It's A Digital Disease!

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/EchoGecko795 on 2024-09-17 03:28:22+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/Diligent-Salt8089 on 2024-09-16 23:35:59+00:00.

I’ll keep it short, I’ve had hardrives since I was like 18 so I have a good amount of them over the years.

They have insane amount of stuff on them from college, university, travelling, work, thousands and thousands of photos and videos on them. From when I’ve just wanted to wipe my laptop or iPhone I just move EVERYTHING over. So theres probably some private stuff on there I don’t even know about. Nothing illegal of course but more just personal stuff you wouldn’t want in a strangers hands or something.

I’m looking at all these hardrives and thinking I might have to go through them and completely declutter but it seems like such an effort. None of it is really organised either lol.

There’s rare occasions when I need/want to find something from those eras and plug them in so they’re handy at times but I don’t know, i feel so overwhelmed. Anyone else?

What do you do with it all?

I feel like I should have them all in one place with like a password on them or something.

EDIT: off to bed but just read a few will check more in morning, looks like multiple recommending a NAS but I have no idea what that is

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/AshleyUncia on 2024-09-16 01:55:37+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/bellchilton on 2024-09-15 18:19:56+00:00.

I scraped his computer for pictures and I'm at around 30,000 photos. I need some kind of software that will help me get that number down. I figure I can start by sorting out all the photos that don't have people in them. That in itself will be a huge help. I'm using Windows and Mac.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/QLaHPD on 2024-09-15 15:57:49+00:00.

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

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/HellraiserMob on 2024-09-14 16:52:44+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/Rev0d on 2024-09-14 15:17:50+00:00.

Original Title: Twenty percent of hard drives used for long-term music storage in the 90s have failed. About a fifth of the hard drives it receives from the media industry for service are completely dead, said enterprise information management company Iron Mountain

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/Bismarck_seas on 2024-09-14 09:20:35+00:00.

So i am using the samsung PSSD encryption software that comes with my samsung ssd, which it is supposed to be aes256 encryption and require a password to access the drive.

I am wondering if after like 10-20 years, will the software or encryption fail, like being unable to decrypt the data even with the right password or the software did not recognize the password? That would be a really bad day...

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/MaiChaMH on 2024-09-13 22:28:41+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/Thynome on 2024-09-13 21:26:04+00:00.

Hi, I'm the creator of nHentai Archivist, a highly performant nHentai downloader written in Rust.

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With the current court case against nhentai.net, rampant purges of massive amounts of uploaded works (RIP 177013), and server downtimes becoming more frequent, you can take action now and save what you need to save.

I hope you like my work, it's one of my first projects in Rust. I'd be happy about any feedback~

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/SFX200 on 2024-09-13 18:21:44+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/Sauceman9000 on 2024-09-13 15:10:58+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/AshleyUncia on 2024-09-13 02:30:27+00:00.

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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.