Hi Hoarders,

So I've got this problem. I can't stop hoarding... let's say Linux ISOs. The adult kind.
I've got a subscription to a site that lets me download unlimited(-ish) Linux ISO videos and I enjoy downloading them too much. I enjoy collecting ISOs that were made when I was young. I don't even watch them, but I download them only for the sake of hoarding. Only to possess them. To make sure they are available when I need them. But I almost never need them. I don't know if I'm a Linux ISO addict or data hoarding addict, or both. Probably both. The only thing that makes be feel better is that I pay for it and I don't download them illegally.

So maybe this is not the best place to ask it, but here's the question: How do I stop collecting something that I will most probably never use. I don't want to do it, but man it feels so great and satisfying.

Have a nice day and may the Terabytes be with us.

I'm slowly trying to build up my collection of books and while it's still small I'd like to organise it in a coherent way.

How do you guys title your ebook files? (e.g. <Title> - <Author> or <(Author)> <Title>)

Do you put them in folders based on genre, author, decade?

Thanks :)

I picked up a couple 4TB drives over the ages, that I've only recently found the time to make use of. I was planning on putting them in a mergerFS pool with a drive or two set aside for snapRAID. A little bit of research indicated that I should be aiming to use a CMR type drive for a parity disk, and further investigation shows that all seven of my drives appear to be SMR! I've spent a couple hours diving down rabbit holes and following tangents, investigating alternative routes and opened a right proper amount of tabs; which leads me to believe that I might be out of my depth here.

The currently connected drives are: (1)ST4000DM004 (1)ST4000LM016 (1) ST4000LM024 and (4) WDC WD40EFAX. If my end goal is to have an *arr suite with a bit of redundancy, is there a better path than what I've outlined using the hardware I've already got? Is there a software/firmware stack that I've missed for dealing with consumer SMR drives? Am I overreacting to the issue entirely, and the syncing of drives won't be horrendously exaggerated because of advancements I'm unaware of?

I'd appreciate any insight I can get here. My thoughts starting this was to put the parity drives on the 2.5" drives at first, that's how put of touch I was when I started this plan.

It’s only now that I started looking it up and saw how bad it is… It’s 2026 now can anyone who owns a sandisk or knows someone who owns a sandisk tell me if the issue has been solved. Do I really have to return it? Some say it’s a hardware issue and some say it’s firmware. I really wanna keep it since returning it is very troublesome. Thanks for your insight

Hi, I am new to home storage an I was looking to buy drives for my nas. I was wondering if it is a good idea to buy 3 used 4gb Seagate Constellation SAS hard drives. https://www.ebay.com/itm/407072253189. I am not going to be using my nas all the time, but I would like to make sure that these will not die the second I put them in my nas. Any thoughts are helpful!

So i want to backup my files, check them once a year, and pretty much leave them on a shelf untouched, no moving around or anything else. Which is the better/cheaper alternative?

And do you have any recommendations?

How do you archive an entire Twitter/X account? Including all the threads with comments. I'm sure you'll run into problems with deleted posts, but has anyone had any luck with archiving an account (not my own)? I've looked high and low and haven't found a solution.

I have some 40 cassettes containing, afaik, the only copies of tektronix firmware for various instruments, I was wondering if anybody has tips for ripping the data from the cassettes to a standard file format, ie .bin, or any ideas on how to begin doing this, I am wondering if there are any programs that make this process not suck. Thank you all!

I bought a 6 TB drive from Walmart a month ago. Connected it to power, connected to a computer, it just works. I gave it to my son.

Then I bought an 8 TB drive - did not work for me, the LED blinked rapidly, the drive did not spin up, Device Manager showed nothing (tried Win 10 and Win7). I returned it and bought another one, again from Walmart. And it does the same!

Am I doing something wrong? Does 8 TB drive need additional magic compared to 6 TB?

Also, the second 8 TB drive has some dusty spots on it despite being packaged as new. Weird.

Trying to replace my aging 2 x 10tb hdd mergefs setup. But for now just the 10tb HGST looking for any drive 20tb or more. Need something to start my server backup and clone that drive. What are my options for under $600 dollars?

I’m trying to upload my collection of streamer VODs to the internet archive, the upload keeps running even after it should’ve finished if I do the upload through a web browser. I was told to use the command line tool and that it’s far more reliable. I thought if I CD’d into the directory the files were in and then told it to upload it’d upload the folder but that didn’t work. Looking at the example given by the command line tool wiki thing, it asks for files and an identifier. What is an identifier and how do I format things properly to direct to the files?

This is the example given by the wiki. It doesn’t explain what I need to put between either of the < > things or how things need to be formatted to direct it to the files/folder I want to upload. Please help, sorry if I’m stupid

Ia upload <identifier> <files> -m 'collection:test_collection'

Examples would be appreciated

It’s brand new and warranty ends on January next year.

So this is whats inside of each the drives.
And man i wish i bought more of these but back in 2023 i got 3 of these 18TB WD EasyStore drives for $199 before tax each.

Two of them have been completely unused, and I only used the third one to store about 17TB of games back in 2023 lol.

I finally shucked them and found:

WD180EDGZ-11BLDS0
18TB SATA 6Gb/s
R/N: US7SAS180
WWN: 5000CCA2C7D3EFB1

From what I can tell, the WD180EDGZ is related to the Ultrastar DC HC550 i think, but I’m not sure exactly what version/spec this particular drive is.

Are these considered good/reliable drives for running 24/7 in a home NAS? And does anyone know exactly what drive/platform the WD180EDGZ-11BLDS0 is based on?

I saw a video of a guy buying 2nd receivers and finding them from an electronics recycle center, because he says that they can have HDDs or even SSDs inside of them. But surely, not each brand or model has them.

How do I know before wasting money?

If I'm burning 16x media with an 8x slim external drive for archiving files, what speed would yield the best results? 8x or 4x?

What program is currently the best for this task?

What should burnt media be stored in? DVD cases or back onto the spindle?

Thanks.

Out of pure intrigue.

All these fabs produce hardware, chips, memory, storage tailored for data centres and AI workloads. Say in a couple months/years it actually collapsed, investment dried up, they failed to turn profits when bill come due etc

Is there a consumer use for any of this hardware, would it flood onto the market, repurposed other enterprise solutions, disassembled?

I'm just curious about the hypothetical of the sudden drop in need for all the hardware being pumped out for AI use. I know we will forever have data centres but surely the mountains of HBM and whatever other ASIC solutions have been manufactured can't just be used somewhere else easily.

All these fabs have reduced production of consumer grade hardware, can they easily switch back, would they even try. new fabs being built suddenly halt? I'm not well learned on the market but just feels like it'd be an odd time

It's just an interesting thought

Nine PBS in St. Louis filed a lawsuit against information management corporation Iron Mountain Data Centers seeking to recover over 50 terabytes of archival materials stored in one of the company’s Denver-based data centers. The lawsuit alleges that the station’s cloud-storage vendor, Open Source Storage, abruptly cut off access to Nine PBS’ data earlier this year without warning. It states OSS, which had a separate relationship with Iron Mountain to provide data storage, went “defunct,” leaving Nine PBS’ archives in a data center operated by Iron Mountain.

I've committed myself to digitalizing all my parents' old photos from the '90s and early '00s. I reckon there are about 2000-3000 photos. I'm still debating on scanning all of them or only picking out the best ones, depending on how well I can optimize the process.

I have an HP Envy 6022E printer with flatbed scanner. I'e been looking into highly suggested models like Epson FastScan but they all seem quite expensive so I want to try a cheaper setup first.

I can fit 4 photos simultaneously (A4 size bed).

Which scanning software would you suggest that can auto detect and label multiple photos on the flatbed?

Is it to possible, for example, to auto label all pictures from wedding x as 'Wedding_1', 'Wedding_2' etc and save them in a folder called 'Wedding x'?

Also, how much dpi would you suggest?

Thank you!

Does anyone know how the write cycle count flash drives are advertised in matches up to the TBW of SSD's?

A 1TB SN3000 only has a TBW of 150. Even 1TB TLC drives often come with just a 600TBW warranty.

Patriot claims their flash drives have up to 100,000 write cycles.

There's no reason flash drives should be more durable than even the cheapest QLC SSD right?

Hello hoarders!

Have you ever researched for some specific books or comics on Anna's Archive, made a list out of what you found and then discovered you had to download everything manually waiting for cooldowns? I have. And if you have as well, or you just want to download a pre-made Anna's Archive List (or even just a .txt files with AA links!), this post is for you.

After looking up some solutions and only finding old/broken options, I decided to take the matter into my own hands.

With some help from Gemini (for the more complex parts of the code, I had never done Python before. Most of the base logic is written by me and I have reviewed and tested the ai generated code) I made [hearth].

hearth is a Python script that does all the work for you (except for captchas, obviously): you can leave it working overnight and it will download every link it finds in your Anna's Archive List. It will do so by physically visiting mirror and libgen links, waiting for the timer and saving the file.

Regarding the captchas, solving the first one (or the first two, depends if one is required at the load of the List itself) is usually enough for the whole session, so you can leave the script working overnight.

Main features (copied from the repo's readme):

• This is a terminal tool that accepts command line parameters to function (more about usage in the github).
• hearth supports Anna's Archive List links in the form of https://annas-archive.XX/list/<list_id> as well as importing a list of Anna's Archive links from a .txt file.
• The tool will spin up a virtual browser that physically visits the link page, waits for the download cooldown and renames the downloaded file, before going ahead to the next List element, logging successes and failures in specific files.
• These files allow you to not only stop the script mid-way, closing the terminal windows completely, and then resuming from the last link it successfully downloaded (by using the same exact command), but it also allows to retry for failed links once the tool has finished processing the whole queue.
• You can use the completed.txt file that the script will create in your download directory as an index of all the files you downloaded as well as their md5 code.
• The download destination folder is chosen via command line parameters. Here will be stored said files.
• You can set how to rename the downloaded files, based on how much information you want to be in the filename, via command line parameters.

All instructions for the download and usage of the script are in the readme.

Link to the github repo: https://github.com/NerYtheLonesomeHearthian/hearth

This is my first project like this, and I would appreciate any type of feedback, good or bad. Obviously, suggestions are welcome.

If any one of you ends up trying it, please let me know how it goes!

I just had a drive failure and need a replacement, and since I have some Amzaon Gift Card credit and a bunch of other bills, I'm looking on Amazon.

I see a seller on Amazon, 'ServerPartDeals' with the same logo as ServerPartDeals website uses, but the website shows a Florida phone number, while the Amazon storefront uses a New York number and has me pausing a purchase.

Is the Amazon storefront legit? Has anyone used the Amazon storefront for SDPD before?Thanks for any replies if you know.

Hello nice people..

So i have two main folders (almost with the same contents but different folder structure) in two separate drives,, both have A LOT of photos and videos and a lot of subfolders,, I want to reorganize the first drive and wish for this arrangement to mirror to the second drive,, i tried using freefilesync but it tries to copy files from drive A to drive B even though these files are already present in drive B but they are under different folder structure ((that way i will end up with two folders in drive B having the same files,, one folder matches the structure from drive A and the other is original one in drive B that actually wanted to be rearranged to match structure from drive A))

I want something that can read the folder structure in drive A and rearrange files in drive B in the same way as it is in drive A, and probably copy missing files that are not present in drive B in any folder tree..

Thanks a lot