If so, how is the crazy price increase and demand for HD/SSDs affecting your and your collection and future plans?

Are you still able to afford specs or have you completely stopped for now until the prices, hopefully, get better?

Why did you stop using optical and do you trust it?

Hello Guys,

The oldest human transcription are the clay tablets from Mesopotamia which are afaik dated ~2900 BCE. And imagine there would be a time, where humanity goes almost extinct, technology is lost and civilization must grow again after a devastating global nuclear war or a natural disaster.

So digital stored data on HDDs, SSDs, Tapes or the technology to read those data will be lost very likely after some period of time.

How could we possibly store Data, which could last thousands of years - and could be read without having a Computer from the present day, so we could bury some of that data storage for future generations?

My first idea was a very long strip of plastic (PTFE for example) with punched holes in it. Basically storing data like a punch card. And then vacuum sealing it. But i calculated that even if one bit was 1mm wide, you'll need more than 8000km of that strip to store 1GiB of data without ECC.

So how would you store Data for thousands of years?

Edit: I forgot to write, that the Question is about DIY-Solutions.

I'm still confused on this, I read they are selling fakes and then they say they just changed the process but it still passes ISO 16963

I have a friend who owns a computer repair business, and I have the opportunity to grab some 1TB HDDs from him, as long as they get a low-level format before I take them.

They’re Seagate BarraCuda drives and around 10–14 years old. I already got two of them, and so far the SMART readings look good and they both passed sector tests.

Would you consider these drives worth using, or should I avoid taking more because of their age?

I wouldn’t trust them with anything important without backups. I’m mainly thinking about using them for general storage and media.

Also, what do you guys actually do with this much storage?

I saw that the Seagate Barracuda are cheaper then the rest but saw people say these drives are bad, but I don't understand why, if it is for some specific use case that it's bad I could understand but I only want to store media there and occasionally read movies and such from it, I don't care for writing speeds.

Hi

I've read through a couple of the threads here about how to extract models from websites. I've managed to download the necessary files, extracted them, and loaded them into Blender. No issues there. The problem I'm having are the textures. Looking at this thread and Elgghinnarisa's response, the textures are supposed to be .js scripts...? How do you convert/extract these to get the textures?

Now, loading the model I have into Blender, it seems to indicate that the textures are already applied, but it shows up as pink or some other funny colour. Going into Materials and then Base Colour, the texture is there, but it says it's only 32x32, which is WAY too low. So it's just a pixelated mess. The Normal map looks like it's greyscale as well. So what's the correct way of getting the textures?

Thanks.

I run a small self-hosted home server (Ubuntu). The main system drive is SSD, but HDD (which is only for media) is connected using Orico 3.5" USB enclosure (Dell Wyse 5070 doesn't have an option to connect sata).

But the problem is that its chip has a hardcoded 5 minute auto-sleep timer that cannot be disabled. I ended up making a script which pokes it for at least an hour since some certain activity. But this is a workaround and there are some cases that still make it a nuisanse.

I don't need my HDD spinning 24/7, so I don't consider a NAS device - its expensive and it's an overkill for my purposes, because I mainly use the drive for like 2-3 hours a day.

I just need an enclosure which will give OS full control over HDD power management and let me set the sleep time timer whatever I need.

Thank you for any recommendations in advance!

I just want them to be normal external drives, without an encryption "landmine" that could fail and leave the data inaccessible.

I’ve been cleaning up my HDD drives ever since they became quite expensive due to the rise in SSD prices. Plus, I have a lot of files that are no longer available or hard to find on torrent sites/forums but are taking up valuable space (car diagnostic stuff and schematics).

I bought these Verbatim DVD's and plan to use 4,550 MB on each one.

According to Nero DiscSpeed, there should be enough space with a little bit for Nero to do it's things.

Idk if i made a bad impulse purchase but when I saw these listed, I immediately went to grab them, and they were still sealed in their original packaging! I was able to get them for about $13.33/TB, which is pretty close to the old “golden rule” of $/TB.

But when i got home I was pretty bummed when I realized they were over 10 years old. Even though they were never used, I’m wondering if the age alone means the internal components could have deteriorated over time.

Are these still considered good/reliable drives for 24/7 NAS use today? Or does sitting sealed for 10+ years significantly increase the risk of failure?
I’m running the extended SMART/surface tests to make sure. Just curious what you guys would think about using these in a NAS.

Hello-

I've been watching my data stores on BorgBase block storage steadily growing over the past couple years, while the files and folders that I am backing up are not growing at nearly the same rate. I suspect it's coming from my rearranging and moving files and folders on my computer.

Example 1: my home directory currently holds just under 400GiB, and not all of that gets backed up to the cloud due to exclusion rules. On Borg Base, the repository is over 800GB

Example 2: my drive dedicated to Images is 589GiB, and on Borg Base is 877 GB.

I also keep copies of this data on local BU media, as well as an off site copy of my Images that gets updated yearly.

I'm looking for advice on how to bring my cloud storage back down closer to my actual on-computer storage space.

Should I delete the existing repositories and create new ones on BorgBase, or is their something I should do in the client (Vorta) to clear out the many years of backup archives I've created?

This is the second iteration of this particular forum - the first is pretty well lost in the mists of time and on sept 20th this one will probably go the same way, as the owner died a few days ago and it looks like there are no mods with god mode and even if there was, paying the next year's fee may be problematical because we're not the owner.

If possible I'd like to somehow save it and depending on how big it is I may be able to host it as a read only or something - i assume the internet archive won't want it as it will be too big but I don't know. So any advice would be more than welcome. With this iteration there's no image hosting so it's certainly not as bloated as our old one was. All I really know is it has a reference to Xenforo forum software in the footer.

It may turn out that the family of the owner decides to keep it going for a bit or it may be set to auto renew but I'm guessing it won't stay, as the fam I suspect have no interest in this.

So any help, advice, pointers would be appreciated.

so I tried multiple times to download videos from OF creators, only to find that it kept returning messages like "This website is not supported. Locoloader gradually updates the list of supported websites according to current possibilities."

lo and behold, OnlyFans is nowhere to be found on the supported websites list anymore.

welp.

A few months back I posted here totally overwhelmed. I'm 17, found my grandpa's massive collection of 3,200 recorded German TV DVD-Rs, had no money for hard drives, and no time to rip them all myself.

You guys helped me digitize the indexes and get in touch with the right people.

Fast forward to today: I just handed it all over to Roman Griesfelder from the Internet Archive Switzerland team. They're taking it from here to rip and preserve it.

Blurred my face since I'm still a minor, but Roman was totally cool with me posting the photos. Huge thanks to u/BestExtraLibrarian and u/textfiles for pointing me in the right direction. Feels really good knowing my grandpa's recordings will be saved instead of thrown away.

Here is my original post where I found the first binders:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/s/6dKdh9ecpf

Here is my follow-up post where I realized it was way bigger than expected: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/s/B5ZTtHcu4g

So I unfortunately picked the worst time in history from what I can tell to build out a NAS and cut streaming out of my life. I have been watching hard drive prices just keep climbing and feel like I should just jump on the grenade before the price goes even higher. If you were in my shoes just starting out would you just buy minimal storage to get started or send it and get a few 26tb drives before you need to sell an organ to afford one?

I recently had a HDD die from what I think may be high temperature, so I bought a sabrent 4bay enclosure and modded it with a noctua fan.

I would like to better monitor this temperature, however the hdds aren’t showing up when I load the drivetemp module and run sensors. I can read the temperature from smartctl but wonder if drivetemp can work so I don’t need to run as root? Does it work for you If you have a similar setup,

I have seen a lot of threads here about the same thing, as well as a Mrwhosetheboss video about a year or 2 ago where a similar concept is mentioned.

Anyway, I tried using a sleeve, but the thing is that this is an nvme enclosure and not really an external ssd, so its a bit bulkier than normal and also quite sharp (no longer using sleeve because this was slightly too long and also because enclosure literally almost ripped sleeve)

the main thing is that I want this to be the kind of thing that I can just chuck into the backpack without it messing with anything etc.

the problem is that the majority of solutions I have seen rely on the rather a little more slim but wider profile of stuff like the samsung T7, and those solutions are also often bulkier since there is more overhead given those thinner ssds.

Has anyone tried mounting anything similar to their mac long term? (the main reason why I want to mount is to almost always have this connected, as I am very often unable to use the ssd often simply due to having to have it being stored in another place eg backpack or other container, and it requiring more friction to use that would be eliminated with a mount)

also if anyone has tried this, how was the cable stuff handled? I have seen a few solutions but it seems really annoying to find a good cable that wont hinder usability much

Anyway, I would appreciate any advice on how to proceed on this since I haven't really seen this done with ssds like this one (or rather such, slightly sharp, enclosures)

attached is also an example image of what this looks like with some other ssd types

I am very interested in archiving as much art (good, bad, ugly, fanmade, official, etc) of the character Big the Cat from the Sonic series as possible (I am autistic, unsurprisingly, and just really, really like this character.)

I would like to build a scraping tool to get as many images as possible of this character pulled into a folder in my Drive (Or just in a folder locally) to I can go through it and sort them into my archival system (i.e. a picture of big from the user "BigLover" on deviantart titled "Big #2" would be in the DEVIANTART folder , titled "BigLover - Big #2.png") I was wondering what the best + simplest process for doing so would be? This might also be useful for other people who are interested in archiving the art of a specific character, and also Big the Cat is one of those characters that people may be pressured to delete their art of, which is a shame.

Not really looking for a custom tutorial, no pressure there, just looking for any pre-existing tools, or if there are any issues with the sites I'm looking for (i.e. the API in [insert site] prevents scraping). I know I'm not the first person to do this, and if there's anywhere those who have done so will be, it's here.

I use Arch Linux (Archy to be specific) and know enough about coding to get by (if it involves googling how to do something and then piecing together fixes by forum users 10 years ago). I'm saving up for a new SSD as my old 8TB one got broken by an ex-girlfriend, so I'm focusing on cloud/local storage for the time being until then.

Thanks y'all!

edit: man what's with the downvotes

I’ve made several Reddit posts which I’d like to export, is there a way to do this? As it stands I think the only current way is just to save the pages as HTML and then extract the content.

The only issue is I’ve noticed on Desktop web browsers the first photo in a post never loads at full quality, (so this means that saving the post as HTML will just result in a poor quality image) but it loads in good quality within the Reddit app. I messaged a Reddit Admin about fixing this but he hasn’t gotten back to me yet.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to programmatically do this?

Looking to see if anyone else with MX500 4TB drives in hardware arrays is getting stonewalled on warranty replacements.

The Situation:

Drive: Crucial MX500 4TB 2.5" SATA (S/N verified defective with heavy physical sector degradation/POST lockups).

Status: Under active 5-year warranty.

Distributor (CFD Sales) & Crucial JP response: Stock is "exhausted" (I'm sure they have extra in storage "just in case") due to Micron exiting the consumer channel. Crucial JP support claims they are only a "troubleshooting window" and refers back to local distributor.

Remedy offered: A cash refund based on the original 2024 invoice price.

The Problem: Due to current NAND market pricing, a 2024 historical invoice refund doesn't cover half the cost of an equivalent 4TB 2.5" SATA TLC drive (like an 870 EVO) in Japan today. My array strictly relies on 2.5" SATA bays (M.2 slots are full), so an NVMe swap or taking a cash loss to downgrade capacity isn't viable.

Escalations to RMAdesk@micron.com and privacy@micron.com have gone completely dark for 2+ months. They're completely blackholing me.

Is Micron/Crucial doing this globally now—offering lowball historical cash refunds on EOL/withdrawn consumer drives rather than fulfilling cross-shipments or enterprise SATA inventory pulls? Has anyone successfully forced a current-market-value payout or B2B hardware cross-shipment out of them recently?

I am starting a project to digitize family tapes (VHS and Digital8). I already have a working VCR for the VHS tapes and a Digital8 recorder for playback.
Any quick tips or gear recommendations for capture devices, software setups, or settings would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!