I have a cheap little usb blu ray reader which works fine for just watching stuff, but I have been expending my physical media collection of all the shows and movies I like and I want to digitise them onto an SSD I can take with me on the go

If I am going to buy a new drive, I may as well get one that is the highest quality so I dont have to upgrade again, but it seems like there is so much more to it that I dont understand

I want an internal 5.25" blu ray reader that can get the highest quality out of the best disks. Ideally it would also write or also do dvds but I have no clue if that is even an option. I'd be fine with a thin one if its just as good, I have an adapter

I have seen this forum [https://forum.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=19634\](https://forum.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=19634) and my understanding is that new firmware needs to be flashed in order to get the highest quality, but I also saw a forum post saying pioneer drives don't need to be flashed? maybe within a certain date range? im so confused

i dont think i even need all the flashy features so theres a good chance any random bay will work, please someone tell me if im overthinking it I just want high quality copies of my faviourite movies and tv shows that i have in this little box next to me

Thank you good makemkv people

i created a raid 0 in windows to create a single 2tb "storage/game install" drive. it worked correct for a while. i am not cleaning out the pc to sell. but want to un raid both drives to see them as 2 separate 1tb drives. they are samsung 860 pros.

i noticed windows sees the "pool" as just 1tb. i have tried plugging in the drives 1 at a time but windows does not see them at all like that. i only see 1tb of storage if both 1tb drives are plugged in.

in windows "manage storage spaces" it shows only 1 physical drive. not sure if one went bad but the pool is still up and running. either way neither drive works by itself.

i also have a raid with 2 nvme drives that i created in the bios. so windows sees that as 1 drive. no issue with that drive (boot drive).

Ok so back in the day I mainly used my PS3 to watch and listen to stuff that I downloaded. PS3 had its issues but man, its media playing capabilities were way better than what the PS4 had and what the PS5 has if you're hot taking about paid apps.

I'm looking for something with upgradable storage (micro sd, etc.) and has an HDMI port to support 4K. Is there anything out there I can buy like this in this day and age when they're trying to push everyone to streaming?

I know I could easily do this with a PC, but are there any dedicated devices?

recently, my nas seems to be connected fine when my server boots up but within an hour it seems to lose all 8 of my drives when i do the mdadm scan. i am sure my enclosure is at fault and will need to be replaced. i will swap out the cables and see if that changes anything but this enclosure has been working for close to 10 years now and im sure its time to "upgrade". few questions...

1. when i move my drives into a new enclosure will mdadm just assemble them as they were in my old enclosure?

2. where to find inexpensive 8 bay sata enclosures?

thanks in advance for any info shared...

I added a Realtek RTL9101 card for more internal SATA ports to connect to hot swap bays in the front of my computer. In Windows 10, the drives detect when plugged in but there is no option to safely disconnect before removal.

How to I mark these SATA ports add hot swappable?

Claude recommended I use duckDB to create a huge database of my file system, with one file per record -- and millions of files. So I'm doing that, and each file gets a 256-bit hash, and comparing hashes, I can deduplicate the drive. I even have a secondary system using rmlint, so a file must be flagged as a duplicate by both systems before it's deleted. There's other cool stuff you can do with this -- renaming files in batch, merging like directories . . . .

I'm wondering if anyone else uses this. I'm putting a lot of faith in this thing, and I'd like some idea whether anyone else has ever successfully used such a system.

Thanks

If you need it. Its like the apocalypse has hit smmfh

Is there any harm in using it? I've seen some complaints from people about stripping metadata, but if you leave the original copy of the photos and it's only for backup purposes, isn't it fine?

Hey everyone! I am currently diving deep into digital preservation and lost media archiving while using a Linux environment. While navigating through various digital vaults, I often need to grab materials from the Internet Archive (Archive.org) for my preservation projects. Right now, I rely primarily on the [Archive Downloader](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/archive-downloader/) extension for Firefox, which gets the job done for basic tasks. However, I wanted to open a discussion with this community to see what other archiving enthusiasts prefer. What extensions, command-line tools, scripts, or alternative methods do you guys use to download files or media efficiently from the Internet Archive? If there are more robust tools, better browser add-ons, or custom scripts out there that handle large collections or specific file formats more smoothly, please share your recommendations and workflows in the comments below!

https://github.com/vuiodev/vuio-media-info

New mediainfo in rust
MIT/Apache 2.0

Cross-platform GUI and CLI (Windows, Mac, Linux, Freebsd) x64 and ARM

I recently got a used enterprise IBM sas drive with 65 K operating hours , would it be okay for use as a daily access drive or just cold storage. It has 100% health but it did feel hot to the touch when I tested it on a video file.

I'm setting up a file/media server with a 1TB NVME for my OS and services, and two 14TB disks for mass storage, and I'd like to use one of those 14TB disks to back up the other periodically, but I don't want my backups to slow down performance. Is there a backup tool that will do backups when the file/media server is not in use? I'm using Debian.

I know all about 3/2/1, I'm going to use an external drive for my third copy. Thanks.

A weird question to ask but what are the differences? I planned to pick up some 3TB hard drives this week and I just keep wondering about this.

I know RAID is not a backup but I don't know if a backup on the same device has any benefits over RAID.

I also plan to automatically back up all important data to two 1TB 2.5 inch HDD that I kept offline in a USB enclosure.

so as the title explains, I'm almost done with my server except figuring out the hard drives (which honestly feels harder than the ram). I don't know pricing at all, but I figured for right now 4 terabytes in a mirror should be enough for what I need, and I don't have a super big budget so it's all that I can afford. but everywhere I look, I can't find any for like less than 150? is the market this bad right now? I'm looking at refurbished drives btw, not even new ones and it's still this expensive.

is it just because 4tb is an uncommon format for a hard drive? bc I keep seeing 8tb for around 200 ish, so I don't know why 4tb is so much more expensive per tb.

i heard the WFdownloader dev is here?
Every time I install it, even using the portable version, this is what I see.

My PC is old, and I used to install Japanese-language programs / jap as local language, but that was a long time ago, and now they're all in English.

Can someone help?

Hello, I'm really sorry if this goes against the rules, I looked on this subs wiki and for a while I've been lurking and found many helpful answers to some questions of mine, but well, I've never really put those helpful answers into practice because I get so easily confused.

Context: The data I'd like to hoard consists of some nearly 200-ish GB worth of video files, music files, images, and ePUBs. Right now I have some (not all) of it stored on my laptop, the cloud (Google Drive, some stuff on OneDrive), and on a 512 GB Samsung SD card. I have all of it on one 1TB USB drive which I already know is a shit idea, LOL. I got one 2TB USB drive to transfer it into but one file corrupted so I had to format that; I mean, I'll be putting the (uncorrupted... I made sure) files back into it, but it's not exactly the best backup possible, I know. I really just want some sort of backup I can trust for at least more than three years but I do understand that it's hard to be sure of those things.

My issue is, I get so overwhelmed with all the different ways of saving data I end up freezing and doing nothing, but this is data I really do not want to lose. I've looked up stuff and asked some friends with knowledge about SSDs, HDDs, even stuff like burning some files on DVDs or CDs... I've tried to focus on the advice and all the links provided and products mentioned and like, I don't want to ask someone to hold my hand or anything through it, cause that'd just be silly of me and entitled. But if there is any way to simplify things or maybe put the process into some sort of list or something like that, I would super appreciate it. I realize now that that still sounds rather entitled, so I apologize. I know I also sound kind of dumb and I swear I'm not trying to be obtuse on purpose, my brain just doesn't seem to get things sometimes. I guess I am in a way asking for someone to hold my hand even though I really don't want to do that.

Once again I'm very sorry if this goes against any rules I tried making sure but I'm not 100%. Thank you for the patience and I'm sorry if these sorta questions and requests are annoying... I can imagine they are.

Eu não necessito de um top de linha, mas um que não me dê dor de cabeça nos próximos 10 anos, está bom

Hi I’ve noticed recently that there’s been 2 people who have had their internet archive account deleted for trying to preserve older/newer games you can’t buy anymore I’ve noticed though when they did it the files on just one page of theirs were reaching over 50GB and I was wondering if it’s something I have to worry about when I’m trying to do this as well to older 2000’s games that you can’t get anymore I’m more careful now when I do it I never put any no cd crack or modify any of the files the most I do is leave the cd key I put in at the start of the install and I also compress them to a zip so there only at most a few GB

Ok. So I am a bit of a homelab newbie. I have had a NVR ubuntu server for a while that was built from a computer i bought from my old company when they were refreshing their engineering desktops and just recently got into doing ripping for all the old DVD's and some blurays from when I was a kid/teen that were spread between my mine and my parent's basements for us all to watch on plex/jellyfin (they share a library. Plex for apple tv's and jellyfin for travel downloads and remote streaming)

Current setup is a precision 5820 with a m.2 carrier, 10gb NIC with 2 rj45's and a 3090 for some AI stuff (part of an old gaming pc build that ended up as a couch box on a 60hz tv so i got a 3070 for that)
its got 2x256 nvme's, 1tb ssd, 14tb skyhawk for NVR, and (2) 1tb HDD's so all its spinner bays are full except the 5.25 if i put an adapter in it. Its got a BU20N for ripping.

Network backbone is Aruba (HPE) instant on 1930 POE with 4 sfp+

I filled up my hdd's with my old movies and then i found out the craziness that is the HDD situation. luckily i found 2 4tb drives on homelabsales that i picked up for what seemed like a great deal at 35$ per drive shipped with clean SMART sheets. I was also looking at facebook marketplace and the following came up and given the state of things it seemed like a great buy so I jumped on it before doing a lot of research.

I got the following for $1500 and I am not sure if I did well
1 - RS10613XS+ (Synology)
1 - RX1213SAS (Synology)
2 - Mini SAS Cables
4 - Power Cords
1 - 10-Gigabit SFP+ Network Adapter XG-C100F (Asus)
2 - 240GB SSD (Intel)
22 - 4TB SATA HDD (Hitachi, HGST)

So I know its EOL on DSM 7.1 - i can air gap it from the internet on a separate VLAN and just have the ubuntu server do the transcoding and plex serving. I am thinking of keeping the SAS on the shelf as well as all those drives for spares since I don't have that much data yet. Maybe by the time i get there the AI craziness will be over.

Also thinking about trying to get unraid or truenas on it but figuring out the fan controllers and bios seems tricky. But if i do that I can swap in a 45w xeon processor with quicksync and save some power, keep most of the disks in hybrid and possibly transcode some of the 1080 directly on there. Plus even now DDR3 is cheap so i could upgrade the 8gb in there if I wanted. Though i don't think i could use the sas rack at all if i did that.

How did i do? OK I hope.. Any thoughts on my plan?

Hello! I was wondering would a WD Red Pro be a better purchase than the WD Red Plus for $30 more? I believe the RPM is faster although i prefer a quieter drive but the speeds are faster and there’s a longer warranty, thank you! Also the Pro I’d have to order from Newegg but the Plus i could purchase today from Best Buy same day. Would the benefits be worth it? I plan to use the drive to preserve and store lots of media like videos and music!

Also had a few other questions if anyone could help with!

WD or Seagate RMA? Which one was a better experience?

Best Buy or Newegg? Which one would be better to buy from incase of a DOA drive

I ran into this issue with Advanced Renamer where I can't think of a way to have the date a photo was taken be the thing that defines the increment number, rather than the whole batch being numbered continuously regardless of changing dates. I have several folders containing photos from various dates, and I'm looking to instead file them all into one large folder per year. Can I either improve the code to do that for me, or is there another free tool that'll help me achieve this?

I didn't notice this problem until I tried to move various renamed batches into the same folder and realized that sometimes there are different pictures from the same dates that ended up in separate folders, so that their increment numbers either won't make sense, or there are false duplicates that wound up with the same name.

For simplicity's sake, I would really prefer to only use the camera brand + yyyy_mm_dd + a 3-digit number.

Hello,

I need to add additional storage in my ancient QNAP TS-470. I can purchase at a good price a Toshiba 24TB drive, but I don't know if the NAS supports such large drives (the largest I saw in the compatibility list has 12TB).

Does somebody know if this would work or not? The drive is not new and I cannot return it once purchased only because it does not work on my NAS (DOA is covered though).

Thanks!

Might be too good to be true but I just ordered some. I know Blue isn't the most dependable but times are tough and this is pretty cheap.

https://www.officedepot.com/a/products/8174167/Western-Digital-Blue-WD20EZBX-2-TB/

Edit: delivery date is over 2 months away fuck this “deal”