Looking through some old hard drives (yes, HDDs) I found one that had a weird looking "SATA" port.
Researching a bit I found out about SAS (Serial Attached SCSI).
In this case with a SFF-8482 layout.
Designed to be (one direction) compatible with SATA (SATA drive can be connected to a SFF-8482 cable).
Can anyone in #permacomputing #datahoarder help me decide whether I want to keep or toss this IBM e-server 73.4 Gb SAS drive to use in a NAS/home automation setup?
Boosts welcome
Spoke with Toshiba technical support recently
Apparently a BIG shipment of 24TB Toshiba enterprise drives were stolen??? and so there's a 1yr lead time on those drives???
I can only blame AI tbh.
Anybody has been using #Mdisc or other optical digital media for archiving important data? What's your experience? DVD or BR? What hardware to burn? Software?
#Prepping #DataHoarder #OpticalMedia #Archiving #Backup #Survival #DVD #BluRay #CD #DataStorage
NoiseCloud: Storing Data On YouTube
Does anyone know where I can find a collection of rotating realistic object GIF files?
I have found a few on 4chan. A rotating realistic chicken burger with a transparent background for example. It seems to be mostly the same 20 or so GIFs in regular circulation. Ideally Iβd like to avoid individual downloads or signing up for an account. I thought someone here may have stumbled across a page on the Internet Archive or something.
Putting positive vibes out into the universe for the HDDs in my NAS to have long, healthy lives, because these prices are INSANE, even for recertified drives!
Filesystem for each purpose ?
# 1. Purpose 1. Internal Disk - OpenZFS/ext4/NTFS ? for all OS (Win,Lin,mac) 2. External Disk - Is exFAT OK ? Else OpenZFS/ext4 ? for all OS 3. Backup Disk - guy says [https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/11nka02/comment/kir3lho/] exFAT is bad for backup as it corrupts. so ***ext4/***OpenZFS ? 4. SOHO Server/NAS - ZFS # 2. OpenZFS vs BtrFS? # 3.1 Is ZFS on Win/mac mature enough ? * https://github.com/openzfsonwindows/openzfs [https://github.com/openzfsonwindows/openzfs] * https://openzfsonosx.org/ [https://openzfsonosx.org/] # 3.2 If not Is Ext4 on Win/mac good ? * https://github.com/bobranten/Ext4Fsd [https://github.com/bobranten/Ext4Fsd] * https://github.com/macfuse/macfuse [https://github.com/macfuse/macfuse] , https://github.com/gerard/ext4fuse [https://github.com/gerard/ext4fuse] (no update)
NES Rom Hack Collection 202103 By MiroMirian (Repack) - 24k pre-patched Roms
https://archive.org/details/nes-romhack-collection_202103-repacked [https://archive.org/details/nes-romhack-collection_202103-repacked] Total size of all 24.258 .nes Roms (plus a few other files) unpacked: 5.5gb β A huge collection of NES Rom Hacks. Originally uploaded by MiroMirian [https://archive.org/details/@miromirian] at https://archive.org/details/nes-romhack-collection_202103 [https://archive.org/details/nes-romhack-collection_202103] . This is a repackage of the same files. The original collection contains over 24 thousand files, without compression. This means that Internet Archiveβs internal βon-the-fly-zipβ doesnβt work and each file has to be downloaded individually. I downloaded all files and packaged them up in .7z archives. This reduces the download size drastically and also makes it possible to download all of them in one go. Complete [https://archive.org/download/nes-romhack-collection_202103-repacked/nes-romhack-collection_202103/Complete/]: Entire collection in a single archive. The original full set. Split [https://archive.org/download/nes-romhack-collection_202103-repacked/nes-romhack-collection_202103/Split/]: Divided the collection by letter groups into multiple archives. Also removed all non .nes Rom files for additional cleanup. Otherwise contains the same Roms found in the Complete package.
Archive.Today starting to use Google's QR-based reCaptcha
#recaptcha #degoogle #datahoarder
The site has a few variant domains, unsure why, and archive.md, the one I'd been using, threw the QR reCaptcha just now, as per the attached image, while archive.today directly threw the good ol' "try to verify a dozen times" version.
The recaptcha may appear even when the user is not using a VPN if it grows suspicious, meaning the site may soon be inaccessible without bending to Google.
"Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap" on EGS appears to have a Master System ROM
In other versions of the game, such as GOG and Steam's, it has a file called "wb3.sms" in the folder bin_pc/rom/, the file being a working #MasterSystem #ROM.
Being a #datahoarder, I was looking for the info. Since SteamDB has Depot pages which list the files of a given build, and remembering that egdata.app has a similar general scope as SteamDB, I went to check if it listed files, as I don't have the game there, and I did find something:
https://egdata.app/builds/69e47ae7af8950ed36e1d142/files
Besides listing a file with the same name in the same path, the SHA-1 hash for "bin_pc/rom/wb3.sms" as given by egdata.app, and as shown in the attached image, is also the same as GOG's, which I have so I could compare, meaning the file in EGS's build is most likely a working ROM too.
For people that like to collect and/or support games that come with ROMs officially, another one to keep on the radar, if you don't have it already. =D
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