I've been trying to save up for a NAS and the whole shebang for a while now, but unfortunately I'm not there yet. Currently I have ~50TB of data in cloud storage, but due to sudden life circumstances I can no longer pay for it. I also don't know anyone who can hold this data. Is there somewhere reliable I can dump it all into without worrying over losing it?

The monthly ~$100 is what's hurting, I can pay a bit more for egress (a thing I've heard) if I have a lower monthly payment. I would also need a service that doesn't scan my files. For uh, AI research and such etc of course.

Key takeaways:

Jellyfin's cofounders have stepped down, citing severe burnout, changing priorities, and internal friction.

The resignation comes amid ongoing challenges in project management and governance, as well as debates over AI code integration.

The project, which remains the leading free alternative to Plex, hasn't detailed a succession plan.

Tldr; it's available here: https://gitex.calicolicker.net/Oriole/ikea-archive

Over the past few days, I made an archive of all (currently available) IKEA assembly and care manuals. Every PDF for every item currently available on ikea.us has been archived and can be cloned via git or manually downloaded here.

I don't really have any real justification for making the archive other than it's really difficult to find an IKEA assembly manual once an item has been taken off the site. More than that though, it was fun making the archive :)

Fun fact: IKEA treats every color variant as a different product with a different assembly PDF, even though the instructions are in black and white.

You can search by name, brand, or even article number to find the assembly or care manual you need. Hopefully someone ends up finding this useful!

EDIT: Forgot to add that there are over 126,000 PDFs in the repo

I have a 400-page book and a mirrorless camera mounted on a tripod, so taking consistent, high quality photos isn't the problem.

What I'm looking for is software that can process all of these images in bulk.

Ideally, the workflow would be:

1)I photograph every page in order.

2)I import all of the images into the software.

3)The software automatically detects the page boundaries, corrects perspective if necessary, crops each page consistently, enhances readability (if needed), and exports everything as a single PDF in the correct order.

OCR support would be a nice bonus, but it's not essential.

What software would you recommend for this workflow? I'm looking for something that works well with hundreds of images rather than requiring me to manually adjust every page.

Good day everyone. I’m hoping you can help a desperate man looking to make wife happy and do something with my find.

Last year I won a storage unit auction for some antique furniture. After getting in I discovered that behind it all was anywhere between 200 - 300 magnetic tapes of all varieties. Many of them 3/4” U-Matic. 20 or so Type A / B C reels. And then some beta cam and some audio reels (a couple of which are NPR reels for broadcast from the 70s from some early All Things Considered shows).

There are some relatively historic items. A master recording of Nelson Mandela speaking at the Bethel AME church in Atlanta in the 90s. Video reel of Nina Simone performing in a bar in London. Some others. At least that is what the labels say.

Even some older EIAJ reels.

I purchased various machines, along with what was in the unit. Currently perhaps 15 audio reel to reel decks (some functional some not), 2 - 3 U-Matic decks (1 for sure working), 3 Sony helical scan decks one for sure working.

Plan was to clean and digitize them myself over time. But as you know better than I, some of these very likely need to be baked, cleaned, and professionally done so I have held off.

I’ve been fortunate to find almost all of my machines for next to nothing. That being said I am not swimming in cash to have all of these converted for tens of thousands.

I do need to get some sort of return on my investment here. My wife entertains my hobby as long as I love what I win and don’t cost us additional cash.

My question here is: Anyone in this community know if any professional or extremely skilled hobbyists that would likely make a deal? I can provide all of these machines I have accumulated and use that as credit towards the cost of the conversions?

Not opposed to laying out more cash. Not trying devalue the expertise required to do this. I’m just looking for a better option than mortgaging my house to digitize and do something with them.

Any and all help is appreciated.

I’m in Atlanta if that makes a difference.

​​ I have a number of backup drives that I was using to rotate some data around . So most of them contain much of the same data , but some of them might have newer versions of the files . I'd like to consolidate all of these into one backup version . What's the best way of merging everything into one source that just preserves the latest file date? It is thousands of files , so I have no way of going through them individually .thanks!

In theory, I still have the active versions of these files also , but there may be some files on the backups that don't exist in the active files, and I would want to keep a copy of those . ​

I was wondering if anyone had any experiences/opinions on external hard drive bays of a specific kind or company.

Currently looking for one that can house 2-4 drives, is externally powered, and relatively cheap. Any suggestions would be appreciated!

Hi everyone,
I’m building my first Unraid server and would love a sanity check. All purchased but still within the return window, so I can change things.
Current build:
Fractal Design Define R5
Intel Core i5-14400
Gigabyte B760M DS3H DDR4
32 GB Samsung DDR4-2933 (M378A4G43AB2-CVF)
14 TB WD CMR HDD (shucked from WD Elements)
ASUS XG-C100F 10 GbE SFP+ NIC
be quiet! Pure Power 13 M 650 W
APC BX950MI-GR UPS
Main use:
Family storage
Time Machine backups
Streaming to Apple TV 4K with Infuse
Docker containers in the future
1. Cache drive
I already own a 4 TB Gen4 NVMe that currently lives in a Thunderbolt 4 enclosure. I bought it last year for about €200. Today I’d have to spend around €75 on a 500 GB NVMe just for Unraid.
Would you install the 4 TB drive inside the server and use it for cache, appdata/system and frequently accessed files, or keep it external and buy a smaller SSD? My home network is 2.5 GbE.
2. Motherboard
I’m having second thoughts about the Gigabyte B760M DS3H DDR4.
It only has 4 SATA ports, and once I install the 10 GbE NIC, the only PCIe x16 slot is occupied, making future SATA/HBA expansion difficult.
Would you:
keep it until I actually need more than 4 drives, or
replace it now with something more expandable?
If you’d replace it, which DDR4 LGA1700 ATX motherboard would you recommend?

I wanted to ask if something like this exists.

A scraper that allows you to download images and videos from Twitter/reddit from a certain tag/artist/page?

I've seen a lot of posts complain about how awful seagate RMA is, but mine has been excellent.

I had a drive die on me so I sent it in for RMA.

July 16, shipped drive
July 17, drive reached Seagate
July 17, drive completely processed
July 20, replacement shipped
July 22, received brand new replacement drive.

Anyone know what's happening?

Been working with this for days. I was recommended to just drag and drop the files from the google drive on file explorer however, most of those files arent actually the full things and are just placeholders for the drive. Tried downloading them back a couple gigs at a time through the website but it will just keep crashing. Tried cyberduck but after a full day of it finishing half to almost all of my videos are missing. And my last resort is Rclone which came off way to confusing for me to use. Does anyone else know of a different way to do this without losing everything or if you know how to use Rclone reliably? Internet, data speeds, and certain deadlines are not an issue!

I would absolutely love to re live my childhood and watch a recording of the uk Disney channel or Nickelodeon with authentic 2000s adverts and everything

Hi everyone! I have years of texts with my dad on my iPhone that I never want to lose. He recently passed and I’ve set them to never auto-delete, but I know iPhones can be unpredictable (failed updates, water damage, lost/stolen phone, etc.) and I don’t want to rely on the phone itself as my only copy. I’m looking for advice on the best tools or methods to export the full thread off the phone with photos and attachments intact, whether iCloud backup alone is “safe enough” or if I need a separate export, any way to get a physical or printed copy as a backup to the backup, and how you’d store it long-term so it’s still readable and accessible in 10-20 years.

I wrote up my experiences as a hobbyist collector setting up LTO tape storage, if anyone wishes to read and learn from my struggles.

gemini://birds-are-nice.me/publications/LTO%20tape%20woe.gmi

or

https://birds-are-nice.me/publications/LTO%20tape%20woe.html

(My server speaks both protocols)

Short version: Much Fun was had making tape work, and with the ridiculous price of hard drives right now, it's actually cheaper to use tape backups if you are fortunate enough to get some second-hand drives.

I just bought a nice BR DL Mdisk drive for my Blu-ray collection, and found 50- 50GB disks for like 75 bucks. Doing than math if I did it right that I’d like 2.5 TB that I could store with a friend offsite and get more: what’s the general consensus on BR DL name brand disks as backup storage?

I'm not looking for OneDrive, Dropbox, Google Drive, pCloud, or Syncthing. I'm already familiar with concepts like delta sync, incremental sync, and block-level synchronization.

I'm looking for a native Windows tool that performs efficient local incremental synchronization between disks, similar to rsync's behavior. I'm specifically asking about local disk-to-disk synchronization on Windows, not cloud synchronization.

I know about:

• Robocopy
• FreeFileSync
• rclone
• rsync via WSL/Cygwin/MSYS2

But is there a native Windows implementation that supports true block-level or delta synchronization?

I'm surprised that after all these years there still doesn't seem to be a native Windows equivalent to rsync.

Or is WSL simply the de facto solution nowadays?

EDIT: I didn't expect this question to generate such an interesting discussion. Thanks everyone for sharing your experience.

Hi,

I would like to download the recording of a yt live (https://you-know-the-site/watch?v=jKIvV6xQRzg) but none of the tools I know can do it.

Video download helper does not show anything to download
y t - d l p says the live event ended
downloaderto dot com times out (no other online tools work for this video either)

Any suggestion?

EDIT: I updated yt-dlp as suggested by some. Afterwards it was able to download the video.

I understand that SAS drives use more power compared to SATA, is this by alot? I am looking to migrate my media from my PC and set up my Plex on the NAS.

What if it doesn't charge when I plug it in? What if the battery is burst? Is there any way to recover the data if it doesn't turn on for some reason?

Is there a certain voltage to plug it into? Maybe I'm being way too cautious but this is the only source of this data I have left. It's like 10,000 songs

I can't totally remember, but I remember that I had a way to add music files that weren't included in iTunes - like an external storage type thing

Has anyone done this before and what tips do you have for me? Tia!

In the video there are 75k images filtered in about 1s. Everything is indexed, embedded and cached automatically in the background tasks that are visible to the user and could be easily controlled from the task bar at the top of the screen.  I am not using FAISS or any vector databases yet. It also python, so there are still a huge room for further optimizations. The speed is mostly because of proper caching. It took me quite a while to get here as the project is quite complex and every part of it should work in tandem with all other features, such as completely local personal recommendation engine, which increases the complexity of things quite a bit. It supports all four major modalities - images, music, text and video, although the internal mechanisms are not completely unified yet, it is one of the goals to make the project basically the Google for both local and remote files but without any reliance on a centralized servers.

You can check it here if you are interested, obviously, everything is open source: https://github.com/volotat/Anagnorisis

To be honest the project is not yet completely ready for prime time yet and the installation process might be a bit complicated for some. But I really hope to make something really useful for local and p2p content search and discovery eventually.

Hello. I bought an old HDD. The SMART status looks good: no reallocated sectors and less than 1000 h of use.

However, when I tested the surface with Victoria, it showed many sectors with access times over 1 s.

The seller claimed it had only been used as an external HDD, but data recovery software found some system files on it.

Is there anything I can check to see if the SMART data has been manipulated?