordz on 2024-12-05 21:04:25.

Recently got back into messing around with computers and have started the Plex server shenanigans. Honestly super impressed and it works great. The question goes to storage. I will more than likely need more as I rip more and more of my discs.

Is it worth buying new sata drives versus renewed? This isn’t precious memories or anything that can’t be redone. There are renewed Seagate BarraCuda Pro 12TB for $114. I know people mention warranties, but whenever anyone says “warranty” for hard drives all I can think of is the scene in TommyBoy about putting a label on a box of poop. So with that, 2 questions:

In general, is it worth paying extra for brand new drives?

In the instance of a server with nothing precious, would you just buy the renewed drives?

(Side note I plan on using StableBit Drivepool and Scanner, if that matters. Anyone with poor/good experience with that would love the chime ins).

Thanks for your time.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/brandeis16 on 2024-12-05 20:41:32.

Hi all,

I'm trying to move a few zipped files from my Macbook to my 4TB Samsung T7 Shield. The first two files moved but the rest didn't. The message I get says: "The file size exceeds the allowed limit. CorrelationId: 13df2add-c85c-4f9b-89d2-525d58d86a1f." The zipped files themselves are about 21 GB. When unzipped, the files are a few hundred GB. Both are far below the device storage capacity. FWIW, I'm using Unarchiver.

What gives? How can I move (and then open) these files onto my SSD?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Robert__Sinclair on 2024-12-05 19:15:28.

I can't find it anywhere. But there are subtitles for it on opensubtitles.

Can anyone help me find it?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/MuchSrsOfc on 2024-12-05 18:58:35.

Consistent 76c during load despite heat pad and heatsink, sorry if wrong place to ask but I feel like you guys would know best.

What are the risks I'm looking at, any ways to minimize this, e.g let it naturally cool down between heavy use?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/N0yaK on 2024-12-05 17:04:46.

Hey people of Reddit! not sure if this is the right subreddit for this, but I'll shoot my shot -

I had a small YouTube channel a while back and impulsively deleted all its videos. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find them on the Wayback Machine, and I’ve been trying to restore them for YEARS now, purely for nostalgia’s sake. If anyone has any advice or leads on what I could do next, will you be so kind and share with me? You are my last resort...

Thanks in advance!

Edit: I have some saved up links of the now deleted videos, in case they're any help

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/K1rkl4nd on 2024-12-05 16:43:42.

Since you guys have been such a supportive, welcoming community for me- I've got a little gift for you guys to beat the rush before my site gets the Reddit Hug of Death..

For PlayStation's 30th Anniversary, I've scanned a manual for every US-released game.

All 1288 games - All 102 Longbox releases - All 82 known LightSpan releases

There is a torrent magnet link as well for those wanting to grab all at once (also added to the main site page with the other full system sets).

Maps and Posters will be in a following torrent- Jason Dvorak of Game-Rave.com sent me scans of his collection, and this weekend's project is getting them cleaned up and ready for distribution.

There are a couple placeholders while I break down the Arc the Lad / Lunar / Lunar 2 hardcover books to get those properly done, and a couple poorer scans have originals coming from EBay for replacement.

It's been quite a ride- thanks for following along from PS2 to SNES to PS1.. and now on to.. ???

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/robotisland on 2024-12-05 15:47:23.

I have a drive that contains a lot of bmp files. Is there a way to quickly convert them to png files?

Png preserves all the original data and is better than bmp in every way, right?

The bmp files are located in various folders and are not located in one place.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/l008com on 2024-12-05 15:05:19.

I found a USB to eSATA adapter on ebay that very explicitly states it supports port multipliers. BUT I found out the hard way that many port multipliers don't support optical drives, only HDD/SDD drives.

Does anyone know either a way to determine what is supported, or what specific jmicron PM chips are known to work with ODDs, not just HDD/SDDs?

You might think, "just read the manual". But the manual never gives any info like this. The product specs never give any info like this. The only way I've been able to figure it out is to buy one and try. But I'd really like to know ahead of time here.

If you haven't seen my posts before, I have an 11 bay CD ripping tower that uses USB2 and thus is bottlenecked to 7 drives. But I want to upgrade the insides to USB3 so I can use all 11 drives and still have a HUGE margin for error so I never get even remotely near a bottleneck of bandwidth.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/blackbird2150 on 2024-12-05 13:11:21.

Hi All - as the title suggests, I'm moving from an 8 bay to 12 bay case to expand my storage needs.

Right now I run 8x16tb in Unraid with 1 Parity drive. As part of the upgrade to 12 drives, I'll also be (finally) moving to a full local backup of all data (offsite has critical only).

In the case of having a full local backup, how do those with experience feel with sticking with 1 parity drive (again in Unraid)? Obviously, I'd like the storage of 11 drives instead of 10 and think the risk of full failure is mitigated by the fact that my local backup will also run unraid in a 1 parity config.

Other info is that this server is only personal and I am not concerned about a 1-2 week downtime if I had multi-drive failure to get it all up and running again.

Thanks for the inputs!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/perecastor on 2024-12-05 15:16:28.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/deathstrawnote on 2024-12-05 14:33:45.

Hi all. My requirement is simple. To store videos/songs on HDD. If I loose data, I can re-download it. In case I don’t find, for me it’s fine. So is going with Terramaster D4-320 a good option. Insert one HDD at a time, as I can’t buy all four drive at single go. NAS four bay with good specs cost a lot. D4-320 I can get at a good price. Regards.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/True-Entrepreneur851 on 2024-12-05 13:46:39.

I would like to recycle one of my HDD to move data from seedbox to local. I am considering Pi4 but I don’t see the point of building it as a NAS as I already have a Synology to streaming data. What about unbuntu and rclone only ? Can I control my pi4 using my pc ? I am new to all of this sorry for the silly newbie questions. My use case is just to get Seedbox contents to my old drive using Rclone. Thanks.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/the1fromACK on 2024-12-05 13:41:22.

So I'm scanning family photos, and there are a few large ones that are 11½ x 10''

My aging CanoScan 9000f is too small to accommodate, and some of the larger scanners are too expensive and too big to justify the cost for the small number of large scans. The higher DPI the better.

I've been in the market for a new scanner for sometime, and I have a lot more to be scanned.

Super bonus points if there is an adapter that can support 120 and 126 format camera negatives. My local photo lab charges $12 a picture and I have dozens of them that need to be done. I don't want to send them someplace cheaper by mail because I had a *terrible* experience with Rocky Mountain Photo Lab, as did hundreds of other customers.

I prefer not to go over $1,300

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/True-Entrepreneur851 on 2024-12-05 13:01:46.

Hi everyone. I need to move content from cloud to pc and that’s a bunch of files with variable size from 200mb till 10 GB. What would be best option to do it in a best optimized transfer rate :

• Rclone Move from cloud to pc.
• Rsync and then delete remote.
• Resilio and then delete remote.

Thanks.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/SoaboutSeinfeld on 2024-12-05 12:37:00.

So I bought another one, supposed to be new, and it has these weird stickers. I've never seen this before.

The top ''covering'' sticker is really thick and hard to remove. To the point that is seems like it was specifically used to block out the lower one. I had to semi-remove the top sticker to even be able to read it. So I'm wondering if something sketchy is going on like them selling me a refurbished drive.

Some concerns:

• It says RMA: with a QR code. Does that mean that it is already rma'd once or that it is for if I RMA. And why would it be blocked out if it was the latter.

• Has anyone seen this before? It seems so weird to me.

https://preview.redd.it/q3vp0ds0z05e1.jpg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ab9dbba85810720272a8cb022bf40ceabd12854d

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/stalkerok on 2024-12-05 10:39:06.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/175804626117

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/xcesstudio on 2024-12-05 10:03:21.

Hey guys and girls, I have a Toshiba Canvio Basics 2TB External HDD and it has to be a faulty product due to the fact that I was protecting the hard drive of off physical damage, even though it failed at last. I had inside approximately 1TB of data. Basically everything I have ever designed in my life was in this drive. It was 3 months i think when I started noticing something is wrong and at the time I started taking a backup the drive failed. It has 5000+ bad sectors x_x.

The HDD has it's warranty active. If I send it back to Toshiba, is it possible to perform a Data Recovery and also send me a new drive? I know the latter is going to happen but I'm not sure about the Data Recovery. Has anyone of view encountered this problem or did the same with me? Thanks in advance!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/wunderforce on 2024-12-05 09:41:51.

I am considering getting a 24TB external drive. I need this mostly for archival backup and would like it to be accessible to Mac and Linux. I will be backing up ~22TB data in one go.

The WD easystore is $550 and I've seen reports of smaller models (20TB) getting around 220 MBps when empty. It looks like the WD comes formatted as NTFS and would require reformatting (I'm considering exFAT).

The Seagate expansion is $450 and I have seen two reports of the 16 TB model getting 280 MBps when empty. The drive comes formatted as exFAT so I wouldn't need to reformat.

At $100 cheaper and with potentially higher write speeds the Seagate seems pretty tempting. I found this post however from another user on this sub who had ~two~ different 24TB units die on him during a 24hr file transfer (which, as I mentioned, is my use case). A long time ago I had several bad experiences with Seagate products, but I've heard they've gotten a lot better since then. I'm still wondering though what corners have been cut to make this one $100 cheaper.

Which would you recommend? Does brand name still matter, or is it basically a toss up?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/MaximumBlast on 2024-12-04 18:11:28.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ZER0-P0INT-ZER0 on 2024-12-04 16:27:57.

These are offered on EBay for $132 with coupon - Brand NEW!

Seems Iike a deal.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Leather_Flan5071 on 2024-12-05 09:19:09.

HI all.

I'm in the middle of a project, testing a bunch of GSI for several phones.

But I'm facing issues with storing them. Even at tar.gz, they still take up a chunk of my 512 GB SSD. I'd buy more storage but right now, I really can't.

Speed isn't an issue, really. I just need to compress these to a small enough size without breaking them.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/AfricanToilet on 2024-12-05 09:07:50.

I think I figured out what happened.

A while ago, I bought a 5TB EHD to act as a media server for my 'totally legal' movies and shows.

Whilst adding a show, the prompt prompted up asking where to put the magnet, I accidentally where it says 'Shows' added a space before clicking 'OK' to add the magnet link to Transmission.

Now, I have two folders where the files are going. I add a file into the actual 'Shows' folder, it automatically adds it to the '‎Shows‎ ' folder, as well.

I close Transmission and QBT and delete the spaced folder, and most of the files/folders are gone in the actual folder as well and I see some 'New folder' folders.

So, I can't just delete it.

https://preview.redd.it/aflfukadxz4e1.png?width=836&format=png&auto=webp&s=1612c88063faf17cb58f70ddc46c88a92ad5bc9c

I try to merge to folders, but...

https://preview.redd.it/sf9hi4nexz4e1.png?width=463&format=png&auto=webp&s=3f861fd0891ba847dae5dbc12f37dae1cca93554

I have to admit: I've asked a bunch of questions on Reddit, but this is just a foreign concept to me.

Please someone help me. I don't know what to do.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/GreggAlan on 2024-12-05 08:51:32.

Liteon LST-16S9G, Liteon LSS-16L6G-HP, SanDisk 45N8464

They're all 16 gig. I'm going to use one as the boot drive in a ThinkCentre M700 Tiny, with a 2TB Western Digital 7C9DV data drive. It shall be my new Open Media Vault box. Or perhaps some other server OS that does DLNA.

Not so sure that performance of the SSD matters too much for this application but it would be nice to have any reboots go fast as possible.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/thekeym4ster on 2024-12-05 07:33:25.

I have filled up all of my 8 bays and mobo SATA ports, yet I need to add some more storage. To maximize my capacity, the plan is to buy a couple 5.25 to 3.5 inch bay adapters and a SATA card because I do not use RAID and this is not for a NAS, but merely to add more un-backed up storage. However, I have come across quite a few posts in the past couple of days talking about this or that issue with SATA expansion cards and all of this is new to me, so I need a little help figuring out how to pick the right SATA expansion card to avoid issues. Below are my specs:

• ROG Strix X570-E Gaming mobo
• 3900X CPU

Only 2 extra ports are needed because that is all that my case supports and I plan to keep everything internal. Also, I suspect a 2-port SATA expansion card would be less expensive than a card with more ports? I have looked on Amazon, but most seem to be PCI-E version 2.0 and my mobo supports version 4.0, so... Are PCI-E version 4.0 SATA expansion cards even a thing? Using a 2.0 will limit the bandwidth, so I am assuming this would limit the read and write speeds of drives connected to the card? Further, to avoid issues, other Redditors have suggested avoiding port-multiplying cards (i.e. the card's chipset should not have more ports than the number of lanes that the chipset supports), yet they might have been referring to HBA SAS cards? With my setup, I am able to support a x4 card, so I suspect a PCI-E version 4.0 SATA III expansion card with 2 ports that has a chipset to support 2 ports and uses 4 lanes would be ideal, but does such a thing exist? Am I just looking in the wrong place?

Picking a SATA expansion card is the last piece of the puzzle that I need to figure out, so any help would be greatly appreciated!