WIRED - The Latest in Technology, Science, Culture and BusinessHow to Set Up Your Own NAS Server for Backups and Content Streaming
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-set-up-nas-server/
Hacker NewsFlash media longevity testing – 6 years later
https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1q6xnun/flash_media_longevity_testing_6_years_later/
#HackerNews #FlashMedia #Longevity #Testing #DataHoarding #Technology #StorageTesting #6YearsLater
Jackson MostollerOof, did not realize Myrient is shutting down—and soon! Huge blow to game preservation, is anyone aware of contingency plans or decent alrernatives?
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/ongoing-ram-price-crisis-cited-as-one-of-the-reasons-game-preservation-service-myrient-is-shutting-down-this-month
#gamedev #GamePreservation #archival #datahoarding
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/ongoing-ram-price-crisis-cited-as-one-of-the-reasons-game-preservation-service-myrient-is-shutting-down-this-month
#gamedev #GamePreservation #archival #datahoarding
Unixorn - 90% Snark by weightYet another reason to not enable passkeys anywhere.
https://blog.timcappalli.me/p/passkeys-prf-warning/
TL;DR - If an idiot website uses your passkey to encrypt your data, losing/deleting the passkey will almost certainly mean losing your data.
Of course we should all be backing up our stuff locally instead of trusting cloud services, especially for irreplaceable things like pictures and movies, but lets be real, the average user doesn't.
Please, please, please stop using passkeys for encrypting user data
Passkeys are the future of authentication, but using them for data encryption is a disaster waiting to happen. Overloading these credentials creates a dangerous blast radius that can lead to the irreversible loss of a user's most sacred memories and documents.
Kevin Karhan 
@jtig pretty shure this will only be used to further #Cyberfascism and turn #ClosedAI-Users into "unofficial employees" for the #AmericanGestapo!
Jared Jenningshttps://j.agrue.info/data-hoarding-on-the-cheap.html, in which our protagonist attempts #datahoarding by the most reasonable means possible: building a #robot, naturally. #archive #sciop
PurpleJillybeans 
So, all this #DataHoarding I've been up to has me wondering:
Are tape backups still a thing?
Like, if you want to store a petabyte or so of data and you don't care about random access, it seems like that'd be an economical way to do it. Or does everyone just store their stuff "in the cloud" now?
DimaI’m considering a used Synology DS916+ 4‑Bay NAS with 4x 12 TB Seagate Exos X12 drives.
I've heard that this model isn’t the most reliable, but the plan is to replace the drives one by one over time. Building such a setup from scratch would cost more than $2000, especially with rising HDD and memory prices and ongoing supply issues.
Any insights or horror stories about used NAS gear?
#SelfHosting #NAS #Homelab #DataStorage #Backup #Synology #Plex #Seagate #HomeServer #Tech #CloudStorage #DataHoarding
Thinking about building a home NAS. I've already accumulated nearly 1 TB of critical data, and while I do have backups in AWS Deep Archive, Proton Drive, and Infomaniak KDrive, I still don’t have any local backups - which is starting to bother me. Plus, I'd love to finally set up a proper Plex library.
#SelfHosting #NAS #Homelab #DataStorage #Backup #Synology #Plex #Seagate #HomeServer #Tech #CloudStorage #DataHoarding
One of my #NewYearsResolutions is to hoard more data, so I picked up an open-box 10TB hard drive. This will serve as a second copy of all the stuff I've got stashed in my pile of old, smaller drives. I also have two 2TB HDDs I'll soon be freeing up for #DataHoarding use.
