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netburnr, in What to do with extra HDDs
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A mirror array is not a backup. So therefor I would use at least one of those extra drives for a weekly backup of your data. You want some sort of not real-time backup in case you get cryptoed for example

jh0wlett, (edited )

That is true, but I was indeed not counting it as such, I currently just have the cloud as a backup.

netburnr,
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If you’ve got cloud backup you’re good, keep the drives in a drawer as spares or have another use?

nightwatch_admin, in That many people need old Ubuntu installations?

Systemd haters? But seriously, this could well be because of business environments where applications require specific OS versions to keep being supported by the vendor. Or better: where the orchestration tool cannot be updated because of the old OSs while said OSs cannot be updated because it will break orchestration.

This is why people love containers: you can run insecure software on insecure OS (component)s while pretending to be in control on your shiny Kubernetes cluster.

ivanafterall, in Any way to bulk download full images from a website and not their thumbnails?
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It looks like DownThemAll doesn't do recursive search (it's not looking at any deeper levels of the site, so if you run it on the page you linked, it'll only grab the thumbnails, because it's not navigating to the subpage where each full image is stored).

A quick search turned up this tool, which might do what you're looking for? HTTrack

Nogami, in Mixed device household - Needing help with storing photos and backups

Look into unraid.

One upon a time I might’ve suggested FreeNAS/TrueNAS but now that unraid supports ZFS there’s not a really compelling reason except if you can’t afford the license fee (which is very reasonable $59-$129 for a lifetime license depending on the license you want. If you don’t want ZFS you can run a standard XFS file system that can be accessed by basically anything. Parity expansion and all the good stuff.

Just saw your additional comment. You can run dockers for Plex and more or full VMs.

They also sometimes do Black Friday discounts to buy a basic license and fully upgrade it).

Look at videos by spaceinvaderone for some examples of what it can do. I have two pro licenses and it’s easily the best computer purchase I’ve made in the last two decades.

drdabbles, in Whatever happened to DNA-based storage research?
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It wasn’t sensible, given the short life of DNA. One of those sci-fi ideas that caught media and technophile attention, but wasn’t ever going to go anywhere.

Project Silica appears to be attempting very high density, very long life storage, though.

Vex_Detrause, in Help me acquire discontinued sound effect libraries please

Why? It sounds like you need it for a project. Why not get it from the source? Like from source audio.

Shady_Shiroe,
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OP said that a lot of those are not on source audio

bela, (edited ) in How do I archive a podcast I've already downloaded in Playapod (iOS) that has since gone offline?

According to this you can copy stuff onto it. I assume you’ve tried to see if you can copy off? If not, then there is probably no way to extract the audio, short of recording it as it plays.

I was only able to find a couple episodes online. One on someone’s google drive and a few in the wayback machine, all from this thread

edit: if playapod has an option to store files on an sd card, that’s usually stored unencrypted. (on android anyway…)

edit: wait iphones don’t even have sd card slots, right? lol

bela, (edited )

Actually there might be a whole bunch more in the wayback machine. (though still not that many) here

Just sort by mime type and check out audio/* for items of interest

yo_scottie_oh, (edited )

This helped me, thank you so much! I filtered by .mp3 and I’m using DownThemAll to download all the episodes in batches.

ETA at first, all the downloads failed because I was attempting to download multiple files simultaneously. After configuring DownThemAll to allow only one simultaneous download, it’s been smooth sailing.

watson387, (edited ) in What to do with extra HDDs
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WTF is an extra HDD?

ShortN0te, in Remember Seagate’s Dual Actuator HDDs? They’re Back, in SATA Form

The amazing thing about those are that they are halfing the rebuild time. With large drives you get rebuild time of over 24 hours which is actually frightening.

Setup is a one time thing and yes you need to be carefull about it but i bet software support will come as soon as those get more mainstream.

will_a113, in Need some advice to increase my storage capacity

For 100TB it’s worth looking into a dedicated storage server – there are tons of them available for cheap. labgopher makes it easy to track sales on ebay by price/storage/ram/whatever.

Sprokes,

The majority of servers there are shipped from the US and shipping for me is triple the prices.

tuff_wizard, in Need some advice to increase my storage capacity

Does your “old computer” have usb3 or usb c? If not you’ll find it very slow to access all that data over usb 2

Sprokes,

I only have USB 2 but it is OK for my need right now.

tuff_wizard,

You’ll be better off trying to get a proper network attached storage (NAS) rather than an enclosure. Either buy a pre-made one or make one out of parts. That way you can use the network speeds. Or you could get a usb3 pcie card, they are very cheap these days.

scrubbles, in NAS build, what's wrong with it?
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Only thing I see is make sure you get the CMR drives. I got SMR and it really screws you. Check out this.

anandtech.com/…/western-digital-cleans-up-the-red…

You want something from column 2 or 3 in the image.

mumei,
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The ones I picked are part # WD40EFRX, so CMR according to that image you linked. It’s just that PCPP doesn’t call them WD Red Plus, but they are. In the end I think I’ll go with the IronWolf instead, since they’re not that much more expensive, but more loved by the community! Thanks

paradox2011, (edited ) in Mixed device household - Needing help with storing photos and backups

Check out Immich for the photo backups. You can have multiple users with their own personal libraries. My family has Android and iOS backing up to my server right now, and its super nice to have it all consolidated.

Other than that, I second the nextcloud option. You can set the nextcloud app (which is available on all major OS) to auto upload pictures. Les Pas is a great way to view and manage a nextcloud photo library from Android.

nomecks, in Do SSD failures follow the bathtub curve? Ask Backblaze

238 SSDs is hardly a good sample size.

quirzle,
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That's just what they've added this year. Total drive count is over 3k.

synapse1278, in Seagate Expansion external HDD power supply making a very faint alarm sound
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You say the sound comes from the power supply and the HDD is not plugged into the computer. My diagnistic: the power-supply makes a noise when it operates at very low load (almost 0mA of current), it is probaly making the cyclic noise because of some blinking LED or another very small variation of the loaf somewhere. This is a very common symptom of cheap power-supplies, but it doesn’t necessarly mean it isn’t working normally, just an annoyance.

otp,

It’s weird – the sound happens when the power supply is plugged into the outlet and the HDD, but it turns off when the HDD is plugged into the PC.

I could look for a blinking LED, but it really does sound like a noise maker rather than something electrical. But I’m not an expert.

synapse1278,
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I suppose, when you plug the HDD to the computer, it spins up and start drawing more current from the power-supply and the noise disapears. This is because the PSU has a buck-converter, the switching frequency increase proportionally with the current drawn by the load. When the current it almost 0mA, the switching frequency can be audible (electromagnetic forces can make some components vibrate, e.g: coils). When the current is nominal, the frequency will be ultrasound and you won’t hear it. I have observed this with many electronic devices. If you are worried, you can try another power-supply, after checking it has the same voltage and polarity on the plug, and can deliver at least as much current as the original one.

otp,

Thank you for the reassurance. I guess I’ll just either let it be noisy or leave it fully unplugged when not in use.

First world problems… having to choose between barely audible noise, or having to plug TWO things in to access my 14TB, lmao

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