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Kind of a simple question but not really. I have a 2U server in my basement with datacenter 2k22 on it, has a bunch of roles and its in a forest with a few old laptops. nothing "too" special about those machines, just backups for the domain, ADDS (active directory) and crucial/barebones "helpers" for the server. anyway so i got a bunch of stuff that can go into cold storage but obviously i dont wanna pay or use external services. simple reasons for this, potential cyber-incidents with X company, but most of all human error. say for example i setup autopay and i lose my card then forget, well my failsafe data storage is in limbo. given my email is packed with junk most of the time it would be something easily overlooked. maybe the data side on the server would be helpful -16x pcie 4.0 nvme uh, thing. has 4 nvmes in it all kingston fury's at 1tb on raid 1, bitrification or whatever -8x SAS drives, raid 10 all HDDs, seagate constellations, id like to say 4-8tb each? of course the capacities of all and models are the same. disk manager says 14g and some odd megs, so im thinking 4tb each -boot drive is irrelevent, but its a intel something enterprise ssd, guessing prob 128g or less, its on SATA -id like to say at least 4 samsung pro/qvo SSDs at 1tb each, raid 0, just used as temp storage then i shovel copies to other "drives" -a simple 4tb usb3 drive, seagate HDD -another simple 14tb HDD via usb3, that ones a 3.5 inch drive and only one, western digital all this junk are linked to the other pc's, network mapping whatever. nothing special. i deff dont wanna (or do i?) use msft storage spaces role, i forget what its called. basicallly it takes the free space of my other laptops/DC's and combines the drives. all that would mean is if one goes down on the network then poof. prob better off network mapping the laptops multiple drives independently per machine, one has 3, another 4, raid isnt setup yet but thats not a concern at the moment. all samsung 1tb evo/qvo drives. the slowest machine is still rocking a HDD, only a 2 core cpu so not much bother throwing money or anything at it. SO with all this stuff, any ideas for cold storage? apparently bit rot is a real thing so yeah. apparently making dvd-r backups have issues too - even if kept safe without scratches, bit rot yet again. debating on investing in one of those tape deck things, slow but often used for cold storage. but then the magnetic reel is always prone to "something" only reason for the inquiry is because duh we live in a digital world. isnt like going in the basement and busting out a shoebox full of photos is practical these days. my phone alone has ~72,000 photos on it. say i die in a car crash or something at least my daughter would figure out how to access pictures of her birth and my entire life prior and current. of course a crapload of movies, music and games too. man what was that film? oh lets check dads backup cache cause thats where it would be. cant find it online anymore. same goes with games, even after a while i check my stuff and say DAMN i forgot about this one! boom, now im playing Kingpin or Soldier of Fortune. im only 36 but who knows right? should something happen, my lifetimes worth of data could be passed on to my child. its a worthwhile thought, right? any ideas out there? id "burn" vinyl records with .rar files if i could, aside from warping at least it isnt magnetic storage...?

Budget (including currency): $2000 each USD IDK? Country: USA Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Storage for small files that everyone in the office has access to. I also want to back everything up weekly or so. Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): Currently the small company that I work for keeps all of the files that the office works on, on a single drive that everyone has access to via a network share. The drive is located in a workstation that is used by someone every day. I think this drive is supposed to be backed up to a cloud service but I am not sure how often or if it even works at all. I pitched him the idea of moving the drive into a seperate machine so it is not dependent on anyones workstation. I also pitched the idea of having a local backup in the second building that we own. All of the files total to about 500GB right now but it will increase over time. I am looking for some advice on just about everything from the hardware I should buy to the software I should run. Leaning towards Truenas but not married to it. Haven't done a NAS setup before but I am a computer science major so I am not scared to learn. Also do I need something with IPMI?

I have a sheet with over 2000 rows. The contents of column B and C should both be in column B, so we need to merge the C with B. So I only want to merge cells horizontally. How do I do this in Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets?

Soooo i fooked up. Any way to fix the plastic housing around the Sata connector? The pins are still straight so im hoping theres a way to recover the data even if its a short term fix while i transfer the data elsewhere. Help Me Obi Wan. The picture is not my HDD just to explain whats broken.

Summary Their 800+ videos were restored upon request. The deletion of the channel happened because of a deadline sent by mail to the unmanaged account of DigitalRev TV, which went unnoticed. DigitalRev TV Restores 800+ previously deleted videos. DigitalRev TV a Photography channel had previously deleted the entirety of its back catalog, containing more than 800 photography videos. Kai and Lok were the main hosts and cameramen respectively on DitialRev TV, and released several hundred videos during the 7 years they worked there. After all those years of work Kai left DigitalRev TV 7 years ago, and continued creating high quality photography content on YouTube, followed soon after by Lok. After the main hosts left the channel, DigitalRev TV saw a significant viewership decline, and uploads became increasingly infrequent. The last videos purposefully planned and made for the channel were published 4 years ago, when they uploaded a 3 part series of challenges in 2019, and 4 equipment reviews in 2018. As we can see, the overwhelming majority of the content found on the channel was made during those 7 years where Kai and Lok worked there. With their main cast not present anymore, it soon became clear that keeping the channel running wasn't financially viable, which was made worse by the decline in video uploads. This I assume, lead to the dissolution of the remaining team maintaining the channel. This ultimately was the cause of the channel deletion, the lack of response from the now no longer existing DigitalRevTV team resulted in a mixup with youtube, better explained by the DigitalRevTV team in the following fragment of its announcement via a Youtube Community Post: Upon questioning by @zoomnclick in youtube it was revealed by DigitalRev's founder and CEO Richard Yu, that even though the channel has been brought back, including all its 800+ videos, it will remain unmanaged and unmonitored. It turns out that when the videos were restored even private videos were set to public, however it was decided in the spirit of preserving history (in true data hoarder fashion) to leave them public. This is one of the few cases where lost media is officially restored, a huge win for data preservation, keeping a library of invaluable educational and entertaining photography content alive, for more people to see and get introduced to the hobby. Sources Original Channel Deletion: Sebastian, L. , Lafreniere, L. (2023) DigitalRev deleted videos on the YouTube channel. Youtube. Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOQOQqxemOI Z3ppelinDude93 (2023) DigitalRev has deleted almost all of their content. Reddit. Retrieved from: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/17jklpm/digitalrev_has_deleted_almost_all_of_their_content/ Channel Restoration: DigitalRevTV (2023) Youtube. Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxRaGvpuh0qi55KiWFBQAiYApzDL1rMEjP

Hey guys! I have a wd green 3tb hard drive with data and photos on it. It was previously a wd my cloud back up device but I took the harddrive out of that wd my cloud. When connecting the hard drive to my PC it says I need a password and of course I don't know it as this drive is very old. Is there some software I can use to unlock the drive and get the data or a place I can send it to? Thank You

Budget (including currency): 2500 Country: USA Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: computing large data sets through Alteryx Other details https://newegg.io/d0af2fe Current build is: CPU: I7 13700k Mobo: Gigabyte Z690I Ram: Corsair Vengeance 64GB kit at 5200 GPU: MSI Ventus 3060 12GB (Biggest question is on the GPU. I've read a few articles that say for data science the gpu's cudda cores aren't as important as the base clocks of the ram and cpu. Additionally from my research Alteryx doesn't support the use of a gpu to assist with calculating, so this would be for other programs that may allow it in the future.) Case: Fractal Design node 202 PSU: Seasonic Focus SGX-650, 650w (this is based that the idea that I will probably remove/downgrade the GPU) Storgae: 1x XPG SX6000 128 GB lite (Boot drive) and 1x Crucial P3 4TB (his data sets are regularly over 20 gigs. He currently has 15ish gigs terabytes worth on external hard drives, so this would be for the more important sets so he can quickly access them.) CPU fan: Noctua NH-L9i 17xx My current concerns are the necessity of the GPU and if the 3060 is even worth it for a data machine like this, and additional cooling. I was reading some of the reviews for the case and they talked about cutting additional hole in the case which I'm perfectly comfortable doing. Thank you for all the help! - Collin

I just built a PC and I grab my broken laptop and grab the HDD, the HDD is still working so i plug in to my new PC it detect the HDD but it's not allow me to copy it's data and when I try use CMD to access the HDD it says "access is denied"

What are some goods alternative sources to get data about the things LTT/LMG covers? For example, I know https://www.rtings.com/ is great for things like laptop, camera, speaker, headphones, keyboard, mouse, monitor and TV reviews. (Also mods please keep this as a separate thread since it's not directly related to the discussion of the controversy).

Summary GEICO the second largest auto insurer in the united states, recently announced a third party data leak that has effected its 40,000 employees. The company notified employees that the MOVEit system was compromised "outside of GEICO's internal systems". GEICO uses MOVEit to send data via API to Delta Dental, Cinigia, and many other companies for employee benefits. Several employees have come forward saying that personal information such as Social Security Numbers, Address, Phone, Email, and Address have been found from credit searches on the Dark Web. Several individuals in the r/geico subreddit have claimed that GEICO neglected to protect the data in transit. The company has advised employees to freeze credit. Quotes My thoughts This raises several questions about data security in the industry. Does this matter? In todays age 1 in 4 people will have some kind of identity theft happen. Is it reasonable to assume that all data is already compromised, if so should a company be held responsible at all? Is a company responsible for ensuring the partners they share data with are following proper security standards? Should GEICO be held responsible for sharing employee data with a company not following proper standards? What rights/say should employees have when it comes to who a company shares data with? If a data is compromised in anyway, should employees be able to sue an employer for compensation? Lets talk about the complexity for an individual maintaining their data, GEICO employees need to go through three different credit monitoring services and freeze accounts, what about SSN and other information. Who is responsible for ensuring that individuals have the tools to protect their own data. Sources r/GEICO reddit Current GEICO Employees Experian Monitoring Report

Hey, everyone! My old SSD (Mushkin) has a Reallocated Sector Count of 38 and Reallocated Event Count of 86 (confirmed with HD Tune Pro, HD Sentinel, and AIDA64 while CrystalDiskInfo says "all good"). That's why I bought a brand new Samsung 870 EVO 1TB. Inside the 870's box, I found a small booklet containing info about Samsung Data Migration and Samsung Magician. I didn't know that I can clone my old SSD to the new one with the data migration tool. I installed these 2 apps and I was about to start the process but I asked myself: Will this process also clone the Reallocated Sector Count and Reallocated Event Count? The Data Migration tool software has some limitations, one of them is regarding damaged disks. Can we say that Bad Sectors = Reallocated Sector Count/Reallocated Event Count? Let me know what you think.

I need to know cuz in getting a new 512gb sata ssd

Hi there, I'm currently looking for a way to copy/backup a specific folder on an m.2 drive (F:) onto an external m.2 USB-C. Is there a way to do it on Win11? I remember back then, wasn't that the function of the 'briefcase' item? I need it to copy/backup every hour and every 5pm (before leaving work. Thank you!

Hello, As the title suggests how much data you use? For me it's roughly 200-500GB because I seed torrents 24/7. What about yours?

Hello all, my pc buddy isn’t responding. Probably out doing stuff, oh well. Moving on.. what happened? Was using win 10 pro, had WSL kali, and Ubuntu going, both upgrading/fixing dependencies, and dist-upgrade. Had 2-3 tabs open in Firefox, one for college (blackboard), one was another for a radio station for music/background noise, and another prob related to college stuff. Word was also open so I was probably doing a virtual lab on JBLEARNING.com. So, follow instructions, do a screenshot and paste into word. As all of this was going on, hey my amd 6700xt and 6600 have a new driver available, let’s install it! So it’s installing while all this is going on, then BSOD, not sure how far into the install but I specifically remember the error code was amd*(gpu-related).dll, yada yada please wait while we report to msft and reboot for you. Pc reboots, no gpu output as expected. The ROG logo showed up (booting windows), and screen goes blank. I presume Windows loaded fine and was on the login screen, but of course couldn’t see it. fudge right? No onboard output, so wtf. what have I tried? -Reboot, then I force it to do the Windows “diagnose” BS. Go into CMD from there as the objective is clearly to remove the AMD drivers and fall back to basic display adapter. Well, diskpart shows my two nvmes when in reality the two 1tbs should be “one” physical drive as it’s raid 1. Hmm, looks like this pre-Windows boot isn’t loading the NVMe RAID drivers so C:\ isn’t accessible. Damn! Can’t even go back to a restore point! -shoved a bootable win10 usb install disk into pc and boop, fires up. Goto the part where it wants u to pick a drive to install on. Hey there’s my 2 nvmes! Then I shove in my AMD RAID usb, install the drivers, bam, there’s my partitions. Cool. Shift+F10 (I think) to get into CMD. Well fudge, the raid drive is there just not “mounted”, as in can’t access the media/file system. Shoot! -rotate my chair 90 degrees, now I’m playing off my server (2022 datacenter) off a kvm switch as it’s in the basement not the 2nd floor office. Hmm…. Ok let’s make a Windows 2 go flash drive. Fire up Rufus, make the drive, shove into pc n reboot. (Long time later) windows desktop. Ok, now we’re getting somewhere? Diskpart shows the two nvmes yet again. As expected, no access. That’s ok, I’ll just install the raid chipset drivers and the raidx utility from AMD. Reboot, wtf? Still can’t access the “drive”. -Alright so now obv we have an issue. Shutdown, insert my hiren boot “cd”, Windows PE fires up fine. Of course I can’t install the NVMe raid drivers since it’s such a lightweight version of Windows (figured I’d try). Sure enough diskpart shows the nvmes again but no access to C:\ or whatever letter it would assign if the array was functioning properly. Now I’m using some tool for data recovery to “deep scan” one of the drives. Hopefully I can just get to my desktop folder and copy my “college” folder as that’s where all my assignments and stuff are. That’s really all I care about salvaging. Probably less than 200 meg of data. It’s still scanning, drive is in good Health and it’s happy. (Still going as of now) -the weird thing i have 8x 1tb Samsung SSDs, 7 are EVO’s and 1 is a QVO - all identical firmware. Anywho, 4 of those are on raid 10 which pull up as a drive letter (I use it to store backups as for some reason the SATA raid never has a problem, even without drivers windows 2 go can see it and I can access). Also the other 4 drives are deticated hot spares (global spares?) just in case - right?? Been there before, had a SSD/HDD setup before on 10 and one drive pooped, another, then u guessed it, everything went to the trash and I swapped my config. -what I probably should have tried remember initially how windows WOULD boot but no output? Assumed it was sitting at the login screen? Well, should have tried to RDP from the server to the pc. It has a static IP of 192.168.1.19. Maybe I could have pulled up the GUI off the server and reinstalled the AMD video drivers -here is also a consideration, but I’d like solid advice on this one as again, it’s crucial data I want to recover - a whopping 200mb or less. go into bios, set to ACHI (on nvme’s), make one of two dynamic so I can *maybe* access the drive. I mean, they’re raid 1 so it’s a 100% mirror right? In theory it should work ALTHOUGH when setting up the array in the bios (NVMe, sata, don’t matter) the drives need to be unformatted Blah blah. Also, they need to be “initialized” in preparation for making the array. This leads me to beleive the bios is writing data to the drives making them say, hey I’m gonna be a member of an array, I’m special. Then ya make the array and now they’re “bound”, blood brothers I guess. So with that said, the drives must have a portion of data written saying “that other guy who matches my data signature is also me, I can’t work alone”. Of course whatever data it is, has to be stored at the very beginning of the drive in raw storage. Idk let’s say it’s only 128kb worth of code or something. U have the NVMe firmware and whatever else specific to the drive (serial number, sequence data blah blah) then that part of code associating this drive to that one, and then of course all your data - efi partition, NTFS partition, and all the other stupid ones Windows tosses in there. -so where to go from here? ideally, I’d like to break the array. I’ve contemplated simply removing one of the sticks (after disabling raid and selecting ACHI) and see if it can figure out wtf is going on. Or perhaps leaving raid on (that little part of data right?), then removing one of them. Maybe bios will see one drive is “down” and figure it out? -things to consider in bios AND windows 2 go, the NVMe raid array is “offline” - zero clue why. I didn’t mess with anything in there as of yet. Well actually no, I did clear the cmos but that still retained the raid arrays. Again, the sata array shows up totally fine, it’s online and happy, all the spares show up too. But wtf is going on with the NVMe raid?? NOTE, the cmos was not cleared until after I did the whole win2go/install raid drivers/reboot/check to see if I can access the “drive” any ideas? It be nice if I could just salvage my college folder at a bare minimum. After that, then try to recover one of the disks as a whole (so Windows can physically mount it as a letter) and remove that half-installed driver. also under disk management (computer management, whatever), the drives do pull up but for me to assign a drive letter I need to convert one of em to dynamic, from gpt. From what I’ve read online when u go dynamic u can’t convert back to gpt. Basically, I’m not quite sure if it’ll help or set me back even further. after all, it would be nice just to get windows back n working like it was yesterday prior to the BSOD. I don’t mind a fresh format either, so long as I have my college folder (finals are in like a week). -Pc specs x570 asus/rog dark hero WIFI on 4402 bios (latest last I checked, feb 02 of 2023 I beleive) 5900x OCd to 4.25 bclock set to 101.25 (could be lower now, probably just 100, not that it matters) 4x Corsair dominators, 3600, 64gb total (16g each) with docp enabled Xfx 6700ti and another xfx 6600 1000w seasonic 80 gold psu a (bleep) load of watercooling stuff. Let’s just say over 1800mm worth of radiators. Yes my case is packed! a crapload of fans, forget the brand, but non RGB. I do know they do 2500rpm, the 120mm’s at least. Same model line, 5x 140mm fans, just a tad slower but fastest fans I could find. They all match so yeah, irrelevant but good to know? 2x Kingston fury (rampage?) 1tb nvmes, latest firmware last I checked. Made in same country, same model, everything is identical about those aside from serial number 8x Samsung’s on raid10 (sata) as mentioned, no need for further details on those. They all match but one which is one of 4 global spares hardware NOT installed yet, or ever (could be helpful for anybody that has ideas) -one gigabyte NVMe pci-e 4.0 16x enclosure packed with 2x 980 pros and 2x Kingston rampages (fury’s, whatever) here’s the copy/paste off Amazon if you’d like to look it up ”GC-4XM2G4 (AORUS Gen4 AIC Adaptor, Full PCIe 4.0, Advanced Thermal Solution for PCIe 4.0 SSD)” ^again, never installed in pc, never setup, nothing. Just put the drives in the enclosure, closed it up and it’s sitting on top my case waiting to be installed after this mess is figured out. oh and should this get fixed, should I just put all 4 of my Kingston’s into that and put the two 980s on the motherboard? I plan on raid’ing the enclosure thingy - IF it has an onboard raid controller (that will eliminate the need for drivers as it’s made for my motherboard) Should it work, assuming butrificatuon isn’t a problem, put my main OS on that? How should I configure my HD’s in relation to my default boot drive? geez sorry for the long story. Still waiting on this hiren app to deep scan the drive anyway, thanks in advance. I really really need some help on this one, very very desperate OH and the server is literally a server, idk if it helps with ideas but yeah. It’s got like 10 NICs on her, U2 form factor, dual Xeon somethings, 384ish gb of ddr3, registered, ecc, blah blah. There’s also a quadro rtx 4000 in it, which I probably should have just shoved in my pc had I thought about it back then…. Full ipmi access, latest firmware. Supermicro something. So I could always do pxe boot, although I don’t quite understand how to mount a iso thru the interface as it wants a location, like \\yadayada\this.iso. I imagine it wants either \\Server\SAS-RAID\Downloads\ISOs\windows10.iso OR like linux, \\pci{03840283957302947}\somestuff\morestuff\noidea\modelnumber\sda1\Downloads\ISOs\windows10.iso ^its also raided, Intel 120gb SSD as boot, 6x 1tb sata3 SSDs on raid 0, also another array, 8x seagate somethings, 2tb each on raid 0, SAS drives plus a WD direct access storage, 14tb strictly used ONLY for backups. I mean we got a lot of terabytes here on raid 0, so B/Us are done frequently just in case For right now it’s just a storage server, static ips are set. 2022 datacenter. After college is done with it’ll become a lot more, and I’ll toss in my other 2 laptops as servers doing different roles. (That’s why I have the kvm balun, once the laptops are setup as servers they’ll be wired to the supermicro and I’ll just RDP to each of them as needed) ugh ok that’s my bit. Help!!

Hello everyone, I am new to the forum :) My question is: what would be the beast way to compress about 6 TB of pdfs (about 500,000 pdf files)? The main goal is to make an archive of my pdf collection I've been working on for about 10 years. I would like it to take up the least amount of space. That way I can make backups on Mdisks, without using too many disks. Also to use fewer micro SD cards to carry with me. This is the last step of my project. I have used: Filestar to convert nonpdf files to pdf format, and Adobe to compress multiple pdfs at a time. This process is still kind of slow and would probably take about 1-2 years time to do between family and work life. My goal would be to find an automated process or program that could run continuously and conpress pdf files withing files, idealy without having to select each and Would there be anyone who offers a service to do this? Anyone have any ideas what software or methods to use?

Summary Amazon has an option to download all your order history to a convenient spreadsheet. (Riley sub-voice - to let you quickly see how much money you've given the Rocket man). In yet another reminder that your data isn't yours Amazon is killing this feature in a week. Quotes My thoughts In a recent WAN Show Linus was saying how companies should be forced to provide 'call me back' if the queue is longer then a bit. I strongly feel that it should be a similar requirement for companies to provide a way for you to download all your transactions from them AND that emails should be required to neatly show a freaking normal receipt. Have you seen what a receipt from Amazon looks like lately? It basically shows order total and ETA. No item information. Will I'm sure this more 'want to clear legacy system' then 'were trying to hide how much you really spend' - it just really reeks of corporate FU. Sources https://www.amazon.com/b2b/reports https://www.doctorofcredit.com/amazon-to-sunset-order-history-reports-after-march-20th/

(Sorry for the LTT style title LOL) When I saw the VAG segment of the video (3 hours late) I had to Google the Konami code. I was interested if a lot of other people had to Google it as well. Turns out, they did! While I don't imagine a lot of people google it on the regular, it appears the LTT effect is very much real.

I logged on to my PC today and found that all the disks that are connected via sata 3 cables to my motherboard are now unallocated. This includes one 1TB 850 Evo and two 2TB WD Blues. I did not get any Windows updates last night, as far as I can see. I have tried putting the drives in another PC, and they show as unallocated. I am unsure what could have possibly caused this, and very scared that all the stuff stored on these drives may be lost. I have run the Seagate bootable tool and found my drives are fine. The drives had no issues being detected by Windows or in BIOS. I am aware there are 3rd party recovery tools, and would love suggestions on ones people have had real success with; although I would prefer to stay away from 3rd party apps if I can fix it without them. Does anyone have some suggestions?

Tim Berners-Lee’s plan to save the internet: give us back control of our data World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee takes on Google, Facebook, Amazon to fix the internet That sounds like a silly conclusion, to me. Yes, personal data shouldn't be looked-at firstly as monetary value, because it isn't firstly a monetary thing and it has no monetary value if it isn't for sale per the will of the person who owns it. But no, personal data isn't owned by society, each individual person's personal data is owned by them. Suggesting it is owned by society sounds like a way to concede that it doesn't belong to corporations while rationalizing that industries should have some means of access to it all the same. In general, I think that Tim Berners-Lee's plan is a positive idea, compared to where things are. But I think that most of that data should be prohibited by law from being collected and stored in the first place. And what happens if Inrupt's data-stores are hacked? There goes the privacy the privacy and personal control of one's data that the idea was meant to protect. I think the issue needs to be addressed at its source rather than with a coping mechanism which I think would be destined to fail. At some point, likely even from the outset, governments would have gained access to that vault of information and the public likely won't know about it when it happens. The business of harvesting data is a dirty, illegitimate, predatory, and hypocritical one. It is making money through the exploitation and manipulation of people and is a crime - and not just a moral one (though, it is definitely a moral one): What do you think would happen if you were to hook a Bitcoin mining operation up to the electricity supply of some business you don't own, without their permission and without compensating them? If they found out, they would have you arrested and if the operation was significant, they'd sue you, and would probably get to seize any profits you'd made while using their electricity. There's not really even a need to frame things in cryptocoin-mining terms. Imagine that you decided to start using various businesses computers, electricity, employee activities, software, housing, as data farms for your own project, just like they're doing with our PCs. Same thing's going to happen: You'll be arrested and charged, probably sued, and any profits you made will probably be seized and given to the corporation. But tech companies are doing the same thing to us and they're not being punished for it in any way. In generating and harvesting data from our particular usage and via interaction with our devices, tech companies are using our electricity, our hardware, our storage and management of our hardware, our software, our time, our personal activity, for their own commercial purposes, and all without a commercial license. They're stealing. And it's crazy that it's been allowed to progress this far, that the public is in a stupor and doesn't understand that this isn't right. Somehow, the public, governments, and regulators have been lured into a stupor and coma regarding the topic just because tech companies started doing these things before there was any understanding of them, and so now people feel like it's just the way things are. But that's like thinking that stealing what isn't yours and slavery are just the way things are. Tech companies whose business is mining and selling data are stealing from us in the same way that a politician who steals millions of dollars out of the treasury is stealing from their constituents. Even though the millions of dollars they stole amounts to a few dollars, or even less than a dollar per person, the smallness of the stealing from each individual doesn't make it not stealing. Some methods to reduce the amount of data being stolen from you and used for commercial and manipulative purposes include: - Using DuckDuckGo for web searches. They don't share or store any personal data. DuckDuckGo also has a tracker-blocking privacy plugin for Chrome, FireFox, and Safari, as well as mobile browsers. - Using only an Enterprise or LTSC edition of Windows 10 as they afford for lowering the amount of data Microsoft takes from you beyond what Home and Pro allow. And Microsoft is tracking every mouse-click you make in Windows 10. - Using ProtonMail for you email. It has end-to-end encryption and your inbox is encrypted with a user encryption key so that ProtonMail can't view it, either. - Installing Electronic Frontier Foundation's browser plugin Privacy Badger [2] [3], which blocks a lot of tracking scripts. - Possibly using an ad-blocker to reduce the amount of tracking and advertisement scripts websites can run when you browse their website. - Making use of FireFox browser's built-in Facebook-tracking-blocking feature. - Using your iPhones built-in option to block all tracking by apps. - Setting your DNS resolver to Cloudflare's free 1.1.1.1 service. This prevents your ISP from recording your activity and searches and selling it. Cloudflare doesn't collect or sell any of your data and doesn't record any IPs. Cloudflare also has a mobile app that sets your mobile internet usage to its 1.1.1.1 service. Cloudflare say of their 1.1.1.1 service: If you know of additional methods to secure your data and privacy, please share them.

Hello, I have an external drive that isn't being recognized by Windows and I need to get the data off of it. I have checked to see if windows recognizes it in the partition manager (Like Windows just didn't assign it a letter or something) but it didn't appear there either. I think the connector on the external drive is bad. The data on the drive is very important to me and I would really like to get it back. I am thinking of sending it to a data recovery center but not quite sure where to start. Do y'all have recommendations? Things to look for? Big red flags? Thanks for all of the help in advance!

Just like title says, I want to buy a new SSD since the current one is only 256 GB and I'm almost out of space even though I save almost everything on my HDD. Is there also a way to directly copy everything from the old SSD to the new one? Every answer will be much appreciated!

Hey pros, I’m hoping to gain some knowledge from you that have experience managing large amounts of data (we have 200TB+) across multiple NAS devices (we have 3) and types of cloud backup (we’re using wasabi). Our content creators edit straight off the NAS via 10Gb Ethernet with PC and Mac and the capable machines see 1GBps+ Read and Write. I’m wanting to learn more as I develop a tiered “hot”, “warm” and “cold” storage model/strategy that is scalable and can be roadmapped. Does anyone have experience in this or know of a resource? Thanks in advance!

I put the files from the windows repair iso on my external hard drive, but when i rebooted the files from the iso are all that are left, and there is a fat32 mbr partition, and the rest of the drive has been unallocated. I could have also done this accidentally with the mount command in the repair command prompt section? Wondering if i can somehow easily repair the drive partition and get my data back

I'm not sure this is the best section to ask but I couldn't find a better one so. I've got a question I need answering and I can't find it anywhere online. I have limited data, 50 gigs a month to be exact. I don't game on that but I would like too. And so I looked up how much data an hour playing gta5 online takes up. Every single link I clicked on says gta5 online uses around 50mbs of data per hour. In fact is said most games use around that much data an hour. But when I launched the game to test it, according to task manager the game was using 300 kbps, witch as far as I could tell would be a hell of a lot more than 50mbs an hour. So I'm not sure what is going on, is my math just really bad, is it something to do with my wifi. I just don't know. Hopefully someone on here can help me. Thanks.