TheDatahoarder
Contents1 Introduction2 List of hard drive alternatives2.1 Solid State Drives (SSD)2.2 Cloud Storage2.3 USB Flash Drives2.4 RAID2.5 NAS2.6 Optical Disc2.7 Tape3 Summary Introduction If you’ve spent any time browsing the various forums or subreddits dedicated to data-hoarding, you’ve likely seen this common question being asked: “What are the best hard drive alternatives?”. This is often … Read more
Introduction I’ve been regularly buying hard disk drives for the best part of three decades. Over this time, the capacities have increased tremendously. It’s sometimes difficult to appreciate just how much hard disk capacities have increased over this time. Whilst many data-hoarders are well aware of current drive capacities, there’s still some confusion from the … Read more
As you may imagine, as a data-hoarder, I’ve owned dozens, if not hundreds of hard drives over the years. Each time one of my hard drives reaches capacity, its contents are copied to a new drive, and the old drive is removed from the computer. I’ve mentioned in the past that I don’t like to … Read more
Introduction I’ve been reading good things about Open Media Vault (OMV) for a while now, and have decided it’s time to give it a try for myself. I have a new Proxmox host that isn’t currently doing a great deal so I’ve decided to spin up a new VM and install OVM there. Until this … Read more
Preamble Many people have difficulty deleting data from their systems, even when this data is outdated and still widely available online. If you are one of these people, you may in fact be a digital data-hoarder. For example, if you’ve watched last night’s episode of Coronation Street, do you delete it from your Plex or … Read more
With the initial trials of SpaceX Starlink drawing to a close with positive results, some people in the datahoarding community are considering subscribing to the service. If you live in an urban area with good Internet connectivity this post will be of limited use to you. If however, you live in a rural area and … Read more
I was reading on a forum recently about a guy that was boasting he had a private database containing pager messages dating back decades. A lot of people were asking him about his setup and why he bothered getting into this. Unfortunately, he was being quite secretive and not giving much away. I hoard lots … Read more
Introduction Hi, fellow datahoarders. I’ve recently decided that I’m going to cancel my Spotify subscription and move to a self-hosted music streaming solution. This isn’t going to happen overnight, I love my music so I need to prove my self-hosted solution is 100% capable before I cancel my Spotify subscription. To be completely honest, I … Read more
I recently moved my hoard of data from various NAS devices to a consolidated VM running TrueNAS. After some research, I decided to use Proxmox as the host OS. Aside from it being open-source, it has several features I like the look of, including native support for Linux Containers (LXC). I’ve decided that the first … Read more
As a digital datahoarder, I tend not to throw away any old software whether it be on CD, DVD, or anything else. Last week I was moving some old boxes around whilst decorating and I caught glance of a CD-ROM that I’d completely forgotten about in one of them. The CD-ROM looked really old-school, but … Read more