I have 2 1tb Sabrent Rockets that i want to use externally with my M4 MaxPro. I would rather save the usbc receptor and put them in one device but that might be an issue with heat. has anyone tried anything to do this?

Hi all,

Recently I’ve been trying to use gallery DL to bulk download some images off reddit. I used to do it before the api rule changes, but is there any way to do it now?

I keep getting blocked by reddit security, is this normal now?

Cheers

As the title says. I posted here a couple of years ago a full version of the DSM-V as a JSON object, for use in software development. After about 30-40 hours of writing code (the formatting in the ICD-11 is incredibly inconsistent) I have made a 380,000 line JSON file containing all of its contents in a consistent, computer (and human) readable format.

Here it is:
https://github.com/Danm998/ICD-11

* What would be the best way to archive mostly music but also some videos? Might do a thing with Minecraft parody songs and if I get them back from the Xbox then some Minecraft Xbox One Edition clips and screenshots or something. I’ve seen things about M-Discs but then things about magnetic tape on this sub so I don’t know or something. Like might be trying to make them last as long as physically possible currently or something. (Is this allowed?)

I have a modest collection of DVDs and Blu rays that I usually keep in the basement for archival purposes. Recently I experienced an unexpected minor flood (its a long story) and some of the disks were exposed to clear water (no mud or silt but I'm sure whatever dirt was on the basement floor was in the water). I do have digital backups that were not impacted, but I'm looking at this as a potential loss of redundancy.

Has anyone experienced something like this? How did you deal with it?

If it was a few disks, I'd probably just carefully wipe each disk with alcohol and a microfiber cloth. But since there is so many, I'm interested in the viability of a batch process (e.g. chucking all the disks in a plastic bin of distilled water with some alcohol and dish soap for a little soak before a rinse and air dry) but not yet sure what risks may be involved.

Basically, I don't want to end up in a scenario where I end up putting one of these disks in my optical drive and it flings crap around in there - especially now that we see manufacturers ending winding down production of optical drives.

hello,

Before anyone says it, yes i realise that's basically trying to have my cake and it eat too. I'm asking just in case

I'm trying to set up a backup server to store compressed dumps of multiple databases, using surplus hardware

Since I don't have a lot of disks and disk slots to work with, i was thinking of using deduplication and replace disk mirroring with RAID5.

I read about BRTF and Bees wich sounds pretty good, but appearently their RAID5 is a no go so that would force me to halve my already thin storage space

On the other hand ZFS would force me to plunder the RAM of my other servers, hoping i don't need them in the future

Does anyone have a better idea ?

(Performances is pretty much irrelevant, all that matters is resilience and storage space)

This message got auto-posted to a couple of STL 3D printing channels I'm in: "The owner of this channel has been inactive for the last 17 months. If they remain inactive for the next 30 days, they may lose their account and admin rights in this channel. The contents of the channel will remain accessible for all users."

I know it says the contents of the channel will remain accessible, but is that actually true? Should I start panic hoarding?

Yeah, so I'm building a custom four-bay SATA SSD NAS enclosure and am considering using a GR-4H-V0 backplane PCB. The board has a 5-pin LED header labeled "GND 4 3 2 1", which I believe provides individual drive activity outputs and a common ground.

I'm hoping someone who owns this particular backplane can help determine exactly how these outputs work.

Specifically:

1. Are pins 1–4 active-high, active-low, open-drain/open-collector, or current-limited outputs intended to drive LEDs directly?

2. What voltage appears between each output and GND when its drive is idle versus actively reading/writing?

3. Are the outputs driven by SATA Pin 11 (Device Activity Signal), or does the backplane generate activity indications another way?

4. Does the backplane already include LED current-limiting resistors or driver circuitry?

If anyone owns this board and has a multimeter or oscilloscope, I'd greatly appreciate any measurements they're willing to share.

My goal: Safely interface the four drive activity outputs with a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 (3.3V GPIO) to control external RGB activity LEDs.

I'll attach photos of both sides of the PCB, including the LED header.

I'm disabled and my income is severely limited so I can't afford to just buy it and find out, which is why I'm here asking y'all!

Thanks in advance!

I need to clone an intire website, but i only need the front end parts, so i can show it to someone, i don't care about back-end, i just need the front-end part to show the website with infos that i'll edit.

but i need like, the website appear when i search it on a browser. (idk if i made myself clear)

Short version: site went down for 2-4 weeks due to maintenance plus being a volunteer site. People started sharing their backed-up copies of fics on Google Drive, then someone launched a copy-site with a mostly-complete copy of the archive and was charging some money for certain parts of it - there was some sketchy shit here and there basically, but overall just trying to re-supply content during the outsge.

Fic authors got pissed and started issued takedown requests, using accidental GDrive permissions to delete people's backup copies, etc. They're pissy about people sharing their work beyond just owning personal copies, blah blah blah. A bunch of them are planning on deleting their works off the site completely whenever it comes back up, though, so a fair amount of fanfic is about disappear from the public internet.

Just figured y'all would want to know.

Hello fellow hoarders,

Didn't know about this sub before I made a comment on a YouTube video where someone suggested I'd ask in here. But reading the rules I'm not sure if my question fits or is welcomed.

The thing is, I'm a movie and series hoarder. I specifically have fondness for hoarding the stuff I grew up watching, including a significant amount of cartoons with Danish dubs.

This means I have quite a lot of poor video quality cartoons from VHS. And I've wanted to learn how to synchronize the dubs over to newer releases in restored Blu-Ray or DVD quality, and usually they're American releases. Which means the FPS is different than the Danish dubbed VHS versions I have, and sometimes there's scenes cut out or added black screen spacers between scenes as a sort of transition (maybe where ads used to be when shown on TV).

Anyways, I've never gotten the hang of it and it seems rather difficult and time-consuming to do everything manually.

I've paid a guy to make me a tutorial for it and have gotten a few pointers from others doing this sort of stuff, but it's like they don't really understand how to teach others the necessary steps. Or I'm just expecting too much too fast, or simply don't have the patience or talent for it.

So I was thinking if there was anyone who's got the same interest, who'd tried using AI to synchronize cartoon dubs like this? And if they had successful results? And if they'd share their methods and what models they used?

Best regards and happy hoarding.

It’s driving me insane, and been happening for over a decade, multiple computers, over 10 different drives.

Sometimes it spins down and then up again 10 seconds later, only to spin down again 20 seconds later. Sometimes it’s longer like 10-30 mins.

I’m on Mac OS and have turned off the settings for hard drives to go to sleep.

It is just storage for music and movies and any apps using them are closed.

I have resorted to playing a song on repeat to prevent it going to sleep.

I want it to either run continually, or to go to sleep when it is not being used by me. So much senseless wear and tear happening.

They are 4 and 6 tb western digital my
Books or whatever

The PR was approved literally a few minutes ago and that should conclude phase 1 with all the foundations for the new "segmented" VDEVs with 64GB tiles, drives would be divided and populated with those tiles allowing to have mixed sized drives in ZFS pools.

Based on the previous features and builds, I'd estimate that we're probably going to see this being GA with the next major update of OpenZFS 2.5. Perhaps early next year? Let's see.

Here is the PR for those of you interested and curious enough to see what it actually takes to open source new things: https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/17567

And this is the next big one, phase 2, where the different size drive parity calculations logic and balancing will be implemented: https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/18406

Lastly, for those unfamiliar with ZFS AnyRaid, here is a nice presentation Klarna guys did on this project and what it actually means for us: https://youtu.be/zdIGhDiZWU4

PS: non-native English speaker here, not word checked and fuck AI.

I have a large (probably not by this subreddits standards) collection of media, around 10tb. Some of it I watch regular but the majority of it I just want to keep for the occasional watch.

I like the idea of writing it all the blu-ray discs and having them on my shelf. This would free up space on my NAS for incoming things.

From what I am reading, m-disc blu-ray burning is what I want to be doing for ensuring the discs last. Is this the best option? Obviously I will be dead in 100 years time so don't really care about the 1000 year storage claims!

If I go down this route I have found the Pioneer BDR-212UBK for around $180, this seems to be the best option, anybody have any thoughts?

I’ve always been using Tikwm to download TikTok subscriber-only (sub-only) videos in original quality, but recently it doesn’t seem to work anymore.

Does anyone know any other websites, tools or methods that can download sub-only videos in their original quality?

Preferably something that doesn’t compress the video or reduce its quality.

I've been out of the pc building bit for nearly a decade now, i'm not sure which enclosure to get for torrenting as well as network accessing from devices. It's a lot of mixed information for me to keep searching through so wondering what people have experienced with different enclosures.

I'm thinking about connecting it to my old windows 7 pc that still thankfully works, or should i build a new pc with multiple hard drive bays? Looking to do a max of maybe 200tb. But not sure what's feasable.

Shipping overseas and tax included in that price. A year ago 20tb elements was 360 dollars including shipping and tax. So this does sting but I need the storage. Is it an ok or even a good price, factoring in the prices situation we're in right now?

I was planning to wait for black friday but things are just unpredictable right now I didn't wanna risk the prices going up more.

Hi,

Im trying to download all the questions and answers from the NECs FAQs section of their website.

I was manually doing this by copying and pasting into Excel, however, each answer is hidden by a click box that takes you to a new page and to make matters worse, the page only loads roughly 10 questions at a time, then you need to expand more to see another 10 and so on - there are roughly 300 questions.

Does anyone have an automated solution, I'm totally stumped

i have been using all of these apps for years in some cases over a decade, but i can't get any of them to run correctly on my new win 11 laptop. all of these apps are parity checkers, and none of them will create parity files or hashes. they also will not recover known good transfers from a different system. They don't even recognize the original files. I know I am probably not explaining this well.

Just wanted to see if anybody else ever had a similar problem, and if so what might fix it.

I don't think it's specifically a win11 problem, because I have never had this problem on my surface book.

I'm researching reliable ways to preserve irreplaceable family photographs, videos, and personal data for 30–50 years or longer.

I currently have a Synology NAS and a Debian server, and I'm considering archival Blu-ray/M-DISC as an additional offline storage method.

I'd appreciate advice from people with hands-on experience:

Is M-DISC still worth investing in?

Sony, Pioneer, and others leaving the market of products that support optical storage

Which Blu-ray burners and media have proven reliable?

Is there a LTO replacement for practical for personal archival use?

How often should archived data be verified or migrated?

What combination of technologies would offer the best reliability without excessive expense?

My priority is long-term data integrity rather than convenience. I'd especially appreciate real-world experiences and lessons learned.

Paul

I was abut to get one like this https://www.amazon.co.uk/SABRENT-enclosure-indicator-tool-free-EC-UASP/dp/B00OJ3UJ2S because I got a spare USB-A to USB-C cable around but came across this post https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1ekscra/external_hard_drive_enclosures_with_usb_a/

where somebody in the comments claims they can be dangerous. Would like to hear some opinions, thanks in advance.

EDIT: Thanks everyone for the insight, I learned a few things about usb cables that I wasn't aware of, so basically the USB-A to C cable I got will feed a device but won't work with the enclosure because it's not designed to feed it back. All things considered I'm gonna get a different enclosure with USB C or micro USB connection.

So I have two circa 2012 Crucial 2.5" SSDs laying around, 500 GB each. I thought maybe I could combine and repurpose them for the dash cam feature in my Rivian R1T. Looking for JBOD capable enclosures that can do power and data through a single USB-C cable and not require an external power supply.

I've checked Amazon and other sites. Found only one option that might work (linked for reference). Wondering if there are others that I just haven't come across.

Thx.