Introduction If you’re a data-hoarder, the thought of deleting any data once your hard drive is full probably fills you with a sense of terror...

Introduction If you’ve spent any time browsing the various forums or subreddits dedicated to data-hoarding, you’ve likely seen this common question being asked: “What are...

Introduction I’ve been regularly buying hard disk drives for the best part of three decades. Over this time, the capacities have increased tremendously. It’s sometimes...

As you may imagine, as a data-hoarder, I’ve owned dozens, if not hundreds of hard drives over the years. Each time one of my hard...

Introduction I’ve been reading good things about Open Media Vault (OMV) for a while now, and have decided it’s time to give it a try...

Preamble Many people have difficulty deleting data from their systems, even when this data is outdated and still widely available online. If you are one...

With the initial trials of SpaceX Starlink drawing to a close with positive results, some people in the datahoarding community are considering subscribing to the...

I was reading on a forum recently about a guy that was boasting he had a private database containing pager messages dating back decades. A...

Introduction Hi, fellow datahoarders. I’ve recently decided that I’m going to cancel my Spotify subscription and move to a self-hosted music streaming solution. This isn’t...

I recently moved my hoard of data from various NAS devices to a consolidated VM running TrueNAS. After some research, I decided to use Proxmox...

As a digital datahoarder, I tend not to throw away any old software whether it be on CD, DVD, or anything else. Last week I...

If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you’ll be aware that I am a huge fan of running a home server. In fact,...

If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you’ll know that I believe most datahoarders should buy a server. What I find is that...

Most of us datahoarders get started by upgrading the capacity of our hard drive or SSD in our desktop or laptop. Then we realise that...

In my last post about SSD storage, I introduced you to my friend Dave. Dave is getting into data hoarding with aggression and he keeps...

Today’s post is a bit unusual and possibly not of much interest to fellow data-hoarders. It comes in response to a question I was recently...

I recently changed my broadband ISP and decided to switch to BT Fibre. I’ve had fibre from BT in the past (back when it was...

If you’re new to data hoarding and have been reading about it on blogs, forums, Reddit, etc. you’ve probably seen people talking about shucking hard...

If you’ve been hoarding data for any amount of time, you’ll probably already have a pretty sophisticated backup system in place. I’ve lost data in...

As a datahoarder I am constantly buying new hard drives and consolidating the contents of old ones. I personally wipe the old drives in software...