r/DataHoarder

I'm fairly new to homelabbing and recently had a 26TB Seagate external HDD fail within the first year. Paid to ship it back for an RMA and received a refurbished 24TB replacement.

I understand their policy allows refurbished drives, and that's fine. What bothers me is getting back a drive with nearly 8% less capacity than what I originally purchased.

I've contacted Seagate and am waiting to hear back. I feel like sending an additional 2TB drive would be a reasonable compromise instead of going through another RMA.

Curious how you guys would handle this. Am I being unreasonable expecting the same capacity back?

Also, would you bother running a SMART test on the 24TB replacement before Seagate responds, or leave it packaged up for now?

Any guidance or words of wisdom would be greatly appreciated.

OF-DL used to work for me previously, but recently i just keep getting 403 forbidden errors.

I even tried to get the OF-Scraper working and generated fresh device Id and keys from Android Studio emulator but it still isn't working.

Does anyone know any tool maybe any configuration for OF-Scraper and OF-DL to get it working for DRM vids.

I plan to backup important documents and photos (around 1TB max) and then have a collection of 4K movies and shows which will grow over the years

Option 1: I can currently find a Sandisk extreme portable 4 TB SSD for $510/€455 on sale on Amazon from the Sandisk store.

Option 2: On the other hand I could buy a 6TB HDD for $270/€241 and wait a bit to buy an SSD on top for additional space and maybe to backup some of my data on that one too. I’d probably be able to find a 1/2tb ssd later and end up paying the same as option 1 in total I presume.

Main reason I would try to also get a SSD in option 2 is because I’m not too sure about the reliability of HDDs but I also imagine if I use it carefully it should hopefully not be an issue.

So my question is which option should I go for and additionally what should I know/care about in terms of using either ssd or hdd for backups and data storage. What is your advice on reliability and avoiding drive failure and making these last ? I’m hoping with the sizes I’m considering these drives should last me 5-7 years before I run out of space especially for the personal data backups. Am I silly for thinking they could last that long or should they last even longer ?

Hello everyone.
I got a quite large rar file of images a while ago.
Finally got around to opening and sorting that, only to learn there are three types of file inside:
.rar that unpack without issue.
.rar files that unexpectedly demand a password (bummer)
.rar files that unpack into the expected structure and naming of files, making it look like there is a whole bunch of .jpg but no program I tried is able to read them, the title being the only legible error message I got.
Has anybody encountered this? Are they unrecoverably corrupt? I couldn't find any image formats that match this file start. Notepad turns them into mostly chinese gibberish, Notepad++ turns them into some sort of Wingdings gibberish.
Thanks in advance.

Hello,

I tried searching but couldn’t really find anything specific.

I have a hard drive with about 15 years of data on it, from multiple phones, multiple laptops, random files, etc. There is absolutely zero organization and it’s an absolute mess. There are many duplicates. A lot of the file names are similar because of the way the iPhone names files. So I have about 10 different phone library dumps - they all use the same file name formatting. It’s just literally a mess.

I am looking for the best way I can do the following:

-Deduplicate
-rename all files to when they were created followed by their actual file name, or if anybody has a better format?
-somehow tag files into a database so I can search some term and the file name/location will appear? I would manually have to tag them
-organize into folders by file type and then by year/day etc

I have a synology 923+ I have not set it up yet. I want to be able to access all of these files with ease after they are organized.

The main file types are going to be photos, video, pdf, txt files, and then a bunch of a random web files as there are a few website projects scattered throughout.

Can somebody point me into the right direction where I can achieve these without doing majority of it manually? I am afraid it must be done manually in order to be done correctly without losing anything. Am I wrong?

Thank you so much!

I recently got a QNAP TR-004 and two 6tb Ironwolfs (in RAID1). I have to admit it's noisier than I expected/hoped. It's for a bedroom setup and I need it to be DAS so that my Backblaze 1-computer subscription will include it in the backups.

I know there's no quiet solution here. The TR-004 doesn't appear to be dampened at all internally and the Ironwolfs have quite a loud read/write. I've read WD Red Plus are bit quieter but I'm hesitant to change everything out unless it's a noticeable difference.

My external Western Black P10 SMR hard drive just failed, and I want to replace it with a 4TB IronWolf Pro as an external drive for storing and editing my raw photos in lightroom. I’m not a professional. I’m okay with the speed, but is there any downside to doing this? I want a CMR hard drive; apparently, they are better and fail less often compared to SMR ones
Any advice?.

I make videos for professional work and passion projects. I made the move to a 4 Bay Nas Ugreen system with 26TB sea gate recertified drives (so 102 total TB).
My first question is how do I test these drives to make sure there are no issues with them being recertified before my return window closes to get a replacement?
For what I do, should I do raid 6 vs raid 5. I hate to waste the extra space and is it really that risky only having one drive for backup instead of two? Do peoples hard drives actually breakdown well backing up another one? I genuinely don’t know.

i snagged this one for less than 6$ as seller said it's pullout and not guaranteed to work as he doesn't have system to test with, cloned my C:Drive to it and now i use the old NVME that i had for PrimoCache.

Im looking for an affordable hard drive to store my textbooks and instructor videos on. Classes are expensive and textbooks even more so. I dont think its right that I lose access to that info at the end of the semester, so im looking to store it and look back on it when needed.

Thanks in advance

As the title implies I am thinking of building a NAS to both safeguard and consolidate my various drives. I'm going to go with something like a terramaster or anything prebuilt that can take at least 6 drives.

My concern was with the array configuration I should use. Right now I have only 4 12TB drives, my intention is to set them up with one parity drive, then later once I properly send or store the data I have on the other 14TB and 18TB hard drives I would add them to the array and hopefully have 2 parity drives.

Since my drives are all different sizes, and I don't want to risk losing any data if something happens to a data drive or a parity I wanted to avoid stuff like RAID 5. Enter Unraid, which seems like a good choice, let's me use different sized drives, can have parity and while I may need to ensure my NAS has an x86 processor and that I'll lose speed since the data is not stripped over multiple drives, I'd rather live with 240MB/s speeds than risk anything ( I also don't have any files that require more than that speed)

But before I set my eyes on anything, I want to check here if there are other array options aside from RAID and Unraid. Those are the only two I'm aware of.

I'm looking into data hoarding as the older I get, the more I notice the incredibly common media I used to use as a child are now terribly hard to find. I would typically just search this kind of question on the subreddit, but tbh, I don't even know how I'd begin to search this question.

Is there an open source interface or protocol data hoarders can use to access archived information on others hard drives? Similarly to something such as torrent? I would love to data hoard but I don't want it to be like I'm a dragon sitting atop my pile of treasure LOL.

Is there anything similar to this? I would love especially if it was something similar to archive.org but decentralized and commonly tracked.

I'm running ZFS array and currently cannot afford to replace any of my 16TB disks if they fail. I have avoided scrubbing and have two separate backups of all the important things I can replace at any time.

Is the scrub strain really that significant? I've heard lots of horror stories so until I have plenty of spending money for replacements I'm not running any scrubs at the moment. Am I too paranoid or is it a valid choice?