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    What’s the meaning of shucking a hard drive?

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    What does the term “rip cd” really mean?

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Pager

Receiving and storing pager messages

April 10, 2021

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

Self-hosted Spotify alternative

Moving from Spotify to a self-hosted music streaming server

March 13, 2021

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

Pi-Hole on LXC on Proxmox

Installing Pi-Hole inside a Proxmox LXC Container

January 9, 2021

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

UK Info Disk v1.0

UK Info Disk – A nostalgic adventure

August 29, 2020

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

10 fun things you can use a home server for

August 7, 2020

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,

Top 5 best places to find cheap used servers for home use

August 1, 2020

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

Top 10 best looking servers / server racks

July 22, 2020

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

Table showing OSI layers

Which OSI layer does iSCSI operate at?

June 17, 2020

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

128GB SSD

What does 128GB SSD mean?

May 22, 2020

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

Can you use Rclone with BT Cloud?

April 14, 2020

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

Shucking a Freecom external hard drive using a hammer

What’s the meaning of shucking a hard drive?

March 28, 2020

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

Reliable flash drive

How reliable are flash drives for backup?

March 23, 2020

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

Bleaching a hard drive

How to destroy a hard drive with bleach

March 17, 2020

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

A VLive video playing

How to download VLive videos – A guide

January 3, 2020

The increasing popularity of the VLive video streaming website has led to a number of users searching for ways to download videos from it. Perhaps

Man confused by Easystore and Elements

WD Easystore vs Elements – What’s the difference

December 17, 2019

If you’re in the market for some additional cheap data storage, you’ve probably heard the names Easystore and Elements. These names refer to two popular

CD Ripping

What does the term “rip cd” really mean?

December 13, 2019

If you’ve ever wondered what it means to “rip a CD” then you’re not alone. This question is asked at least once a month on

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