It's A Digital Disease!

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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/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 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/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.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/thesonoftheson on 2024-09-06 09:43:25+00:00.

This is my first redundant drive system. Started with 8tb x2 Barracudas, adding my first parity using SnapRaid and a 12tb Ironwolf, I've replaced one 8tb with a 12tb Ironwolf, now looking at replacing the remaining 8tb. Looking at prices the 20tb Ironwolf is now $360 at $18/tb vs the 12tb for $240 at $20/tb, so only a $40 tax for higher capacity. Is that higher capacity tax to high and just wait for it to drop further? In theory I could replace that 8tb data with a 20tb and not worry about upping the parity until I reach that 12tb (or technically 10.9tb), right? Some would probably say just keep adding more 12tb as needed, I do have the space for 18 drives in theory (mb supports 6, would have to get an add on card, this is actually one thing I would like to avoid) but how many of you started small then reached capacity and said well shit should have started using higher capacity drives x years ago? Thanks.

PS: any widows guys now how to reduce that difference the 12tb vs 10.9tb, is that the mbr/gpt reserve, seems like wasted space for small amount of files for a media server.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/Fast_Employ_2438 on 2024-09-05 23:10:15+00:00.

So I have this issue were my client wants to be able to save his shorts with his iPhone.

Somehow when exporting to H264 it doesn’t work, I’ve done plenty of tests, there’s two ways it’s working.

Exporting H265

Or

Exporting ProRes full quality then compressing it to h264 with handbrake.

What would be the ideal regarding the quality/ file size if the clients wants to post mostly (ig, tiktok, fb)?

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/Advanced_Ad_6816 on 2024-09-05 16:00:07+00:00.

Pretty much the title.

Did you start just with small backups to be safer from driver failures? Did you just wanna keep all your data yourself? Or was it for another reason?

Just wondering how people got started, especially people with 100s of TBs of data now.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/something4422 on 2024-09-05 12:33:23+00:00.

I come from r/Piracy . Everyone there always complains that many sites are being taken down by big corps that want their last nickel. Now they are going after something that both communities value a lot, TIA. We are witnessing the burning of Alexandria's library on a much MUCH bigger scale.

So much knowledge, for free, for absolutely everyone with internet access.

The best libraries in history pale in comparison. There is SO much potential...

This is a fucking crime.

But I don't see people brainstorming ideas to try and do something about it.

As I understand there's around 212pb of data in TIA.

I'm not a tech guy, so forgive me if this proposition or idea sounds stupid.

We are 1.8M users in the Piracy sub, you have 772K, and I assume many more outside of it that value the internet archive.

Would it be possible that each user downloads a small portion of it, and then uploads it as a torrent in a P2P way, or maybe distribute it among lets say, 3000 different sites, each one with a name that references it's position, like TIAsiteone.com for the first 1000 tera or whatever. Just throwing numbers randomly. It would be difficult to organize. I think thats the main problem. But if we just keep throwing and refining ideas we may be capable of doing something.

I ask here because I assume there's a crossover.. I took the shot.

You have the storage capacity, we users and I suppose the hosting side of it.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/megabits on 2024-09-05 04:59:32+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/Dimitar_Drew on 2024-09-04 16:39:07+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/wiredmagazine on 2024-09-04 18:50:03+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/Maratocarde on 2024-09-04 15:59:42+00:00.

If so, it's sad news...

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/Vagaborg on 2024-09-03 21:28:42+00:00.

So lesson learned.

sudo rm -r someshow.s1e0*

will remove episodes1-9.

sudo rm -r someshows1.e0 *

will remove everything in that directory.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/LINUXisobsolete on 2024-09-03 15:20:03+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/4reddityo on 2024-09-03 12:36:05+00:00.