It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/LongLineOfNumbers on 2025-06-27 00:22:36.

My boss owns a Mac and uses Disk Catalog Maker to organize his files. He wants me to sort through his files on my laptop, which is a PC. His worry is that the catalog files that are made using his program will not carry over to my PC and I would have to completely reorgainze all of his files.

Does anyone know a program that can run the catalog files he creates on my PC? I don't want to pay for a cataloging software that ends up not being compatible with his already existing files. Thanks!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/spur0701 on 2025-06-26 23:21:21.

About 10 years ago I bought a NAS, a Western Digital Sential DX4000, it had 4 3 TB drives and I hung it off the home network.  The family used it as a backup location for pretty much anything.  It finally failed last year, I haven't tried to recover anything from it yet but the kids are gone off to college and I think I've got all the data that was on it on other drives so I don't think it's worth trying to recover anything from it, which is fortunate cause it looks like it would be a pain since one of the drives is dead and the enclosure is dead.  

In the spring I bought 2 Seagate EXOS recerted 20TB drives and dropped them in my main desktop, its a Dell XPS 8930, it's a little older but it had 64 GB of memory and runs an i9.  

My plan was to RAID 1 them, since that would be the simplest, robust, and easy to recover if one dies.  I know I can do that with software but was looking for a recommendation for  PCIe card that wasn't too too expensive?  ....or is there another solution that I'm missing?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/r0sayo-at-reddit on 2025-06-26 19:17:22.

Like the title says, I'm just looking for a way to convert my whole library (160GB) to MP3 so it takes up less space on my phone. I wonder if I could do this with FFMPEG?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/CaseroRubical on 2025-06-26 19:14:51.

I'm just looking for a hard drive to backup my personal files, not trying to build a home server or whatever. Looking online, I can get either a 4 TB USB HDD or a (second hand) 12 TB SATA HDD and a simple adapter for the same price. Seems like a no brainer

I just want to backup my files and then put the drive in a box indefinitely. Is it a bad idea?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/jaq805 on 2025-06-26 19:13:09.

I’m debating buying a 4 bay to replace my 620 slim. My first plex library has filled it up and there’s no chance to expand it anymore.

I could buy a new ugreen 4 bay nas and fill it with 20tb drives minimum.

Or should I get a cheaper hardware raid - 4 bay enclosure and host it off of a spare Mac mini m1 I have lying around?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/NickMeAnotherTime on 2025-06-26 18:38:42.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Yabgas18 on 2025-06-26 17:06:55.

Want to build better Reddit datasets,

I’ll scrape any thread for you (free test)

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/wtf_ever_man on 2025-06-26 16:59:02.

I basically need/want to compile or make a list if all the things in all my directories... just in case... and if I'm ever having to check if I have something already.

So what do you all use to make a master list of stuff you have?

I presume there's software that will read and just give me a print out?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/mitchellcrazyeye on 2025-06-26 15:54:26.

Hey y'all. This is a very similar question to posts I've seen here before so I'm hoping I'm not too bothersome - I need someone who can properly look and see. I think they changed the system a bit as these don't seem to be the way things work anymore.

I'm trying to find a "1 button push" way to request the camera, download the stream on demand. INDOT makes you go through so many barriers to load a camera, so I'm trying to reverse engineer the video request system to it's simplest form, but the request seems buried and I cannot for the life of me figure out where it is.

If there's someone a bit more knowledgeable in this that can take a peek, it would be well appreciated. I think there's a small community that looks into this and then gives up - any insight would be helpful, thank you.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/sanernes on 2025-06-26 15:33:11.

Hello fellows datahoarders.

I am duplicating my HDD with personal data (another backup in the NAS) , its a WD 4tb usb 3.0 disk with 3,6 TB and 4M files and I am copying to a seagate 5tb 3.0usb HDD.

After a week using windows file manager and teracopy. I found that I had 4,3 tb of data copied so I had more data copied so I started again.

So I decided to try teracopy beta , FreeFileSync (failed to lack of ram) , Unstoppable Copier.

I need to try in another computer as I am using a relatively old laptop (usb3.0, 8gb ram) and I will try Copywhiz and fastcopy.

I sticked to several instances of windows explorer and a run with teracopy for long filenames and for verification. But its taken more than 1 week and going for the 2th week.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/radialmonster on 2025-06-26 15:05:47.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/preezyfabreezy on 2025-06-26 14:17:16.

I built a PC (with a bunch of help) for audio production. 8TB SSD boot drive, and 2 x 16TB WD Red Pro drives I wanna mirror to run all my audio files.

I’m only about “medium” computer literate. Really good at using the windows platform, know a little DOS, and am scared shitless of messing around with BIOS settings.

Are there any disadvantages to just mirroring the 2 WD drives with the windows 11 storage pool function? or is it just as solid as a traditional software raid 1 setup?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Enzissimo on 2025-06-26 14:09:56.

Hello everyone.

I have about a hundred CDs that I would like to recover. Some are badly read and have problems in recovery.

I am using ddrescue, dvdisaster and testdisk in combination on a computer that has these two readers mounted:

• Liteon dh16a6s

• Pioneer bdr-207m

Some sectors, with dvdisaster, have problems.

So now I wonder:

1. I have two other old readers (older) removed from an old PC. If I used them with an IDE converter could I have more luck? The readers in question are:

• Toshiba Samsung SH-S162L/BEBN

• Sony DRU-530A

2. I am thinking of buying the Jfj Easy Pro. At that price is it the best to try to recover the data or could I find something better?

Thanks

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/prompta1 on 2025-06-26 12:11:03.

I understand a raspberry pi is better suited but I was just curious.

I understand an Arduino just has like kB size storage on it, but is there a way to run a script and increase the storage ?

I also understand it doesn't have network, but I was just genuinely curious if there is any application in Datahoarding?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/stefans85 on 2025-06-25 21:13:30.

As title says. Currently I am using 8TB HDD disks with windows storages hanging out of my case as there is no place for them. I have found 3 4 bay NAS systems at my local dealer where I prever to buy locally not online.

• Asustor 4 bay NAS with 1,4 GHz Realtek 4 core CPU and 1GB RAM

• QNap 4 bay NAS for 50eur more with 2,0 GHz ARM Cortex-A55 4-Core CPU and 4GB RAM

• UGreen 4bay NAS for 100eur over the Asustor with 3.4GHz Intel N-Series N100 4 Core CPU and 8GB RAM

• Synology 4bay NAS for about between Asustor and QNap with 1,70 GHz Realtek 4-Core CPU and 2GB RAM

I don't know how important CPU and RAM are. Speed is maximum 1GBit/s as it is directly attached to my Gaming case and only is for data of my private programming and modding projects and photos so Raid 4 or 5 is a must have. Transferspeed is negligible as long as I can record and view full HD videos from games and portals like youtube premium and amazon prime. A nice to have would be an downloader were I just give my credentials to amazon prime and/or google if there is a possibility to attach my gaming PC second LAN cable to the NAS for internet access to the NAS as I only have wifi.

For sharing either NFS or SMB would be sufficient.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ighwrighwirh on 2025-06-25 18:01:44.

Hey every one!

I found "a list" online with drives who should support UHD 4k Blu Rays.

So I bought the BH16NS40. Its from 13.03.2014 who seem to old (nobody mention a Date before)?

I try to flash some FW and now the Drive not recognised any Optical Media anymore.

So did I brick them? I use them externally with an USB Adapter.

And is there a list of other one who works?

I also own 2 external BR Drives who maybe works?

Thanks

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/introverted_finn on 2025-06-26 00:01:47.

The website in question is https://map.crummy.com/

Would be interested on learning about other potential websites hosted by individuals wanting to preserve stuff. Anyone know any? I don't mean stuff like Archive.org obviously. Smaller, lesser known ones

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/catrancher1 on 2025-06-25 23:31:34.

Hi,

I've been using Yottamaster 5 bay DASs to connect ~12 or so HDDS to a mini pc but pretty often one or more of the drives will randomly stop being detected by Windows and I have to physically unplug / replug the drive into the yottamaster or turn the yotta master on/off to fix this.

This unfortunately also causes stress on the drives and I recently had one drive get a corrupted partition table, which luckily I was able to fix with testdisk.

I'd like to build a PC that can handle 12-20 HDDS instead of using these DAS units.

Can anyone help with recommendations on how to achieve this?

From my research I think I'll need the following:

• PC Case with tons of 3.5" or 5.25" slots (that can be converted with adapters for more 3.5" bays).

• Floor space on the bottom of the PC to fit more drives if all bays are used up, and stack a few HDD this way.

• SATA Card to add more HDDS if I use up all HDD a standard ATX or E-ATX mobo has.

• Good motherboard / intel chip recommendations

Pretty open minded on the budget for this, I'd prefer quality that will last.

I've seen the name Phantek thrown around a bit, wondering if there's other cases I should be looking at too.

Thanks!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/SoManyHobbies1 on 2025-06-25 23:13:12.

Hello, I want to ask advice from the experts of this sub.

I have a DROBO 5D3 which I bought to store all my photos throughout the last decade. It is still working and now want to move out of it just incase.

I initially thought of a NAS setup but dont know which one to get. Been looking at Synology, but I guess the recent update makes it bad from what I read.

I will use the new one to store all photos using Lightroom to organize the folders and also store some files. Will be sharing with my wife.

Have zero IT knowledge but willing to learn. Would want to get something more future proof.

Really basic use, not into the VM/Homeassistant, plex server space yet. - but maybe in the future will consider.

With NAS, my concern is if it’s secure being attached to the network and potentially be accessed by bad actors?

Thanks again.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/shiftdelete76 on 2025-06-25 22:32:19.

I'm trying to download medias from booru sites with metadata included using Imgbrd-Grabber but some files does not have metadata.

It's said "Either in your PATH or in the installation folder." on docs so i extracted exiftool inside the grabber folder but it's still says that it cannot locate exiftool. How am i exactly suppose do this? Sorry i'm new to this and also being not native speaker does not help...

Also would exiftool help adding metadata to medias that does not have metadata or do i have to do something else for this? Is it possible to do it with grabber and get the original metadata added to files that does not have metadata? Or do i need another program for that and add the metadata manually by hand?

I'm lost on how to achieve this. Could really use some help.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/rosebudgh0st on 2025-06-25 21:43:59.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/AirneanachTV on 2025-06-25 12:32:27.

Yes, I know this is not ideal, and yes, I know that setting up TrueNAS or similar and running a VM would be cleaner in a lot of ways, but that doesn’t fit the use case I have. I’m setting up a streaming PC for my studio, and I have 2x8TB and 2x2TB drives. I’d like to do 2 RAID 1 setups in windows. I’m using the PC primarily for streaming and editing, and I don’t want to do all the extra work of setting it up in another NAS software and dealing with GPU pass through and such. I just want to make it work down and dirty. CPU: AMD 3800XT GPU: 2070 SUPER RAM: 16GB DDR4 3200 MT/S MOBO: TBD, but something on the lower end of pricing

I’m open to any idea, as long as it works well, and doesn’t use more than ~20% of my CPU.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/jared_number_two on 2025-06-25 12:22:56.

I know other people in this community have enjoyed the excellent post incident reviews published by the CSB. As they are being effectively shuttered this is a general call out that it would be prudent to archive any of their videos you have found useful.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Astral-P on 2025-06-25 21:32:34.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Neumanium on 2025-06-25 21:27:08.

Just checking with everyone, this long defunct Podcast Liberal Oasis Radio Show/This Is Not Normal does anyone have this archived and would you share?