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@lemmy.dbzer0.comhttps://torrentfreak.com/uptobox-goes-dark-following-police-raids-on-french-datacenters-230920/
Uptobox reported serious technical issues this morning. Court-ordered police raids at two datacenters seem to be the likely cause.
So I have a few 5TB external drives with all my media. I mainly just hook them up to my xbox and use kodi to play the files locally. I should probably be investing into a NAS or some sort of JBOD, but that's a whole other issue.
So no drive is backed up but they are all new (about 6 months old). Obviously, hdd drives can have mechanical failure, be a dud, or just plain suck. I do smart check and make sure the drive health is fine. I have been reading about bit rot and not sure if that is something I have to worry about and an immediate thing (or it's just some snake oil shit). I want to make sure the data stays readable and in best shape I can have it in for as long as possible. From the reading I have done surfin the web "refreshing" the data is usually done by rewriting the data. I guess what I am worried about is data corruption. With all this being on a HDD, mechanical failure is probably a bigger issue, and is something I should eventually get to with actual backups/parity. Drives are getting cheaper but I don't have the cash to drop right now on better/larger/enterprise (or NAS) drives to set all that up. I don't really want to re-download 20+ TB of stuff just to rewrite my data or shuffle data back and forth between my computer and the drive to rewrite. I could be going about this all wrong, so some pointer or input is helpful.
I use CrystalDiskInfo and HD Tune Pro to check drive health, but kinda just wanted to know if there are programs make help against data corruption, if it's even something that I should be immediately worried about, if I'm going about this in a dumb way, or if I should just start saving and work towards bulding a NAS, JBOD, ZFS or some shit. (if I'm honest all that shit seems out of my ballpark cause I like to just download and play, but it may be time to learn more about all that shit with regards to raid, parity, and having true backups)
tl;dr : I want to keep my shit for as long as possible on my HDDs. Back ups = good, but short of doing that, how to make sure data I currently have stays healthy on current drives?
As the titles states was wondering I was wondering if anyone has a way to download audio off of VK. I usually am able to pull audio files from websites that stream audiobooks or embeeded audio with IDM. When that doesnt work I sometimes pull up the the developer tools in firefox and can pull an address for the audio files and can download that way. However, I have yet to find a way to pull from VK. The the audio streams well but I dont know how to actually download the streaming audio as an mp3 (or similar format). I have tried a few extensions but havent really had any luck (and if I am honest, it sketches me out putting some of those programs on my computer).
Was just wondering if anyone can point me in the right direction.
So I use AudioBB (not to be confused with Audiobookbay) quite often (in conjunction with RD for premium links), looks like site was suspended by hoster for some reason (message posted on their kofi page). I am not sure if this is against the rules (if so, ill delete post or it can be taken down)
Just thought I'd bring this up for those that were wondering . I understand as pirates spending money isnt really part of it. At the end of the day that is fine. Not really asking for donations or anything cause at the end of the day do what you want.
Not posting any links or what not but those that donate can look into it (not that hard) on their kofi