It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/OneSexySquigga on 2024-12-04 00:50:29.

More specifically, if the same data is saved to two identical SSDs at the same time and they are stored in the same place for the same amount of time, will the data loss/corruption of files between them be identical? Like, if you were to check on both SSDs after a few years in cold storage, will the files lost on one drive be the exact same files that are lost on the other drive or is the data loss more variable/random than that?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Not_A_Red_Stapler on 2024-12-04 00:47:01.

I am going to be doing some backups with Restic primarily. Anything better and cheaper than Hetzner which has 10TB for $24 a month?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/iwasboredsoyeah on 2024-12-04 00:23:21.

Someone on facebook marketplace is selling servers. i'm currently running an i7-9700 with 32GB ram. i'm been messing with VMs and docker. Should i grab one just to play around with or are they outdated now?

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/JDLKMR on 2024-12-03 23:50:34.

At first, I was thinking that I could get an additional and identical external SSD, combine them into 10TB. But then I figured maybe there's a more efficient way, so I thought perhaps I could get an internal 10TB HDD and put everything onto that. But also, what if I wanted to create redundancy for all the data? Would an NAS be the answer to that? Much thanks

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Critical-Ad7413 on 2024-12-03 23:41:28.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/The_efficiency on 2024-12-03 23:41:12.

There are few movies that don’t have a bluray releases with IMAX aspect ratio but they do have an imax print on the streaming services. I want to merge these 2 things. I don’t have any idea how to get started, cause there’s also the Dolby Vision elephant in the room and I don’t know how I can work on it and keep the colours intact while outputting a file that would be profile 5 or 7. Please help.

I want the decrease the size of my data as right now I have to save 2 files on the drive for 1 movie and I can’t watch both at the same time. Please help

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/saradipity on 2024-12-03 22:49:42.

If buying new or barely used Hard Drives 2nd hand from a individual, not recert/renewed from the manufacturer or a company like Server Part Deals. How do we utilize the warranty if needed?

Would we need the seller to provide us with the original receipt?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Widowshypers on 2024-12-03 22:47:18.

I currently have two backups for my critical data which is currently about 250gb but will grow to about 1.5TB with most of that being static data that is not changing regularly. The only data that is going to be changing regularly will be:

Unraid USB Backup

6 Docker Container config files

Plex Database

Static Data I am currently in the process of backing up:

Family Videos (800gb)

Family Photos (100gb)

Sensitive Personal Documents (5-20GB)

My current backup setup is to 1) an external 2TB HDD that I can easily grab out of my server room in the event of a disaster 2) 2x Weekly backups to Backblaze b2. But I want to setup an remote backup to my partners parents house with a NAS of some kind that has redundancy as I know that 1x External USB is not a great idea and in the event of needing quick access to this data I want to have it safe and within a 30 minute drive.

So my main question is what would be the most cost effective way to either A) Build a NAS using like an N100 and a small case B) buy an off the shelf synology

I would want to use either Iron Wolf or Exos drives or WD Drives designed for NAS Use.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/remozo45 on 2024-12-03 13:29:37.

Hi All,

I have a free U.2 Slot on my motherboard, and a spare m.2 nvme SSD. From my understanding there should be a way to connect that SSD to the motherboard. However, when looking for adapters I cannot really seem to find what I need. Its seems I can only find adapters for 2.5" SSDs but nothing to the m.2 standard.

Does anyone have any experience with this, and if there is a way to make it work?

Thanks!

P.S: Sorry if this is a dumb question, I just can't seem to find a straight answer on these U.2 ports.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/sapien-no-homo on 2024-12-03 12:44:10.

Very excited, just picked up a SuperMicro CSE846 for £450 (with an old ass motherboard but with a RAID controller capable of all 24 drive bays).

Got 16 x 8TB HDDs to pop in there with 4 x 4TB SSDs.

Has anyone got HexOS running in a Proxmox container? I'm currently using Proxmox as my OS running Jellyfin in a container, however I've been looking at TrueNAS (hence the HexOS) to handle shares a bit better than I currently have them setup in Proxmox.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Zeirvoy on 2024-12-03 22:12:32.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Zeirvoy on 2024-12-03 22:12:14.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/TheLastAirbender2025 on 2024-12-03 21:51:19.

Hello all Is there any good windows software that can move data from to a drives in fast way ? Perfer windows based please advise

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/PleaseHelpIamFkd on 2024-12-03 20:57:07.

I bought a "NetApp DS4246 Disk Array Shelf W/ 24x SAS Trays 2x IOM6 SAS Expansion Array" off of eBay many moons ago and ended up finding it easier to just keep shoveling drives into windows and letting Plex do its thing with drive mappings out the wazoo. Now I have 3 separate servers with 3 different storage space arrays that I would like to combine down to one single array of some sort. They all max out the 64TB of windows storage spaces with varying drives of varying capacities but all 3 arrays would fit nicely into one of the 3 servers and my single NetApp enclosure as DAS.

I'm a tad confused as to how this works though and its been so long ago the post that originally recommended me to purchase the NetApp has since been deleted. Could someone guide me to getting the NetApp drives to be accessible from my server? I am not sure what images or other info to provide as I am very confused with this vein of tech. I'm used to NAS devices, single servers, virtualization, but having drives from a device like this appear as native storage on another machine confuses me.

Once the NetApp is attached I plan to use StableBit to combine all the drives into one, large pool. There is less than 200GB of "mission critical" data than I do not want to lose that will be stored (and backed up) elsewhere, but the data on this I am not worried about losing, so no raid 5, no backups, not worried about that for now. I did purchase a HexOS license and do plan to implement a HexOS install when I am given access, but that'll be later down the road and still require the original issue here to be resolved.

Thank you for any help you can provide.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Kind_Detective9460 on 2024-12-03 20:29:10.

My team is playing a marketplace simulation to learn about business. We need to work together to plan and make decisions.

https://www.marketplace-simulation.com/

The problem is, only one person can log in at a time. So we have to use Zoom to discuss the data.

I heard about HTTrack Software. It's good for downloading regular websites. But I don't know how to download a logged-in webpage.

Any help would be appreciated!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/giamboscaro on 2024-12-03 19:51:24.

I need a device to backup my NAS via USB. The backup will not be a full NAS backup but just the important data that cannot be re-downloaded again or critical data like personal documents and photos.

Anyway, I have always used 2.5" USB drive for this, but I am wondering if it is worth to actually use an NVME.

• 2TB should be enough to backup what I really need. 4TB would be maybe safer for the future.
• NVME will be much faster. HDD would be slow, in particular the first backup or in case of restore.
• The NVME would be a WD SN770, the HDD would be a WD MyPassport. Price is exactly the same.
• HDD could be more reliable? At least you can see it failing long before it breaks completely.

Note: very very critical data is also backed up every day on an S3 bucket on the cloud.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/PuffDaddy6 on 2024-12-03 18:41:25.

Hello!

I'm not a big computer or data storage guy so i'm looking for some advice here.

I'm looking to get an external hard drive that can be used for general back up of personal items on my Mac. I'm mostly going to be backing up LogicPro Session files. But would also like to use it for photos, adobe sessions, school work back up, ect.

I'm curious if I should get a HHD or and SSD? I know they both of their pro's and cons. But if you had to recommend one or the other for general storage which would you pick?

I'd been thinking about getting a LaCie external drive, since I see that its the drive of choice for a lot of music producers.

Any advice is greatly appreciated!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/UnnamedGuard03 on 2024-12-03 17:54:22.

Sorry if this is dumb, I'm very new to this. I'd like to create a collection of DVDs with digital backups and since I'm paranoid about legality, I read through my country's copyright act. It's the standard "you can have a personal copy so long as you own the original and don't break copy protection". I tried researching if that could be done, but only come up with how to break copy protection. Is it possible to rip and maintain it? Does the law just make ripping defacto illegal?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Antique-Roof8152 on 2024-12-03 17:12:01.

Is there a simple (yes i know it wont be super simple) way that i can have a program or something scan my drives and convert all of my video files to a smaller format. My plex server is running out of space. Ivr been looking at ffmpeg but that is a bit beyond me technically. Another option could be Handbrake if i can load a lot of shows or movies into it and let it work.

Any help is greatly appreciated and ill do my best to answer any clarifying questions.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ShittyFart11 on 2024-12-03 16:53:42.

Seems to be an unobtainium case and i saw a model of it on sketchup so that has me wondering if anyone tried to remake it

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/yowhywouldyoudothat on 2024-12-03 14:26:42.

In my favorites folder I have some music videos that are no longer available on youtube so they show up as removed. If I can find the titles for the tracks I believe I may be able to find them through other sources. Is it possible to dig up the video titles somehow? Thanks!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Headdress7 on 2024-12-03 14:15:50.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/wunderforce on 2024-12-03 13:04:43.

I need to backup quite a lot of data from my Phd. Depending what I want to keep this could be 21TB on the low end and 23TB on the high end. The backup will need to travel via ethernet through my macbook to its destination, so I am assuming an external drive is the only way to go here. This backup will be mostly archival. I expect maybe some light use and would probably transfer important bits off drive onto faster storage if I was going to seriously work with the data. Oh and the data is coming off a gpfs file system interfaced with through linux.

This seems to leave me with two options:

• WD easystore 22TB for $405
• Build my own (ie get two drives and an external enclosure)

My requirements

• Interfaces with my macbook (mbp 2017)
• Interfaces with a windows 7 box
• As fast transfer speeds as possible so the backup doesn't take half a week

WD Drive:

Seems ok, and I'm assuming if I format it to some flavor of FAT it can talk to both mac and windows. I am a little worried about how full it will be and if it can handle getting 22TB dumped on it in one go. It is also fairly pricey.

Building my own:

Never done this before, so this is where I could really appreciate some help. Based on my research I can get two 14TB refurbished Ultrastar HC530's from goHDD for $125 a piece (so $250). Then I think I'd need a 2 bay enclosure that also supports RAID(?) and a high-speed USB connection. Not sure what would be a good enclosure or how much it'd run me but I'm guessing $100? I'd like it to act like a 24TD disk and not two separate 14TB disks.

So for ~$100-$50 less than the WD I'm getting 4TB more storage and presumably better drives. Does this seem reasonable? My only worry here is how reliable those refurbished drives are. I don't want to roll the dice too much but I am on a tight budget (~$400-$500 max) and this seems like a good way to save.

Thoughts?

If the self-built option is the way to go I really need advice on an affordable enclosure and how to set it up with RAID 0.

EDIT: The data is pretty important to me but I'm too poor to afford a second backup. Someone mentioned RAID 5 and an third drive which I might be able to swing. I think what I'm looking to build would be a direct attached storage.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/razorlikes on 2024-12-03 11:29:11.

Hey there, hope this is the right place to ask. I'm currently trying to digitize some Video8 tapes and have run into a problem.

When playing back any tape the video is all wobbly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hp1COPBosw

I'm playing the tapes on a Siemens FA 194, as far as I know this is the camera the tapes were originally recorded on. The output on my screen when in camera mode looks perfectly fine.

I use an EasyCAP adapter with the MBA22N chipset for recording to my PC which has previously worked fine for recording PS2 gameplay. Could this be the problem? If so, what should I buy?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/NoamThePro10 on 2024-12-03 10:40:10.

Hi! After my recent data loss I've decided to get some more drives to replace my current drives with I saw a local listing for 3 2tb HDDs for 300nis and the seller said he is willing to test all of them in my preferred software Should I take the risk and buy those drives or should I just save up some more and get new ones (it will be way more expensive)