datahoarder

cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/13631943...

cross-posted from: leminal.space/post/6179210...

So it’s been a a few years since I’ve bought hard drives for my little home server and wanted to get a bead on what’s the target on dollar to TB in the post Covid world. Thanks!

I’m looking for EPUB formats of all the three books.

Hello, I’m wondering what do you guys use and recommend for efficient book, comic, manga and lightnovel file management, tagging, directory structures and automated tools for all that....

How to store digital files for posterity? (hundreds of years)...

I formatted my PC recently and I’m reinstalling some stuff I forgot to make a backup of settings like yt-dlp so I started searching for what is a good config to download the best mp4 quality and found some interesting setups so I figured I’d make a thread for people to share what they use....

Hi, anyone could point me at an ELI5 about SAS hardware? I’d like to assemble a NAS using an old HP Z200, I want SAS because I’d get also a tape drive for backups and I cannot find SATA tape drives. For example, is a Dell Perc H310 pci-e card good for me? Can I avoid hardware RAID?

While clicking through some random Lemmy instances, I found one that’s due to be shut down in about a week — dmv.social. I’m trying to archive what I can onto the Wayback Machine, but I’m not sure what the most efficient way to go about it is....

What in your hoard do you treasure the most? I imagine to a lot of us it is photos and videos of our families, which I’d love to hear about, but also interested in rare bits of media or information that makes your collection unique.

Network-Attached Storage (NAS) devices have become integral components of modern data management systems, offering convenient centralized storage solutions for individuals and businesses alike. However, data loss incidents on NAS devices can occur due to various factors such as hardware failures, accidental deletions, software...

So I’ve been consolidating all of my storage and removing all the duplicates and junk files....

Last year Elon Musk accidentally revealed that he has a burner account on Twitter called @ErmnMusk....

I imagine a lot of people who are into data hoarding already know a lot of this but I thought the video was pretty neat. It briefly talks about the history of different compression formats and provides a brief blurb about why you may want to use one or the other....

cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/14280067...

Not sure if this is better fit for datahoarder or some selfhost community, but putting my money on this one....

cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/13532369...

I’m going to archive some youtube videos, what’s the proper way to change it from mp4 to webm to etc etc or vice versa?...

I have scraped a lot of links from instagram and threads using selenium python. It was a good learning experience. I will be running that script for few days more and will see how many more media links I can scrape from instagram and threads....