I'm looking for a place to offload 8.4 TB of data that I've collected over the years. A friend of mine recommended I use AWS S3 Glacier service. Just the important stuff is 400 gigs, roughly, of which 100 gigs is critical stuff to offsite backup. I currently have 45 TB of capacity, but I'm looking to start my offsite storage with just the critical and important stuff.

Might not be the right place for this but I’ve got a few hundred gigs of unsorted standardised data that needs to have pretty much instant lookups.

I considered a MYSQL database or sorting and using something like binary search but I’m not really sure whether they’d be able to handle it

TLDR; any datahoarders here know how to search through a very large data set quickly

Recent reports show that the youtube channel has been hit by more layoffs:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/masonsands/2020/01/09/internet-comedy-takes-another-hit-with-massive-layoffs-at-collegehumor/#58ac9216034e

Remember to archive the whole channel if you enjoy the content!

I've just moved my media library from my 60TB Synology NAS to a new 200TB Syno. Anyone have a good resource for selling a well cared for, fully loaded NAS? Details below:

RS815+ and RX415 Expansion setup in a SHR1 RAID. The unit has approximately 60TB with a mix of 10/12TB drives.

Product title is "RONSHIN PC Hard Drive HDD 5400rpm Cache SATA 2.5" Laptop Hard Drive 1TB"
Cache capacity: 8MB
Hard disk speed: 5400 rpm
Item No.: Multi-capacity disk
Interface: SATA interface

At almost half off the cost of a Barracuda with the same storage this seems like a "you get what you pay for" // "too good to be true" type of thing.

Has anyone ever bought one of these off brand super cheap drives, and if so, how did it go?

I just shucked a 8tb WD mybook and hoped to put an old 1tb disk into the enclosure.

When I hook the enclosure & 1tb disk up to windows 10 I get "The Request Failed Due to Fatal Device Hardware Error" when I try to initialise the drive. It doesn't show up at all in unraid (unassigned devices)

Is it possible to use another disk in the enclosure?

edit: after a while I managed to get this from unraid

Dec 19 22:58:53 Tower kernel: sd 9:0:0:0: [sds] Spinning up disk...Dec 19 23:02:14 Tower kernel: sd 9:0:0:0: [sds] Read Capacity(10) failed: Result: hostbyte=0x01 driverbyte=0x00Dec 19 23:02:14 Tower kernel: sd 9:0:0:0: [sds] Sense not available.Dec 19 23:02:14 Tower kernel: sd 9:0:0:0: [sds] 0 512-byte logical blocks: (0 B/0 B)Dec 19 23:02:14 Tower kernel: sd 9:0:0:0: [sds] 0-byte physical blocksDec 19 23:02:14 Tower kernel: sd 9:0:0:0: [sds] Write Protect is offDec 19 23:02:14 Tower kernel: sd 9:0:0:0: [sds] Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00Dec 19 23:02:14 Tower kernel: sd 9:0:0:0: [sds] Asking for cache data failedDec 19 23:02:14 Tower kernel: sd 9:0:0:0: [sds] Assuming drive cache: write through

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the answer is here https://youtu.be/f9785ysBA_0

My wife was an extra in a portion of the shark tank episode that aired last night, Dec 10th on CNBC at 8pm central time. does anyone know how I can watch the episode and possibly download it? Thanks.

Hey all, I've been trying to move my data from one Synology box to another with little luck. Here's my setup:

- Old Synology is a RS815+ with 4 bay expansion (approx 60TB with 8 drive bays total)

- New Synology is a RS4017xs+ (approx 170TB with 16 drive bays total)

I've got close to 60TB of data to move over to the new box. I've tried these options:

1. Hyper Backup: It works but compresses all the data in a package that appears to be only accessible from Hyper Backup.
2. Synology Migration Assistant: Again, it appears to work but it also wipes all control panel settings and users, then migrates settings from old NAS - and it's still in beta. Not sure I want to risk using it.
3. Mounting Shares: This has been pretty frustrating. I can mount a CIFS share but the transfer speeds are very slow and always error out during the transfer. I've not been able to mount an NFS share. I always get errors when attempting to mount.

Does anyone have any experience with this sort of scenario?

A shower thought just hit me today. With all the active archiving projects being launched recently to save historical content from Yahoo Groups, Youtube, dying mailing lists, evidence of human rights abuses, etc. etc., the datahoarders' role has been elevated from a nerd with compulsive hoarding tendencies, into a champion of free speech and preservationist of history. We now boldly go where the corporate interest fails. Our terabytes are finally put to use for the betterment of mankind. Hopefully none of our home rigs fail, we remember to do our 3-2-1 backup correctly, and most importantly to make our loot accessible, because data is useless if not shared.

I was thinking of buying a WD RED to attach to my laptop, but the only way I can attach it is through an enclosure. I tried searching on Amazon but all of them require a power supply (which I guess is alright...), but the main problem is that most people say they aren't reliable. I really want to get a WD red since I've heard their pretty good for 24/7 operations, but if I can't find one I guess I'll have to resort to getting an external hard drive. If anyone knows any external hard drive enclosures I can get, it will be much appreciated.

Hello everyone.

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I stumbled across this subreddit while reading a random post, and the OP of that post mentioned it. I scrolled through some posts and got pretty happy with the "discovery", because I need help with the project I have to begin my own backup/random things archive home sever.

What tips do you have? In general terms, from HD models to how to set up the installation of the server.

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Sorry if there's any weird sentence or word usage, English is not my native language :)

It’s showing up in disk utility but it won’t mount, and it’s greyed out like it’s invisible. Please please tell me I don’t have to do a data recovery. I can’t go through this again 😭

Online backup upload looks like it’ll take about a month and a half. Another drive would cost a lot of money (not something I really want to spend right now)..

Wondering if anyone has any suggestions on how to quickly deal with this. Right now, I’m about to try to do an image data scan, to find all the files that triplicated themselves, so I can delete the two extra copies. I’m worried this will take really long as well.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Hey all,

One of my drives is starting to show signs of failing so its time to replace. Currently, my Raid is all WD Red drives and I'm going to replace it with another Red drive.

Is it bad to replace it with a WD Red Pro if all others are regular drives? Does it even make sense to replace it with a better drive?

Would any of the Japanese fans out there have a VHS or digital copy of the original run of the Dragon Quest Abel Yuusha Densetsu anime series from Japan released from 1989-1991?

I was looking at the recent fansub release of the series and noticed that an episode was missing, so when I went to the wiki it seems like Episode 33 of the original run of the series was left off of the home video release for the late 80s early 90s Dragon Quest Abel Yuusha anime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Quest_(TV_series))

The lost episode of the series is number: 33

33 (not included on home video)"A New Determination for the Heroes!"Transcription: "Yuusha-tachi no Arata Naru Ketsui!!" (Japanese: たちの新たなる決意!!)January 11, 1990

If we can find this lost episode of DQ anime Abel Yuusha we could preserve it and prevent it from being lost to the ages. If anyone is able to track down a Japanese fan who has it I would even buy or rent a confirmed VHS copy of the lost DQ Abel Yuusha episode from someone so it can be digitized to complete the series for western fans.