DOGE claims to be moving away from magnetic tapes for archival storage. Seems like a bad idea. What are they using instead?Apr 2025 ⋅ Sad-Seesaw-3843 ⋅ r/DataHoarder
Sometimes people on FB marketplace just don’t know what they haveJun 10 ⋅ theadamdude ⋅ r/DataHoarder
These HDD prices are getting crazy. An increase of 96.4% in 1 month for the same 26TB drive. $279.99 a month ago to $549.99 today. Where are we buying hard drives now?Feb 19 ⋅ Endawmyke ⋅ r/DataHoarder ⋅ #549 #279 #96 #99 #1 #4
Whenever there's a 'Pirate Streaming Shutdown Panic' I've always noticed a generational gap between who this affects. Broadly speaking, of course.Oct 2024 ⋅ AshleyUncia ⋅ r/DataHoarder
This poor HDD that has been running for nearly 13 years non stop on my Dads office computer. 56 power on count is absurd.Sep 2024 ⋅ richardhero ⋅ r/DataHoarder
Torrent now available: The Largest Available Minecraft World - 15 TB (13.7 TiB) of 2b2tJul 11 ⋅ crxyne ⋅ r/DataHoarder ⋅ #13 #15 #7
3.58 Petabytes written to a 256GB Samsung NVMe – It’s at 170% usage and has more errors than there are stars in the universe.Feb 24 ⋅ Ready_Violinist_2203 ⋅ r/DataHoarder ⋅ #170 #58 #3
100 years good karma to the Redditor that gifted me these drivesApr 16 ⋅ xpmadmanqx ⋅ r/DataHoarder ⋅ #100
350GB of pictures and videos of Gaza + WB. These are being actively targeted for removal from various upload sites.Mar 2025 ⋅ juflyingwild ⋅ r/DataHoarder
A popular K-pop fancam channel with 6000 4K videos will be deleted by YouTube within 48 hoursJun 3 ⋅ SonicAwareness ⋅ r/DataHoarder ⋅ #6000 #48
Do I look like I don't know where the got dang c:\users\(User Name)\Documents\ folder really is?Oct 2024 ⋅ AshleyUncia ⋅ r/DataHoarder ⋅ #User-Name
Myrient’s Shutdown broke the Illusion for me that the Internet Is forever.Mar 5 ⋅ AlyxVeldin ⋅ r/DataHoarder
Anna's Archive torrents: the r/DataHoarder effectAug 2025 ⋅ 1petabytefloppydisk ⋅ r/DataHoarder ⋅ #r/DataHoarder
Finally organized. Now begins the massive project of ripping 20 years of DVDs, Blu-rays, and 4K UHDsFeb 12 ⋅ Ill_Sea571 ⋅ r/DataHoarder
My dad didn’t believe he could delete files, ended up with his collectionMar 10 ⋅ Pretend-Wing-764 ⋅ r/DataHoarder
Opened a sealed 6tb seagate expansion drive from walmart and found thisMay 25 ⋅ perplexed2243 ⋅ r/DataHoarder
Why I love this sub: 2 years later, a data hoarding legend comes through with a fix to my problem - which I still needed and was able to use!Jul 2025 ⋅ ansyhrrian ⋅ r/DataHoarder ⋅ #2
I moved to a new city and found actual streets named Tape Drive and Disk Drive where a storage giant used to liveMar 18 ⋅ MorgothTheBauglir ⋅ r/DataHoarder
This was 1.5 years ago just before the AI craze (9/13/24) from goharddriveMar 26 ⋅ acbadam42 ⋅ r/DataHoarder ⋅ #9-13-24 #13 #24 #1 #5 #9
HP will remove perfectly good documentation for products they no longer support. This seems very anti-consumer.Oct 2025 ⋅ degamezolder ⋅ r/DataHoarder
10MB hard drives cost $3,398 in 1981, that's $12,000 today adjusted for inflationApr 2025 ⋅ SuperElephantX ⋅ r/DataHoarder
This is my humble setup. Jk it’s 50k of pure hoarding shame. Give me your worst.Jan 3 ⋅ maximm3k ⋅ r/DataHoarder
Found ~1500 DVD-Rs with recorded TV/documentaries while clearing out family house – worth saving?Mar 14 ⋅ Competitive_Arm_2545 ⋅ r/DataHoarder ⋅ #1500
If collecting Linux ISOs was mainstream, this hoarder is still nicheJan 2025 ⋅ FantasticlyWarmLogs ⋅ r/DataHoarder
6 years after purchase, and 10 years into data hoarding, I finally got my first drive throwing errorsJul 2025 ⋅ clanginator ⋅ r/DataHoarder
I thought I could trust those bargain brand BD-50's on Amazon. Two of them (in a supposedly new package) had a fan edit of Revenge of the Sith already burned onto them.Apr 14 ⋅ Robertium ⋅ r/DataHoarder ⋅ #50
Grandfather is dying and is leaving these to me, he didn't want to overwrite the old footage for his cameras because it is mostly video of his possum friends so he just keep buying new drives.Apr 2025 ⋅ Technical_Constant79 ⋅ r/DataHoarder
Reminder to triple-check before deleting the “temporary” folderMar 5 ⋅ Master-Ad-6265 ⋅ r/DataHoarder
One of the more terrifying parts of Bitwit's new video following the devastating Los Angeles wildfiresJan 2025 ⋅ thelastcupoftea ⋅ r/DataHoarder
I forced a 16-Year-Old 64GB SSD to write 1 PETABYTE (And it didn't die)Jun 18 ⋅ Fresh-Palpitation-72 ⋅ r/DataHoarder ⋅ #16 #1
Webshots deleted 14 million users' photos in 2012. Archive Team saved 105.9TB of it — then the extraction tooling died in 2016 and it's been locked ever since. After 10+ years of digging my own photos out by hand, I built the key. It's free.Jul 8 ⋅ PlatinumAero ⋅ r/DataHoarder ⋅ #2012 #2016 #105 #10 #14
Where did the 4TB of space disappear, I bought 4TB 2 months ago. Will have to upgrade again (Deleting is not option ofcourse)Apr 2025 ⋅ T0biasCZE ⋅ r/DataHoarder ⋅ #Deleting-is-not-option-ofcourse
I didn't realize how much I used it until this started happening Oct 2024 ⋅ wiener_dawg ⋅ r/DataHoarder
What would be the best way to travel with these hard drives internationally?Jul 2025 ⋅ surelyunsure_ ⋅ r/DataHoarder
If you have storage problems I feel bad for you son, I got 99 problems but storage ain't one (Hit me!)Mar 2 ⋅ stefini_juliya ⋅ r/DataHoarder ⋅ #99
Twitter to purge accounts that have had no activity at all for several yearsMay 2023 ⋅ NXGZ ⋅ r/DataHoarder
Sharing the size of my tape storage since it’s becoming a bit of a trend (75 tapes/91TB)Mar 27 ⋅ LaundryMan2008 ⋅ r/DataHoarder ⋅ #75-tapes #75-tapes-91TB #91TB
When your bother asks if you want some free SSDs and you realize that it's the mother lode.Oct 2024 ⋅ AshleyUncia ⋅ r/DataHoarder
