r/DataHoarder

from the comments "when you showed that the lonely island video is more zoomed in now, it reminded me that on their podcast a couple of weeks ago they off hand mentioned that when youtube was doing 4k enhanced music videos they got a secret link (and made it sound like it was not part of standard youtube studio/admin) that allowed them to completely replace the video file that was uploaded without changing the url or the views of the old video and the only requirement was the length stayed exactly the same. so my speculation is their higher quality export was cropped a little differently when they replaced the video"

this is one more bad outcome possibility if you care about the original, on top of video being reencoded with a new codec, or the video deleted, age or country restricted, or turned into premium-subscriber-only (to the channel).

Hey everyone,

I'm a video editor working daily in Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve. Currently, my workflow looks like this:

1. Offload original footage to my local NAS.
2. Copy the project assets/footage onto my PC's internal M.2 SSD for editing (along with project files, SFX, graphics, etc.).

While editing off the M.2 SSD is fast, my drive is constantly running out of space. I obviously don't want to delete past projects, but just coping the full project to my NAS after editing would trash my NAS because all the video files would be there twice now.

How do you manage your storage and project archiving?

• Do you edit directly off a fast NAS via 10GbE?
• Are you working with proxys?
• How do you organize your media and SFX libraries so they don't clog up your main drive?
• Do you just copy the project to the NAS? Bc if you later would want to change something you would have to search for all the media you used.

Would love to hear how you streamlined your storage setups!

They still aren't back yet, I wanted to download everything on there

Hey everyone, I purchased an online course and I’m trying to save the videos for personal/offline use. Unfortunately, the course website doesn’t provide any download option.

I tried using the Video DownloadHelper browser extension, but it doesn’t detect the actual video. When I inspect the video/network requests, I noticed the video is being served from a URL starting with:

media.publit.io/file/...

Does anyone know if there’s a legitimate way to download or save these videos for offline viewing, assuming I already have authorized access to the course?

I’m not trying to share or redistribute the content—I just want a personal backup/offline copy of a course I paid for.

Any advice would be appreciated.

I'm really confused bc they said it has brokerage fees and vat on value of any replacements but I have no idea what that value is so can't calculate it. Anyone had experience with data recovery? How much did customs cost for you? Thanks

Asking advice here, seeing as how you all are well versed in storage mediums. I recently picked up a multi disk changer to go in my hifi cluster, i've wanted one ever since the one we had when iwas a kid died.

I would like to be able to fill the changer, while being able to change the music up if needed without keeping a giant stack of discs around. Verbatim seems to be the only ones readily avaible, but i rember those having around a 1/10 or so failure rate when i used them back in the day. I used tdk discs usually and i have some of those that still work. But i havent seen any of those in years.

Should i still try for the cd rws, or should i just bite the bullet and get a stack of cd rs and deal with organizing them? Any advice? If i plan to rewrite the discs every 2 months or so is it even worthwhile?

I want to do this so i can keep the original discs put up, and since everything is stored on my pc as well, i can weed out some of the tracks i'm not fond of and get more music i like per disc. And i know that i can just play the mp3/flac files from a usb directly on my receiver, but the mechanical noise and pausing is what i really miss.

I'm looking for the above. The MiniPC that runs my Plex server can only handle 5gbit USB, so that's the minimum it needs to handle. I know there's a whole bunch of different chipsets used for these enclosures, so I'd appreciate any longterm experiences.

The main purpose will be 3 WD 12 TB drives (WD Red), two of which are linked as a large 24GB drive via mergerFS, and a third as a parity drive for Snapraid, all under Proxmox.

I'm currently running a Fantec QB-X2U31R in JBOD for the joint drives, and a seperate Fantec DB-G35U3-6G for the parity drive. Since this is messy and the mini PC only has so many USB ports, I'd like to move them all into a single enclosure.

I am currently working on a small ecosystem around preserving MiniDV/DV-family tapes (I have many!):

A free Windows capture application (think WinDV-alternative). goal is to reliably capture via Firewire from DV/DVCAM/DVCPRO25 and HDV, while preserving an untouched master and adding proper capture verification, tape metadata, QC /error reporting, together with automatic clip creation.

Some simple hardware to solve the increasingly problematic issue of connecting Firewire cameras/decks to modern computers. Instead of converting DV to HDMI/video and recapturing, the aim is to preserve the original digital DV/HDV stream and integrate directly with the app.

A small app that takes the resulting master file (of a MiniDV tape) and archives it to Bluray. It automatically creates additional ECC/recovery data before burning, so the disc isn't just another copy of the file. so it has some ability to recover from future damaged/unreadable sectors as well....hopefully.

The overall idea is:

Tape --> Original digital stream---> Verified master--> ECC-protected offline archive.

I’m started this because I started working on an oold documentary project shot in 2005 and 2006, and had copied all files to hard drives, some of which are sadly not working anymore. Started to recapture from the original MiniDV tapes, only to be frustrated with the currently available hardware and software.

The two apps above work; the hardware is what i currently testing...

Hi, I was notified that my partnership with the X-ray platform is ending. They're closing down, and I need to download thousands of X-ray images, which are hidden like links behind links. I need a plugin or something to automate the downloading of these X-ray images. Please help. The website is called Panoramax, and I don't need a password for each patient.

I just had this idea while listening to some music from 90s. How amazing it would be if I could archive the digital contents of 1990-2000. I don't think I have the space for it, but wouldn't it be amazing? All the major movies, tv series and music of these 11 years. I'm sure I already have a tiny portion of movies and series from these years. I doubt if I start doing it, I can complete it because even if all the contents are readily available, I do not have the storage, and backup storage required.

Maybe I can do one year at a time lol. Just had a filtered search on BHD, and there is like almost 400 movies that are available there which has a remux. Even if it is the same for all the years, it'll still be like 4000+ movies.

I think I'll just collect the jewels, not all, for now.

I'm pretty excited man. My cd's have been on their coaster for freaking years man, years!

I'm wondering if I still have a copy of death trap dungeon. I recall that being one of my firsts...

Now to figure out.. do I need dosbox to use them? Or like emulate windows 98? Maybe something with xp on it?

I am looking for assistance in backing up books from my kindle account.

I have purchased several books through the app, like 1984, Don Quixote, etc, and I would like to back up the books that I have purchased. To read them, I was directed to download the Kindle app from the windows store. I was able to download the books on to the app, but they are limited to only being readable on the app.

Is there any way that I can download the books that I have bought that doesn't rely on Amazon continually supporting the app (after they stopped supporting the non-Microsoft version) and making them unreadble should the app ever go down?

All of the solutions Ive seen are dependent on The Legacy Kindle app which is unsupported as of June

I just finished migrating my UnRAID server over to a new dual Platinum 8268 Platinum setup with 12x32GB ECC.

My important array is 4x26GB drives with 52TB of useable space, the other arrays have a mix of 16GB/8GB drives and take up the other sleds in the Rosewill case.

I've been looking for a reliable backup solution just in case my arrays crapped the bed with the move to the new server but it was a non issue and they transferred over with no issues. UnRAID keeps surprising me.

Anyhow, I was looking through eBay, as these things usually start, and picked up a great condition Quantum Superloader3 with an LTO6 drive for less than $200. I scored 16 sealed tapes to fill left and right magazines for less than $200 and a SAS cable for $20.

I spun up Bareos on UnRAID and created a backup job for the 52TB array and it's been whirring away for the past few hours, it swaps tapes automatically and hasn't complained once. The barcode reader reads the labels I've created which was a slight ball ache to do but the autoloader knowing which tape is where is a simple but very satisfying thing.

That's 40TB of backups for less than $450 in case one or more of my drives decides to fail.

It's not fast, the first test backups restored perfectly and I'm stoked that it works. LTO7/8/9 would have been nice but this fits my needs amazingly well - if I need more backup storage I just buy new tapes. If you haven't looked into tape and were curious about it, it's well worth a look even at these lower capacities.

Hard drive prices have gone up so much lately that I've started buying sealed hard drives on eBay.

However, while browsing this subreddit, I came across a post saying that even unused drives aren't good to use if they sit idle for too long. The lubricants in hard drives can dry out, and 'stiction' can occur, where the heads stick to the platters. And it seems like rust can occur.

If that's the case, how long can an unused hard drive maintain a like new condition? 3 years? 5 years?

Would it be safe to buy an unused hard drive with a manufacturing date from over 10 years ago?