The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/curious_coitus on 2025-02-14 15:51:28.

My Parent's have a 2012 Time Capsule that looks looks like it bit the dust and stopped broadcasting the wifi. I crack it open, pop out the hard drive, and it appears to be fine. I'd like to copy the back up off the hard drive and drop them on to a new 4th external hard drive, that is connected to there new router. However it appears the time capsule and time machine back up file structures are not exactly the same. The TimeCapsule HDD has 3 partitions, with "DATA" having the .sparsebundle s for each computer that back up to the time machine. When looking at a Time Machine file structure, everything looks to be Backups.backupdb. I'm suspecting that there was some apple magic in the controller that wrote to the time capsule HDD that allowed it to back up more than one computer.

If I copy the .sparsebundle to a new formatted HFS+ drive, canI pop that new drive onto the USB port of a modern router and let time machine the old back ups?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/RevolutionaryCan5095 on 2025-02-14 15:49:16.

I'm planning on a new gaming PC build soon and would love a case with multiple slots for hard drives for extra storage. But I don't have a massive amount of room for a super big case. Any suggestions?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/AlanShore60607 on 2025-02-14 15:13:01.

So I just stumbled here because someone made a joke about another sub being 97% data hoarders and I find that every trending post is about preserving US Government datasets.

How would I be able to help preserve this stuff?

Are there torrents I should be seeking of datasets, or is there something else I, as an outsider to the government, should be doing?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/unecomplette on 2025-02-14 14:43:37.

Hi :) I would like to scrap poll's datas on a telegram group. Webregularly make the same poll :

Who comes over at [X] • I'm coming • I'm not • idk yet

And we want to know what is the average number of people coming, maybe make graph idk is there a tool for that please ?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/kraddock on 2025-02-14 14:38:45.

Hey guys,

I'm looking for a USB DAS enclosure to house two 16TB Seagate X20s.

They'll work as separate drives (one is already full), formatted in NTFS and hooked to a Windows 10 machine.

Something that won't suddenly fail and/or corrupt all the data, like Raidsonic (ICY BOX), Sabrent and Orico usually do nowadays... (because of bad thermal mitigation or a bad controller).

A 4-bay is also OK, I don't mind, but my budget is limited to $200 (US). Is there something even remotely reliable anymore? Thank you!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/denogginizer on 2025-02-14 13:39:29.

Just like the title says. :)

I'm sure this has been asked before... I did search, but didn't come up with much.

Thank you!

(In the market for a 10+ TB HDD at the moment.)

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Select_Building_5548 on 2025-02-14 13:25:48.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ATSQS on 2025-02-14 10:33:00.

Idk if Toshiba is better than Seagate or it's the other way around or if they're the exact same. I want that HDD for storing data on the side, outside of a PC, so which is better at this?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/TopdeckIsSkill on 2025-02-14 09:44:41.

Hi everyone,

I need to buy 2/3 12TB or bigger disks. Because of the price I was considering going for refurbished HDDs.

It's possible to know how much a disk has been used? I read abouth the marked being flooded by exos disks used to mine some crypto and I would check it if possible

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/thinlycuta4paper on 2025-02-14 06:53:42.

Can the WH16NS40 write to CD-R's at 4x? If it can't by default, can it do so through certain firmware or somehow else? Or do I just need to buy a different drive to write to CD-R's at 4x?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/faizikari555 on 2025-02-14 06:01:10.

Hi all. I have some of VIDEO_TS folders and I wanted to play it as a single movie with menu and everything.

VLC and Kodi works fine with ISO and the VOB video file, but it won't play the VIDEO_TS.IFO file.

I've use an app called ISO Craft to create an ISO file, but both VLC and Kodi failed to play the ISO.

While MX Player still don't support ISO playback. Thanks in advance.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/osskid on 2025-02-14 05:57:40.

This is not a political post.

This sub has a unified desire to collect and preserve data. Reasons range form personal to global. Many people are newly exposed to this effort and are asking questions and trying to contribute. To that end:

MODS: Please DO NOT lock threads without providing a reason and a link to where OP can contribute.

This is about people wanting to contributing to our shared sentiment. Locking threads without saying why or providing direction is a significant detriment to our shared effort.

Provide guidance, direction, and help if asked, and redirect when needed for often asked questions.

We're all, at the end, preservationists trying to keep knowledge alive.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Pasta-hobo on 2025-02-14 03:28:51.

I mean like, hundreds of textbooks, thousands of research papers, and lectures, all on as many subjects as possible, especially high end advanced ones.

Basically, if my hoard can't get barely literate post apocalypse tribes advanced enough to make their own antibiotics and vaccines, and get them to refine their own fuel and integrate their own circuits, then I've failed.

If I'm getting information, I'm getting ALL the information.

So please, point me in some directions.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/wanhanred on 2025-02-14 03:10:24.

Hi. I’m totally new with huge storage devices and I already watched several YouTube videos about das and nas. However, I’m still hesitant which one should I go. I’m a one man team and I edit my videos alone. Should I go for a nas or das? And which brand should I go? I think if I can easily eat up a lot of storage since my video files usually has 40gb each. Thanks!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Beg0ne_ on 2025-02-14 01:25:56.

Makes me regret not archiving the things I've enjoyed earlier, but hindsight is 20/20. I've noticed that a lot of videos, have been removed off YouTube. My playlists which had videogame OST's I've enjoyed have been completely purged, and memes I used to watch back then have been wiped clean off the face of the earth. The strange thing is that the majority of this content is completely innocuous and not controversial, so I can't imagine this is for legitimate TOS reasons.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Rough-Technology4546 on 2025-02-13 23:53:55.

Hello horders!How would I go about making a backup of all the data from a website?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/MooseMe23 on 2025-02-13 22:48:43.

I’m beginning my data hoarding journey and I’m in the Apple ecosystem so I had originally bought an old HP Envy desktop with windows 11 and installed an 8tb hdd that was holding my media. The desktop wouldn’t turn on yesterday and after research I believe it’s due to a failing power supply, which is proprietary on the HP Envy.

So now I have 2tb of media on an 8tb hard drive that I can’t access and I’m not sure where to go from here. I was eventually planning on building an unraid server but that’s a ways out due to budget constraints (and I’m just not there yet anyways).

What would y’all do? I don’t really need a windows computer other than the fact that it was my plex server…my Mac mini serves all other purposes for me. The HP Envy was $140 and I’m having a hard time finding a comparable replacement!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/mctavish01 on 2025-02-13 22:46:09.

Just picked up a 16tb external from Seagate to shuck the exo drive, since I am just upgrading an old 6tb ironwolf from my server the thought was to just throw the 6tb in the enclosure and give it to a friend.

However, when the enclosure with the 6tb is plugged in it will spin up and power on for about 10 seconds then power off and spin down.

The drive and enclosure were both working just fine so I suspect this is some shenanigans, can anyone confirm that other drives are locked out or should this be working?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/DeathStalker-77 on 2025-02-13 21:28:43.

I know there are lot of "reviews" out there, but I'm wondering what other Win11 users (especially new upgraders) are using for Defragging - yes, I still have HDDs, internal and external. Thanks!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/AardvarkOmlette on 2025-02-13 20:32:35.

Making my Seagate X16 EXOS Enterprise drives work with a consumer PSU

I purchased 3 Seagate EXOS X16 14tb drives from eBay to elevate my data hording. This post is a PSA / Info share, after being surprised when 3 new HDDs appeared DOA.

The SATA power connector spec changed from SATA 3.1 to 3.2+ (2013 lol) where pin 3 (a previously standard 3v pin) is now used to signal the device to sleep. Most Consumer PSUs including those newer than the spec change will provide 3v to pin 3 preventing the drive from spinning up, preventing the drive from showing up in BIOS or, the OS. This can be resolved with, a compatible PSU (no one wants to buy a new PSU just for a hard drive), finding a compatible adapter (some Molex [old school] and SATA connectors are missing the 3rd pin), removing or covering pin 3 on your existing cables or HDDs, or by removing the 3 volt power wire from your SATA power cable (do this safely, 3v is not a lot of power but there is still potential for a cut wire to make contact where it should not.) I can't confirm that removing the 3v cable entirely (removing power from the first 3 pins) will work with all drives but it worked for me. Check your Hard Drives Spec sheet before cutting wires to see if it needs 3v power.

This isn't exactly a new issue but, I found the issue with a hard drive dock and a multimeter before finding what I needed on the internet. Post for awareness and hopes of people finding it in the future.

This made me consider starting a blog hosted here for now: https://sites.google.com/view/lokee-homelabs/blog/sata-spec-changes

Note: This most likely only impacts "Enterprise" hard drives

Tags: new hard drive wont spin, new hard drive not in bios, new hard drive no power, Seagate x16 EXOS no power.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Striking-Acadia7854 on 2025-02-13 20:31:13.

I'm a music creator looking to back up a few TB of data to a cloud service. My usual setup includes saving some files locally, archiving to an external HD, and using Google Drive. Now, I'm seeking reliable cloud backup for my main HD, which is about 6 TB. 🎵

I was using Crashplan, but for these large backups now, I get notifications of several months required to complete backups, which is far from ideal.

I'm looking for some recommendations for good (and affordable?) options for 6 - 10 TB of cloud storage backup.

Thanks for any help or suggestions you can offer! 💾☁️

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Harambesic on 2025-02-13 20:28:57.

Hi! I'm a lurker here, but I rarely upgrade my hardware. Now I'm thinking it's time to expand my backup system.

Here's what I'm thinking: SSD for backup (photos, documents, whatever), and then an HDD (of an equal or larger size) purely for redundancy. I don't have a desktop (rather, I do, but it's old and I'm just too sentimental to get rid of it), so it'll have to be external drives.

Right now, the two drives I'm looking at are Samsung T7 SSD and WD Elements Desktop HDD.

Anecdotally, I have a Seagate 2TB SSD that I like just fine, but it replaced a Seagate Expansion which crashed on me a few years back (almost a disaster, but I saved the data). I also have a SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD, which I use just for games, and it crashed two weeks ago. (They RMA'd it in no time!) Anyway, I'm trying to diversify.

Thoughts? Advice? Recommendations? Criticism? All welcome. Thanks in advance.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ComfortableCar8387 on 2025-02-13 20:14:26.

Hi everyone, a colleague of mine told me that it might be not wise to use RAID5 with drives that exceed more or less 12tb. He said the stress-time put on all that are left while restoring a failed one becomes a risk that one shouldn't take with these sizes. I've always used RAID5 for whatever I did when I wanted redundancy but in all honesty I never had a drive failing on me so in reality I never 'used' raid really.

I'm about to upgrade my 14TB Toshiba Enterprises and for space reasons I'd like to go for 24TB instead of buying more smaller drives. Also whenever I bought drives they too soon turned out too small so this time I want to really get some space for the space they take.

I would love to have a discussion about raid setups for these massive drives. If I remember right RAID5 was also created some time ago when drives used to be smaller. What's your experience?

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/A_Toxic_User on 2025-02-13 20:08:01.

RFK has been nominated as the HHS secretary. While I don’t think a vaccine ban is in the cards anytime soon, I definitely think that he’ll use his position to put together junk anti-vax studies to push his antivax beliefs, and there is a real danger that Trump orders all vaccine recommendations and info scrubbed from HHS-related websites.

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/AlexO-RSI on 2025-02-13 19:35:20.

Are there comparison tests of SSDs that are close to full capacity?