While transferring a large amount of music to a new hard drive from my laptop, windows explorer crashed. Does this corrupt the file that was transferring when it crashed? Is there a way to tell if any files were corrupted ? thanks

Originally I was looking for 3 20tb for a NAS but upon seeing the warranty differences I'm now considering 18tb. Can anyone tell me their experience with the 2 yr warranties?

Model: Samsung SSD 870 EVO 4TB
Firmware: SVT03B6Q
Serial Number: S758NS0WA03144W
Disk Size: 4000.7 GB (8.4/137.4/4000.7/4000.7)
Buffer Size: Unknown
Queue Depth: 32
# of Sectors: 7814037168
Rotation Rate: ---- (SSD)
Interface: UASP (Serial ATA)
Major Version: ACS-4
Minor Version: ACS-4 Revision 5
Transfer Mode: SATA/600 | SATA/600
Power On Hours: 2275 hours
Power On Count: 11 times
Host Writes: 3 GB
Wear Level Count: 0
Temperature: 25°C (77°F)
Health Status: Good (100%)
Features: S.M.A.R.T., NCQ, TRIM, DevSleep, GPL
APM Level: ----
AAM Level: ----
Drive Letter:

-- S.M.A.R.T. --------------------------------------------------------------
ID | Cur | Wor | Thr | RawValues(6) | Attribute Name
05 | 100 | 100 | 10 | 000000000000 | Reallocated Sector Count
09 | 99 | 99 | 0 | 0000000008E3 | Power-On Hours
0C | 99 | 99 | 0 | 00000000000B | Power Cycle Count
B1 | 100 | 100 | 0 | 000000000000 | Wear Level Count
B3 | 100 | 100 | 10 | 000000000000 | Used Reserved Block Count (Total)
B5 | 100 | 100 | 10 | 000000000000 | Program Fail Count (Total)
B6 | 100 | 100 | 10 | 000000000000 | Erase Fail Count (Total)
B7 | 100 | 100 | 10 | 000000000000 | Bad Block Count (Total)
BB | 100 | 100 | 0 | 000000000000 | Unrecoverable Error Count
BE | 75 | 61 | 0 | 000000000019 | Airflow Temperature
C3 | 200 | 200 | 0 | 000000000000 | ECC Error Rate
C7 | 100 | 100 | 0 | 000000000000 | CRC Error Count
EB | 99 | 99 | 0 | 000000000003 | POR Recovery Count
F1 | 99 | 99 | 0 | 00000072A70C | Total LBA Written
FC | 100 | 100 | 0 | 00000000003D | Vendor-Specific

Has anyone noticed that using WD Red or Seagate ironwolf really makes a difference over normal drives?

Looking to stock up and slowly upgrade my nas and curious at to what others think about drive marketing.

So I’ve been reading all my doujinshis from nhentai, and i want to archive them in case that website goes down. What I want is kind of make my computer a server where I put all my content and then being able to view it on my iPhone. I’ve got OneDrive but I don’t want to use it as I share a subscription with my family. Sorry if it’s a stupid question I just want better alternatives than OneDrive.

I have been searching for hours on the web for a method to download YouTube videos for data hoarding purposes. Every single website I have tried only gives me the download in terrible quality and I have been searching for quite a while.

What is the go to method for downloading YouTube videos? I am on a Mac if that helps.

I don't know if this is the right sub for this, but here's my dilemma

Initially I thought I would setup a truenas scale on my old(but relatively new) laptop, and connect that to a das which has 3 16tb harddrives with one parity. The thing is I also want to play games on that laptop(because that is what I currently use that laptop for, and my new laptop I had to get cause of work and I have been using the old laptop as a gaming laptop connected to tv ever since), now I'm debating on doing it in truenas or windows. Id really appreciate your advice on what to do, I only play elden ring and cities skylines

The laptop specs are

I7-12700h

Rtx 3060

16gb ddr5 4800mhz

And the harddrives are

1 Seagate exos 16tb 2 wd ultrastar 16tb

I have youtube premium to download some 4k videos to be played in the background at a retail store. I'd like to ask whats the best software to download and backup these large videos at the fastest speed available?

I love to download horror movies from okru...but for some reason the archives are too Fucking big, like 2Gigas for 720p is not okay, so how i decrease this without loosing quality?

So as the title says it's upgrade time, my Qnap 251 has served me well but I find it's slow as snails CPU infuriating and the new Qnap os runs miserably slow on it...

So I want to upgrade with hardware being a priority for the price (2-bay unit but will consider 4-bay) , I mostly use the Nas for storage and shares. Plus my home cloud to stash photos and run a few containers on their ..

I'm seeing some good deals for Ugreen and TerraMaster better than equivalent Synology or Qnap models what are your guys take on this brands , is the better hardware with the lower costs ?

Hey folks,

I've been on the lookout for some LTO 8 tapes, and I've noticed a bit of a price hike recently. Used to snag them for about $54.99 each on B&H and NewEgg, but now they're going for $78.40. That's about a 43% increase! 😬

I checked eBay, and while I found a seller offering a decent price, the tapes come without boxes or packaging. Plus, if I want to buy 30 tapes, I'd have to test each one upon arrival, which seems a bit impractical.

Do any of you have recommendations for trusted sites or sellers where I can grab these at a reasonable price? Would really appreciate any advice or personal experiences!

Thanks!

https://old.reddit.com/r/jerma985/comments/e8bva9/2_jerma985_videos_i_reuploaded_octodad_and_taunt/

I stumbled upon this post which talks about it, and as someone who's routinely searching for privated or removed content, I'm surprised I've never heard of this.

Are any of you familiar?

Hi. I have a new WD My Book 8TB. I'll be using it on a Windows Lenovo Laptop, for storing large collections of movies, personal files, sociala backup etc etc.

I already put on some large data and now, while I was coming data from my internal disk I noticed that what was 1GB on the source disk turned out to be 7GB on the destination HDD. Went to check it and discovered the file system is exFAT (while on internal disk it's NTFS).

I'm thinking to download what was copied to it somewhere else and format it to NTFS, as with so much data loss my 8TB could effectively end up storing just 1TB+ of actual data.....

Is that the best option/idea or did I miss something?

Hello, Just wanted some help with an error I've only recently received. When adding a new link or updating from a previously used link, I get the following error.

Error: Unexpected error. Couldn't find target element(s) from the given parent html node in url: "url of website" {targetLoc: [Css-Selector Tag Trace: article.post-card a ]}

I am able to access the website as well as download the contents from other fetchers such as JDownloader 2.

I've gone through the guides and FAQs on WFDownloader website but couldn't find anything.

Any suggestions as to where I can start to solve the issue would be greatly appreciated = )

One of my drives randomly died on me right now, so I lost a ton of tv shows but what do I do now? I confirmed the drive is dead and I'm trying to figure out what content I lost in order to try and get it back in some way

Is there a way on Plex to sort tv shows by the drive they are on? Thanks (And sadly I didn't run raid in some way, it was set up like a plain normal HDD)

Hi, I am trying to check if my estimates are right. I have about 400K files and about 4TB of files that I rarely need frequent access. I am using AWS calculator and getting about $20 for put requests and $48/year for storage. Is this in the ball park?

Also, how long does it typically take to upload (my internet speed is 1Gbps)?

Thanks.

I have some e-book files and starting to feel the needs to come up with a great way to categorize them. I want the categories to be clear so that if i were looking for a specific book, i don't have to waste time visiting more than one category.

What's your way?

Do you backup your data to the cloud? If so, which cloud do you use/recommend and how much storage do you have?

Model Number: SDSSDE81-4T00-G25 SanDisk Extreme PRO Portable SSD

I am looking to buy a portable SSD for my father who’s been trying to wrap his head around storage issues for sometime now.

I wanted to know reviews and opinions about this product from reliability standpoint and pricing aspect.

If you are a user or have experience:

• How long do these last ?
• SanDisk says up to 2000 MB/s. How much transfer speed do you get on an optimal Windows Laptop (8GB RAM) running Windows 11 ?
• How many write cycles do these support ? (Is each copy operation considered a write cycle? Or is this scoped to only formatting)
• Any other suggestions are welcome.

Thanks !

Hello,

What is the most reliable way to back up my data?

I've read that external HDDs use lower-quality internal HDDs https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/146hb9k/information_about_cmr_to_smr_manufacturer/

Should I still go with the 20TB WD Elements, or would it be better to go with internal HDDs + enclosure? If you recommend the latter, could you suggest a reliable internal HDD and a good enclosure please?

Looking for the best SSD…

Looks like it is Samsung!? But is there anything that is rugged and priced good? I can't seem to find anything decent. I looked up camel camel camel, to see what would be the best price for the Samsung T7 shield rugged 4TB portable SSD.

Yet it is more today than it was in 2023, with the looming changes and tariffs coming are rather buy it now and hoard a hard drive lol any suggestions?

Thank you in advance for your help

Looking to get a new ssd to work off of. Was thinking of getting the crucial p3 ssd and throwing it in an enclosure as an alternative of buying the crucial x10 or Samsung t7.

I’ve seen three ssd enclosures (one from satechi and two from ugreen that both have fans.

Has anyone had any experiences with any of these enclosures? With the two ugreen enclosures having fans, I’m not worried about them creating noise but rather more curious as to if I should be worried about the fan being a potential failure point in the future, is this a valid concern? Also how effective is the fan and the thermal pad over the satechi just having a thermal pad for heat dissipation is it just marketing or does it actually make a noticeable difference? Also, are diy ssd any less reliable than something already ready out of the box as I know the t7 is water and dust resistant but I’m assuming an enclosure i put together myself wouldn’t be as safe?

For reference this is my first ssd so anything will be an upgrade over my old hdd! I’ll be using a MacBook Pro 2017 model which has thunderbolt 3.

Based on the cost building the enclosure myself over buying a prebuilt Samsung t7 would cost roughly 60-70$ more so not saving money building it myself but I am getting 3500mbs speeds over 1050mbs of the Samsung! Am I making a mistake? Should I just be getting a Samsung or crucial x10 or is building one worth the extra cost for better performance? Thanks for the help, this is a big chunk of change for me as a student so wanted to get the right decision down :)

if this is the wrong sub i will be more than willing to find somewhere else but ive tried researching and ive come up with nothing so far.

my boyfriend got me WD_ Black 8tb external storage for my birthday. it plugs in to both my computer and a power outlet. ive been using it for gaming storage. if i were to take my computer to his house and bring the storage box with me, would i need to eject the usb cord from my computer before i unplug it from the wall? or would i have to remove the usb at all? what would i have to do in order to move my computer, without messing up any of the storage on the drive?

Hi, does anyone know if I can change my idrive to e2? I'm not worried about my data being migrated

I've searched for hours and don't know where to find one, help me.

Murphy Law struck again and my 8-year-old 2TB 2.5" Seagate Barracuda HDD failed with the clicking noise right when I started to copy it to my new 4TB NVMe! :(

When a similar clicking noise happened 10 years ago, I managed to recover the data by simply opening the HDD and moving the stuck read/write head from the plate.

The issue with this HDD is that Seagate decided not only to use a different 5-pointed star (aka pentalobe) only in 1 of the 6 screws but also tightened it with such a force/ torque that it is impossible to open it with my 120+ precision bits without destroying either the bit or the screw. It just seems that it was super glued!

Below are the bits that I have tried - Pentalobe 1.2 & 1.5 and the regular 1.3.

Any suggestion on how to open it? Thanks!!

https://preview.redd.it/w0mmu0oz624e1.png?width=1610&format=png&auto=webp&s=fe1c09aded61f3091b97d08f728e19bb77974ec2

https://preview.redd.it/e6949io1724e1.png?width=1666&format=png&auto=webp&s=9206bbccd6006f7216b20338c1bb661e6cedbfdc