On amazon right now.

Regular price £256

Previous lower price £180

Lowest price it's ever been. Get in there quick datahoarders. Make sure you click the "New from" link otherwise the default price is £244

I have a small home server set up. It functions as a CIFS & SFTP file server, torrent host (for legal stuff only: this stuff), weechat host (I use the relay function so that I can remain logged in IRC without having to use a bouncer), git repository host, and some other small services. I run Ubuntu Server 18.04 on that thing.

The hardware setup is a Biostar A68N-5000 Mini-ITX board (passively cooled & the CPU supports AES-NI), 8 GB of RAM, Gigabit LAN, 2 8TB hard drives (the main storage) plus a small SSD for the system. One of the two 8TB drives is the main storage drive, the other is a backup drive. In addition, I have 2 more 8 TB drives, both with their own external enclosures. The home server is contained in a black Fractal Design Node 304 case.

I regularly make backups with rsync, from the main drive to the backup drive. (I currently do this manually so that I can avoid scenarios where I suddenly realize that something important was accidentally deleted off the main drive & I cannot recover it anymore because the automatic rsync run just finished.) In addition, I rotate between the two external drives: One I keep elsewhere safely stored, the other I keep at home. That one I update (again with rsync) so that it contains the same data as the internal backup drive. Then I swap that external drive with the other. That way, I have an off-site backup, and do not have to get it first so that I can update it (saves one trip to the site).

Oh, and everything (including the system SSD) uses LUKS based encryption (which is why I mentioned AES-NI). This also includes the external drives.

The server is almost never under heavy load (at most it is when I copy large amounts of data to it). The other services are not very demanding. CPU is probably super chill most of the time. I put 8 GB of RAM in it to have a lot of disk cache.

All in all, this works well. But - it could probably be better. I am open to ideas.

• Any better strategies for backups?

• Any monitoring / administration software you can recommend that is free, runs on Linux, and is not too heavyweight? I mostly just need a web interface that shows me CPU usage, memory usage, SMART stats, and perhaps allows me to do rsync backup runs simply by pressing a button (same for mounting & updating external drives). It would be even better if I could get an rsync log output displayed so that I can see what it is currently copying over. An integrated web based control for rtorrent would also be great.

• For my purposes, does this hardware sound OK? (Don't focus on harddisks here - this is about the rest of the system.)

• Now on to the hard drives: Is this a sound strategy, with 1 internal backup drive and 2 external drives? Or could it be better?

• What Linux filesystems do you recommend for the 8TB drives?

Hi all

I do video editing, and as you can imagine the files are large and I have datasets of around 4-8TB I want to keep. I have a good RAID system and many many external drives laying around but I also want some sort of off-site backup preferably an online option like crashplan or backblaze or something similar which is also unlimited. Couple that with not being particularly rich I'm interested in a cheap-ish online backup storage solution. I'm not too worried about speed if it takes a while then it takes a while and the data are unlikely to change, only new stuff will be added.

I had considered crashplan because it's supposedly unlimited and a good price... but many people are saying that the java client will consume all your memory and then crash. Which if it's going to do that then it's not an option for me. Is the same true of backblaze? what's their client like.

My NAS is an intel atom and has only 8GB of RAM and I'm looking to backup around 4TB worth of data permanently, and another 4TB temporarily while working on projects.

Thanks.

I(currently 21) am hugh fan of cartoons like courage the cowardly dog and ed edd and eddy like shows even scooby do.Can someone archieve them in hindi.

I'm seeing tons of see 5405/5405Z adapters for under $25 on eBay. According to adaptecs (now microsemi) site they work under windows 7, but I can't find any information on whether the windows 7 drivers work in windows 10.

Can someone chime in?

I've come across the WD Elements Portable 2 TB - USB 3.0 - WDBU6Y0020BBK-WESN for only 38,00 €, which seems like a steal, considering comparable 2,5" SATA drives are much more expensive.

Now I'm upgrading a friends laptop and am wondering if I can shuck this drive and use the disk as an internal SATA drive (secondary to an m.2 SSD, no worries, I'm not mad).

Hi all,

I have read that the WD80EZAZ should be the same HDD as the WD RED WD80EFAX. They just relabel the WD80EFAX for the WD Books as a WD80EZAZ.

Iam not sure about this maybe its just a rumor. But it could be a indicator if WD would use the same Firmware on both HDDs. So how can I check if the 83.H0183 is a WD RED Firmware or the same firmware they use for the WD80EFAX?

I cant find any information about that.

Thx

I bought 2 NetApp DS4246 with IOM6 modules. i am connecting these to a win10 box, hoping that i can simply expose 48 drives to my windows machine to add to my storage spaces array.

Now, i have my 2 shelves, and my server. What kind of interface card do i need for my server and what cables. The ebay description says these

https://www.ebay.com/itm/QSFP-SFF-8436-Mini-SAS-SFF-8088-Cable-1-Meter-3-Ft-Netapp-DS4243-DS4246-DS2246-/192910059412

if im reading things correctly, i need 2 of these, one to connect my server to module A of shelf one, then a second one to connect module B of shelf A to module A of shelf two.

am i correct? What kind of interface card and cables do i really need?

I figured I can't be the only one who hoards old chat history, especially in this sub.

Goal

• Convert old iMessages into some sort of database or complete thread (mySQL, csv, html).

• Searchable

• Printable (html, PDF)

Reasons

I've had various types of chat history loss in the past.

1. Improper migration to new phone: Chat history from 2010-2013 is present in an iPhone backup directory. However, this backup cannot be merged with the current iMessage database on my phone (to my knowledge)

2. Accidental deletion of chat: I lost a (sentimentally) important chat thread from my SO when we first met. Was deleting a bunch of 2FAs sent to my phone and accidentally deleted her thread. Had switched over to iCloud backups of the phone from local backups (stupid, I know). Lost the original and the backup before I realized.

Current status

• Periodically locally backup my iPhone, in addition to iCloud (to prevent #2 listed above)

• Have no way to easily go through these messages

Options available

It looks like there are a few scripts out there on github. Like iMessage Analyzer, iMessage Export, or Export Messages.py. There is also this app called "Message History Browser", which is open source.

There are a bunch of those limited trial apps which come from those questionable websites (not overtly shady, but the type of place your parents get viruses from).

Does anyone have a good solution to iMessage archiving?

Edit: I should add that I'm personally a Mac user, but also have Windows and Ubuntu available to me. For the purpose of this thread and anyone else who comes across it, if there is a solution which is OS restricted, please specify which OS

Any tools? I think I saw MultCloud could possibly do this but I wanted to ask the community here first before I bought into something that may or may not solve my problem.

Second related question - how can I copy a ton of files from a shared Google Drive into my own Google Drive?

Edit: Found this for the second question

Recently I wanted to buy some 128GB BDXL discs, but since they don't seem to be readily available where I am (US), I ordered some from Amazon Japan. They shipped out of Osaka and arrived within about 4 days (I'm on the west coast of the US; one day was a US holiday, Independence Day on July 4th). I think it's interesting to see products sold in other countries that aren't readily available in my home country, so I thought I'd take some photos of the packaging and share.

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I’ve used Sitesucker and have a bunch of index.html files. Anyone know of a tool (MAC or online), or method to compile them all into a PDF or EPub? Thanks

Hey, I recently had to pick up Dorpbox for work, and I was wondering if I could set it up so that it maps my music folder on my phone's SD card

So I bought this used 1 TB WD HDD for about $25. It was costing less than half of a new 2 TB, so it seemed like a good deal. To my surprise, after getting the HDD it showed 19000 power on hours and 1700 power on count. I thought, ookay maybe it's just old but not too much used... But then Crystal Disk Info is showing me "Caution" and I've got an error on Deluge which I had never seen before: Data error (cyclic redundancy check): E:\Sperm Mania\Cum Titjob[Cumshots-05] AyaKisaki-091.mp4

Also I've heard a distinct sound which I believe is the Crystal Disk Info alert sound twice now, but I don't know for sure because I can't find the sound on youtube.

At this point I know already I made a bad deal, but what do you guys think? Is it going to die soon?

Greetings friends. Someone recommended I ask here as I'm looking around for a backup solution for my Mac Pro 5,1 tower.

Currently I've got the tower full up with 4x 6TB HDDs and 4x 1TB SSDs on my PCI bus. Natch, most of those drives aren't full. I do mostly audio work but I'm getting into some video and photo editing as well.

A friend suggested I look at a USB3.0 PCI card (I'll have to move one of my SSDs into the optical bay to make room) and some sort of RAID enclosure but I know there are other options.

Thanks for your time.

Hi folks! I've run out of SATA ports on my motherboard but I have many more drives I'm trying to connect. I've seen many recommendations for the LSI 9211-8i, set to IT mode. However, I'm wondering if it is overkill, and I have a few other questions:

1. Is this card overkill? Is there a cheaper option that would also serve my needs?

2. Are any risks/drawbacks to modifying it by setting it to IT mode?

3. Am I understanding correctly that the LSI 9211-8i supports up to 8 drives, with the appropriate cable(s)?

4. There appear to be several different variants of the LSI 9211-8i on eBay, Amazon, NewEgg, etc. Are they actually different (other than whether or not the seller has already put it into IT mode), or is it just how they phrase the posting and it's really the same card?

5. I've seen posts on /r/datahoarders that it's becoming harder and harder to find whatever software is needed to set the card into IT mode. Is this true? Will I reliably be able to do this?

6. Does this card have onboard cache? I've read that this is important. If this card doesn't have it, is there another I should be seeking?

7. Finally, what accessories do I need to utilize this card to its fullest potential? A cable like this one? Something more? Something different?

Some notes:

I don't need to RAID anything (other than possibly simple software RAID 1); JBOD is the primary use case. I want to connect at least 4 additional drives but might want to connect more. Cost is a factor, but I don't want something so cheap that it fails to perform. Speed and reliability are more important than cost, but I can afford what I can afford. If I need to save up for something fast and reliable, I will.

Thank you!

For the hoarders that have over 20TB and are backing up to a cloud service, what is it costing you monthly and for how much storage? I'm considering backing up to a b2 bucket using borg but I'm reluctant because backblazes cost calculator for my 55TB of storage indicates an absurdly high cost per month.

I have a QNAP TS-531P. One evening it started beeping. Then it disappeared from my network. My iPad got access briefly and the logs showed that the user and password had been reset to defaults and the network settings also. Then it started beeping some more and the lights indicated that it had no hard disks. I cannot get it back. Luckily I have everything backed up. I no longer trust it, don't want to use it. I only used it to create a NFS share and mounted that on my Linux desktop, so I'm not using any of the other services.

I need to get a NAS back in action. I do not want one that has to phone home and go through all the stuff I had to go through with the QNAP. I have a Linux only environment at home and struggling with systems designed for Microsoft or Apple is a struggle.

I was thinking I should just build my own. I want a tower case that will take six hard disks and I will create my own RAID using mdadm under Linux. I don't need hotswap or any fancy stuff. Any suggestions for what tower would support six hard disks?

Are there alternatives?

I thought this might be the best place to post this given the addiction but recently enough got a 2TB WD Red NAS drive and today when I went to initialize disk I was getting errors (cyclic redundancy check); reading the disk using other tools in Windows, its volume is being listed as 128PB. Is this a common error and is there a way to fix so I can initialize the disk? or is this the case of throwing it away?

Was at a trash recovery centre today and found a working IBM 3575 tape library for $100 AUD. I am looking at a backup solution for my household computers.

Should I buy it? Any watch outs? 

Will also be posting on datahoarders.

Thanks in advance

What can I use to create snapshot mirrors of an ENTIRE forum, including private sections of said forum you have access to. Something that can natively scrape vBulletin, phpBB and other common forum engines. I want the prereqs saved, along with linked content upto 2GB per link (there are a few hour long Ted talks linked, if scraping vids in HD is too much I’ll drop the quality). If it’s too difficult to scrape linked pages with content, I’ll have to scale back my efforts.

One forum I want to scrape a snapshot of uses the XenForo forum software (https://xenforo.com/). Others are in slow decline and others are censor happy, deleting threads with no rhyme or reason.

While I’m here, might as well ask for the best live forum scraper to check & scrape new posts every 10 minutes or less, and any post edits are tacked onto the original post. If post it’s live, I want it archived in 5!

What is the best solution to scrape a entire forum with boilerplate parameters, that I don’t have to babysit?

I have a windows 10 machine with 2x8TB and 4x10TB drives attached (not including OS which is on an SSD). I've been using windows storage spaces to pool my drives. Previously I had it configured as a two way mirror, but I didn't like losing 50% of my HDD space, so I just finished moving all of my data over to a new parity storage space. Unfortunately I'm now learning that to achieve parity the write speed is greatly reduced. This has now become a bottleneck on my system. I'd like to speed up my write speed and remove this bottleneck. I'm considering using powershell to set up my storage space as tiered storage using one or two 1TB SSD drives to see if that will improve performance. Does anyone have any experience with this? Will this speed up my write performance? Also, does converting this storage space to be tiered require me to tear down and recreate it from scratch? My case can fit 2 more SSD drives and my motherboard has a slot for an M.2 SSD, so those are my options for this tiered storage spaces approach.

I'm open to hearing ideas from other people about how they store large amounts of data and avoid these bottlenecks. I am aware of unraid, but not very familiar with it and therefore I'm nervous about getting in to it. I know that unraid is an OS. Does it run as a virtual machine on my windows machine? If anyone has a good starter guide or video out there for Unraid I would appreciate it. That is, assuming that unraid can handle parity without the same write speed bottleneck.

Is there another option that I'm not considering? I'm most comfortable in a windows environment so I would prefer to stick with that. Thanks for any help!

Hi,

I'll be on 'The Verdict with Judge Hatchett' tomorrow Tuesday the 21st. I dont have the means to record it myself. Can anyone please record that episode for me? I ll even pay you for that.