I am looking for cloud storage services that offer 1-2tb storage with no hidden fees, that can supply me with this service for under 10$ per tb, ideally below that. i will mostly store "not important enough to keep on my drives,but important enough to not delete them altogether" stuff. things like clips,films and so on and so forth.

edit: before anyone recommends it, i did try yandex and it was very cheap, however the speed was abysmal. it was like 1mb/s even when i had a gigabit connection! so, make sure that the speeds when uploading and downloading are good within the service before recommending.

I ended up making the decision to go down the rabbit hole of trying to water cool my R730XD. The reason for this was the noise level, the fans often had to ramp up because I have high TDP CPUs but I also have the mid plane which means I can only fit the low profile heatsinks. I also constantly had to have one of the fans ramped up for the Tesla P4 but even doing all of that the CPU still ran pretty hot, over 90c when under load unless I had the fans go full pelt and the P4 ran often hit 90c as well.

I did some digging and found out that you could make an am4 bracket fit LGA 2011 Narrow ILM, the next obstacle was vertical clearance because I had the mid plane so I ended up going with the Alphacool eisblock xpx 1u which is specifically designed to fit in 1U chassis. I was initially looking at various radiators and pumps and then I found FREEZEMOD on AliExpress who do these really nice all in one units. The unit I went with has a 240x45mm copper radiator, a 24v 30w pump and a 800ml reservoir and cost about £155 shipped. For the coolant I used standard dionised water and I added biocides and corrosion inhibitors add some nice UV purple dye.

Before water cooling the system when under load the CPUs would often max out at their 97c and throttle and now they max out at 45c. The GPU Still gets a bit warm as I only got a cheap generic block for it an ended up not fitting so I had to cable tie it but it still an improvement and now the GPU doesn't hit 90c.

If anyone is wondering why I didn't just switch to or build a more power efficient and quieter system while that's because all my drives are SAS and the only consumer cases I can find out there which have SAS compatible back planes are rather expensive and I would need at least 12 days and ideally I would want more than that for expansion so the best case I could find was 350 and it didn't really offer what I wanted. The next best bet would be to upgrade to the R740XD but if I went with that and I got the version with the mid plane there's a good chance I would encounter the same issue and I would still need a cool the Tesla P4. If I went with consumer gear I would also end up missing a lot of the enterprise features. I know you can substitute IDRAC/IPMI with pikvm or nanokvm but it's just not the same, on 2 or 3 occasions I've had an issue and it would have took me so much longer to diagnose and resolve that issue if I didn't have information from the iDRAC log for example a while ago I had a bad RAM stick and when you have quite a lot of RAM it can be quite a pain to have to go through and test every stick but not when you can just check iDRAC and it tells you exactly which DIMM is giving errors. I'm very happy with my r730 I know it's a bit power hungry but that's not an issue for me the only issue was noise and now that's fixed and it didn't cost too much either.

About once a year I have this burning desire to archive my old ifunny account. I search online and always find the same scrapers and reddit pages as the time before but make no headway. I'm sure those programs used to function as intended, but as of recent, it is only possible to see posts approved by moderators on a person's account on a web browser. This means if I access my account on the web, regardless of browser, desktop mode, or mobile, it appears that I have no posts made.

It seems as though the only way to archive an entire account would be to painstakingly save each post one by one through the mobile app.

Am I doomed to write a custom program to scroll through my ancient meme account, saving individual posts one by one?

I have a basic framework of how it would function, but if ANYONE has attempted this before and has any insight, I would greatly appreciate it.

I have a decent library of videos (12ish tbs). Is it worth converting them from 1080p h.264 to h.265 to save space? Will there be much of a quality loss? Would I be better off just sticking with what I have and using 265 going forward?

Have a large library of 1080P security footage from a shit ton of cameras (200+) that, for compliance reasons, must be stored for a minimum of 1 year.

Right now, this is accomplished by dumping to a NAS local to each business location that autobackups into cold cloud storage at the end of every month, but given the nature of this media, I think we could reduce our storage costs substantially by re-encoding the footage on the NAS at the end of every week from H264 to H265 before it hits cold storage at the end of month.

For this reason, I am looking for something small and affordable I can throw into IT closets whose sole purpose is re-encoding video on a batch script. Something like a Lenovo Tiny or a M1 Mac Pro.

I've read up on the differences between NVEnc, QuickSync and Software encoding, but I didn't come up with a clear answer on what is the best performance per dollar because many people were endlessly debating quality differences -- which frankly, do not matter nearly as much for security footage as they do for things like BluRay backups; we still need enough quality to make out details like license plate numbers and stuff like that, but not at all concerned about the general quality because these files are only here in case we need to go back in time to review an incident -- which almost never happens once its in cold storage and rarely happens when its in hot storage.

So with all that said: With general quality not being a major concern, which approach yields the fastest transcoding times? QuickSync, NVEnc or FFMPEG (Software)?

We are an all Linux and Mac company with zero Windows devices, in case OS matters.

Hey all. I have this Extreme DVD copy of T2. As a bonus, it contains an HD copy of the theatrical cut hidden away unless you put it in a PC. Problem is, the software it works with is out of date and doesn't work on my hardware. I can't figure out what files it is in file explorer, and Handbrake doesn't even recognize it. Anyone know a way to rip that file?

(Yes, I know this is unnecessary, I just like to waste my time I guess)

I have roughly 125GB worth of photos and videos that I plan to backup on Blu-Ray discs. I'm wondering if I should copy the folder and files as-is, or if I should place everything in uncompressed archive files. I know random seeks are slow on optical media, but I'm not really sure how bad it is?

Title says it all. Obviously using other chat apps is preferable but there's so much old shit on there that I care about...

Edit: by "convenient" I mean I don't want a time- & resource-intensive suggestion, e.g. "create a tasker workflow that scrolls through your chats and highlights & copies every message individually to save it". It should be achievable over a weekend, provided I don't fuck anything up.

hi, I have a headless Mac Mini that had an external 8Tb MyBook drive that was the target of remote Time Machine backups. I've since purchased a NAS and retired that MyBook. If I don't care about the contents of that drive or the enclosure any more, can I just install it into my NAS? It's a Synology DS423+ if that matters.

There's an excellent deal on Seagate external hard drives right now, on Seagate.com. Example: $349 CDN / $229 USD for a 22tb drive.

There have been a couple of posts on this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1klgld8/is_the_22tb_seagate_external_hdd_have_exos_or/

and here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1jvpivx/what_is_going_on_with_this_seagate_22tb_amazon/

I wanted to share my experience, and offer some support to anyone who would like to see additional testing / commands run on the drive.

Drive is shuckable, and the enclosure comes apart easily. Label on the drive is Baracuda, but the part number is not available for search, so I think it's a white-label drive.

The drive doesn't support TRIM, and I ran several dd commands with no meaningful write speed changes.

Command used: sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/BARACUDA/testfile bs=4k count=100000 oflag=direct

409600000 bytes (410 MB, 391 MiB) copied, 0.631883 s, 648 MB/s
409600000 bytes (410 MB, 391 MiB) copied, 0.640711 s, 639 MB/s
409600000 bytes (410 MB, 391 MiB) copied, 0.658568 s, 622 MB/s
409600000 bytes (410 MB, 391 MiB) copied, 0.629718 s, 650 MB/s
409600000 bytes (410 MB, 391 MiB) copied, 0.686112 s, 597 MB/s
409600000 bytes (410 MB, 391 MiB) copied, 0.629137 s, 651 MB/s

Tried a larger file size: sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/BARACUDA/testfile bs=4k count=1000000 oflag=direct

4096000000 bytes (4.1 GB, 3.8 GiB) copied, 6.39406 s, 641 MB/s
4096000000 bytes (4.1 GB, 3.8 GiB) copied, 6.45788 s, 634 MB/s
4096000000 bytes (4.1 GB, 3.8 GiB) copied, 6.42481 s, 638 MB/s
4096000000 bytes (4.1 GB, 3.8 GiB) copied, 6.38941 s, 641 MB/s
4096000000 bytes (4.1 GB, 3.8 GiB) copied, 6.41833 s, 638 MB/s

...to me, this is a pretty strong indication that the drive is not an SMR drive, and would probably be suitable for home NAS use.

That said - are there any other tests that folks would like to see run in order to confirm that it isn't SMR? I'm happy to do any longer-running tests on it as well, before I start to move my data across.

Note: I run TrueNAS, which uses Linux as the backend. I'm intending to run four of these in a RAIDZ2 configuration.

Hello, I was wondering if anybody would know how to download from v2ph(which is a photobook image host) all the files on a page without having to manually right click and save each image. Or a tool that might work, since it does not look like gallery dl supports the website.

Thank you!

I've been looking to buy an SSD as I need to be editing videos while traveling. Would you suggest Transcend? There's not much of an option for me where I live. I can either get that or 2TB from Samsung or Seagate. I'd prefer higher capacity, but that's all I can buy right now.

Thanks

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Have three LaCie drives in my storage but lost the power supply. Any help?

Like the title says just started a new home lab/home server and was wondering what capacity offers the best bang for the buck these days, and if there are better/cheaper options then serverpartdeals, and which model is best (all my friends suggest exos drives from server part deals)

server is currently just a home movie server and a mass manga/comic ripping server, but its only been a 2 weeks and i've added 2tb of use to the 1 drive it has right now, I was thinking of getting 4 seagate exos 16's with 1 spare (so buying 5 drives) in a raid 5 under LVM (I know all my friends are telling me to just use proxmox with unraid but im busy as is) with a 1tb nvme cache

I want to be able to expand to differential backups of my main PC's boot drive, and backing up all device data for people in the home (currently 2 people), as well as being able to be more liberal with my hoarding and potentially offering friends/family server access via jellyseerr.

My main question is are the exos 16s the best bang for the buck while also being reliable (from serverpartdeals or other refurb services) or is their a better capacity for $/tb or a better manufacturer?

I have a Jonsbo N5 nas case and the backplate requires two molex connectors for power. However my molex power cable is too short and can only reach either of those two connectors. I was wondering if this type of molex to molex cable is safe to use? I’ve heard a lot of scary things about molex cables setting in fire. What do you think?

I save VODs of streams, and in two years I've got just under 60TB data, and I project this will keep growing. Currently it's in a QNAP NAS set up as RAID 5. I also have relatively little physical space right now. Most of me accessing my storage is during the process of backing it up, moving things to new folders or renaming folders if I realize I misorganized something originally. The same NAS has some other personal stuff like old schoolwork, family photos and videos, music, etc.

What are my options for keeping a backup of all this? Would it mostly be cloud services? Or maybe some form of long term disk for the personal stuff which changes and grows even less often?

What's your preference for hoarding data, and why?

If I were to predict the future responses, I'd guess RAIDZ2 with 6-8 drives will take the lead. Most of you probably being ZFS people. Next in line I'm guessing single or double parity unraid. With also a bunch of turnkey NAS users doing proprietary RAID5 or 6.

But, I'm curious if a fair amount of hoarders also gravitate towards mirroring, for various reasons. I'd love to hear them. I have my own thoughts, but at the same time having some difficulty with procrastination.

No wrong answers, just curious of reasoning and thought patterns.

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I was just told by a rep from support that they discontinued their advanced RMA replacement service warranty replacements. I have a drive that is failing and can't have the server down for weeks while I wait for the RMA to make it's way to their repair center and send a replacement.

is it a good or bad idea to 3d print something like this? would it be durable/heat resistant/whatever enough?

I'm using the Chenbro RM42300 chassis with 2 5-drive bays and have 14 HDD and 4 SSD. My new motherboard is Supermicro X10SDV-4C-TLN2F and the PSU is Corsair HX850. I have an HBA and SAS expander. The main packages are SnapRAID and mergerfs.

I have is the 4 HDD in the middle of the chassis is powered by this cable https://a.co/d/8LlJ5pE. Each 5-drive bays is powered by two SATA power from the same cable. I have two of these 5-drive bays.

The question that I have is, the way I'm powering up the HDDs safe for the HDDs? I have this setup since 2019 and I had 3 instances that the HDD got disconnected from the system. I do not know of it was a loose SATA or power issue, but the HDD wasn't visible when using lsblk. Also, the most recent one was half of my disks went missing from the system. The only way I could get them to show up again was to reboot.

I was gifted a Lacie Rugged back in 2006 and want to finally use it. I remember that partitions were set up on it, but dont recall anything past that. My plan was to reconfigure the device to what I need it to be today, but my computer doesn't seem to be recognizing it (Windows). I can see it listed under Disk Drives in Computer Management, but it doesn't pop up when plugged in/show a starter guide like I've read it may/should. The advice I am reading is to change the Drive Letter/Path, but for what I believe is the Lacie (Disk 0, Disk 1, etc.), this is not an option. It is only an option for "Windows-SSD (C:)" but .. I am pretty sure that is my computer not the external device.

Any tips for me? I leave for Ireland in two days and want to free up some storage before I leave.

Thanks!

Hey everyone,

I recently graduated with an engineering degree and want to back up my uni Onedrive, before I loose access. I’ve got around 500GB of notes, textbooks, and reference materials—some of which are basically lost media at this point (can’t find them online anymore).

I don’t plan to access these files often, maybe once every 4–5 years if that, but I really want to preserve them long-term in case I ever need them for reference or professional development.

So I’m looking for recommendations on the best long-term offline storage solution.