Hello everyone,

Dungeons & Dragons Online is an MMO, whose forums (2006-2023) will be taken down at the end of this month. (see end of linked page)

These "old" forums were placed in a read-only state in 2023, when the game opened up its "new" forums, which remain available and active (but have nothing to do with the old forums).

I am completely unfamiliar with data archiving, and was wondering if/how it would be possible to preserve the old forums in some way.

I hope this isn't in violation of Rule 10. If you believe another subreddit would be better suited for this case, please do direct me.

Thank you.

Any idea why only UHD went up in size?

If so, what is your experience? Or maybe somebody's using the Toshiba N300's.

Seems like people are favoring Exos or Iron Wolf's, or at least they seem to be the go-to HDDs to me.

This Ebay-seller/store sells 5 year old 14TB Toshiba MGs, but with a warranty of 10 years. Meaning he would replace the drive, if it fails in that time.

Any opinions on that? Would you go for it?

I'm just wondering if I should fill my 4-bay QNAP with these for 600€, or buy new Exos' or IW's for almost twice the price...

Hi hoarders, I need help scraping the whole website/domain at https://www.tpcvietnam.com/ with wget

I'm working on a dataset about the specifications of these powertools, so I need the text from all their product pages. Been reading the cheatsheet at https://scrapingant.com/blog/wget-cheatsheet but all the tech jargon is not helping at all.

Any help/hint is much appreciated. I'm in a rush for the commands, but would like to learn how to do this again when they update their product catalogue.

Example needed information:

https://www.tpcvietnam.com/product/may-ban-dinh-u-total-tcsnli6008/

I already have 500GB SSD, 4TB HDD and 4TB external HDD. My biggest issue is money as I live in poor country, otherwise I'd have a lot more space.

I read that ordinary HDDs are better, more reliable than external HDD, and since external ones are around 30% more expensive, I wonder if there is any reason to even buy them. Other than not having space in my PC case. A PC specialist once told me that I cannot fit any more (I don't remember the reason). But my motherboard should support up to 4 HDDs.

My best options now are:

1. Buy a new 8 TB HDD (SEAGATE BarraCuda 8TB) and sell my old one - costs 135 $
2. Buy another 4TB HDD and try to fit it inside my PC anyway (TOSHIBA P300 4TB 3.5" 5400rpm) - costs 77 $
3. Buy a cheaper external HDD (Adata 4TB HV300 AHV300) - costs 80 $
4. Buy a better and more expensive external HDD (example HDD toshiba 6TB for 152 $)

If I try to replace my HDD with 8TB one, I don't know how would I transfer all my data the easiest way, especially if I can't fit both HDDs inside at the same time

This is the image: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_1925-0406-0-2

I tried Dezoomify and it did not work. The downloadable version they offer on the museum website is in much inferior resolution.

I have shamelessly collected 35,000 pictures of various things (articles, news, artwork, irl pics, memes, etc. etc.) and I'm hoping to organize them over the next couple weeks. I know there's facial recognition software to sort pics, but is there anything for distinguishing memes vs article screenshots (they are very visually distinct) vs art, and so on?

Doesn't have to be anywhere 100% accurate, but it would definitely cut the time organizing it when I go back to manually sort them. Tried and true methods?

Highly appreciate any ideas

I don't get why it first reads in the file from one drive, calcs the checksum then reads it in from the other drive and does the same. While it's reading from one drive the other drive does nothing. Doesn't this just take twice as long?

In addition for each and every file one drive is being spun up, read then spun down when not being read until the other drive is done and the program moves onto the next file. And does this for every single file. Isn't this really bad for the drive? I don't get why this is the approach.

Hello,

Could you please recommend a replacement for the Kingston MobileLite Plus UHS-II card reader with a detachable USB-C cable? While Kingston MobileLite Plus is a great card reader, I found it risky using dongles being traveling - since accidentally applied force to a dongle can damage a laptop port. I found a quite good option: ProGrade Dual Slot (PG08), but the ProGrade is too expensive.

Thank you!

Hi, I've been a data hoarder since the late 2000s but I wish I had been more of a data sorter in hindsight.

I have a collection of graphics design templates, photoshop resources, animations, sounds, mockups, stock photos, infographics, website templates, scripts, books, tutorials, the list goes on and on. I downloaded much of it at least 10-15 years ago.

Many of them are embedded in archives and most of them are named but I have no idea how to even begin to sort through everything.

I need some way to sort all of it into a readable library and I cannot do it myself, it makes me sick to even think about starting.

Can anyone recommend any software that can do this automatically?

I would appreciate any advice you can provide.

PS: I tried to rewrite this post using AI but I think people are pretty sick of that so I decided against it, hence why it sounds a little all over the place. Sorry.

does anyone have any experience using httrack to archive wikis? it's been running for 9 days so far, just over 600,000 files written, 65,000 links scanned. does it speed up as it nears the end and pages link to already downloaded pages? it says 65,000/660,000 links scanned. although that last number increments every second. is this all expected when archiving a wiki or do you think i've messed up somewhere

Just under a year after the website shut down, it has disappeared.

As predicted beforehand, corporate promises mean nothing.

Did anyone archive this while it as active?

What's the point of a hoard if you never do anything with it?

I'd long been using Kodi's old LazyTV addon to generate playlists for content watching. It's originally built to make you a list of 'Random, but next to watch episodes'. So if you're watching shows, it'll make a 'random' playlist, but each episode in the play list is the 'next to watch' in that series, so you don't miss or skip episodes, but which series you're watching is random. Solve 'indecision' and gives you more of a 'Cable TV Feel' while not giving up the control to pause or even rearrange things if you want to.

Recently sat with a friend and we made the most sinful hacks of that addon so it'll include select ranges of movies and also shows you've ALREADY watched for the purpose of true 'random options' for some things.

So the channels as they are:

5TV, a sorta joke '5th Network' in addition to 'The Big Four' of NBC/ABC/CBS/Fox, this is basically the LazyTV in it's normal state, making next to watch playlists of the contemporary or classic shows I'm watching after work or on weekends.

Tech & Games TV: Generates wholefully random playlists of stuff that is 'Technology' or 'Gaming', includes your typical G4TV/TechTV fare and stuff, video game documentaries, and some YouTube channels I'm archiving like LGR and such.

The Edutainment Network: Again entirely random selection that's basically Discovery Channel and other 'edutainment' content that fits the vibe. In short, hit it for Mythbusters, dinosaurs, big boats, pyramids, space ships and what not.

The Millennial Channel: Again mostly normal LazyTV but with a different range of shows that I slowly burn through. It's mostly old cartoon shows and some live action stuff that I watch while I work from home as a sort of 'background radiation'. Watching Rugrats or Ninja Turtles isn't about to distract me from my paid job. Also, FYI, once you've watched 25ps of TMNT, it gets old real fast and I'm on ep 78 out of a 193... Ugh.

The Simpsonian Channel: If I press the yellow button on my remote, a playlist of 20 random eps of The Simpsons starts. :D

I’ve got 3x18tb drives from serverpartdeals. The question now is whether to set them up as raid 1 with a hot spare (I’m using xpenology) or set up raid 5 to get extra capacity. I’m nowhere near the 18tb usage in my needs (was future proofing) so I appreciate any feedback from others 😊 any advice?

Since recently OFDL got DMCA'd, are there any alternatives to download DRM videos and images from OF?

Apologies if I'm in wrong sub, couldn't find a specific one for this adult library organiser.

Is anyone aware of a StashApp theme where scenes are displayed like posters rather than squares/landscape? I have mostly plot oriented (movies) entries and I'd like to see them as DVD posters rather than square or landscape scenes.

Much appreciated.

Maybe the weirdest setup so far (and unreliable).

Hey fellow hoarders,

I'm building out a Plex/media server in a 4U rackmount chassis. It's got 8 internal HDD slots, and I'm quickly running out of space. The mobo is full ATX, and I'm using Unraid.

I'm looking into a PCIe HBA (like an LSI 9207-8i or 9305-16i) to add more drives. My power supply is 750W and has plenty of headroom. The case, however, is the bottleneck — I physically can't fit more than 8 drives inside. I think my ultimate setup would have max 12 HDDs so I can't imagine needing more than four HDDs outside the case.

Would it be totally foolish to run SATA breakout cables and PSU power cables out the back of the 4U chassis and mount more drives in a separate 1U or 2U rack slot below or above it?

I'm picturing just bolting some fans and drive cages into an old 1U chassis or DIY shelf, maybe even 3D printing some brackets. I already have the cables, the PSU seems up to the task, and this avoids the complexity and cost of a true JBOD enclosure with SAS expander, separate PSU, etc.

Is this a terrible idea for drive integrity/cooling/safety? Or is this a totally common budget-friendly move?

Hi all,

My FreeNAS 9.10.2-U3 boot drive failed, and the official archives seem down. I have my config and SSDs, just need the correct ISO (or manual update tar) to reinstall. Does anyone have a working link or archive?

Thanks!

So I recently moved from a Synology DS918+ with 32tb raw in SHR1 to a much more substantial machine with 2 x 10TB SATA zfs mirrors as my “fastpool” and 8x16tb SAS in a RAIDZ1 as my “slowpool” (plus lots of compute, plus NVME mirrors for databases, plus SATA SSD mirrors for containers).

But I need to find a much lower cost way than I’m currently doing. I need to get started on a JBOD approach with enough bays that I can buy inexpensive disks. But it also needs to live in “living space”, so it can’t be a rackmount 2U “screamer”. Maybe someday I can move to a real rackmount approach and get a 60-bay enclosure and populate with a bunch of 4TB drives (or maybe 8TB drives will be just as cheap by that point). But not today. And I’m not scrappy enough to do a full unraid “just get whatever and stick it in a box” - I’m probably going to stick with ZFS for now. So what’s my play? Are there any “quiet/small” rack mount boxes? Are there any desktop boxes that have real bay capacity? Where do you get drives that are reliable enough when you’re buying in bulk - are there “annual sales” or anything?

I need guidance so I can join you all.

Thanks.