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

The Playapod website mentions a web player, does the web player happen to sync with your app on the phone? If so maybe you can extract it through the web player on a desktop.

yo_scottie_oh,

Thanks for the idea. I figured out how to get what I wanted and edited the solution into my post. Thanks again!

Appoxo, in A dozen or two TB of storage for media on the cheap?
@Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Personally I run 1 NUC with a 8TB USB-HDD and mirror it once a week to my other Pi4 with the same HDD.
Those were kinda cheap at 150€ each but the performance isnt very great.

scottywh, in A dozen or two TB of storage for media on the cheap?
SigHunter, in Bought a couple of Exos 7E10 8TB drives, warranty status says "initially sold as part of a larger system, contact seller". It means I can't take advantage of their five years warranty, doesn't it?
@SigHunter@feddit.de avatar

They’re probably 5 years or older anyway, or do you know the manufacturing date?

mumei, (edited )
@mumei@lemmy.world avatar

No I don’t, I wrote it in the OP haha unless there’s a way to know it by looking up the S/N. Have to check.

How can you be so sure they’re older? They were sold to me as new and they did come in the usual sealed plastic wrap.

Anyway I don’t think saving some money is worth more than a full warranty, so I’m basically set on returning them and get something else

Nollij,

I think you’re looking in the wrong places for the info you want You got what are known as OEM drives. These are primarily sold in bulk to system integrators like Dell/HP/etc. they are noticeably cheaper, but do not have a long warranty. Typically they have 90 days, which is enough to cover infant mortality. After that, the OEM basically self-insures - they have to eat the cost of replacement, but that’s offset by the lower price.

What you’re probably looking for are Retail drives. These have multi-year coverage directly from the manufacturer.

Read the terms of sale carefully- sometimes the seller is the one offering the longer warranty, same as an OEM. Then consider if you trust them to honor that warranty, especially considering that it will be a direct expense to them.

mumei,
@mumei@lemmy.world avatar

Sorry for late reply, app kept saying “this account os being verified” and I coulnd’t comment or anything else.

Anyway, yes, the store I bought them from is a legit store and provides warranty, so I decided to keep the drives!

mumei,
@mumei@lemmy.world avatar

Actually, I found something: “DOM: 07JUN2022”. I guess that’s “Date of Manufacturing”?

SigHunter, (edited )
@SigHunter@feddit.de avatar

yep, looks good. should be new then, since they were still in packaging.

You have to decide for yourself if not having to send it back and the reduced price is worth not having a warranty from the manufacturer. does the seller have to provide warranty anyway in your country? I think this would be the case in my country, if the seller is a business, irrelevant what warranty seagate gives you

Some anecdotal evidence, take it or leave it :-) I have a 12x 4 year old Exos 7E8 (the previous generation) and I’ve not had any failure yet since I bought em. In the past, I had many (many many…) failed seagate drives but never within the warranty span

mumei,
@mumei@lemmy.world avatar

Sorry for late reply, app kept saying “this account os being verified” and I coulnd’t comment or anything else.

In the end I decided to keep them, considering the store provides warranty! Loving the gigantic storage amount I have now haha

Nogami, in Need some advice to increase my storage capacity

If you’re in it for the long haul buy a “cheap” used server off of eBay and upgrade it.

If you want something more inexpensive buy the cheapest case you can find with the most HD mounting points. Then get yourself a SAS controller from eBay and connect everything up.

Then go look at installing unraid. Done.

phanto,

I got an HP DL380 with 16 drive bays, and I basically just dump any old hard drives in it whenever I upgrade. I have 24TB in it, had it for years, and I’ve only ever lost one drive at a time, and I just shrink out the dead drive, and then toss another one in if I get a new one. “I’ll move your files to your new computer if I can keep the old one…” I even 3d-printed a couple of 2.5"-3.5" adapters to stuff old laptop drives in there. Caddies? Uhh… I think it was 120$ from the local electronics recycler. It’s old, it’s slow, it’s basically a giant samba share.

Nogami,

I have 120TB in my unraid server so far and it grows every year.

Running a supermicro chassis now which is amazing if power hungry and a bit loud.

And at over 100lbs, a thief is gonna blow out their back trying to steal it.

zampson, in NAS build, what's wrong with it?

Personally, I’ve had terrible luck with Seagate drives, and the subsequent warranty process. I sent a 12TB Ironwolf back for bad sectors in July and I still don’t have my replacement. They shipped me one once, but UPS sent it back because it didn’t have clearance to cross the border into Canada. I spent hours on the chat getting bounced around, I could find no phone number to call. The experience has been awful. I’ve had other bad experiences with Seagate in the past but the price on the Ironwolfs was so good, but now I really wish I had just got some WD reds or something. I got 3 left in my QNAP and i am praying another doesn’t fail before I get this replacement or my array is toast.

mumei,
@mumei@lemmy.world avatar

I’m sorry about your experience! I actually have an IronWolf, a small 2TB one, and it’s been a year without issues. I don’t write big amounts of data daily on it though, so my experience might be different.

Good luck with your replacement though!

boothin, in NAS build, what's wrong with it?

There is a red asterisk on the ASRock website regarding ecc ram

mumei, (edited )
@mumei@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah, the only thing they say is “For Ryzen Series APUs (Cezanne and Renoir), ECC is only supported with PRO CPUs.”. That’s why I didn’t pick a Ryzen with integrated GPU (I can’t find PRO models in my country). 2666 speed is supported, so those RAM I picked should work. Thanks!

wolfshadowheart, in Mixed device household - Needing help with storing photos and backups
@wolfshadowheart@kbin.social avatar

Just some other suggestions, there's also Syncthing (for backups and syncing devices) and PhotoPrism (like the user who suggested Immich, for gallery view.)

greengnu, in Asking advice for home storage configuration

Raid stopped being optimal now that btrfs and ZFS exist.

If you plan on doing matching drives ZFS is recommended

If you expect mismatched disks, btrfs will work.

If you are most worried about stability get a computer with ECC memory.

If you are most worried about performance, use SSD drives.

If you want a bunch of storage for cheap, use spinning disks (unless you exceed the 100TB capacity range)

keefshape, in [Solved] How to backup an entire blog hosted on medium.com?

Pose this question to chat gpt 3.5 or 4. Ask it to assist in making a (python?) script to do this. Feed it errors, and you can get there pretty quickly and learn along the way.

keefshape,

Lol, downvoted for…?

perviouslyiner, in Looking for data about company ownership network

WikiData is a database-oriented version of Wikipedia intended for categorising relations between concepts.

For example, Google (www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95) is “owned by” XXVI Holdings (www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q100292691) since 2017.

XXVI Holdings similarly shows that it is owned by Alphabet Inc (www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20800404), which is owned by a list of people and entities with various different voting rights.

There is also the “Parent Organisation” relation (www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P749) which links Google to Alphabet directly.

These should all be computer-readable.

rah, in Looking for data about company ownership network
NikkiNikkiNikki, in I just downloaded the entire Classic Chicago Television youtube channel on a whim
@NikkiNikkiNikki@kbin.social avatar

Plan to do this with a lot of the entertainment videos I watch, considering how ban happy some websites have been with content creators, being able to still see their craft after it is gone is worthwhile.

Just need to buy a fuckton of storage though

empireOfLove,

Me too. There’s a couple channels I’ve downloaded in their entirety, but they’re nothing like the size of this one.

MossyFeathers, in I just downloaded the entire Classic Chicago Television youtube channel on a whim

Nice! What’re you gonna do with them? Are you gonna upload them somewhere, or just hold onto them?

empireOfLove,

They still happily exist on YouTube- for now. So no point in re-hosting, they’ll get squirreled away into the Giant Hard Drive of Doom.

If something happens to the actual archive project in the near future, I’ll likely section them up into 20gb pieces and post them out on a torrent someplace.

Appoxo,
@Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Just upload it to archive.org before your backup dies. No need to hoard it for yourself.

empireOfLove,

Nah. IA doesn’t need to deal with this volume of shit and they already have enough of a hard time dealing with copyright trolls.

If this channel is impacted in the future, I’ll probably put out a few torrents with the videos and post them here.

splendoruranium, in What do you do with damaged drives?

I’m a bit baffled that this hasn’t popped up yet: Sell them on eBay.
Mark them as broken goods/scrap and re-iterate that fact very clearly in the product description. Broken drives often sell for up to 1/3 of the value of a working one, no scamming needed.

I cannot tell you why that is, but my theory is that a lot of folk buy up broken drives in private sales in the hopes that the “broken”-diagnosis is just user error and that the drive is actually fine. Knowing my users that might actually be true in many cases.

Edit: I didn’t quite catch that you were not able to successfully overwrite your data. I guess that’s a point against selling it. Always encrypt your drives, that way you can always sell them when they break!

vicfic,
@vicfic@iusearchlinux.fyi avatar

Aah that’s a pretty good idea. But I’m guessing it’s not the case for SSD’s?

splendoruranium,

It absolutely is, at least from my observations!

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