r/DataHoarder

: "Yesterday, all the videos on Selen Tatsuki's youtube channel were deleted when her contract with her employers was terminated. A few days earlier, I downloaded them all with yt-dlp. Now I have 4.5 TB of videos on my hard drive and I want to share them with her fans. WTF do I do now?"

: "WTF Happened? Why are we still paying almost $100 7 years later for 4-5 TB drives?"

: "This is a Remainder to backup your optical disks asap"

: "Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible “forever”"

: "GitHub Archive in Svalbard"

: "I now have 40TB of storage.."

: "my YouTube archive dashboard - 4 years going strong (monitoring 900+ channels)"

: "Has anybody Samsung T7 leaked stuff?"

: "Crucial has an 7.68TB NVMe for $350"

: "The struggle is real"

: "A couple of (home version) "accelerated ageing" experiments I have running with various types of optical media, including M-Disc and regular Blu Ray. Will post results when I have them! Getting good sun exposure today!"

: "Why use optical media for digital archiving in 2024? Here's my full FAQ!"

: "Do you re-encode older video files to more modern formats periodically to maintain compatibility?"

: "[RANT] On people that don't backup properly general interest things"

: "Nightmare Seagate RMA experience"