It's A Digital Disease!

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/steampunk333 on 2024-01-21 05:30:24+00:00.

I bought an LSI 9300-16i to use with some SAS SSDs; the problem is, although the card shows up in BIOS, the drives don't and I can't seem to get a straight answer on how to get the card to show the drives in Ubuntu or Windows either. I made sure power and cooling are good to go, and even bought a second card thinking the first might be defective - no dice.

TLDR - total noob, can someone give me some comprehensive instructions for how to get this card to work?

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/optimisticlemur on 2024-01-21 05:11:10+00:00.

My wife passed away years ago. She left behind a sizable collection of pre-digital prints and negatives, which is being scanned, and a big collection in Google Photos.

I like that Google Photos shows me my old pictures daily, and it would be nice to see her pics too. It would also be nice for other family members to be able to browse the pictures.

Should I move her Google Photo pictures to my account? Leave them in hers? Should I put them in my Google Drive account? Somewhere else?

Bonus question: the scanned pictures are going to have the scanning date as the EXIF date. What's the done thing here? Should I update the EXIF date with the actual picture date? Put the actual date somewhere else? How can I make sure that Google Photos, for example, will show the pictures in correct chronological order?

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/bobberkarl on 2024-01-21 04:18:12+00:00.

Hello everyone,

I'm looking for a tool that would allow me to backup:

• All my tweets, retweets, liked and bookmarked tweets with the associated media

• My followers list

• My lists

If this tool does not exist, is there a way for me to have programmatical access to my data without using Twitter official API (100USD/Month)? I could write a script or a browser extension.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/sir_topham_biff on 2024-01-21 01:39:42+00:00.

I need to share one of my backup drives with a friend. He told me it needs to be encrypted to store it in his house. I do trust him but he wants the data encrypted. I said fine with me. It's just medical and financial records as well as families movies like Christmas mornings.

The problem is that while my Linux desktop could always decrypt the drives with my gpg key or password. I'm trying to plan on a situation where something bad happens and I can't access the computer. Maybe I forget the password or something like that.

I thought about buying a cheap waterproof USB drive and just burying it someplace.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/Jordanbr25 on 2024-01-20 21:07:24+00:00.

Hello,

Wanted to seek some advice. I am scanning all the documents I have / will get and saving them locally and on the cloud. (Redundancy.) But all the scanners are always so slow, I have a HUGE pile, and the printer/scanner I have now takes about 30 seconds for 1 side of a single paper. (Please come and save me) I currently have an HP DeskJet 2734e, which I no longer print so stopped paying for the service. Little did I know that would make me unable to print NOR use the scanner....

What am I looking for?

• A scanner.
  • It can be an all-in-one printer but if it requires a paid service, I will ignore it lol.
• Preferably quick but maintains the quality.
• Can be saved as PDF or JPG.
• Does not cost an arm and a leg.
• Highly prefer to be connected to Wi-Fi (or Bluetooth) but if it costs less to use cable, I will deal with it.

Additional Information

• Some are one-sided, and some are double-sided.
• Some have mutliple pages.
• Some have multiple pages. that are one-sided and double-sided. -_-

Thank you in advance for any suggestions!!!

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/type9freak on 2024-01-20 19:50:32+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/BakGikHung on 2024-01-20 08:22:22+00:00.

I've been scanning important documents with the android "Adobe Scan" app, and storing them onto my backed up storage. How worried do I have to be that this format may become unreadable in the future ?

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/SirVampyr on 2024-01-19 14:43:20+00:00.

Hello there!

I am currently working on a project that requires me to input large amounts of text in different languages. My problem is where to aquire them from. I figured this might be the place to ask people, since I have zero ideas.

Maybe someone here can give me some pointers on where to look? :)

Any help is highly appreciated!

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/brainmuad on 2024-01-19 14:01:46+00:00.

I bought new 4tb seagate exos and its showing as 500Mb in cyrstal disk info, i closed the program like 3 times and it still shows the same, it shows as 3726 Gb in DiskPart Also in easeus partition master and also in hard disk sentinal, Except Crystal Disk, whats wrong here please?

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/awaythrow292 on 2024-01-19 13:44:49+00:00.

There's a whole bunch of different model/part numbers, i'm just wondering what the difference is between them. Is there a way to tell how "new" each model is? Are there any differences in performance/features?

Here's a thread with serverpartdeals saying there's no real difference, but that seems to be with the part number?

WUH721818ALE6L4, WUH721818ALE604, WUH721818ALE6L1, 3 different drives?

What one should I buy? It will be going in a synology NAS and hopefully not be too loud, or be better suited to a climate/humidity controlled (my ambient temps here are 70-75f) environment.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/Shenmue-is-life on 2024-01-19 12:04:31+00:00.

Hi,

I want to load a webpage from a specific URL. Problem is: I know the original content of the page has been deleted.

However, I know that my web browser has kept the cache of it.

Usually on modern browsers, you get access to the cache by browsing the "previous page" feature. Instead of reloading each page previously opened, modern browsers prefer to read directly the cache.

But I closed my window then. If I load the page from my browser history page list, it will reload the page and erase the cache by the new content.

Setup: Windows 10, Brave (Chromium browser)

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/Daviddv1202 on 2024-01-19 11:07:09+00:00.

Tried everything. All the 'recommended' downloader extensions from Chrome but most are either blocked by a paywall or just don't work. I need to get the video in the smallest compression possible and the hosting sites for the download files host only the largest files. I need to get it as small as possible.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/__markb on 2024-01-19 11:01:53+00:00.

Hi dear data hoarders!

This is not a typical "hoarding" scenario but I think with the amount of data this community has you'd have some very sound advice.

I have video media projects - about 2000 new projects a year. Monthly I get notice of ones that are no longer needed and can be archived off. This on average ranges about to 1000 projects.

The size of the project can range from 4GB all the way up to 60TB for a single project. Now a lot of the projects are under 1TB, but even at 1000 projects a year I'm archiving 1PB yearly.

Currently, only because it was based off an old process, was we were to burn off the project to spanned discs. The physical media was cheap and we were able to store them offsite in perfect conditions - dark, temperature monitored, etc.

Previously the recall for this media to be onlined again was rare - maybe once a year. We are now seeing a trend of it increasing.

Protocol says we cant keep it online or nearline and it needs to be removed from the active system. If we could change this we would but its not a simple task.

However we do have access to a growing petabytes storage system designed for being the digital offsite archive. It was approved for paper digitisation archival, and now extended to us for digital media.

The interface for the storage doesn't allow folders, so the archive needs to be self contained - zip, sfx, tar, iso, etc.

Questions:

What I'd like advice on is what would be the easiest way to archive these large amounts of data, assuming the project was one self contained end file. As in ProjectA and ProjectB cannot be in the same zip, they would be ProjectA.zip and ProjectB.zip

How or what tools can I use to achieve this with the least amount of interaction? What would maintain the data integrity the best?

Are there any recommendations of the best compression to time to compress options?

What I've researched:

So I'm not coming in without trying anything first. I have tried 7zipping the projects, 14TB takes about 100 hours on store setting. I can lower it to 40 hours with the LZMA2 option in compression.

There is no need to save space - though if makes it faster is a bonus.

I also tried PeaZip but didn't let it run long enough to see the results as the UI was frozen and no indication of progress.

I did try ImgBurn for directory to ISO but that was longer than the 7zip 40 hours so that didn't seem as viable option.

We do have an option in the archival software (which gathers all the media for the project) to create a TAR file - however, I've had very little interaction with those types and not 100% sure of the integrity long term.

Again, mods, if this is too far from data hoarding happy to remove it - but thought maybe it might be helpful if there are answers for those who are hoarding for some tips on larger media sizes or automating their processes.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/Gredo89 on 2024-01-19 10:27:36+00:00.

Hello,

I am currently building my HomeServer and wondering what HDD would be best. I know about WD red and Seagate Ironwolf.

Is there anything better suited for 24/7 operations?

I planned with around 200€/$ for at least 8 TB in RAID1/5/10.

The cheapest will probably be RAID5 with 3x4TB, right?

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/Drmeredithgrey13 on 2024-01-19 09:41:35+00:00.

Im trying to get my hands on an OTR recording from 2011. sadly my account is not old enough to decode the key Is there any way to get my hands on this file?

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/danielrosehill on 2024-01-19 09:40:32+00:00.

For those of you into using optical for archiving:

Verbatim produces two products in CD-R and DVD-R that both seem intended for long term cold data storage/archival:

• DataLifePlus

• Archival Grade Gold

The Archival Grade Gold products are about twice as expensive. So based on this I assumed that they are of superior quality.

Does anybody know the difference in disc composition between these two products (one uses a gold layer, the other doesn't, but does that automatically make the gold discs superior?)

TIA

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/harlekintiger on 2024-01-19 08:32:55+00:00.

Hello fellow hoarders!

What are some good methods to view 150.000+ images? The windows file explorer gave up a long time ago.

I'll take everything from win program to ubuntu, from native app to self hosted web solution.

Thank you very much

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/Rem403 on 2024-01-19 08:26:23+00:00.

hey all. I have got a Synology nas, and I want to access it outside the network it is on so I can backup stuff on my other computers to it. Anyone have got an idea on how to do this? I looked it up and there seams that there is a thing called quick connect or whatever, but I can not set up a Synology account because it is inaccessible to set one up as a blind person.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/OldMcGroin on 2024-01-19 08:05:58+00:00.

Hi all. So I recently posted here looking for advice on a 20TB HDD for my first enclosure. I was advised that the Ultrastar drives were very reliable so I put in an order for one on Serverpartdeals.com because that is the store that seems to get mentioned here regularly as being very good to deal with. I'm in Ireland and don't mind the shipping time.

Woke up this morning to someone questioning why I would use a US store if I'm in Ireland and was told I could save a tonne of money if I shucked instead. The 20TB Ultrastar I had ordered cost €375 including shipping with FedEx.

So my question is, what would the European equivalent of Serverpartdeals.com be? I've looked on Amazon.uk and the Ultrastar drives there are looking about €100 more expensive than the one I had ordered. Is shucking the process of removing the drive from an external hard drive (new to this)? If so, I'm not really seeing any 20TB drives cheaper than €375 and I'm not too confident of attempting that anyway.

Any advice is welcome!

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/soundwarrior20 on 2024-01-19 03:48:24+00:00.

Hi everyone hope you're doing well and staying safe. I'm totally blind, I have two MacBooks and about 4 hard drives that I would possibly like to back up to a remote service. I would like to have easy retrieval and easy search on my files and data. does anybody have any recommendations for this please? Thanks very much everyone :-)

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/Vitoreba on 2024-01-18 17:03:36+00:00.

Well... Looks like I have broken a part of their terms and they decided to deactivate my account with more than 12 years of data there...

My Dropbox account is from something near 2011, I had always used then as backup only to avoid losing data, but, something like 3 or 4 weeks ago, I decided that "If I use this service for more than 10 years and anything bad never happened before, then it should be fine put all my data on just online mode".

Well... Murphy has activated I think and then they decided that anything I made with my account is reason for then to deactivate my account and kidnap all my data out of blue WITHOUT ANY WARNING...

I have important stuff there, job files, scitific research I made on the university, documents I need for the Brazilian annual taxes which is coming in a couple of months, childhood and family photos... All of that were ONLY IN DROPBOX for the last couple of weeks... Worst decision I made, I know... ButI'm pretty sure Brasilian laws are against this kind of arbitrary behavior such as deactivate my account and forbid me to download my data, specially wihout any warnings...

Well... This post has two reasons:-First: just know that... Don't trust in Dropbox for keeping your files, they can simple be the reason for you to lose it ;)And above anything else... Don't trust a single way to keep your data.-Second one: Anyone have any advice of what can I do to retrieve my files?

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/Alive-Worldliness-27 on 2024-01-19 03:40:49+00:00.

Whats the current time frame for when the status says received / processing? It's been like this for a week now. I have about 20 days left before I take a trip I don't know if they will ship it off before then? I sent a email off but not sure if it's going to be helpful in trying to figure out what the status message means.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/AboutToMakeMillions on 2024-01-18 16:13:56+00:00.

Selling this quarter to cloud customers. Hopefully soon available to retail

"They will be produced in three versions:

Conventional at 24 TB and 30 TB Shingled (SMR) with overlapping write tracks providing higher capacity and slower writes at 32 TB Hybrid SMR with conventional and shingled zones at around 24-30 TB for CSPs such as Google"

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/SpiritualSexOffender on 2024-01-19 03:21:18+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/darkangel1865 on 2024-01-19 02:54:42+00:00.

Hello all.

I have a lot of data on many cheap SD cards, flash drives and external drives, but I want to move everything to good quality SD cards since they last longer (or so I was told). Some of my drives are over fifteen years old, so it’s long past time for a change. What is a good, reputable, and (relatively) cheap company to buy from?

Thank you.