It's A Digital Disease!

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/CrackedDaLibertyBell on 2025-07-15 07:31:48+00:00.

Seagate just rolled out 30TB Exos M and IronWolf Pro drives using their Mozaic 3+ platform and HAMR tech. These are real, shipping now, and aimed at massive local storage for AI, NAS, and edge workloads.

The Exos version targets data centers and hyperscale setups, while IronWolf Pro is for NAS users like many of us here. Both drives are 7200 RPM, CMR, and supposedly the densest HDDs available right now.

Pricing isn’t budget-tier, but it’s not totally outrageous for the capacity: • 30TB: $599.99 • 28TB: $569.99

I wrote up a full breakdown here if anyone wants details, quotes, and links: 🔗 https://nerds.xyz/2025/07/seagate-30tb-exos-ironwolf-pro-hamr-storage-ai/

Would love to hear thoughts from anyone who’s used Seagate’s Mozaic-based HAMR drives. Are they solid for long-term hoarding?

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/Jupit-72 on 2025-07-15 11:31:06+00:00.

You know, the ones that are too small (I recently discovered some old 200GB in and old drawer...) or those that are broken beyond repair?

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/UwUnabomber_ on 2025-07-15 11:22:25+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/Sweaty-Toe-6211 on 2025-07-15 10:01:24+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/iObserve2 on 2025-07-15 01:44:57+00:00.

It's a rhetorical question asked in this forum as a self-congratulatory fist pump. because we all know the answer. Carnage. It just happened again. Whenever I do a project, I file and hoard every piece of data. Every email, letter contract receipt, meeting note. Everything. I don't use a document management system just a file naming convention and a logical folder hierarchy. ProjectA/Consultants/UI-Design/2025-01-23-Design meeting 1.pdf. This year there was trouble with a project as a result of a series of poor decisions made by one of the team leaders a few years back. However, when the trouble landed, it landed on me. Unfortunately for the finger pointer (who naturally was the one responsible) when the moment of accountability arrived, they were armed with a few lines from emails taken out of context in a single page and a totally credible narrative. I came armed with a dossier over an inch thick and didn't have to say a word. It was not a battle it was slaughter. Keep everything, one day it will save your life. (or your job anyway)

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/notanartstudent on 2025-07-14 21:09:31+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/JustAnotherPodcaster on 2025-07-14 16:00:54+00:00.

I have more than a dozen hard drives that I'm still working on organizing by categories. I had already lost quite a bit of data over the years due to being messy or doing things too quickly.

I was considering getting more hard drives and usually the ones I use are external hard drives, but it's getting super expensive. I don't like buying used or refurbished either.

People on here have a lot more data than me and I wonder how you manage it financially... Some stuff I have is important because I'm a musician and I have lots of different songs or files related to my music production and that stuff takes up a lot of space.

A lot of the stuff I have is just sentimental. Literally means nothing to anyone else but myself. Hours upon hours of screen recordings of gaming sessions with my friends for example.

I am drowning in data and I don't know how to keep up with all of this. Please teach me how to be like you.

Edit: I was considering offloading some of my less important files onto a cloud storage (sync.com) like my terabytes of gaming sessions with my friends which I treat as a photo album (more like video on this case) The way people open an old photo album to enjoy some fond memories.

I just don't know if I like their service for their reliability because I read some scary comments about data loss and lack of support.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/TheIllusioneer on 2025-07-14 17:14:57+00:00.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/worlds-largest-hard-drive-massive-36tb-seagate/

Had a link to https://serverpartdeals.com/search?type=product&q=36tb%5C* to predorder...

https://preview.redd.it/30u8ufcqhvcf1.png?width=960&format=png&auto=webp&s=2e5a14ee9c07e5cd3acb13ed28e84a13e62e8d87

(SOLD OUT ALREADY!)

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/avidman on 2025-07-14 03:58:46+00:00.

Original Title: I don't understand this startup's claim that LTO tapes are high energy storage whereas their holographic tapes are zero energy storage. I have over 200 LTO tapes on the shelf at work that aren't costing me a cent in electricity. Any ideas?

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/AshleyAshes1984 on 2025-07-14 00:48:47+00:00.

Original Title: The 80's anime 'Highschool! Kimengumi' was never even fansubbed but for 2 out of 86 eps 20 years ago and the movie. Suddenly it got licensed with a subtitled ep showing up on YouTube each week. I'm the self selected idiot remuxing those subs with the JP DVD Remuxs and updating TVDB weekly.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/DisciplineCandid9707 on 2025-07-13 14:09:20+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/space-ish on 2025-07-13 12:57:40+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/_DayBowBow on 2025-07-13 04:31:36+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/ansyhrrian on 2025-07-12 20:22:06+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/totallynotabot1011 on 2025-07-12 13:04:34+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/First_Musician6260 on 2025-07-12 00:13:59+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/SUCK-PIT on 2025-07-12 00:21:07+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/DiodeInc on 2025-07-11 20:46:05+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/Even-Mechanic-7182 on 2025-07-11 13:10:32+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/manzurfahim on 2025-07-11 09:43:52+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/Straight_Random_2211 on 2025-07-11 03:12:53+00:00.

I copied a folder called "Lingoes [Portable] (free)" from my PC to my portable SSD (Transcend ESD310S), and the copying process took way longer than I expected. After it finished, I checked the properties and saw this:

• Size: 1.36 GB (1,461,725,915 bytes)
• Size on disk: 21.7 GB (23,403,429,888 bytes)

https://preview.redd.it/022i8myjv5cf1.png?width=709&format=png&auto=webp&s=7da81de582c010b021a7652592bbbb38018974be

Is this normal, or could it be a problem with the SSD itself?

If it’s not a hardware issue, how can I reduce the storage usage? Is there a way to make it just 1.36 GB or at least something smaller than 21.7 GB? I don't want to delete anything, just want to store it more efficiently if possible. Thanks!

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/5meohd on 2025-07-11 00:21:45+00:00.

Hello!

I am working on a project to combine the collections of myself and a local irl friend. Between the two of us we have over 14,000 discs. Counting for overlapping titles its likely closer to 12,000.

So far I have just been testing PLEX, Make MKV, a 20TB external drive, an old 2015 MBP and various playback devices including my Shield Pro 2019.

We have been successful with ripping and playback of our discs, including UHD discs. We are keeping everything lossless, including supplements, commentaries, etc... Im a videophile with a nice Sony OLED and hes a film geek that actually works in the industry of disc bonus feature production. So between the two of us, we just cant budge on file size. In fact, we are most excited about the project giving us convenient access to compiling various versions and imports of the same film into one folder. So exciting!

My question for you experts -

If Im willing to start with a budget of $2K, can I build something quality that can just be expanded every year as more funds become available? Maybe start with some kind of DIY NAS with 8 bays and PCIe expansion capablities? I havent built a PC since Windows 7 in 2010 and Ive never built a server.

Outside of "youre in over your head, give up", I appreciate any and all thoughts or ideas!!

With gratitude!

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/Jason_Funderburker_ on 2025-07-09 18:59:15+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/Intelligent_Series46 on 2025-07-10 20:27:06+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/Phil_Goud on 2025-07-10 15:29:51+00:00.

Hi everyone !

Mostly lurker and little data hoarder here

I was fed up with the complexity of Tdarr and other softwares to keep the size of my (legal) videos on check.

So I did that started as a small script but is now a 600 lines, kind of turn-key solution for everyone with basic notions of bash... or and NVIDIA card

You can find it on my Github, it was tested on my 12TB collection of (family) videos so must have patched the most common holes (and if it is not the case, I have timeout fallbacks)

Hope it will be useful to any of you ! No particular licence, do what you want with it :)

https://github.com/PhilGoud/H265-batch-encoder/

(If it is not the good subreddit, please be kind^^)