It's A Digital Disease!

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/syzygycat on 2024-01-17 20:24:56+00:00.

I've been using five 1TB to 3TB hdd to back up my data.

They're all seagate baracudas, all 9-15 years old.

I bought a 6TB Seagate SMR HDD to back up the back ups. I tried copying a 1TB folder, @ 0% "calculating time". I restarted the PC, 20gb had copied. I tried deleting the 25gb and it froze again. So I deleted the entire volume, created a new volume did a quick format... froze again during quick format., I left it alone for an hour, then just gave up on the drive. Rebooted the PC, the drive shows up but just freezes up during formatting.

Is this normal behavior for an SMR drive and I killed it or is was it a bad hdd?

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/capn_hector on 2024-01-17 20:08:52+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/craftywizard1983 on 2024-01-17 19:52:45+00:00.

I have a couple of these drives still in their original enclosure and I would like to shuck them to use with my ugreen enclosure. I'm not a big fan of the WD enclosure so was just wondering if anyone else shucks them to use in another enclosure and whether their would be any risk shucking and using in another enclosure?

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/IlliquidFabricator on 2024-01-17 19:34:25+00:00.

Hello all I am new to hoarding and have run into the worst thing to happen; file corruption.

On an external 3 TB exFAT SSD, there is a single directory with around 10k images/videos (totaling to something like 3 gigs) which has been corrupted. The rest of the drive works fine (and I have backed it all up already), but when trying to access that specific directory, I get "The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable."

I have tried running chkdsk for about 3 days straight, as well as tools like Stellar, but it keeps on running and I assume the huge driver size isn't doing me any favors.

Is there a way or tool that can attempt recovery inside specific folders only? Any insights and tips would be greatly appreciated

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/Nezteb on 2024-01-17 19:02:48+00:00.

I have a portable Samsung T-series drive. I want to store most of my important and frequently-accessed files/media. I’d carry the drive on me when I’m out for extended periods of time, sometimes with long stretches of no Internet access.

When plugged into a trusted computer with Internet again, I’d like to configure only the contents of the portable drive to get backed up automaticallly to B2 or a Minio instance. Most backup clients seem to support the reverse: on mount, backup computer files to the drive. I haven’t found any explicit mentions of this feature among most common tools mentioned in this sub.

Any and all ideas are appreciated!

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/120r on 2024-01-17 18:59:08+00:00.

I'll try and get to the point. My wife passed and I am looking to create a archive of all her files for long term storage. I have cloned to SSD drives but want to also create a backup onto spinning disk. Her files all live on two Macs , one iPhone, one iPad, Google Drive, and USB drives/sticks.

What would you recommend as a file system for long term storage and archive? I am thinking ext4 for the stand alone drives. I plan on organizing and archiving to the cloud, and building a ZFS server. I am mainly a Mac user but I also run a couple Linux boxes.

Thanks for any suggestions.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/avii22 on 2024-01-17 18:50:01+00:00.

I have around 26 TB of storage capacity in a pool and planning to add another 8TB drive. However, I get the error: the physical disk sector size is not supported by the storage pool. Is due to the cluster size? I am currently using 8 KB for the pool. Do I need to increase to 16 KB? Is there a way to do it without migrating/formatting?

Any help would be appreciated! Thank you!

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/BestExtraLibrarian on 2024-01-17 18:38:53+00:00.

Thanks, EU!

Here's the bit just announced, emphasis mine:

Data portability: For over a decade we have offered users the ability to download or transfer a copy of their data from more than 80 Google products. We continue to make investments in Google Takeout, the Data Transfer Initiative and data portability more broadly. To meet new requirements around moving your data to a third-party app or service, we will soon be testing a Data Portability API for developers**.**

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/Half_Aborted on 2024-01-17 18:33:36+00:00.

Hi, I'm looking for the best quality Windows 11-compatible VHS capture device. Can anyone suggest one to go with? Elgato and Dazzle do not function with it.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/ConsoleModded on 2024-01-17 17:27:46+00:00.

I bought a new 16TB HDD from NewEgg, and when I plug it in, Windows refuses to even acknowledge it's existence. I've seen other threads where people will show Windows showing it "corrupted" or bad, or that it's slow to load, but in my situation it doesn't even appear AT ALL! Even going through Disk Manager / Partitioner, it's not in there. I've attempted different SATA cables/power cords (which have just recently worked on other HDD's, by the way) but still no luck. I really hope the drive isn't dead on arrival. Any other suggestions?

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/zapugh on 2024-01-17 17:07:50+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/Robotater on 2024-01-17 16:58:45+00:00.

Looks like 30 TB CMR drives will be available to end users soon, initial estimates are at a cost of $450 ($15/TB)

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/ForagerGrikk on 2024-01-17 16:50:28+00:00.

I have two seperate kodi machines in two different locations, both play movies from external hdd's. One of them is on a TV that doesn't do UHD. Is there anything out there that can split my library up into HD and UHD folders so that I'm not accidentally sending UHD files to the TV that can't play them?

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/hoppla1232 on 2024-01-17 16:11:15+00:00.

I recently tried to get all my data from Google, especially Youtube comments. Now I noticed that it's just reaching back to about 07/2022, but in a takeout I did in 2021 I got all comments from then until 2015.

Anyone got any experience with Takeout and knows what's up?

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/giallons on 2024-01-17 16:03:40+00:00.

Is there a way to build a raid5 with thunderbolt 3-4 interface and with a 4 bay slots or more? Maybe with a small form factor and without spending too much? Any suggestion and guide is gladly welcome

Thanks

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/ButterscotchLucky798 on 2024-01-17 13:40:39+00:00.

I can find NAS type storage, but is there just an inherent limit on the smaller (physical) size SSDs at 8TB?

I was looking to replace an 8TB HDD used for backup. It’s almost full

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/Welcius on 2024-01-17 10:24:26+00:00.

I have a collection of folders which have several files inside, mostly zip files and unity related stuff, which I want to be able to search using custom metadata: in order to accomplish that, I would ideally like to create a metadata.json file inside a folder (json, ldjson, yaml, etc.) which can have some arbitrary attributes such as: resource_id, title, description, source_url, model_type, thumbnail_image_path...

I would like to find a software that would let me perform searches against those metadata files, ideally being able to display the result items in a grid with thumbnails and the custom attributes I would like to display. It would be nice as well if it would manage the part of creating those metadata files from a GUI, be compatible with network based storage such as google drive and ideally (but not mandatory) to be multi-platform.

Is there any software that you find suitable / can recommend to me? I have tried to find a software but seems like all of them are oriented towards automatic metadata recognition from images, videos, audios, etc. but that's not what I really want since I am going to add that metadata manually.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/pwn3dbyth3n00b on 2024-01-15 13:49:19+00:00.

I'm planning on using three drives to store my DSLR Raw files on. A 2TB SSD for files I'm constantly using for editing and stuff then 2 5TB HDD for long term storage but they will be the same files just on two drives just in case.

If one of the HDD gets corrupted or something how do you go about using the other drive to repair the files?

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/EDPbeOP on 2024-01-15 12:08:10+00:00.

When erasing/deleting specific/individual files off an SSD is there any point in using Erasure programs that overwrite/use algorithms like DoD 3 Pass? eg. Eraser I know about ATA Secure Erase but that's the entire SSD and not individual files.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/Peter1095 on 2024-01-15 12:06:28+00:00.

Im running out of space and Looking to buy a new drive for large files and am having trouble deciding between the Seagate Exos X20 ST20000NM007D and Seagate SkyHawk AI ST20000VE002 20TB, idrc about them being SMR as they wont have many writes and will be mostly used to archive large files (tens to hundreds of GiB).

Current drive I use is a Ironwolf pro 16tb (ST16000NT001) but I have roughly 2tb left so I thought i better get a new drive before I completely run out.

Which one should I get or would either be a decent choice?

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/TheRealHarrypm on 2024-01-15 11:58:15+00:00.

Enjoy some video content.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/mesoraven on 2024-01-15 11:16:53+00:00.

Hey everyone

So started a media server and have 2 drive in it. I filled the operating system drive up to 75% and left free space on it as normal. Then the secondary drive is now neari g full but I still have like 140gb (2tb) free but windows is flagging as red. So do a second dary drive need free space left? Or it it time for a new drive?

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/Ilegator on 2024-01-15 11:01:48+00:00.

Hi, I recently bought 5 used 3tb drives and I'm wondering if I should pool the in software raid5 configuration. I've always used my drives without raid and no backups, just frequently checking properly with crystaldiskinfo. I've always had time to backup everything when drives went bad (+10 years adding new drives to my setup and no file losses due to hardware)

Is it worth having 5 drives pooled and 1 parity drive? Will I get better permance (read/write speeds) from them? Is it risky doing it with old drives? Should I use windows drive pool software to do this or something else? How flexible is this configuration if I have to format my pc or I lose C: drive? Does this configuration consume CPU/RAM usage?

Sorry for so many questions but I'm pretty lost because I've never done this. Note I've a few other drives connected that are not 3tb.

Thanks in advance!

My setup is 32ram 3600x 1tb nvme, 1tb sata ssd, 8tb, 4tb, 2tb, 1.5tb hdd + x5 3tb hdd Rtx 3070

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/7evenate9ine on 2024-01-15 10:39:05+00:00.

I've been finding lots of people online with this situation. They have a Micro Center flash drive (mostly 16GB or 32GB) with what seems to be a black cover for the internal components and no activity light. I got a 5 pack of these from Amazon a couple of years ago and just recently opened the pack and noticed this issue. So I broke open one of the USB drives. It's not a black cover for the internal components, it's a mock circuit board. It's just a peace of plastic with a notch. But the drive formats to 14.4GB and stores data, how much I dont know, I only put a 6GB image in this drive with no problems. So I kept taking it apart and found that all the circuitry is in one chip mounted directly to the copper USB contacts. All the electronics mount inside of the metal USB connector, but they still went to the trouble of making it look like all the other 16GB drives that have a real circuit board and activity light. The performance of this single chip flash drives is lower than the drives I have with complete circuit boards. These single chip drives read at 29MBps and write at 9MBps, the full drives with an activity light Read and Write at 29MBps. There seems to be a serial number on the metal connector that is consistent with Micro Center flash drives. This is kind of a shocking surprise. I understand the Micro Center makes the cheapest flash drives you can get, as such consistency could be an issue, but this is jarring. It makes one wonder if the drives are fake or just made by the lowest bidder that Micro Center could find. I see that some people get write protection errors when they have a drive like this. I've always had a good experience with MC flash drives, as cheap as they are, they've always taken a beating and worked beyond expectations for such budget drives. Not sure what to make of this. Has anyone else gotten one of these drives with the black, mock circuity board inside and no activity light? Where did you get it from? Are you getting the write protection errors? Can we get someone from Micro Center to give us some info on this? If they are legit, I can live with the 9MBps write speed, but more info on this weirdness would be great.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/rahz_ on 2024-01-15 09:27:22+00:00.

Does anybody know a brand that produces a external enclosure that holds multiple optical drives? I haven’t found any. While my personal pc I does not have a drive anymore, I’d like to have a case that I can pull out when I digitize my blu rays or dvds quickly, especially to have not as may cables to plug into my pc. Currently all my drives just hang out of my pc case and lay on the floor.

Really appreciate the help! Thanks guys

Edit: I am in the EU btw.