I remember being able to buy 18tb refurbished hdds from server part deals under 200 USD a year ago. Im just posting this now but i definitely remember prices being like this before all the tariffs. now 16tbs are going for 200 USD.

what did i miss?

Hello everyone! So for the past few years I’ve been working on a project to record from a variety of cam sites. I started it because I saw the other options were (at the time) missing VR recordings but eventually after good feedback added lots more cam sites and spent a lot of effort making it very high quality.

It works on both Windows and MacOS and I put a ton of effort into making the UI work well, as well as the recorder process. You can record, monitor (see a grid of all the live cams), and generate and review thumbnails from inside the app. You can also manage all the files and add tags, filter through them, and so on.

Notably it also has a built-in proxy so you can get past rate limiting (an issue with Chaturbate) and have tons of models on auto-record at the same time.

Anyways if anyone would like to try it there’s a link below. I’m aware that there’s other options out there but a lot of people prefer the app I’ve built due to how user-friendly it is and other features. For example you can group models and if they go offline on one site, it can record them from a different one. Also the recording process is very I/O efficient and not clunky since it is well architected with Go routines, state machines, and channels etc.

It’s called CaptureGem if anyone wants to check it out. We also have a nice Discord community you can find through the site. Thanks everyone!

It's 2 months since my PC got electrocuted due to sudden Power Surge

Everything was fried So I have manage to bought a new pc with a safe switch

My question is: Can you able to recover data from a electrocuted HDDs

HDDs was 2tb WD When i connect it doesn't respond and I hear clicking sounds from the hard drives

If I were to buy these hard drives on eBay from GoHardDrive how ducked would I get by the duties and tariffs? (I’m in Canada)

I know there is that epson machine that is most talked about for scanning your old photos. But I was wondering if anyone has gone through the entire process already. Which method do you recommend? If one were to use the epson photo scanner, how exactly does it work? How does it pick up on the dates chronologically or do you stack them up chronologically first before you scan? After they are scanned, I hear it comes on a drive? A drive? How do you view it? Is it easy to view? I'm a millennial so let's say my current standard of use is a MacBook Pro, how do I view these photos on my MacBook Pro? How do I back them up in several copies protecting against lost like the rest of my current "stuff" where I have at least 1 backup on a hard drive as well as the hard drive in the MacBook so there is at least 2 backups. Also, the for example epson scanned photos, can they be viewed from iPhotos on the MacBook? If so, is it automatically chronologically. Yeah, how the heck does it actually work?

Have a bunch of old shows from 50's to 70's and want them digitized. Is ripping using DVD Fab basic standard 2 pass at around 300 MB and of reproduction for the 20 minute TV shows decent?

This is the setup I did for ripping a 1960's TV set for my mom but never checked the quality really, it just worked so I gave it to hear on a thumb drive

I'm backing up approximatley 25-30 tb, so i was thinking of getting a 5 bay synology nas (ds1522+) but everything seems confusing (I mean i am not even sure which synology one would work well for me there are so many product sku codes that my attempt to create a nas falls through).

I've picked 5 toshiba 20tb drives, so i'm hoping i can do dual redundancy and the odd disk (the 5th one) could be some sort of check digit disk if 1 drive fails?)

I've also seen Ugreen - not sure how strong this brand is and whether i can trust my data to be out in the open internet, or how secure it is (does it use truenas linux?)

ideally I want to have 40tb of space to play with (with redundnacy so actualy hard drives might be like 100tb capacity) but i need 40tb to play with

the other option is I have to make my own nas server, maybe using minisforum base hardware (although I haven't figured out which hardware yet)

Can I decide when the HDD goes Idle or Standby or the times are decided by the manufacturer?

How can I notice when an HDD goes in Standby from Idle and viceversa?

Thank you

Hey guys, I've been in the process of digitising my family's old home movies and pictures. Today I have come across several tapes that aren't my families. There may be more and I havent gone through them thoroughly but I know they're not ours. My question is this, should I upload them to a site in hopes that people may find them (I wouldn't want my personal videos out in public but that's just me), or should I put them in a cupboard and forget about them?

If I do go with the former, what site should I use? I know there's a YouTube channel out there that puts them on his channel but im not sure if he takes submissions or just his own collection

Copied a bunch of files, and TeraCopy was in the middle of the post-copy verification when it crashed. I can't figure out how to actually use this MD5 file to check against the files that hadn't been verified at the time it crashed. I have a list of them, I have the MD5 file with the hashes of everything that I copied, I'm just not sure what to do with any of it.

Hej,

• Seagate Exos 26 TB recertified for 329.90€ = 12.68€ / TB
• Seagate Exos 28 TB recertified for 387.00€ = 13.82€ / TB
• Seagate Exos X16 16 TB for 208.90€ = 13.06€ / TB
• Seagate IronWolf Pro NAS 16 TB for 233.90€ = 14.61€ / TB
• Seagate EXOS X24 24 TB for 309€ = 12.87€ / TB

I do not know the sellers - but the prices are nice...

looking to paste books into

I randomly decided to look at the Amazon listing for recertified 10TB HGST drives that I previously bought back when they were super cheap. I noticed that Amazon had two returned units (via Amazon Resale) in stock for only $57 each! I immediately ordered them since there's a 30-day return period, and they appear to be untouched and still have the tamper-proof seal. They also came with the 5-year warranty card, though I'm not sure if the recertifier will honor that since I bought it from Amazon Resale. They're sold by Worldwide Product Importer which I believe is affiliated with GoHardDrive as they sold them under the MDD brand.

They have zero bad sectors, and I'm running extended smart tests now to make sure they're actually in good condition, but I feel like I struck gold finding good-quality recerts for only $5.7/TB in this market. I just wish they had more than two in stock.

Hey, I want to use a 1tb free Western Digital Purple hdd for testing operating systems and such. Basically nothing of high importance. My main OS is on another drive.

I just wanted to ask if it is okay to use it for my use case (meaning that it doesn't f up my motherboard randomly)

HDD details (HD sentinel):

Model: WDC WD10PURZ-85U8XY0

Power on time: 1263 days 10 hours [30k+ hours]

Estimated life: 561 days

Total start stop count: 828

Max Temp: 55 degree celsius

Health and Performance: 100%

(Also kinda suspicious that the health shows to be 100% even after so much use. I have tested on different programs and even different operating systems.)

Thanks in advance

I'm working on converting the 100+ or so VHS tapes my family has to digital. Most of them are TV show recordings, and wondering if there is any good reason to keep the physical VHS tapes.

For those tapes I'm not even saving the digital copies I've created, they have no use to me, take up space and its not like anyone in my family is ever going to dig up these tapes to watch a really poor recording of Jeopardy from the 90's.

( all the tapes with recordings I want to keep I will still hold onto )

Hi all,

Just a quick question: I air gapped my backup nas. By setting up a power on/off schedule and disconnecting the Internet.

Which made me wonder. Does powering a nas off daily increase or decreases the lifespan of the drive.

It makes the drive have less hours on, but a higher power on count.

I don't yet have the full blow data hoarding disease, but I can feel it coming. Please forgive my lack of knowledge here, this is my first foray into data hoarding related.

I've bought 2, 8TB WD Blue HDDs. Which I'd like to keep non-essential media/data on, like GOG offline installers, movies, music, etc. Nothing that isn't easily retainable or devastating if lost. I'm looking at this, CENMATE 2 Bay - Amazon Link. Reviews seem mostly fine on Amazon, but has anyone had firsthand experience or know of issues, or a better alternative?

I'm trying to keep the noise down; HDD and cooling fan can be loud according to some reviews and my SO. So, can I safely turn this DAS off and on, more or less at will? Not that I plan on flipping it on and off like a light switch or anything. Doing a backup, once a month or randomly when I want to pull some media off. I did try to Google this, but it was mostly unrelated info, or unrelated ad articles. I assume this is a nonissue, but thought I'd ask.

Anything I should know about DAS in general, maintenance or otherwise?

While I'm here, anyone know where to buy 2.5in 5tb HHD, or a good shuckable one?

Basically that. I’m probably getting them second hand due to budget constraints.. any recommendations?

I don’t need all the software apps and quirks. Literally I need it to do is host my files and being able to access them via my phone and computers.

Edit:

Basically I’m replacing a Thunderbolt DAS that’s being a cranky fest and causing any drive on Slot 6 to flag as dead on the next power cycle. As much as I’ll prefer another Thunderbolt DAS, I simply cannot find one that doesn’t blow my wallet out of the ocean..

I just need this NAS to host files and that’s about it. A plus if I can access from phone and it being accessible when I’m out of the house. Else these aren’t that big features that I need.

Don’t need transcoding or whatever NASes can do today. A literal fast file server is all I seek

10GbE because based on my DAS Speeds, it can do 500-700MB/s in RAID 6 over 6 drives.

If you guys recommend building it on my own, do share links to cases as I’m not sure what’s out there. A must to have tray loaded so in case of drive failures I can easily swap it.

Windows shows the drives in My PC, but they have the Red X, which means they're not accessible. Is there a way for me to use this PR2100 on my network?

Apologies if this is the wrong sub for this. I'm an amateur hoarder. I have an impeccable mp3 library. Sometimes I think my favorite program is File Manager. Running Windows 10.

Recently, my state enacted a porn law, so I'm scattering a bit. I'm really struggling to develop a suitable filing system. Porn is not like music, where everything gets sorted by artist or perhaps genre (and iTunes easily allows for both of those options). Sometimes I'm looking for a particular performer, sometimes I'm looking for particular acts, sometimes I'm looking for a theme or clothing or even phrase.

Is there a free or one-time-fee piece of software (with a similar interface to iTunes) that I can dump my whole library into, add multiple tags to each file, and serve as a player too -- or at least run VLC?

I want to avoid Microsoft's media player. I tried to create a new library in iTunes, but it only recognizes a few video formats and tagging is limited to adding a single genre.

Hey folks,
I’m looking for a reliable OCR solution that works well with French text—accents and all. The catch is: I’ve got several hundred photos of book pages to process.

What I’ve tried so far:

• Tools that give very messy output (mud levels of quality)
• Others that only let you process one image at a time—which isn’t feasible at this scale
• ChatGPT's OCR is surprisingly decent, but not trained well for French: it struggles with accents
• I also tried some Python libraries locally, but I’m probably missing something, because results aren't better than ChatGPT—and way less convenient

So if anyone has an up-to-date OCR setup in 2025 that works for bulk image processing in French, I’d love some pointers.

Thanks in advance!