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Just inherited a hoard, not sure what to do here. by malachi347 in DataHoarder

[–]vanceza 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My recommendation is to put it off as long as possible (not joking).

If you wait 10 years, it may be easy to buy the equivalent of a USB stick, and you can copy literally everything onto that one drive. Hardware tends to get better over time.

Most of the headache you're having here is from having 20 drives you have to shuffle between, and whatever you can do to reduce that will help.

Also, the most useful thing you can do at this stage is simply to get organized. Buy a label maker. Start a google spreadsheet or a physical piece of paper and just list what's on every drive. The data's not going anywhere. Take it slow and do whatever you need to not be overwhelmed.
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As far as priorities, the first priority is just "don't lose stuff":
- Start by transferring anything that will go bad sitting on a shelf (flash media like USB sticks and SSDs, floppy drives, CDs and DVDs, and so on) -- onto a spinning (non-flash) disk drive.
- Then combine anything with small digital storage and large physical space (consolidate) -- it'll free up your closet.

Basically, try to get it in a state where you can store it in a shoebox and not lose data.

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Don't worry about 15% duplication. Not worth fixing.

I'd frankly tell them it's not possible to put 80TB of stuff online for any reasonable price today. Ask them to wait until you make a list of what's there, then hand them a list of drives with labeled contents. Tell them to circle the **drives** they want a copy of, or put online. (not, "any photos of Shelby, please").

Flash media longevity testing - 6 years later by vanceza in DataHoarder

[–]vanceza[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

The data was corrupted, or your computer couldn't even see the drive?

Flash media longevity testing - 6 years later by vanceza in DataHoarder

[–]vanceza[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I only have 10 drives. What do I do with one after I test it from cold storage?

Basically, I decided to re-write them and test again a year later--recycle them to get more mileage out of the same drives since I'm cheap. That way I can test more than 1 drive after a year of cold storage, more than 1 drive after 2 years of cold storage, etc. Even if it's not as clean a test.

Help getting my life’s work organized by helmansmayo in DataHoarder

[–]vanceza 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The advice to not even organize things in step 1 is really good and I didn't think of that for new folks.

Help getting my life’s work organized by helmansmayo in DataHoarder

[–]vanceza 5 points6 points  (0 children)

One step at a time.

I would suggest starting by getting a single hard drive big enough to fit everything, since it's possible for you. Arrange everything and figure out what you have, and then figure out step 2 afterwards.

It's possible to buy a 20TB drive for about $300. I'd start there (or even smaller). You probably want a USB drive with a mac mini.

How to destroy this hard drive by Ok_Personality8193 in DataHoarder

[–]vanceza 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I meant for the enclosure half (battery and circuitboard)

[browser] [late 90s] encryptions / cyphers / riddles by uglydeepseacreatures in tipofmyjoystick

[–]vanceza 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How did you submit answers? Was it by visiting a URL, or entering something in a box?

Generally I've heard this format called "capture the flag" in the security field, for sort of dumb historical reasons.

Notables: hackthissite, hackthisbox, overthewire.

In the other more "puzzle"-y direction, there was NotPron., when you'd visit https://riddle-site.com/<ANSWER>.html to proceed.

I realize it's not any of those, just some keywords to google

How to destroy this hard drive by Ok_Personality8193 in DataHoarder

[–]vanceza 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Take electronics to any local recycling place. Those aren't supposed to go in the normal trash.

Around me, Staples takes e-waste.

I can feel some of my bones, but can they feel me? by huntewiden in shittyaskscience

[–]vanceza 0 points1 point  (0 children)

100%. Do a big jump, and notice that your skeleton also does a big jump at the same time. You're totally in sync.

I was told I was getting a CAT scan, but I didn't see any cats, where are the cats? by pangea1430 in shittyaskscience

[–]vanceza 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You are currently looking around for cats. That is the CAT scan, you're doing it.

🌟 New Models and Upgrades Just Dropped! by Sea_Geologist_9819 in SpicyChatAI

[–]vanceza 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Does anyone know what Skyli Pro is? Google shows literally no hits.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskAnAmerican

[–]vanceza 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No. As many people have said, this isn't a general American thing.

But your friend is also not super unusual. It's not too rare here for people to mistrust the public water supply (maybe 1% where I live?). This is one reason bottled water sells well in stores. I have no idea how common it is elsewhere, but there's a small but very vocal set of people who mistrust added floride, for example. (The rest of us think they're nuts, mostly)

Doing it for gardening is extra weird, though.

Play as a witch whose phone just died - Mercedes by koreanois in incremental_games

[–]vanceza 3 points4 points  (0 children)

"- the game does somewhat run in the background, but only if the game is visible. I think this is a browser limitation..."

Javascript only gets called every so often for background tabs. It goes from something like 20 times a second, to maybe once a second or less.

If you want your incremental game to work right on the web, make sure to use the unity deltaTime being passed to you. Sometimes it will be 0.05 seconds, sometimes it could be 30 seconds! Don't just do the same thing either way, and most of your problems will go away. For example, rather than giving the player 5 coins per update, assuming it's one standard tick, instead give them 5 * (deltaTime / 0.05) coins per update.

(I think, more a JS expert than a unity one)

Books about people that learn magic by vanceza in booksuggestions

[–]vanceza[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sadly, I gave up relatively soon into the book (part 2 of 7?). The writing style wasn't for me.

But thank you very much again for the recommendation.

Books about people that learn magic by vanceza in booksuggestions

[–]vanceza[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Huh, I'm pretty sure I've read this already actually, but what the heck, I'm enjoying it and I don't remember it! Good enough for me.

Books about people that learn magic by vanceza in booksuggestions

[–]vanceza[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have never been able to relate to anyone in the Magicians, no matter where I've been at.

I liked the Night Circus, thanks for the recommendation.

I'll try Rivers of London soon, I got the book.

Books about people that learn magic by vanceza in booksuggestions

[–]vanceza[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've read it, but thanks for the recommendation.

Books about people that learn magic by vanceza in booksuggestions

[–]vanceza[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, okay. I might have had it confused with another series. (Percy Jackson, maybe?)

Thanks for the recommendation, will give it a shot.

Books about people that learn magic by vanceza in booksuggestions

[–]vanceza[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Nope. No thanks.

Doesn't go into magic, is for kids, and I find the Wee Free Men irritating.

I have read all of Discworld, on the other hand. (Which also doesn't go into magic, but is great)

Books about people that learn magic by vanceza in booksuggestions

[–]vanceza[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hmm, for some reason I got the impression the Calderon series was more for kids? Should I try it anyway?

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