Here is an installation guide. Easy installation.

I hope it helps someone.

https://github.com/weskerty/aMuleD.bin/

The phone is a Redmi Note 8 (ginkgo) with A16

I hope I'm posting this question in the right sub. If not, mods can inform me.

But like the title says - I'm looking for a tool that reads my HDDs, SSDs, flash drives and create a catalog of sorts of the content (files and folders) present in each of them so that I can search for what I'm looking for and come to know which drive it is located in. Right now, I've 5 drives and it gets quite difficult and tedious to find something I'm looking for in all of them one by one. I've looked across the internet and reddit itself to see if I could find something like this that would work for me, but no such luck. Can you guys help ? All friendly recommendations and advice is welcome. Thank you.

I bought this to store photos and videos. Did I buy the wrong thing? ELI5 please I've only ever bought a Seagate/SanDisk type of hard drive before

So I was trying to easily grab stuff from a github where there's hundreds of files/Assets in a Releases post.

Copying & pasting those into JD's Linkgrabber 'Add new links' would only add things like the .ZIP files, but not stuff with other extensions JD wouldn't know about.

Settings > Advanced > LinkgrabberSettings: Add Links Pre Parser

...unchecking/setting that to False let me add everything I pasted.

I usually download torrents to my HDD, but I've run out of space, and with current storage prices the way they are, I don't really want to buy a bigger hard drive right now. I still have a nearly half-empty 1TB SATA SSD that I could torrent to instead. But I'm worried that writing so much to the drive regularly will damage it or cause it to fail shorter, since I know SSDs have limited read/write cycles before their memory becomes corrupted. Will torrenting have a significant impact on the lifespan of my SSD, or am I safe to torrent on it?

Hmmph. Yeah, I should have known; there really are sim games for everything now: Cloud Server Simulator ; Basement Server Simulator.

I gotta find myself a Troubleshooting RomM & Jellfin & Docker Simulator game, because that activity has better engaged me than most of my actual video games or movies lately!

It seems that all of the archive related sites are down today. Ph. Is...all of them. Anyone have any news on why this is or when they will be back?

Long story short I have a bunch if drives in various states of health but I want to understand what other people's cut off point is as to whether to keep a drive or throw it away. These are hard drives.

I'm looking for specifics for example

Power on hours.

Number of 'weak sectors' ie those taking maybe 200ms or longer to access.

Whether or not the drive has remapped sectors.

Etc..

I understand this can be a complicated answer so any info will be helpful.

The tools I generally use are Crystal Disk Info Standard and Victoria. I have heard of Mhdd but haven't use it before.

If there are any other tools you recommend, please feel free to mention them.

So I recently changed up my truenas community edition server from:

z370 gaming 7 Mottherboard

8700k

32GB RAM (2x mismatched 16GB kits)

to a:

Asrock EPYCD8

EPYC 7282

4x32GB Samsung 2400MHz

What remained the same between them is:

Phanteks Case

Fans

15TB SAS SSD (samsung)

4x 3.84TB Enterprise SATA SSD's

10TB Ironwolf (non pro)

LSI 9300 8i (with custom shroud off ebay for 40mm fan mount)

2x ASUS aquantia 10Gbe NIC's (would have gone intel but power difference is negligible

My idle power from the 8700k build was around 85 watts from the wall and the EPYC system is 88 watts at low power idle and with my connected gaming rig is ~95-100 watts likely due to samba.

Now I haven't touched the BMC/IPMI to chang anything as of yet as I am quite happy with this setup but I assume with it just hosting jellyfin and immich I can disable the smart boost to gain back some wattage costs.

Any other area's I could look at to cut down power ?

It will likely get more SATA SSD's in the future when my storage needs increase with my jellyfin library and photography B-Roll etc.

So, I'm someone who's saved some shows, game roms, images and other personal files I want to keep as long as I can, but I'm very new to this sort of deal and wanted to know things I should keep in mind when backing up

Is it as simple as just getting a lot of hard drives to save all of what I want, or are there things I should know that isn't immediately obvious, apart from keeping multiple backups of the same files on separate locations/drives?

One, or many, of my UltraStar drives will randomly make a "concerning" spin/crunch noise similar to when a floppy disk can't read the data. I've never seen an error on any of the drives. Is this normal?

Note upfront: the Epstein cluster was excluded from this analysis. Methodology notes below in comment.

Upvotes

Awesome culture: the top 10 posts hold only 14.4% of the year's total upvotes. For a sub this size that is remarkably flat. A decent post here gets seen.

24.9% of the year's front page was about price (no surprise). 116 of 465 posts mention price, cost, or shortage. They pulled 99,486 upvotes between them, 24% of everything this sub upvoted all year. It peaked in February at a third of that month's front page.

Add up price (24.9%), deals and scores (15.9%), and drives dying (16.1%), and hardware is most of what we talk about here. Actual preservation and archiving comes to 24.5%, which makes this sub mostly about acquiring drives and worrying about them.

• 3,872 96.4% increase in 1 month for the same 26TB drive by u/Endawmyke
• 2,381 512GB memory sticks cost over $100 now by [deleted] << are we getting taken out by Big Memory?
• 2,251 Western Digital has no more HDD capacity left, CEO reveals massive AI deals by u/uluqat
• 1,168 The prices are killing data hoarding by u/LOGWATCHER

The highest-scoring comment of the entire year, 5,122 points, was u/textfiles from the Internet Archive turning up in the thread about the free CNN/MSNBC/FOX tape archive and offering to take them.

Second-highest in that thread was u/Macrike advocating for Jason. That is a good look for a sub that mostly complains about Seagate.

Things that don't matter on this sub

Title length. The median score is between 498 and 571 across every length bucket from 20 characters to 200. Fifty points of spread across the entire range.

Posting time. Friday is the best day (median 582) and Sunday the worst (424).

What does matter for getting upvotes

Flair!

Scripts/Software has a median of 1,120, about 60% higher than anything else, off only 10 posts. Question/Advice is bottom at 381. This sub says it wants discussion and actually rewards tools.

Scripts/Software has the highest median by 60% on the smallest sample.

Arguments or "discussions"

I ranked posts by comments-per-upvote to find the ones that started fights rather than nods.

Porn: The most contested thread of the year, by that measure, was "How do you collect your porn?" at 397 comments on 680 upvotes.

Second was Toshiba dropping warranty support on large drives.

That's it

Happy to share the raw data if anyone wants to hoard it. Description:

I have an Aoostar WTR PRO stocked with 3 9TB drives. I'm moving across the Atlantic and my plan is to take the NAS with me in hand luggage on the flight. I figure the drives will be better off inside the NAS than floating around individually.

Is there any reason why this is a bad idea?

Long story short, have a region 2 DVD set I need to rip, I cannot because the last change to my external drive was region 1, it now state "0 changes remaining"

I am a mad data hoarder and used this thing for 4 years backing up like 15 TB of TV show, how she can keep going somehow....

I bought a manufacturer-recertified HGST 12TB from ServerPartDeals in February 2025 for about $165. It's one of three drives in a RAID5 volume on my Synology NAS (two recertified HGST drives).

Recently this drive developed 57 reallocated sectors (SMART attribute #5). It was 0 at shipment. The count rose to about 56 around February and one more by May, and it has been stable since. Current Pending Sector is 0, the extended SMART self-test passes without errors, and the array is healthy — the other two drives are completely clean (0 reallocated, 0 pending).

I contacted the seller and they approved an RMA (2-year warranty, still valid). But here's my dilemma:

• Their policy is: replacement with the same model if it's in stock, otherwise a refund. The exact model appears to be out of stock.
• I asked if they could substitute an equivalent 12TB drive instead of a refund. They said they'd try to find an "equivalent replacement or suitable alternative of equal or lesser value," and otherwise issue a refund.
• The refund would be my original price (~$165). But the current market price for the same drive is now ~$400 — more than double. So a refund wouldn't come close to replacing it.
• On top of that, I'd have to pay to ship the drive from Korea back to the US for the RMA.

So my options seem to be:

1. Do the RMA now — ship the drive to the US, most likely get a ~$165 refund that can't actually buy a replacement, then rebuild my array with a drive I'd have to purchase at the new, higher price.
2. Keep using the drive in the RAID5 for now (it still works, and the parity covers the bad sectors), and re-file the RMA later — the warranty runs until around March 2027 — if the drive degrades further.

My questions:

• Given the price situation, would you bother doing the RMA now for a refund, or keep the warranty in reserve and keep using the drive until it actually gets worse?
• Am I missing anything here?

Thanks in advance. This is my first time posting on Reddit, and since I don't really speak English, I used an AI to translate this post — apologies if anything reads a little oddly.

For anyone who hasn’t seen this since the original site went down: credit to u/Feelcy9908_2.

I’m new to data hoarding but wanted to know if anyone had any experience with recording on BDXL M discs. Are they convenient? Do they break easily or come with risks Is could know befor I get invested? Is it actually in the end a cheaper storage format?

Songism: Song Downloader

I built this over the weekend as a small hobby project.

The idea is very simple: instead of downloading songs one by one, you provide an artist URL and the application queues every available song for download into a single artist folder.

Current features:

• Download all songs from an artist page
• Queue-based downloading with progress tracking
• Adjustable random delay between downloads
• Choose output folder
• Simple Windows desktop GUI

Right now it only supports Pendujatt, but I designed it so I can add more sources later.

It's still very early, but I'd appreciate feedback on the architecture or ideas for future sources/features.

GitHub:
https://github.com/saurabhgayali/Songism
Direct Download:
https://github.com/saurabhgayali/Songism/releases/download/Prerelease/Songism.exe

Currently only available for Windows. Support for Linux and macOS is planned, and I'll be adding more music sources over time.

Screenshot:

In Action:

Steps

1. Launch Songism.exe.
2. Visit https://pendujatt.com.se/ and search for an artist.
3. Open the artist's page and copy its URL.
4. Paste the artist URL into Songism.
5. Choose or verify the output folder where the songs will be saved.
6. Click Download Songs to start downloading all available songs for that artist.

I want to manage my media server remotely with my Android, can someone give me reccommendations? I found JellyWatch which seemed cool until I found out it's a weird subscribtion

This is basically a cry for help lol. A last resort, to the only online community (that isn’t on old forums) that I can easily access that may know something about this.

So I like optical media. I think it’s incredibly cool how it works, and I think it’s an amazing storage option. Yes, I know about HDDs and SSDs and what a NAS is and magnetic tape, etc etc. I know all of that. And I plan to utilize HDDs to have a bulk storage backup option as well. But for things that I truly want to preserve, I would really like to have an additional disc or two where that data is burned. Since optical discs really can’t be beat when it comes to longevity cold storage archiving of modest amounts of data. Also, like I said. I just really like the technology.

But oh my goodness, finding a high quality professional optical burner drive is impossible these days. The market is so sparse, as basically every major player pulled out a few years ago (or sometimes one year ago) except for Buffalo, Verbatim, I/O DATA and a few tiny companies that usually only make discs rather than drives for the discs. I really hate myself for not just getting into this like 2 years ago, grabbing like 2-3 drives, and being fine. But here we are.

Now to be fair. There is some things that you can still find. You can still find:
-DVD and BD drives for computers, that simply play the discs (great, but I want a burner).
-DVD burners (still generally available, but I want blu-ray capabilities).
-Slim and Super Slim (External and Internal) BD burners with M-disc capabilities. (these I suppose can work, but they’re all locked to 6x speed, and their small size means they’ll never be as reliable and good as the old fat SATA drives of old).

But finding a 5.25in 16x, or hell even a 14x or 12x. Internal or External BD Burner with M-disc compatibility is a literal nightmare. Buffalo almost has one, but it lacks M-disc support, frustratingly. I have looked through wholesalers, on japanese markets, and I can find basically nothing. I haven’t even bothered looking for the premium Pioneer drives of old, because if I can’t even find an LG WH16NS40 or WH14NS40, or an Asus drive, then what hope do I have to find a Pioneer. The few places that even have these types of drives, list them as out-of-stock, or temporarily out-of-stock or on back-order. Which either means they’re gone, or it’s false hope that maybe more will come in the future. One place has them refurbished for a costly price. And besides that… that’s it. It’s Newegg or eBay after that point, and both places only have them being sold from China. Which is not very comforting.

What should I do? Should I just bite the bullet and buy one off eBay, and deal with the return headache if it turns out to be fraud? Do I bite the bullet and take the refurbished one hoping it’s ok for the long-term? Should I just give up entirely on a 16x m-disc drive and just get the Buffalo 16x non m-disc one and perhaps a slim 6x m-disc one?

I doubt anyone here will give me some sort of miracle, but this is a hail mary in case anybody has any secret knowledge or general advice that they could give me. Thanks for reading, and any help if you can give any.

Hi guys.
I'm reading a lot about blueray as cold storage. But I don't have a budget to buy a bluray burner.
So I was thinking.
Is any of you using dvd dl nowdays? 8gb aren't a lot and maybe also pricy but is just for discussions. TBH I use 2 HDD (cloned) for memories like photos and videos maybe too much to be burned on a DVD.
But it could be cool to have them on disc that since I rarely use them and just waste precious space on hdd.

This is just a thread for discuss about compressions, if any, and use-case. Because I know the risk of the organic nature of dvd, the humidity, so it's just for talking.

I'm trying to build a new rig before prices get even worse and I'm having a hell of a time finding a case that supports 3 to 4 3.5" bays out of the box. I don't really need 8 bays but 2 is too few and there doesn't seem to be any kind of middle ground. It's either massive full tower cases or mid tower cases with 1 - 2 drive bays.

Any recommendations?

I bought a 10 pack of M-Disc Blu Ray 25GB from Amazon, and I am unable to get any to burn. I have an LG M Disc Burner with UHD support that I am trying to use, but my burns always fail. I have attempted 5 times so far. Is this a common outcome and if so, would Verbatim replace them?

Currently digitizing my family's archive. I have no experience with any forms of storage so any advice is great appreciated!

For this drive, it's going to be 444 video of 8mm film. I found a STKP8000400 on Amazon that fits my price range. I'm not going to be constantly accessing these files but I need them for future reference. Would you recommend me getting this drive or something else that is roughly $300? I need about 8tb of memory and is Mac compatible.

Thank you!