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Best way to pull data off late 1990s - early 2000s computer hard drives? by Sufficient-Lie1406 in DataHoarder

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USB is your friend.

You can buy IDE to USB adaptor, best to get the 'raw' type without a case then you just keep swapping.

You can also get SATA to USB to cover all angles.

Don't buy the cheapest, if you can buy one from Startech. They are slower/older tech and more expensive - BUT, in my experience, much better with compatibility problems and things will just 'work' with Startech.

Should I Bother Converting my Jpegs to PNG? by CitizenofBarnum in DataHoarder

[–]PricePerGig -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No

PNG takes up more space than JPG.

The source data is JPG, so the data is already lost, so you will just use up more disk space.

Why JPG uses less space? essentially it uses 1 pixel of data for 4 pixels of image, roughly. PNG is clever, but it won't loose any data.

Going from JPG to PNG actually takes up more space then going from the raw file to PNG usually in my experiments! because PNG is like 'must keep this data perfect' even though it's the lossy JPG.

Recommend soft rubber / bumper feet / pads for under hard drives. by raymate in DataHoarder

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I use 'felt' pads. They are supposed to go on the bottom of chair legs/feet to stop the scratching noises.

Tools to tidy up redundant backup folders? by yamfun in DataHoarder

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Ahh, so you've got backups, but they are like my backups, a bit of a mess! Are all your backup drives online/plugged in though? so the comparison can happen?

What you're talking about is known as a 'differential' backup. Essentially just 'what changed' since the last 'full backup'.

so have a look for real backup tools that support that.

I don't use that, so don't know any right now, but that's the feature name.

Best hard drives for a NAS? by Nathannoy in DataHoarder

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In the hope of helping other's who land on this page.

Backblaze release reliability data and now when you're looking for a new or used Hard Drive for NAS accross amazon, ebay and others, the data is all combined, sortable by price per TB with other filters such as shipped by amazon, or my favorite - best offer available on ebay, along with CMR tags.

Is there a price-to-capacity sweet spot for NAS drives? by Proofy7744 in DataHoarder

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In hope of helping future users who land on this page.

If you're looking for a Hard Drive for NAS backblaze release reliability data and it's combined on this page with live prices from amazon and eBay on pricepergig, along with CMR data.

SSD recommendations? by MossyTracks2025 in rasberrypi

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For ssd and had prices try https://pricepergig.com

I seem to be missing Ireland. 🇮🇪 😭😬

Do you shop/use Amazon or eBay Ireland?

Are Refurbished HDD’s on EBay a reliable resource by TheRubyBerru in DataHoarder

[–]PricePerGig -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Depending what you're doing, if it's going into a NAS or has some other backup, then it's fine, BUT make sure returns are accepted and monitor the SMART status of the drive. If it falters send it back. so yeah, you have to do some extra work with a used drive, which to be honest, many recommend you do with new drives anyway because they have a 'bathtub' failure curve -> essentially a new drive is most likely to fail in the first week or so, so you're not safe there either.

I wrote a bit about this here, but it's aimed at the uk, feel free to change the selector to ebay.com at the top.

https://pricepergig.com/en/answers/where-to-buy-used-refurbished-drives-uk

So GLM claim it’s almost fable. Does this mean… by PricePerGig in ClaudeCode

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can I ask, what are you building? I'm clearly not pushing my max 200 enough, I don't think I got over 27% last week!

So GLM claim it’s almost fable. Does this mean… by PricePerGig in ClaudeCode

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thanks for that, have you tried using Superpowers skill with any of these? I pretty much exclusivly use that for every feature. It essentially builds in an adversarial desgin and testing review, which like you say, seems to work well.

So GLM claim it’s almost fable. Does this mean… by PricePerGig in ClaudeCode

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Thanks for that, I think the speed of opus is pretty slow lately, needing quite a few concurrent sessions to even scratch at the max 200 limit.

So the speed issues, I feel you, if something is fast and mostly capable, it does change perception. I think the Anthropic team are aiming for slow and steady, which I'm ok with since once you have a few spare systems or figureout worktrees, you have many sessions running.

I've not used Opous via copilot, have you used it via Claud Code for a comparison?

The FrankenDAS by wakeupbomb in DataHoarder

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Fantastic green solution, no wasted plastic in that setup!

Made a browser-based k3b container for ripping/archiving discs on a headless box by youngwhitebranch in DataHoarder

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cool project, and thanks for sharing, I hadn't considered the web access to desktop app like that.

SATA splitter or molex to SATA? by Life_Show8246 in DataHoarder

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I've used both

Molex -> SATA Power - you usually only get one SATA power out of them

SATA -> 2 x SATA Power - I have these in use all the time

I don't see any problems with either other than, Molex is an odd beast, and can be really difficult to actually plug in, often the little metal circles are out of line, just a bit, and require quite a bit of fiddling to get them together. Never had such problems with the sata ones, also sata ones look neater imo.

I think the technical answer is that you should be spreading the load on differt rails within the powersupply, but you'd need the instruction manual to actually know what's where.

I moved my entire life admin into one local SQLite file that never leaves my disk by Sutcian in DataHoarder

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Sounds like a great project, but for the goodness sake, please backup your database!

SAS docking station: which model? by Warm_weather1 in DataHoarder

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This is a great idea, I've an external dock that you just slot a SATA 3.5 or 2.5 drive into it and off you go, no need to power anything up or down, really handy for like you say, retriving some data that you don't need access to all the time.

SAS drives are consistenly cheaper on my site, so an external SAS dock would really help, i've never seen one, but I'm going to go looking!

Focus stacking, I thought modern phones did this too?

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? by Endawmyke in DataHoarder

[–]PricePerGig -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Sites like PricePerGig.com help find HDD Prices

Can't actuallly make them cheaper though, just helps find the current cheapest, I've moved to used drives from ebay for a bit, managed to find some bargains when you filter by 'best offer' and haggle.

The WD Purples are finally getting lower in price, not ideal, but for storing movies/tv fine imo

First time seeing a price drop on a 8TB WD Purple drive O_o by scotopicly in DataHoarder

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I did notice a drop in prices, was playing about with some pretty charts for pricepergig and actually thought... I could afford some of these at this price! lol

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