What r/DataHoarder is talking about this week

Years of archived Reddit history have been lost. This likely happened because Reddit wanted to stop AI companies from scraping archived pages instead of paying for data (announced in the news last...

Old Habits Die Hard. I shucked a 28TB Seagate Expansion drive and I ended up with a Barracuda Label. Does anyone have anymore knowledge on these? Are they labeled Barracuda but are actually exos...

I'm sad to see Salon has chosen to cease operations - https://www.salon.com/2026/11/05/goodbye-from-salon/ \- and I'm afraid they may just shut down the website completely soon. Their announcement...

Solid video on archiving different media. Old and new for anyone new to the hobby or media type.

The magnetic tape was long considered obsolete. Now the LTO market is growing faster than in years – AI and increasing archiving needs make it possible.

Starting my journey to decouple where I can. Got two 12tb Toshiba n300 pro drives for our family of two + dog (backing up and quickly accessing the dog photos is critical) Bonus that we just got...

I bought some obviously fake Portable SSD’s from a bin store because I thought it would be fun. They were only $2 a piece. I ran them through some tests, and all 3 of the “32TB” SSD’s were only...

Already own a ds923+ but found this on marketplace, it did not have a power adapter so the owner sold it cheap! It was $30 shipping included.

To some degree, the answer is obvious, 'cold storage backups of things that are crucial'. That was the purpose of some of them prior and can be the same now, albeit probably asking a relative to...