r/DataHoarder
984k members
r/DataHoarder is a subreddit with 984k members. The most common kinds of discussions are solution requests and advice requests, and the community frequently discusses struggling, looking for, storage, drive, and nas, and they frequently recommend/review backup software, cloud storage solution, and backup solution.
This is a sub that aims at bringing data hoarders together to share their passion with like minded people.
Popular Themes in r/DataHoarder
#1
Solution Requests
: "Not even 2 months and my hard drive is already getting full. Other than buying more storage, how do you store a constant stream of heavy data?"
16 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "Storing digital backups on paper?"
6 posts
#3
Pain & Anger
: "data.world disappearing by July 11th"
5 posts
#4
Ideas
: "Thinking of making a "Data Hoarding Starter Pack" for beginners."
1 post
Popular Topics in r/DataHoarder
#1
Struggling
45 posts
#2
Looking For
45 posts
#3
Storage
33 posts
#4
Drive
19 posts
#5
Nas
: "Second Nas"
17 posts
#6
Tired
16 posts
#7
Annoying
14 posts
#8
Hard
13 posts
#9
Download
13 posts
#10
Backup
11 posts
Products Discussed in r/DataHoarder
Backup Software
102 reviews
#1
FreeFileSync
4.1★ from 8 reviews
#2
Uranium Backup
4.9★ from 7 reviews
#3
Veeam
4.3★ from 6 reviews
Cloud Storage Solution
49 reviews
#1
Backblaze
4.1★ from 11 reviews
#2
Amazon
2.7★ from 7 reviews
#3
Microsoft
3.4★ from 5 reviews
Backup Solution
35 reviews
#1
Backblaze
4.5★ from 4 reviews
#2
Veeam
4.3★ from 3 reviews
#3
Synology
4.7★ from 3 reviews
Flair Used in r/DataHoarder
#1
Question/Advice
: "Not even 2 months and my hard drive is already getting full. Other than buying more storage, how do you store a constant stream of heavy data?"
79 posts
#2
Discussion
: "Check your local Walmarts for 12TB clearance drives"
46 posts
#3
Backup
: "Archiving Israel's genocide in Gaza: 64,537 videos, 17,905 photos, ability to download individual videos, searchable index, exhaustive sources list (300+ journalists), etc. | Israel Exposed on X has made all this information open-source in order to preserve the memory of this on-going genocide."
21 posts
#4
News
: "WH deletes thousands of web pages about energy conservation as heatwave slams US"
19 posts
#5
Hoarder-Setups
: "Its official, im a data hoarder :("
14 posts
#6
Scripts/Software
: "Webshots deleted 14 million users' photos in 2012. Archive Team saved 105.9TB of it — then the extraction tooling died in 2016 and it's been locked ever since. After 10+ years of digging my own photos out by hand, I built the key. It's free."
5 posts
#7
Guide/How-to
: "The world's oldest webcam deletes every photo it takes. I attempted to recover every frame that survived by accident: 85 images across 21 years, from the Wayback Machine's crawl data."
5 posts
#8
Editable Flair
: "7$ per TB facebook find"
3 posts
#9
Free-Post Friday!
: "Looking at my receipt from 9 months ago for 2x of the same hard drives after seeing what they're at now"
2 posts
#10
Not A Good Deal
: "FB MarketPlace Find - 6x (NEW) 8tb drives... $1k"
1 post
Member Growth in r/DataHoarder
Yearly
+119k members(13.7%)
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Last updated: July 23, 2026