It's A Digital Disease!

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/pyr0kid on 2024-09-13 02:47:05+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/MindtoEye on 2024-09-12 19:47:03+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/flatvaaskaas on 2024-09-12 14:12:33+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/TribladeSlice on 2024-09-11 19:04:48+00:00.

I'm talking about the best quality, bit perfect rips of music, DVDs, blu rays, with all metadata preserved, or the only the best quality downloads off of YouTube as a couple of examples.

I used to care a lot about perfection myself, but I think it started to get a bit unhealthy and cause me genuine anxiety, so I've tried to focus more on preserving content instead of making sure its perfect (for example, I or most others are most likely not going to care that one inaudible bit was incorrectly read in a rip of a CD). There is of course a line between wanting reasonable quality and perfectionism, of course though. Where do you all stand on this spectrum?

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/fliberdygibits on 2024-09-11 19:33:18+00:00.

I've received hard drives before that were packaged well enough but this takes the cake. This is how you do it.

Edit - Sorry, should have mentioned in case anyone's interested: this was Plusdrives on ebay.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/Revolutionary_Ad6574 on 2024-09-11 14:36:45+00:00.

Don't worry, this is not one of those mandatory annual "Best cloud storage for porn" posts. More like I still don't get why half the people warn against trusting a cloud storage providers with your porn collection because they regularly update their naughty/nice lists and ban accounts for life. But then there's the other half which says "I've been a subscriber of pCloud for the last 10 years I store everything from Nazi propaganda to bestiality and I've never had so much as down time".

But both are contradictory, so do you have any hypothesis?

My personal experience - I've had a lifetime plan from pCloud from oh, I don't know... I think 2018? I store all of my porn there, all 221GB of it and believe me when I say I don't own the rights to a single video. I've never had a single file deleted let alone a banned account. But here's the thing. I'm afraid it might happen, so that's why I wish someone would enlighten me on the internal pipelines of some of the popular providers.

My hypothesis is that only some accounts get banned because 1) someone reported them 2) they see a lot of outbound traffic from said account 3) random checks. 1) and 2) I avoid easily, I just keep my porn to myself, no one has asked me for it anyway, but 3) seems a little too lucky to avoid for so long.

So... any ideas?

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/richiethestick on 2024-09-11 12:29:24+00:00.

I have a couple external Hard Drives that I periodically use for backups every few months or so. My question is - is an HDD's lifespan directly affected correlated to how much they are in use, or do they die out at about the same rate even if they are not powered on for the majority of the time? For example, is 5 years of sitting without being powered up long enough for the lubricants to start to migrate out of the bearings? I dont want to not be able to spin the drives up if it sits on a shelf for too long.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/cbnyc0 on 2024-09-11 06:54:50+00:00.

Genuinely curious what is actually in a driveless NAS that could make it worth $2500-10000, when you can put $20 SATA expansion cards inside basically any gaming pc case, and get a full tower case for under $200.

For $1200 or less, you can buy a rig with a good power supply that does any level of RAID, can accommodate a dozen or so drives internally, has a gigabit Ethernet port, probably has better cooling than the NAS unit, has integrated graphics to run a 1920x1080 display just fine…

What am I missing? Why are these things priced like they have advanced NVIDIA AI hardware in them or something?

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/Randomhero360 on 2024-09-10 18:23:39+00:00.

Comcast is one of the only choices in my area for reliable internet, but I refuse to use their equipment, so guess ill be switching now.

Anyone else run into this?

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/felicaamiko on 2024-09-10 15:45:22+00:00.

when i was 17 or 18 i took lots of photos. one day my hard drive acted strangely and i didn't think much of it. months later upon turning computer on i would hear a faint clicking noise and lost all the photos of my child hood. that is why i have external hard drives now. i still don't back up my stuff but i have so much junk that if a hard drive fails i won't be so sad.

what is your story?

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/Hungry-Editor6066 on 2024-09-10 09:03:14+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/Total_Decision123 on 2024-09-10 01:10:27+00:00.

Long time lurker, I’m still a ways away from data hoarding myself but the archival of important/interesting information, photos, videos, etc has always been interesting to me

That leads to my question: What’s some of the rarest content you own? As in niche websites you logged that were taken down sometime ago, hard to find photos/videos of important events, even unseen photos/videos that only you and a handful of others have seen

Curious to hear!

Also side question: Do you store the said “rare data” separately or is it all mixed in with other data?

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/OGSyedIsEverywhere on 2024-09-09 22:26:32+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/Spilled_Salad on 2024-09-09 17:26:47+00:00.

Context: my mom took terabytes of digitized film and digital photos of me and my sisters growing up and it lives in her desktop PC. She no longer uses this PC as often and I’m concerned about the longevity of the drives she has as they are already 10 years old. There are a few SSD’s and a couple hard drives but none of it is backed up.

I want the primary storage to be one or 2 bigger HDD’s but is it viable to keep 1 or 2 tape drives in other locations in case of a fire? These may sit in storage for years but I would like to have this data saved for me and my sisters as we get married and have families of our own.

All your help is appreciated!

Edit: forgot to mention, I know it is more cost effective to go with HDD’s for backups, but these files are important to my family and it is worth a few hundred dollars to have 20 years of memories secured

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/Bismarck_seas on 2024-09-09 10:50:37+00:00.

Why do manufacturers produce ssd with capacity like this but not a round number? What is the difference?

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/Bismarck_seas on 2024-09-08 06:38:55+00:00.

I am storing stuff on Samsung T7 External SSD, while i appreciate its speed and thermal management, and I see new usb drives pack like 1tb in a very small package and claims to have fast transfers (But my old USB3.0 drives left a bad taste in my mouth, maybe USB drive technology wasn't as good in the past). Also my external ssd is much bulkier and has to bring my USB3 cables...

I wonder how well does a Ext SSD perform against modern expensive USB Flash drive with the same amount of storage?

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/SeaSlug88 on 2024-09-09 00:31:30+00:00.

Today I took my first true adventure into the world of Data Hoarding when I discovered you can download all of Wikipedia in a .Zim file no larger than a modern Triple-A game… and I downloaded it! It was a grand total of 109 Gigabytes. If you have a decent internet speed it shouldn’t take you longer than 1 hour. Just thought I’d share here because it’s cool having Wikipedia stored away on your personal storage devices, and in the event of the internet going out it might come in handy.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/CashOutCody on 2024-09-09 00:02:38+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/Bismarck_seas on 2024-09-08 11:55:56+00:00.

We all have some data on our computers but some of us have such an incredible amount of data on a scale that it is incomprehensible for the average user. People think I am crazy or a red flag if I spend more than $1000 on storage only. when does data hoarding become unhealthy in your opinion?

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/a_sadnoLIFE on 2024-09-07 18:11:02+00:00.

I'm new to Data Hoarding, so I'd figure I try to maybe save my games onto some other hard drive to be able to play them without Steam

Edit: Little late to mention this, but the game in question is Payday 2.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/danuser8 on 2024-09-07 18:02:17+00:00.

Rookie data hoarder here, looking for others feedback.

Is ZFS too much for basic file storage, file sharing and media use?

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/Game_Bird on 2024-09-06 16:43:39+00:00.

Hey all,

I've always been aware that external drives can fail, but I always thought it would be due to overuse, or poor storage, or something. But apparently no, even if you haven't touched an external drive and kept it safe in its original box for years, it could still just... fail, and lose all its data. That's a terrifying thought, as I have a bunch of old backup drives from school where I've been storing irreplaceable data from my family and my childhood and now I'm afraid to even check them. Not to mention, my current machine has paltry internal storage and I've been running off an external drive for years, and already feeling the need to go larger than the 4 TB I currently use.

What are the best ways to have a solid, trustworthy backup of old data that aren't cloud based? And considering SSDs are still very expensive and don't reach the storage heights of disk based drives, what's the best option?

EDIT: What are the rates at which external drives fail? Should I get one mega drive to consolidate all my old drives, and replace it every 5 years or something?

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/AshleyUncia on 2024-09-06 23:55:05+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/K1rkl4nd on 2024-09-06 17:52:37+00:00.

So with Redbox's parent company filing for bankruptcy, what are the odds we could pick up one of their kiosk machines to have a disk changer at home? Would be interesting to see how much of one of those was actual storage.

Just thinking out loud since I just saw one.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/CreatineCornflakes on 2024-09-06 14:07:06+00:00.

I took a risk and bought a Seagate 16tb Exos for £150 for CEX. Did a health scan and it's only got 48 lifetime hours on it and everything else looks good.

Worth noting that all items from CEX have a 2 year warranty, so think that's a pretty good deal and must have got lucky.