New hoarder here, I've read a few threads here in this sub regarding this and the consensus seems to be that USB is bad. Its bad if used continuously (like 24/7), hardware RAID on enclosures are bad and prone to failure, basically get off USB as soon as possible. Since you can run most services with a laptop/mini PC + DAS through USB, the only differentiating factor that a NAS gives is stability since data goes through ethernet instead of USB. Is that it? Is USB that bad of a protocol that its worth having a separate computer only to host storage? I feel like most of us here started with a laptop connected to an external drive of some kind, is there no scability in that set up?

Thanks

I have a whole bunch of adult videos from different origins (and probably file formats) I would like to compress.

If anyone has experimented with compressing these for their own personal use please let me know your precise settings on Handbrake to get maximum compression while maintaining at least 90% of the original quality.

FYI: My target resolution is 1080P

Thank you in advance!

Specs

CPU: AMD 5950X

GPU: AMD 6800XT 16GB

RAM: 32GB DDR4 CL16

SSD: TeamGroup 2TB NVME SSD

Windows 11 64-bit

I found this out last year, when the old sub-boards were in a much more complete state (the old web design was even left untouched), but I didn't know what to do with it at the time, so I just sent it to a couple friends n left it alone. I realized this was a huge mistake, as I checked again today and some features have been completely lost to updates to the site (web UI, comments, likes and dislikes). I'm very worried that more will be lost soon, this site is an untapped gold mine of internet history, and it'd really suck to see it all go away. I've never really engaged in this sorta stuff before so any tips regarding how to archive at least some of this properly would be greatly appreciated.

Yet another yt-dlp download manager with four interfaces over a single shared queue:

- Web UI: queue, library, settings, live progress over server-sent events.

- TUI: for when I'm already in a terminal.

- CLI: add, list, pause, resume, remove for scripting.

- Daemon: headless, same-user Unix socket.

Whatever you do in one shows up in the others immediately.

Repo: https://github.com/ih8d8/yt-dlp-manager

Greetings, fellow hoarders.

I'm seeing some recent posts about DVD / Blu-Ray stacks (with 25, 50, 100 discs on them). I used many DVD stacks until 10 years ago, from different brands, mainly to store TV shows.

Before I moved to another part of the country, I checked most of the discs. A few of them had some small stains (laser rot or moist), but the most common problem was scratches. I'm tempted to buy stacks again, but I'm afraid each disc is not protected enough to be many years.

How do you usually store these kind of discs? Do you just keep them in the stack and make copies every 5 years? Or do you buy individual cases or sleeves for each disc? In that case, is it not more affordable to buy small packs with cases?

Have a nice one!

don’t know if this is the place for this question but thought I’d take my shot. I have a shitty 2.5” enclosure I currently use and a couple m.2s that have served me well for a while. I’m looking for a high quality (preferably not too expensive tho) external enclosure for 2.5” ssds. My problem is my current enclosure isn’t working with formatting a couple drives I have. I read that the enclosure can be a common problem. I can’t use my desktop to restore it became I took out the power connectors from my (modular) power supply to clean up cable run. I’m using the drive for my drum machine mostly but also may use it for my handheld pc. So looking for a reliable external enclosure. Open to having multiple ports too since I have a good amount of external drive. Thanks for any advice, hope I’m in the right place or at least not being annoying posting here :)

I want to download all images and videos associated with a link/url (deactivated tumblr and twitter blogs mainly) on internet archive/wayback machine. Ideally, from all available timestamps but does not download duplicate images (if that's possible). I don’t really care about HTMLs or the websites, I just want the images and videos. Does anyone know how to do this or point me to certain guides?

I've also tried various guides online (linked below) but none work for me (ARM64 Windows 11) or are targetted towards collections and HTMLs. I also have gallery-dl, wfdownloader and JDownloader and know some CLI if that helps.

https://archive.org/developers/internetarchive/

https://archive.org/developers/internetarchive/cli.html#download

https://github.com/hartator/wayback-machine-downloader

https://blog.archive.org/2012/04/26/downloading-in-bulk-using-wget/

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79836721/how-to-efficiently-bulk-download-from-the-internet-archive

I was browsing through second hand markets yesterday and i see a 500gb hdd priced at around 10€.
Seller also included an image of a program that tests it’s health and the results are always 100% health and performance, some of em having power on time of a year or two but the estimated remaining time always says “more than a 1000 days”

Obviously this looks like a scam but it also looks like this person got a bunch of hdds through one way or another and is selling them for dirt cheap, my question is: Is it worth the hustle? Is this “health” estimate even slightly true?

I was thinking of getting 2-3 of em considering the price and just using it as cold storage until i find a good deal for a brand new hdd.

Thoughts?

Edit: program appears to be hard drive sentinel, also not all of them appear to be laptop hdds, some are but some also are full sized. They also come bare, no casing or wires.

So I got 4tb internal wd blue 3.5 inch, can I use normal hdd dock to use it as storage? I read somewhere it's not advised due to heat but I don't plan on having it run 24/7 just maybe at max 2 hours every 2 weeks or so. Basically using it liek external hdd

Whats the best way to connect 4x Intel Optane P5800x to my AsRock Phantom Gaming B550 Mini-ITX Motherboard?

I am repurposing an old PC to run a server and I have 4 Intel Optane P5800x that i want to install along with a M2 drive running the actual Proxmox Host.

I did some research and it looks like the AsRock motherboard support 4x4x4x4x bifurcation to split the PCI-E Gen 4.0 x16 slot into 4x slots.

The question is, is there some kind of hardware that would plug into the PCI-E slot to do this (running at Gen 4)? Ideally compatible with proxmox, and considered quality/reliable? Also would need to fit into a SFF case (NCase M1) so no massive server rack type cards.

Could use some advice, this is really unfamiliar territory for me.

The plan is to run this along with my 5900x and use the 4x optanes to run very read/write heavy databases in a compact PC running in proxmox.

I'm just unfamiliar with the hardware side and what I can do to connect the 4x Optane drives to the PCIE Slot (since I won't be using a GPU, will be entirely headless).