Imgur is looking worse than ever, full of Ads and pop ups like they are gasping to keep their balance sheet above water. It used to be the main cultural platform of record for a good decade or more through the 2010s. If it sold off to the highest bidder Imgur will take it offline abruptly to preserve its private value/negations leverage. After a scrambled and partial data exodus, we would be at the whim of the new holder's benevolence to preserve its integrity faithfully. Then one day it would be forgotten and tossed aside, like yahoo answers. At that moment, we would slide further into the digital dark age. When future historians want a record of posts from what we thought and felt online at that time, every link on Reddit archives will become links to a dead end. People of the future forever will have a license to make up whatever they want about us. I think this is really important. A trickling and orderly backup process should begin now, before the announcement we know is coming.

I’m paying for 2 TB of storage and using it to sync data as a backup. My usage went slightly over the limit (2.01 TB), and Filen did notify me by email. I assumed that new files simply wouldn’t sync, while my existing data would remain safe. Instead, everything on their server was deleted with no way to recover the files (I have local backups).

How is this supposed to function as a backup service? It’s a total joke.

I’m canceling my subscription and will be looking for alternatives.

EDIT:
Reply from Filen support:

“I’m afraid the data is gone, and there isn't a way to recover it. Your storage usage was sitting right at the 2 TB limit (2.01 TB out of 2.01 TB), which triggered our over-limit process. That process sends a series of reminder emails over about four weeks, and if the account stays over the limit through that period, the data is removed. It looks like that completed on (*Date).

Since Filen is end-to-end encrypted and zero-knowledge, your files were encrypted on your device before reaching our servers. We don't keep separate backups, so once the system removes data there's no way for anyone to restore it.

I'm genuinely sorry. The trigger fired on what was effectively a rounding-edge overage rather than someone being meaningfully over their limit. The reminder emails do state that data will be deleted, but I can see how the urgency wouldn't have read clearly in this case. If there's anything I can do on the account or billing side, let me know.”

I have been running a 2U Dell Powerede running TrueNAS for about 8 months running apps as a homelab, the bulk of which is for Plex. I have 12 12TB drives.

I have users requesting things, and my pool for Plex is filling up (just hit 80% usage).

How can I extend the pool? I know JOBDs are a thing, but I can't find a decent way to connect it to my pre-existing server. Would it be better to get a second machine that can hold more drives or try and extend the current pool? (Total data on that single pool is just under 50TiB ATM)

I'm not seeing anything online that really looks like what I want, so I'm assuming I'm missing some critical piece of knowledge to make it all fit together.

Hey, currently im building my new media server after board from old one died.
My plan is to use 16x Seagate Exos with different capacity (most of them are 22TB-24TB drives). But now im stuck since I cant find psu which would be able to power all these 16 drives.
I was looking into Corsair RM750x psu but it has only 2 cables with only 8 sata plugs in total and 1 molex cable. Any idea how to get this working? I dont really trust sata splitters since I never used them before. I would be thankful for other psu recommendations.

Thanks

Just bought a paid subscription to the "Songbooks" section of for $39.99 for 1 year. There is no way to look at the source using the Chrome dev. console. I've experimented with a Javascript script that I translated to Python, and I get a 403 error, even though I am a paid customer. To be blunt, I would like to download a particular book, because I am limited to reading the book in UG's (proprietary) online viewer. Anybody succeed in doing this? Thanks.

P.S. I've read that the songbooks are stored as SVGs but that is moot if I am getting the dreaded 403 error.

Are there any on the market since they'll be cheaper than DDR5? Just looking for a solution and I'm even open to building my own for a TrueNAS build.

Did Seagate release a bus powered external hard drive (3.5")? Just saw this product on Amazon:

As long as the USB-C ports can deliver 15w, this drive will work, and capacity up to 24TB.

Has anyone used one yet? Any feedback?

TIA.

Hey everyone, I'm looking for a 5.25" to 2.5" enclosure for my NAS. During my search, I found the following two:

FANTEC MR-SA1082 & ICY DOCK ExpressCage MB038SP-B

Now I'm not sure which is the better choice. I've heard about the ICY Dock quite a bit, but I've also seen FANTEC mentioned quite often in this subreddit. In terms of connections and capabilities, they're identical. However, the ICY has two fans instead of one, which is better for cooling. The ICY is also about 40 euros more expensive.

How would you decide? I'm planning to use two of them, by the way.

Hi all, 

I’m an photography hobbyist and take lots of photos for fun, but I'm also planning to do paid work soon. For back ups, I have a few LaCie and Sandisk SSDs onsite and a HDD offsite for redundancy.  

What’s the best way to store my harddrives for protection and organisation? 

I heard a fire proof box is good but I don’t know what counts as good quality and would prefer something that stops them rattling around. Would you recommend a Pelican storage box? If so, which one is best?

I’d be grateful for any advice or recommendations.

Thanks! 

Hello peeps,
I’ve been reading a lot the last few days and it getting overwhelming, so hopefully I can get some simple question answered to declutter my mind before venture further.
For context, I need about 10-20TB to store all of my random datas over the year (photos, media, old documents). The data is in a collection of ancient old harddrive, 128/256gb ssd, usb sticks (literally physical hoarding) , and I want to dump them all into 1 place before cleaning up then do a cold drive back up.

This is my planned setup:
Host: My work/gaming PC, i leave it running 24/7 anyway, so it has to be running in Window. The thought of having dedicated hardware is there, but it’s something i’d consider in the future and I need the space now.

SAS controller + drive : lsi 9300-16i + 8x4tb secondhand sas drive. This seems the most economical options (80Aud for the lsi, 40-50aud each for the drive).
Planning to run in raid 6, I will have 2 failure protect while having good reading speed (which I think will be good for me when I’m working on filtering the data)
Again I’ll do a cold back up on the important stuff, so looking to be a cheapskate here at the moment.
I assume the card going to be hot so it will be sitting next to a fan. Having extra 8 slot will open me to upgrade in the future if I need to.

Software: so I’m seeing 3 options right now, Storage Space, Drivepool, and Truenas in a VM.
I have heard bad thing about storage space
Drivepool is apparently good, except that enable reading stripe seems to cause corruption on file randomly, and I can’t have that.
So I’m very lean toward Truenas in a VM with PCI passthrough. This hopefully will get me proper raid 6 with good reading speed. If I ever decided to move to dedicate hardware in the future I think it will make it easier too.

The questions:
Im I on the right track so far or is there something I should change to make my life easier.

A few years ago I would prefer BR releases but I now find myself actively avoiding them like the plague and instead prefer WEB-DL releases. A few factors that brought me here:

• Almost always, BR releases only have image-based subtitles (PGS) which I absolutely hate - I cannot stand them and will actively search for one that uses SRT or ASS/SSA

• I'm not sure if the is the standard for BR but the videos look very grainy and unnatural to me so I now prefer WEB-DL for that smoother, more natural look

What are your thoughts or preferences?

Hello is there a step by step of how to download a video from Veeps ?

I messed up not buying on Black Friday. Could have a 20TB drive for $300 now they're $600. I'm wanting a NAS or maybe a home server. Buy now or wait things out?

And then dedup and organize all that data. I have wasted weeks with chatgpt trying to get this done. Can anyone point me in the right direction to do this? I'm not a geek. I'm a geezer.

This may be a dumb question but I am looking to run a dedicated mini pc under like $150 and be able to just swap external hdds and run something like plex or Kodi to have a personalized interactive video library player.

Not looking to use it for subscription services or “free IPTV” stuff.

Would just like the library to stay up to date on data within the local files.

I know there are already products out there that do this to a degree but want complete customization within a pc if needed.

Not interested in laptop version of this.

Was wondering if anyone had any specs needed to optimize this type of set up for a large growing library?

Thanks in advance any help or pointers is appreciated

I have boxes of old media, that I would like the digitize, but I also recognize that I live in an area where being a professional digitizer would probably be a fairly good side gig, a.k.a. lots of people. In the previous city I lived in, I paid someone to digitize some old slides of mine, and it was very handy.

Anyway, I am trying to decide what equipment to buy, not only for my media, but also to start professionally digitizing other peoples media. I have photos, negatives slides, 8 mm video, and VHS cassettes. I also still have the video recorder for the 8 mm tapes, and it still plays back fine. I’m thinking maybe I might be able to video and audio cable it to my computer. Thoughts? Recommendations? All is appreciated!

Hello everyone I hope you are doing well, I want to get a nas now this is the first one in my life and I am decided on the ugreen dh4300 plus. My living space is not that big I have a bed and there is a small walk-in closet next to it and the nas will be there note that the closet doesn’t have a door or something I am sleeping behind the closet so my head is on the wall of the closet where the nas will be (idk if it makes sense) do you think it will be heard at night and it will bother me sleeping?

Does anyone know how to rip entire galleries off of VK? I have photo albums that I want to download off there and I'd rather avoid having to them individually.

I don't know anything on the topic of data hoarding. I have a lot of pictures that I want to store safely for as long as possible.

Do you have tips, do's and don't ?

What format would you use ? Currently I have a mix of a lot of different formats, but I can't use the heavier ones. For example I have some TIFF, CR2, PNG, etc. which are pretty heavy, and I'd like to convert them in a lighter format. I'd be okay losing some quality if there's no choice, but not too much if possible.

How important is it to use lossless formats for long term storing ? Is JPEG-2000 a good idea ?

Thanks a lot for your help, have a nice day !

Hey all, hoping someone here might be able to help.

I came across a 3.5" Verbatim HD floppy with "IBM Format" and "TKE History" handwritten on the label — TKE being the fraternity Tau Kappa Epsilon. No idea how old it is or how it ended up with me, but I got curious and bought a USB floppy drive to try to read it.

No luck on either of the two computers I've tried:

- macOS: "The disk you attached was not readable by this computer."

- Ubuntu: drive shows up as `/dev/sdb`, but every read attempt fails with `Sense Key: Medium Error / Cannot read medium - unknown format`. Can't even pull sector 0.

The USB drive itself is a brand new TEAC unit (lsusb says `0644:0000 TEAC Corp. Floppy`), so I don't think it's dirty heads. The disk itself looks physically fine — no mold or damage visible through the shutter.

My guess is the magnetic media has just degraded with age, but I'm unsure. Would anyone with a Greaseweazle or KryoFlux be interested in taking a crack at it? It's not important data — I just want to know what fraternity bros from circa 1995-ish thought was worth saving. Happy to cover shipping both ways and could throw in a few bucks for the trouble.

Alternatively, if anyone else knows about what could cause "unknown format" on what should be a bog-standard 1.44MB IBM-formatted HD disk, please let me know!

Thanks!

The caption, date uploaded, etc. I would also like to know the same for YouTube. I used to have a reasonably big social media presence but deleted absolutely everything two years ago. What amazes me is that when you look up my username, a few youtube videos and instagram posts show up and you can see the captions/titles. So I am wondering if this can be done with everything I'd uploaded back then. Dunno if this is the right sub but thanks in advance if anyone can point me in the right direction!

I’m not sure how many of you are into wrestling but within the past few days, WWE released the New Day and more importantly Xavier Woods, who runs the Up Up Down Down YouTube channel. The channel was bought out by the WWE in 2016/17 and he was allowed to bring WWE stars onto the channel and the WWE would inverse promote the channel itself.

With him getting released, we don’t know yet exactly what’s gonna happen but I imagine there are two scenarios. Either WWE keeps the rights and removes all references to him and rebrands the channel. Or Woods gets to keep it and he’ll have to remove all of the episodes with all of the WWE branding and stars.

The channel itself has close to 4 THOUSAND videos. I’m not posting this as a personal army message but I do believe written in the rules for that one, there is a massive chance a good amount of content is about to privatized forever. I never really had any personal connection to the channel itself but catching onto something like this and telling others is the only way something like this gets archived before it’s too late. So if you ever had any personal affinity for the show, go grab your favorite episodes.

ZippyShare has went down in 2023, meaning that we lost of huge amount of uploaded data. I've found a link that I would like to download ()

I did find one archival project () , and when I insert the file ID, I get a hit:

But this shows me error "401 Authorization Required". Is anybody here familiar with this topic/project, and can tell me if there is any way to download things from ZippyShare archives, or is it completely not possible?

When it comes to searching for archived versions of websites, posts, YouTube videos, etc. that have since been taken down, the Wayback Machine is usually the go-to tool. However, anyone who’s used it can attest to the fact that it doesn’t always have what you’re looking for, either because the website whose content you’re searching for searching for has blacklisted the Wayback Machine (like Reddit did last year) or because the archiver chose a different service to create the archive on.

This presents two problems:

1. Many people don’t know the full list of Wayback Machine alternatives.

2. Even if you do know the full list, searching every single one of them individually can be quite slow and cumbersome.

To solve this, I created Web Archive Utility. Web Archive Utility is a Shortcut that allows you to search for and create archives on all of the following web archive services with just one click:

• The Wayback Machine

• Archive.today

• Ghost Archive

• WebCitation.org (no longer accepts new archives, but existing ones are still searchable)

• Megalodon.jp

• Perma.cc

• arquivo.pt

• PreserveTube

• QuiteAPlaylist.org (for YouTube videos, or playlists that contain deleted videos)

• PullPush.io (for Reddit content; automatically archives new content from all subreddits)

• ArcticShift (for Reddit content; automatically archives new content from all subreddits)

• Reveddit (for Reddit content; no longer accepts new archives, but old archives are still searchable)

• The 4Chan Archive

It also supports the ability to filter archives by date and archive webpages as local files.

Web Archive Utility is free to use and can be downloaded from RoutineHub:

To use the Shortcut, you’ll need to have the following apps: iOS Shortcuts, iOS Files (used for storing information, such as your settings for the Shortcut), iOS Translate (used to provide international language support), and “Actions” by Sindre Sorhus (which is used to access capabilities that the Shortcuts app doesn’t have by default).

This took quite a lot of time to build, so if you find the Shortcut helpful or have any feedback to share, please feel free to let me know by leaving a comment here or on the RoutineHub page!

Edit: This program works on macOS as well.

was going to get myself a few of these for my new server looks like im kinda not now

Hey everyone, I’m recently thinking of buying a hdd for cold storage, there are soooooo many options out there that it’s confusing. I’m leaning against 2 options really, NAS or Enterprise hdds. I’m looking for 10+ years of reliability. I currently have all media storages bought in “an emergency” due to constantly running out. I vlog daily for personal use, pics, trips etc. About 5-100gb a day. I currently have my storage hanging by a thread, let me explain. Bought about 10 new old stock of hdds for laptops ranging from 320gb to 500gb seagate hgst toshiba and about 5 3.5” 250gb to 500gb from eBay and Amazon, those drives range from 2013-2017 DOM hence the saying hanging by a thread. Did sector scans in them at block size 8 using “hdd scan” they are ok, no bad sectors yet. I have one 6tb seagate smr pulled out of seagate expansion. Dom aug 2024 with scan saying <150ms at 6600 blocks. Not terrible. I check my drives between every 6-12 months for bad sectors. Found new bd r disks 25-50gb each and have several hounded of them, but my needs are already eating into them.
Ok anyway, so, drive will be powered at least once a week to dump data and forget about it. Heard WD drives have good reliability and that confirms my experience with them. I used to have wd drives in laptops still running with 60000-70000 hrs when others have long given up. Please don’t suggest lto 9 tape as I’m currently at least not willing to spend several grand on a station. Hdds only atm. Thank you in advance.

Hey all! I Was wondering if anyone found any good deals on the storage side of things. I'd love to upgrade my 18TB raw/14.6TB formatted NAS into something a little chunkier as I've started scanning books, and ripping DVDs and other media so that I can have a more controlled by me and not by ever increasing fee media center.

Hi I’ve been ripping all my dvds recently though handbreak at a high bitrate (480P 10K bitrate around I know probably overkill) and right now I’ve been having problems ripping my ted dvd I’m trying to rip the extended version but for some reason when I watch it afterwards the audio cuts and the video freezes I tried twice one happened when johns parents saw Ted for the first time and the other happened when John and Lori are having dinner at the end both for just a sec (could be others but I didn’t watch it though) brand new dvd btw but I found out yesterday that the makemkv team is making dvd ripping free forever and they have a Linux port so I’m wondering if I should go back and redo my 20 movie though makemkv instead of handbreak that I know of don’t have a problem with these 20 except for the fact there taking up 5-10gb of space for each one I also noticed that makemkv seems to do close to the same quality but at half the size so I don’t know for this if handbreak is the problem or if it’s something else

Hi!

I just got some WD HC680 27TB drives, with SATA interface.

I knew what i was getting into on the Software side, the limitations of these devices, the fact that i will be locked into BTRFS etc... no Problem there.

But i came across an unexpected Problem: My drives do not get recognized on all SATA Ports.

The Mainboard i am using has 2 "native" Ports, that are apparently directly connected to the CPU or smth. I use one of those for the Boot drive (a small SSD). Leaving me with one native Port available. On this Port, the HC680 works fine, no problems. I was able to format it with BTRFS, and transfer files.

However, my storage disks are connected to one of these ASM1166 M.2 plugin cards, with 6 SATA ports. The card works fine with my "conventional" Disks - but when i plug the HC680 in there - nothing. The Kernel doesn't even throw an error, warning, or anything to acknowledge the fact that drives existence. The ASM1166 has some LEDs on it, that sometimes do light up - but after that, they do not turn off, even after disconnecting the cable. I already tried upgrading or downgrading the firmware.

Is this a known issue with HM-SMR drives? Or Data center drives? Or drives with Particularily high capacity?

And what can i do to resolve that situation? Assuming i am willing to spend some Money - what kind of HBA do i need to buy? I don't want to drop another 50 bucks on an HBA just to find out that it doesn't play well with those drives. And in all honesty: Power draw is an issue.

I'm looking for an external SSD hard drive for my PC, specifically for gaming. I do not want to take my current hard drive out, I just need larger storage. I don't think whatever the top search on google shills out to me for them would be the best, as it's usually just mediocre and overpriced garbage.

My current setup is as follows - but I want advice on how best to utilise the storage and kit as I don't really think I'm using it in the best way.

What would you do?

Obviously wishing I'd bought a few more drives a year or so ago due to prices at the moment, but that's life.

Home server

USFF PC (i5 12500T, 64GB RAM, 3TB in internal SSD storage (2TB main system drive + 1TB)) running Proxmox with a variety of VMs.
One of the VMs doing the main server/storage duties running off the 1TB internal SSD.
1Gbit D/U FTTP connection

Storage:

• 1TB USB3 SSD - acts as a dump/working drive for the server

• 14TB WD Elements external drive - main data storage (~9TB used)

• 14TB WD Elements external drive - snap raid parity drive for the main 14TB drive (this has just recently died out of warranty and needs replacing) Not convinced snap raid was the right option so this is a chance to rethink once I get a new drive.

Off-site

Raspberry Pi 4
14TB WD Elements external drive - overnight rsync of data from home to off-site
500/70 mbit D/U FTTP connection

My stash has always existed in a carefully maintained folder structure, which isn't recognised by Stashapp when it scans my media. 
Is there any alternative app that can do so?

I’m trying to decide whether to buy a 2TB external SSD. I’m choosing between the Samsung T7 SSD and the SanDisk Extreme Portable. I’ve read that these drives can get very hot, which can cause the read and write speeds to slow down and may also shorten the lifespan of the drive.

If that’s true, can anyone recommend a drive that doesn’t get as hot?

I’ve had a 1TB Samsung T5 for several years and haven’t had any issues with overheating.

Just sort of needed to tell someone this and this seems to be the place.

About a decade ago I got some 720k floppies with the only digital copies of a document. And for the past decade I've been trying to read them. A few years ago I set up a greaseweazle and did flux reads of the disks - but I wasn't able to do anything with those flux reads and I didn't have the technical skills to read what I knew were the lost files. I tried a bunch of other tools like BadCopy Pro (which got partial data off one of the disks but probably messed up that disk further).

Tonight I threw the .hfe images from the greaseweazle into Claude and it spit out the file I've been trying to get. I'm kind of gobsmacked that it just...worked. I figured other folks might be in a similar boat and I'd mention it.

Hello,

I've seen variations on this question asked a few times, but they are all at least a year old or cover products not sold in the US.

I basically just have a series of old drives from old computers that I hang onto, and sometimes I need to access stuff from them - it will not be a bunch of drives plugged in full-time, I am basically using these old HDs and SSDs as storage. For the most part, the really important stuff is all backed up, this is just for odds and ends.

I've now had my second consecutive Sabrent EC-DFLT crap out on me, so I'm looking for something a little more reliable. It just abruptly stopped working while I was going through my music collection. I can hear the drive spinning, but the lights on the enclosure are all off and it's no longer showing up in the finder of my computer (Mac Mini M2). Same problem both times.

So, does anyone have a good, $50-or-less, reliable, SATA to USB dock they'd recommend? It looks like stuff with ASMedia chips, particularly the ASM225CM is highly recommended, but I am struggling to narrow down which products contain those. Any help is appreciated.

Cheers!

But I've heard of some drives being unshuckable due to some kind of USB bridge being locked, meaning I can't shuck this and hook it straight up to a SATA cable.

Can anyone confirm this? The 24TB model is double the price.

I’m currently in the process of building my own dedicated NAS / Home Media Server by repurposing some older components I have for previous ITX SFF builds.

Are these component specs sufficient enough to have a decent setup for 4K H.264/265 UHD content playback as well as personal photos, videos, documents and such.

CPU/MOBO - i7 6700K in a Z170 Stinger ITX
RAM- 32GB DDR4 Corsair LPX 2133 XMP Enabled
PSU - Corsair SF600
OSD - 250 WD SATA 555MB/s / 440MB/s read n write

I plan on running 4 drives
2x 12TB
2x 4TB

All of this inside the JONSBO N3 case. Any recommendations or help is much appreciated. Cheers!

I just got 4 x 20TB Seagate Iron Wolf drives, directly from Seagate and 2 of them are dead on arrival. The 2 drives make a whirring clicking sound and are never mounted.

Should I

A: Return the entire batch and go with WD

B: Try my luck with returning the 2 with hopes they will be replaced with good drives

C Return the entire batch and hope that a new batch of 4 x 20TB drives is good.

This is a WTF moment for me. Hard to believe....

Side Question:

Should I maybe not do RAID 5 and instead RAID 1 and Mirror them? Seems Risk AF now to think RAID 5 is going to be a safe bet with any large drives...

I found a Seagate 2TB portable hard drive that holds a lot of my data from 2008 to 2015. Not entirely sure when I bought it, but let's say it's 10-15 years old by now. The data's been backed up and verified in two separate hard discs and the cloud now, so I formatted the drive. Can I still use it as part of my 3-2-1 backup plan or is it done?

Data transfers and high-traffic workloads are starting to max out my current connection and I’m looking at faster options. 25Gbps sounds amazing on paper, but I want to know if it’s actually worth it in practice.

Do you rely on your current for upgrades, or have you found a better one for 25Gbps Dedicated Servers? I’m curious how people handle the jump without wasting money.

Which provider has impressed you most for high-bandwidth dedicated servers, and what made the difference?

I have been a customer of IDrive for over 5 years to backup my home computer and home hobby systems. Naturally, my data needs have grown, and I now have a subscription for 10TB of storage. I use IDrive for cold backups, so I still have many copies of my data elsewhere, but IDrive has always been my backup of last resort.

Or so I thought.

In early April, I started receiving backup failure notices from one of my hosts running IDrive. My client installation had become broken, and I reached out to IDrive support to resolve the client install error, and they were very helpful.

At the same time, I noticed when using their web interface, it says my Account was undergoing maintenance, and that I couldn’t access my backup data. In my support ticket, I inquire, and they never return my inquiry.

Some weeks pass, and I realize I never set my backups to run – and I notice I still can’t access my backup data. I can login to my account, but when I enter my encryption key to access my data, it says the encryption key is invalid.

I know my encryption key. It hasn’t changed since my account was created, and it’s documented in the notes of my password vault. Furthermore, I use it for setting up my IDrive client – and it works! Showing no devices backed up on my account.

My storage totals still show 8.3TB/10TB in use, so my data isn’t lost, right? When my new backup starts, however, my data utilization starts again at 0TB and grows as my backup does.

I contacted support again. They say they’re looking into it. A week later, no response. It appears my data has been lost to the ether. I have now been nearly 1 month without access to my backup data. Repeated contact with support results in "backend engineers are looking into it."

I’m assuming the data is entirely lost. No actual loss, luckily. I’ll update if this ever gets resolved.

I have a VHS tape that I rewound too far and the tape snapped. I was able to get the tape reconnected, but then I lost the smallest possible piece from the tape so I can't reassemble it. Thinking about trying to get it digitized instead to avoid damaging it further. Any one know of a place I can get a damaged VHS digitized?

I might be splitting hairs here, but let’s talk about reducing vibrations-induced and thermal-induced HDD wear. What have you tried that works best for you? Anyone ran analysis on this backed with data?

HDDs are a hot commodity these days and I want mine to last as long as possible 😅

I just bought dxp4800plus on Jan26 and recently bought 3hdds later. 1st is ironwolf pro from Amazon us, 2nd is ironwolf regular from my local online market (i am not in the states) and 3rd is ironwolf pro from Amazon us. These 3 Hdds are 12 TB each.

The thing is, with the extremely hdd price, I could not afford Ironwolf either regular or Pro from Amazon due to the supply shortage and in my country, only WD red plus 12 tb is available and affordable. So, I wonder if it is going to be ok if I buy WD Red plus and do the Raid 5? I asked Gemini and it told me that if I buy WD, there might be some chances that Raid5 might not work smoothly due to differences in Hdd model (3 ironwolf + 1 WD Red).

Any suggestion and advice are appreciate and apologize if I make you confused due to my English skills.

European Hoarder data here.

I was browsing eBay looking for additional capacity when I came across this listing.

The seller is brand new (0 feedback), the price is extremely below market value, and multiple lots are available. The SMART screenshots actually look surprisingly clean (~35k-38k hours, zero reallocations/pending sectors, matching firmware/batch).

What confuses me is: assuming this could be a scam, what is the actual scam vector on eBay nowadays for HDDs like these?

• SMART reset/manipulated drives?

• Different drives shipped than advertised?

• Empty-box/tracking scam?

• Refurbished hyperscaler drives sold as cleaner stock?

• Hijacked seller account?

I’ve bought used enterprise drives before, but this pricing is so far below market that it feels suspicious even by datacenter liquidation standards.

My digital photos have been spread out over numerous devices in a completely disorganised mess, and I'd like to finally organise them. However, I am struggling to determine what the best way to go about this would be without tying myself to a particular app or service. (I.e. I can open my library with any gallery / viewer app and it would be organised with whatever albums, tags, faces etc that I had set up previously. Similar to how I can with my music library)

I know of XMP files, but I'm not sure what fields they accept, or what applications will actually read each field. Trying to read a list of fields it seems like each app uses its own set of fields, and albums don't even seem to be a feature.

Is there something I'm missing? Or are photos and videos not like music files with relatively universal metadata?

The sites I know of vary but from what I understand, they may use a backend reader of sorts (readallcomics on some pages says "Reading comics online: viewcomic") but I am trying to find sites that serve original resolution compared to downscaled/recompressed reader image sites.

Sites I know of are ReadComicOnline / ReadAllComics and zipcomics.

The tools I found are JDownloader 2 and comic-dl and I have heard of, but never used Gallery DL (Heard it needs a detailed config) or playwright.

What I am trying to figure out is if any of the 'reader' sites are hardcapped or expose higher-res images than shown? What known sources are there that consistently host original scan resolution (not recompressed webpage versions)? For extraction tools (gallery dl, JD2, etc.) even ones I didn't mention, is there any real gain in image quality, or do they just retrieve exactly what the site serves - even if Gallery DL needs a config and with JDownloader 2 you can 'deep analyse' links but is it any different?

From testing (aka comparing the same issue across RCO vs ZipComic), reader sites like RCO seem to be capped while the ZipComic is MUCH higher in resolution (around ~2500px+ compared to 1600px or more on others), which tells me the reader sites are serving recompressed/downscaled versions.

What I don't know is which sources actually provide the original “max” resolution and since there isn't really a way to find a download, I can't tell what the ceiling is or if it's even supposed to be that high.

Although I am mainly interested in how people verify and obtain the highest-quality versions available, if there are specific sources known to consistently have higher-quality scans, I’m interested in those too — but mainly in how their quality is/was verified (quality differences).

Hello, I recently purchased an external hard drive with a large storage capacity. I’d like to (1) keep the files on my current PC updated, and (2) back up data from my existing external drives as well as my mobile phone. Is there any software you would recommend for this?

For (1), I’ve noticed that when I run backups, any files I’ve accidentally deleted on my PC are permanently lost.

For (2), some files overlap between my mobile phone and external hard drive. Is there a convenient way to organize and manage these duplicates efficiently?

Currently all my backups are in a mess. Since I'm starting with a new drive, i want to make it organised this time.. thank you!

I'm in a bit of a messy situation with my Seagate 2TB expansion HDD. Scratch that—extremely dire situation. I'm sorry if this is the wrong sub. I do a lot of work with files on that HDD and there are a couple projects on it that I need.

It overheated yesterday and I already had a backup of a lot of it, but the remaining stuff needs to be backed up and saved somehow. Right now, we're at this place where I got my PC to be able to read the files easily, but can't write and now the computer itself has gotten sluggish. I managed to get it to transfer a file, but after that, with another transfer, it didn't end after 10 hours of leaving it on so I force-stopped it (no choice, it was at 40mbps speed at first and then later showed no 600kbps and no movement after that) and am now trying to restart my PC.

So once it comes back online, what is the best way to back up such a drive? I'm not sure about using some software like Free File Sync because it might overload the drive if it tries to index everything. How would you recommend backing up this data?

Obligatory: Yes, I have contacted data recovery specialists. But in the meantime I wanted to get tips from people who might have a clue.

Hey, looking for scripts/free softwares which let's you to download instagram stories, any suggestions?

Last Sunday I found that in a week (probably only a couple of days now), Nintendo is taking down a Pokémon fan series on YouTube called PokéNational, which has National Geographic-style high-quality 3D-animated videos on the biology and ecology of various Pokémon, and the creator and owner, Elious Entertainment, has been working hard on it for 3 years. There were some posts about it made on (including a couple from the creator), but for some reason the mods removed them… Elious did make a video on the Elious Entertainment channel about the situation, but because the PokéNational channel is pending deletion, they couldn’t post the video there, but luckily it’s been blowing up lately thanks to the article about it on Kotaku. But it’s a shame the project has to come to an end, cause one of the latest community posts from a month ago said that the next video that was in production would’ve been about one of my favorite Pokémon lines…

Sadly, all of the channel’s videos have since been deleted, though idk if anyone was able to download them before then… But the English-language episodes and test renders have been uploaded to archive.org, but the Spanish and Chinese-language ones were never archived… And the descriptions and comments on all of the videos weren’t saved either… (Also, I found a few early PokéNational videos were posted to archive.org a few years ago, but I remember the Phantump one I watched on YouTube didn’t have any narration, so maybe there was a version with the narration uploaded later? Maybe the same applies to the other early ones on there too, but I’m not sure, since I don’t remember if I watched the original videos on YouTube or not…)

And there’s also the PokéNational-related community posts on the channel that have been deleted as well (and the remaining ones will likely be deleted when the channel goes down; I’ve been saving the videos linked there to my watch later playlist), and the Patreon’s currently under review, so I don’t think any of the pages on there can be viewed…

I remember watching a few of the early videos when I found the channel a few years ago and thinking they’re cute, though I’ve mostly forgotten about the channel until I saw the news…

I just came across the concept of personal cloud storage where you buy a device and save all of that in the cloud which can be accessed from anywhere later not requiring any subscription fees etc., someone was selling WD my cloud 4 TB on FB marketplace for $150 CAD.

Is it a good idea to buy such devices and if so what should I buy? 1 TB seems sufficient to back up all my stuff.

Thanks in advance.

Hi all, starting off on my hoarding journey. Got a couple of 16 TB hard drives with a thunderbolt enclosure to connect to the Mac Studio I'm using as a home server.. only to discover SAS is a thing, it's not compatible with the enclosure, and there really aren't a lot of options. (But the drives are big and cheap!)

I have experience building PCs but feel a bit out of my depth looking at parts lists for building a DAS. And with the added cost of a thunderbolt converter I feel like just going for something like the , except that's still not SAS and I'm not sure what I should be looking for to swap out the HBA. The part listed in (Areca ARC1226-8i) is almost the cost of the enclosure itself, and the guide also isn't for the actual enclosure I plan to buy so I'm not certain it'll work out.

So my question: does anyone have any recommendations for how to get 4-8 SAS hard drives connected to a Mac, reliably, with enough performance for lets say 2-3 plex streams, for <$1000? And ideally not too much more complicated than building a PC (or with a comprehensive guide) if DIY is my best option here? Or if I should cut my losses and get SATA drives?

Thanks!

Depending on the encoder, settings used, and the visual content, when encoding for a constant bitrate, encoders (Particularly x264) may not end up using enough bits to reach the target bitrate. When this happens, the encoder pads the stream with extra bits to bring the bitrate up to the target.

As you can see, this video is padded with many extra 1 bits, and continuous runs like these appear all throughout the file. Because of that, this video and several others like it break the conventional wisdom about losslessly compressing video and can actually achieve significant size reductions with even simple compression algorithms. (This particular file was reduced to 53% of its original size)

As a further example I have a large archive of Twitch Plays Pokemon VODs and clips. The raw size is about 88 TB, but with compression (Mostly ZStandard on ZFS) it only takes about 70 TB of disk space, a 21% reduction yielding 18 TB of savings. That's not huge, proportionally speaking, but between 3 copies of the full archive and an additional copy of the main runs, compression has saved me 70 TB of space (And well over $1000 worth of storage I didn't need to buy).

If you're curious, I've posted a detailed breakdown of the ratios Note that this table uses binary prefixes (GiB, TiB). As you can see, the ratios are all over the place, as different games are played and the bitrate of the stream has changed several times over the years. More recent VODs haven't compressed as well, but I still get some savings from them.

So if you have a significant number of livestreams in your collection that you're not interested in re-encoding, especially streams of games, it may be worth testing them for compressibility. Of course, savings may be limited or nonexistent if it's mostly "live action".

Just looking at a failed drive before i dump it from the server.
4 3/4 years for hours that tracks about right.

My interest is in the written/read counts.

My googling says its 4k sectors masquerading as 512 sectors, so which one is the data based on?

Write

33,477,527,487 x 512 = ~17.14TB

33,477,527,487 x 4096 = ~137.123 TB

Read

67,855,724,443 X 512 = ~34.742TB

67,855,724,443 x 4096 = ~277.937TB

None the less now i get to buy HDD's to replace the main pool *insert crying sounds*
Main gets new drives, backup gets old mains, cold gets old backups.
Retired but not dead get used for random projects/testing. Dead drives receive their severance package via high speed lead.

Is it possible to extract a .stl file from Cults3d with/without 3d viewer? And if so how do I do it?

I am wondering why you sourced all your media and create Plex/Jellyfin server to access them. I understand that paying to different subscription costs a lot. But then there are websites you can watch these online. There are even apps out there. What is your reason?

Im trying to buy a few terabits of storage cheap on used market places, but I realize any drives that are like 2tb and 40$ were manufactured in like 2012. How old is the oldest hdd you are willing to buy even if crystal disk says its all good.

The German Commercial Register has ~5 million entities. OpenCorporates pushed a snapshot to OKFN Deutschland (offeneregister.de) in 2019, that dump is canonical-but-stale. Looking for an active mirror or methodology to maintain a fresh local copy.

Background

Building a research tool that needs fresh data on newly registered companies in DE. Three commercial providers exist (handelsregister.ai, OpenRegister.de, Northdata) and they all advertise sub-24-hour latency for new entries. They can only achieve that with continuous crawling of:

search endpoint

• 60 req/h per IP, JSF-token POST flow

• §303a/b StGB warning in NutzungsO

(the original OpenCorporates source)

• went offline 01.08.2022

• permanent ERR_TIMED_OUT

The 2019 OffeneRegister snapshot

de_companies_ocdata_no_dob.jsonl.gz

• ~5.3M companies, JSON Lines format, gzip

• URL:

• License: CC BY 4.0

• Last refresh: 2018-2019, frozen since

Schema is good (officers, addresses, registrations, related companies). But nothing newer than 2019 means no current management changes, no new GmbHs from the last 6 years.

Looking for

1. An active rolling mirror that ingests Bekanntmachungen + Register diffs daily. The 2019 snapshot README explicitly said "Since its initial scrape back in 2017-2018, the dataset has been kept up-to-date by processing gazette notices as they are published". That update pipeline must still exist somewhere. Anyone know if OKFDE still runs it internally?

2. An archive of the old captures. Wayback has some but the URL pattern (/skripte/hrb.php?rb_id=X&land_abk=ni) was sequentially numbered, meaning a complete archive could in theory be reconstructed from cached pages. Anyone hoarded these?

3. Bulk dumps from any of the commercial providers. Even if we have to pay for a one-time export, that's fine, but they all sell only API metering, not bulk SQL dumps. Northdata might do enterprise bulk for 5-figure quotes.

4. Per-Bundesland Justiz-portal data feeds. The 16 Bundeslaender each run their own Justizportal (e.g. justizportal.justiz-bw.de) with potentially different data exposure than the central handelsregister.de. Some old documentation references "automatisierte Registerabrufsysteme (§ 9 Abs. 1 HGB)" but I can't find structured endpoints.

My current pipeline (works but expensive)

• Firecrawl Pro on daily index (Cloudflare bypass needed)

• OpenRegister autocomplete API for court resolution (50 free/mo, then 59 EUR/mo)

• direct curl on detail pages (free, no rate limits, structured HTML)

This works but it's a fragile composition of three dependencies, any one of which can break and stall the pipeline. A canonical bulk dump would be much more robust.

If nothing exists, anyone interested in collaborating on a community-maintained mirror? OKFDE-style, daily diffs against the official source, public via S3 or IPFS. I'd contribute the daily-crawl infrastructure if someone with the legal/storage side wants to host the public dataset.

For those that like crash consistent backups using windows VSS, some backup apps are reporting backup failures after installing win11 KB5083769.

(generic)

(technical - this will apply to any affected backup app).

I recently encountered on two CD a hidden first track. I wanted to rip this to my computer, but neither drive I own supports this feature. I am using two Asus Drives BW-16D1XU and a BW-16D1HT. Does anyone have recommendations for drives that will read these hidden tracks? I have never seen this before.

I just got an email from Shout Factory about Gizmoplex shutting down.

All of the MST3K episodes on here are available elsewhere, so the content itself won't be lost or anything, but this was one of the few platforms that allowed you to straight up download purchased episodes in .MP4 format.

I'm sure DVD/Blu-Ray sets will continue to be made, so I'll still be able to own episodes that way, but I really appreciated having a digital storefront that offered DRM Free episodes, you don't really see that anywhere..

Email:

Unfortunately, on June 30, 2026 the Gizmoplex apps on platforms such as Roku, AppleTV, Android, and FireTV will cease operations, with the Gizmoplex website shutting down on September 30, 2026. We know this platform has meant a lot to many of you — it was built for and by this community — so we don't share this news lightly.

What this means is that if you’d like to continue to have access to content you may have purchased on the Gizmoplex, you should download it to a personal drive well in advance of the September 30th website closure. More instructions on how to do so are available HERE. We have significantly reduced the prices on Season 13 and past livestream events, so if you haven’t had a chance to purchase them, now is the time to add them to your collection.

The good news is that while the Gizmoplex may be no more, MST3K isn't going anywhere. The show remains widely accessible, with its own 24/7 channel, on-demand episodes across many streaming platforms, as well as on the FilmRise app (free with ads), and via Shout! TV on Prime Video and Roku for ad-free viewing.

I'm glad to announce that I'm finally one of you guys :)

I managed to get a 12TB HDD at what I consider a great deal ($55).
The "bad news", it's a SAS drive so I had to buy a controller (9306-24i, I'm not sure how good it is but I get it from the same guy for $50) and I guess that means I'll be picking up more SAS drives in the future.

The drive has ~51k with like 13 cycles and I've already done a sanitization + a low level format to set the block size to 4K, rn I'm running a long SMART test... the second one bc I lost power during the first one when there were like 3 hours left to finish it :)))

It's supposed to be free of bad sectors and I plan to use it only for multimedia and data I don't mind losing, so hopefully it'll last a few more years because the used market rn is a pain and the fact that I'm currently unemployed it's not the best combo lol

Hello.

I have a refurb 28TB drive I bought almost exactly a year ago to the day on Server Part Deals die today.

I have been trying to look into warranty options. Anyone who has dealt with them is the warranty inherent with an order invoice or would it have been a separate line & cost on my receipt?

Hoping I don't have to shell out $600+ for a replacement.

So I have some spinning drives mounted into a Supermicro CSE826. I recently bought a Wolfbox Turbofan MF2 and decided to dust the front of the chassis (where the drives are installed) while the drives are installed and running. I thought this wouldn't be such an issue right? Well, lo and behold I got a notification from 2 drives that their Reallocated_Sector_Ct RAW value went up by 1, VALUE is still 100 (didn't change). Anyone else seen something like this or expect this to happen? The drives are properly secured and inserted in, and I only blew air from the front for a bit (1-2minutes) non continuously.

Guess I won't be doing that again 😂.

Hi, I’m looking for some advice because I don’t know much about storage.

I need something to temporarily back up my computer (~370 GB) for about 1–2 weeks. After that, I’d probably keep using it for lighter storage (maybe ~100 GB of photos and random files).

Some context / constraints:

• Budget: ideally around $20 USD (I know it’s low, but this is mainly for short-term use)

• I want a single drive, not splitting data across multiple drives

• I want something that connects easily via USB (my PC also has USB-C and HDMI, if that matters)

• Doesn’t need to be super fast or high-end

• I’ve read that USB flash drives aren’t great for long-term storage, so I’d rather avoid those

• I’m aware prices have gone up recently, so I’m trying to find the best compromise

Also, I’ve seen some very cheap external drives online, but I’m concerned about:

• Repackaged/refurbished old drives (e.g. old laptop HDDs inside enclosures)

• Fake capacity / controller issues

• General reliability of no-name brands

For this use case, would you pick HDD over a low-end SSD, or vice versa?

I’m not trying to build a long-term archive or hoard TBs — I’m not as tryhard as a lot of people in this subreddit — I just want something reasonably safe for a short backup and reusable later without overspending.

Questions:

• Is ~$20 even realistic for something safe/reliable?

• Should I go HDD or SSD for this use case?

• Are super cheap drives (like no-name brands) a bad idea even for short-term use?

• Any specific models or brands I should look for or avoid?

Thanks!

I decided to upgrade one of my 12 drive arrays from 18TB to 32TB drives. I purchased 2 Iron Wolf Pros in Feb for about $750 ea. Then in March I got two Exos drives for close to $1100 ea. Now I am finding that they are out of stock on Newegg and Amazon. Any other sources that have drives? I've seen some on eBay but am a bit hesitant for some reason. Now I am also afraid of not buying the remaining 8 all at once, cash flow be damned!

ETA: I've seen some Skyhawks available but would usually like to avoid if possible.

Hello, i have a sandisk SD *express* card and a sandisk sd express specific reader. I am getting 35 MB/s transfer speeds on sequential files. My UHS-II v60 (with a different reader) goes at 250 MB/s with the same files. What am I doing wrong?? The card is formatted exFAT just like the UHS-II card. They both are (not at the same time) plugged into the same port on my mobo that should be supplying 40 W of power and a large transfer speed!

I did a backup of my old PC after buying my newer one using the Veeam agent, but recently when I tried to access some of the files I got an error message and after some googling, it seems like it would be pretty hard to access the data now.

Fortunately I still have the PC on hand but I'm wondering what program I should use if I want to be able to access the data in the future - rather than a full volume backup like on most programs. My ideal would be something that allows me to easily access each individual file.

I'm turning an Intel NUC into my truenas box as I'm moving it off a poweredge R330.

I've got two 2.5Gbps USB NICs that work great for the 802.3ad LAG, and then am using an nvme m.2 sata adapater for the drives.

I want my full USB bandwidth for the NICs, so am looking to externally power my sata ssds (external as in non-usb directly plugged into the NUC itselfs).

Which of the two options would be better?

with a splitter

OR

I've noticed this sub has suddenly become infested with bots. I'm sure there must have been some here before, but now they're everywhere. Just in the last day or so, I counted at least 5 obvious AI/bot replies to a single post.

They're pretty easy to spot, once you know what you're looking for. They tend to spout a lot of technobabble relevant to this sub, but in borderline-nonsensical ways. Their post histories tend to be confined to a few of the major subs, plus this one. One thing that really stands out is how nearly all the replies start with:

• ngl

• tbh

• actually

• wait

• just realized

• pretty sure

• lowkey

Oh, and the infamous em-dashes are often present. Unfortunately, I don't know that there's anything else I can do but report the posts and try to warn people. In case anyone is wondering, here are a few examples of what they post:

pretty sure - the spindle lubricant will seize long before the platters degauss. if you don't spin them to 7200rpm yearly, you're just hoarding bricks. i've seen helium drives lose their seal in four years. stiction always wins eventually.

just realized no ecc means silent bit rot

tbh smart data lies. i’ve seen drives with clean logs drop dead during a rebuild. run a 72-hour badblocks burn-in on the replacement before slotting it. never trust a factory seal to mean the platters aren't already toast.

honestly check your smart 193 load cycle count. aggressive firmware-level head parking cycles the actuator into dust. if you aren't using hdparm to override the apm, those mechanical stresses will trigger a head crash before your next scrub.

lowkey checksum your binaries or enjoy the bit-rot

actually that's a head strike waiting to happen. without proper static foam, the spindle alignment is likely out of spec. run a full preclear and watch the reallocated sector count before adding it to your zpool.

wait... check smart 193, aggressive firmware ignores camcontrol

ngl... edgz firmware ignores camcontrol. script random reads.

lowkey, wd white-label firmware has hardcoded apm levels that often ignore camcontrol flags. monitor smart attribute 193 for load cycle counts. if the internal timer is locked, your actuator is just grinding toward failure. buy enterprise hc550s.

I try to put as much as I can online. But have slowed down some as I get older. And as the Internet Archive removes so many contributions, that has tuned me off to wasting more time and money on them. And believe me, I've spent a lot of money for material to contribute to them over the years.

Here is a sample of how an archive can be shared with others.

I had a guy write me about a digital collection I had that he wanted. Normally I just give things out for free. But he wanted the whole thing which was +/- 30,000 files or 15Gb.

I told him, OK, let's trade. Send me something interesting in the area of 15Gb to add to my archive. But he never came through. I had worked on that collection almost on a daily basis for 3 months to acquire it. So, I wanted something in return. And he did say he had a huge digital archive. But that is how things go.

Do you ever share your archives with others, or do you just hoard them for yourself? If you do share them, what methods do you use?

Hi all, hope you’re well. I have some old family videos that I want to digitise to prevent them from being lost.

I have started with digitising the camcorder videos, which are mainly VHS-C and DV tapes. I have been using a Portta VD10 to capture the output. The quality is better than I thought, actually surprised me.

As I approach the end of the camcorder tapes, there was ~1TB of video, I am trying to find a better way to capture the VHS tapes we also have around. There’s substantially less of them, but it is seeming a bit tricky to determine the best course of action.

For context these are PAL VHS tapes.

The VCR I am using is a really cheap one we had laying around. It is a Durabrand PV619, a fairly budget VCR with only a SCART and RF output out the back of the unit.

I have read [this previous post on the topic]() which suggested using RF to capture the video.

The question I have is, is the VCR’s RF output actually as good as they mention?

I find it hard to believe that it is possible to output good quality video from the VHS tape via RF. Especially for a cheap VCR like the one I am using where there might be interference.

Now, I could use a SCART to S-Video adapter. This would work, however I do not know if the VCR I am using is going to fumble the quality output.

Hi

I have a Seagate 8tb external drive that is completely full. I also have an external caddy that is cooled. I’d like to move the internal 3.5 inch drive into the caddy but I’m worried that I’ll lose the data. Is it possible to shuck the drive without losing everything on there?

Thanks in advance.

What a cute sub! I thought I was crazy for hoarding a lot of data from those times, like Yahoo messengers, I saved all kinds of old softwares and webpages, and used to burn them in a CD and DVD later, and then had saved up tons of data from late 90s to mid 2010. I don't know why I had such interest I can't explain why I wanted to do this, but I am glad I found a sub that has like minded people. I wonder if someone had archives Yahoo answers, as I just couldn't access it properly from the wayback machine. Please help!

Does anyone have any recommendations for SATA HDD Docks or Enclosures to use with large capacity drives? I found some docks just on amazon but they cannot read my large capacity HDDs. I have some SATA Seagate EXOS 16/26 TBs that I use for cold storage backups but I cannot get them to read through any docks I've tried.

Help would be appreciated, thatnks.

Samsung T7 SSD, liquid in USB-C port killed it. Power light was started blinking red and it won't enumerate now. I tried buying a new usb c connector and doing some microsolder work and the power light turns blue but the drive won't enumerate.

Pablo and NAND should be intact.

Has anyone DIY'd recovery on a T7 with bridge damage, or have any advice? Open to hearing what worked.

Im looking on serverpartdeals, and i see two of what looks to be the same exact thing, Seagate Exos X24 ST24000NM000H 589$ Seagate Exos X24 ST24000NM001C 559$

The stats are all the same. What is the difference? why buy one over the other?

I see the same with the 26tb model ST26000NM001C ST26000NM000C, different price.

the 28tb has the same two different, but same price.

I built this out of necessity for myself since I kept running into deleted videos and losing content I wanted to go back to. TikTok makes it really hard to find older posts again, so I wanted something that could fully archive profiles locally and let me browse everything offline. Figured I’d share it in case it can help someone else out too.