Big surprised

I know you used to be able to do it on the Viewstats website, but that option isn't available anymore.

Out of curiosity, what's a good rule of thumb for price per terabyte? I'm running out of storage and hoping to pick up some drives.

I'm completely new to this subreddit, but I'm desperate.

My brother passed away, and there's videos he posted on Facebook that I want to desperately save in case anything happens to his Facebook account. Videos of his laugh, humor, nonsense, all of it.

But I'm completely stumped and have no idea how to even go about saving this stuff. There's no download option, and I don't even think there's a "share" option on most of his stuff. I've tried some older methods online, but can't seem to get it right. Maybe I'm just slow, I don't know. But I just need some sort of step-by-step that's up to date, if any of you know.

If anyone could help me with me, I'll be forever grateful. This means a lot to me.

I'm looking at a refurbished 6 TB Seagate ST6000NM0115 (I know 6 TB Is amateur hour around here, but it's genuinely all I need for the moment) and I'm hoping to get a recommendation for a caddy or enclosure that will work with it and allow me to connect the drive to my laptop via USB. I don't mind if it needs an external power supply as well. I'm also curious as to any advice you good folks may have for me as a first-timer with this kind of setup.

15 will be reduced to 13 with bank offer. is this a solid deal considering current inflation or should i wait? i personally wanted just 2tb but the prices are way too high

Concerned lurker here.

I recently saw several articles claiming that the Environmental Protection Agency's archive has been slated for retirement on Dec. 31, 2026.

What is the current awareness regarding this, and is this seen as a legitimate concern?

Are there any current efforts to backup this important resource?

The preservation of this archive is a conern being that it has been used in court to prove harm to both people and the environment and has functioned as a protection against such harms.

EPA [site](https://archive.epa.gov/) and notice of retirement.

Edit: additional context

I've been trying to find full recordings of older red carpet events and film festival broadcasts, but I'm having almost no luck.

I'm specifically looking for things like Cannes and Venice Film Festival red carpets, photocalls, press conferences, and other events like the Oscars, BAFTAs, Golden Globes, etc.

What do you guys think about the latest generation Apple Time Capsules A1470.

It was built and sold by Apple between 2013 - 2018 and then got discontinued.

2 and 3TB HDD Options were available.
for 299 and 399 USD.

It uses a Seagate Barracuda, 3,5 Zoll, SATA

Nowadays you can get these Time Capsules for pretty cheap.
Do you think they are a safe option to store data on?
If yes, for how many more years can they be used?
What are the risks?

I'm sure someone is already covering this but... just thought this was important.

End of December a bunch of info is being deleted.

Edit:The banner says the EPA Archive is being "retired". With the administration's historical handling of data, it seems the concern is access to any historical data, which would still be accessible in "snapshot collections".

Maybe.

When I'd heard Cracked.com had unceremoniously started removing their own archive, I panicked. I hadn't visited Cracked in many years, but there was a time it was easily the best site on the internet. I, of course, came right to this sub, but barely found any discussion of Cracked, let alone an archive, so I decided to see what I could do! A month and some change later I finally finished rescuing as much of classic Cracked.com as I could before more of it disappears.

What started as a simple archive turned into a full completeness audit using Cracked’s surviving indexes and sitemap, the Wayback Machine, Common Crawl, and historical metadata. The main target was roughly the 2005–2017 “golden age” of Cracked.

During the audit I found thousands of old column URLs that weren’t represented in the original archive set I started with, so this ended up being a much bigger project than expected. There are a handful of old external Flash/video embeds that are still dead dependencies, but the archive itself is intact.

The final result is:

• 13,710 preserved pages
• 6,341 articles
• 5,537 columns/blog posts
• 1,011 Photoplasties
• 821 Pictofacts

I packed the archive as a ~14Gb ZIM file for viewing / self-hosting with Kiwix. Full-text search and sort by year included.

I’m not sure about the rules on sharing here so I'm sharing the actual ZIM/torrent separately in r/DHExchange so other's can enjoy as well. I will remove the link to that post if against the rules, but I wanted to, at the very least, share my accomplishment here as I could never have done anything like this without the years spent lurking in this community.

Had an old Satnav disc in my car, and currently being curious about how this thing work.

Does anyone know what is the best way to rip a DVD that contains file?

Update: Finished, iso link here for share: https://archive.org/details/b-100-au-1601

Hey! I'm fairly new here and looking for advice or even just discussion on organisation...

I work at a company with ~5 TB of media archives (mostly video, with some pictures and audio) and I myself have ~2 TB of personal video projects, etc. While they're organised into folders with a logical naming convention, there is almost no way to know what is inside them without either being intimately familiar with them through experience, or opening them up and literally scrubbing through clips.

Is this a problem other people have? I'd love to hear about how you solve it. I've been building an app to handle this with local AI analysis, keywords, search, etc... but I'm not sure if there is a better approach... thanks in advance for any advice!