How much of your hard drive is anime and manga, /a/?
I have an almost full 2TB, as well as four LTO3 tapes filled with anime.
Out of 5.45 TB, I've 4.64 TB is anime, then I've got another drive with an additional TB.
>>141590947
That can't be all anime, unless that's an external hard drive.
>hard drive
>not plural
>>141591328
It's one of 3 external drives, my main hard drive has 600 gb on it.
>hard drive
>2016
>using spinning fucking platters
Disgusting
have all of it backed up on a second drive too
371GB of anime and 33GB of manga on a 500GB drive.
485GB of anime.
5GB of pics and colouring in fap comics.
Getting a new 2TB external later this month.
I don't hoard digital media unless it's music.
At least 3 or 4 TB. Of which there's at least a terabyte of manga.
I really need to get a new HDD.
I also have most of the Gundam Series and the Patlabor TV series in my D: drive.
320 GB of anime
But will transfer them to my 2tb external drive and then torrent more anime since most of them are shitty 480p downloaded anime
0
I am a streamer.
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What's the purpose of hoarding all this anime?
It's not like you're going to back and rewatch all of this shit or anything like that
>>141592613
nice try
>>141592818
when shit hits the fan and the internet stops working (caps, censorship, licensed only access, etc) i will have terabytes of my favorite shows and music archived
you'll have nothing
happy to share though if we could somehow start a harddrive mailing tree or something
we got you covered anon
I delete anime that I don't plan to rewatch, and I usually read manga on batoto or on my tablet. So probably about 200-500GB, which are the series I'm currently watching or plan to watch/rewatch in the foreseeable future.
I do store a lot of shit on my drive though, so 2TB isn't enough for me anymore.
>>141592818
I like being able to have the BDs of shows.
Also every other year or so I have to sit in the desert for six months, having a huge backlog I can pull from at a moment's notice works great in that situation.
>>141590947
I have a couple hundred gigs of detective conan laying around.
194 GBs on a 1.36 TB external. Most of it is a bloated Ghibli compilation release that I downloaded.
I delete after finishing.
1 gig
That's it
>>141593228
Thats not even a single hd episode. Im legit not sure why your browsing /a/?
>>141590947
I have a full 250GB external and am working on a 1TB one. I'd probably already have the 1TB filled up but I bought a ton of BDs last year and deleted a bunch of my downloads since I didn't need them anymore.
This is after I remuxed all the dual-audio releases and re-encoded flacs for almost every release to libfdk_aac with batch ffmpeg commands.
I need to coalesce some directories.
>>141593267
Been browsing since I was 14. 25 now.
Delete after watching.
>>141593403
That doesn't seem completely unreasonable.
>HDD
mfw
I
have
no
face
>>141593457
you have to be rich if you can afford dozens of terabytes of SSD for storage.
I just needed to move up to a new external now that my shit I've finished watching adds up to 2TB.
>>141592990
There are going to be thousands of people offering to make copies of their hard drives for a reasonable fee or otherwise. I feel safe.
>>141593507
they'll laugh you off because you didn't store anything to trade.
you know, someone has to make those copies.
>>141593457
Not everyone watches anime in 144p, anon
>>141593547
>trade
There's this thing called money.
>>141592818
I host a media server for my friends. easy to recommend stuff if they have easy access to it
>>141593507
The problem is gonna be contacting them and the logistics of dealing with drives and them not being shitheads and everything happening in a timely manner.
The other problem is when everyone just assumes what you have, that someone else will take care of it - Then no one does and it's all gone forever. (This actually happened with the Grateful Dead in their late middle years - Everyone just assumed someone else was taping the show. Turns out for many, no one was and the only recordings today are incomplete and shit.)
I know that I am not a shithead (I won't even charge, that's fucked up) and I am indeed archiving tons of shit - But it's just the shit I happen to like and I can only make so many copies so fast etc.
And the reality is, if shit really hits the fan like this, we prolly will have more important things to worry about - Who knows if sharing physical drives will even be possible at that point.
>>141593598
Thank god I became scum and started to watch streamed anime. I check the avilable stream quality and then weigh it up against the quality of avilable downloads. 80% of the time I can just open notepad and pick something to watch online.
>That feel when your 500gb backlog is wiped off your HDD
I need more space but I'm worried I'll break something by adding more internal drives and hate external ones.
>>141590947
The primary HD? None. It's a 150gb SSD that's 50% Windows 7, 20% Adobe CS6, 20% images for shitposting on 4chan. The remainder is virtual RAM.
Even my secondary is only 10% manga, 15% anime, and 40% visual novels.
>>141593760
boku no pico
>>141590947
i have over 600 gigs on my 1TB drive. i had to delete 300 gigs a few months ago because my computer was fucking up.
>>141593760
Make a thread on /wsr/ and I'll answer you.
>>141593760
>>141593793
For someone as pleb as you you don't even need to post. Just lurk someone else's generic "what animes r gud" thread and choose a name that sticks out.
>>141593724
Maybe if you're a retard.
>>141590947
about 9TB
>>141593845
and 600 pieces of 25GB BD-R to backup my bdmv's
Remember to make backups.
>>141591370
>Not SSDxHDD master setup.
>>141593933
It's too much of a pain. The one time I did back up though, the next day my hard drive died.
>>141593906
i lost 2TB of bdmv.
>>141593933
My 3 2TB's have lasted 6 years so far
3TB or so - yuyuko hungers for more drives
>>141590947
1.05 TB
>>141594093
Where are the hard drives? How much did that cost to set up?
>>141593933
dont worry, I have a crash plan subscription dedicated to my anime
746 GB between my computer and my HDD, not counting my anime reaction folder, anime music, hentai, ecchi, and manga.
>>141593472
I stream anyways.
>>141594093
I wish I understand what all that meant.
Around 2tb, scared to even organize it either if it wasn't released in a batch it's probably single files all together in 1 folder from the folder I send all downloads too. Probably around 300gb of copies or downloads from alternate subgroups when good subs aren't out on time.
>>141590947
200GB external - full
1TB external - full
2TB external - full
3TB external - about 25% full
Shows I particularly like are on two drives instead of one. Fortunately, I haven't had any HD failures yet, despite the smallest being close to 10 years old by now.
>>141593933
What's the best way to do it? I have things just sitting around on externals but I know it's not a long-term solution.
>>141593933
>mfw I take my external HD every day to work
How prone is it to fuck up? Passportfag here.
>>141594425
Depends on the drive. I had an older model with a WD Black drive in it. Sucker went to Iraq and back and 4years of school. Still works great.
>>141594446
Did you see any brown lolis?
>>141590947
200GB IIRC. (HDs are expansive in my country)
Half of my RAID5.
>>141590947
>How much of your hard drive is anime and manga, /a/?
Only ecchi anime, so I don't need more than this.
>>141594093
Holy
This is the majority, there is a few hundred more GB of stuff that isn't sorted or is hentai that is located somewhere else.
>>141590947
None, because I stream anime. I'm only going to watch it once so whats the point in downloading it to my hard drive, I'd be a waste of space.
>>141594086
You can't avoid sudden drive failures
>all those streamfags
>>141590947
Mostly free, and what I do have is mostly videogames.
Why would you keep manga and anime saved, if you arent watching/reading it?
If it's great then I will buy it, but I dont see the point in leaivng stuff clutter up my PC.
>>141594093
How much of that content is 2hu?
My 2hu is a pitiful 3k files.
>>141594778
Nowadays streams have quality comparable to downloadable anime. There is no noticeable difference unless you're watching it on a huge screen.
What's your point?
It's kinda like with online manga readers. They used to be shit because of compression and watermarks, but now we have batoto which left no reason to download manga other than for archiving or reading it on a portable device. Although I think they're removing some licenced stuff now, which is very unfortunate.
I have 2 3TB drives. The first one is full and the second one is 60% full. I'm pretty new to anime though, I've only seen 17 shows, got them by some group called coalgirls.
![[Femme] DokiDoki! Precure - NCED01 [BD 720p Hi444PP FLAC][412D0EE9].mkv_snapshot_00.42_[2014.09.25_19.33.19].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/5lqLzja.jpg "[Femme] DokiDoki! Precure - NCED01 [BD 720p Hi444PP FLAC][412D0EE9].mkv_snapshot_00.42_[2014.09.25_19.33.19].jpg")
>>141594917
>quality comparable to downloadable anime
>unless you're watching it on a huge screen
So in the same sense you shit and a gourmet steak is comparable. you can compare them, that doesn't mean the outcome will be favorable.
>>141594943
Heh.
>>141594917
quality was always just a tertiary bonus
downloading is about having a copy that you are in full control over
it's about being able to choose whatever subs you want
it's about censorship and no one else being able to remove something you should have access to
it's about freedom
>>141595095
No, it's never been about those things. It's always been quality elitism. Like with MPC-CCC vs VLC.
>>141594943
>>141594093
I remember when I had well over 2TB Touhou stuff myself.
I god disinterested of Touhou almost completely in the past few years though and my TH folder is only 142GB anymore.
>>141590947
I delete my animes after watching them
>>141594135
in the 3u server at the bottom - yuyuko, she handles file and print serving - 6 x 2TB drives in RAID10
>>141594815
>How much of that content is 2hu?
on yuyuko - almost none - 20GB of music maybe
>>141595616
And the cost? I really want to have a giant pool of space so I can setup auto syncing and backing up to a local server but have next to no idea about the hardware involved.
>>141595653
hard to say, used parts I had left over along with buying things incrementally
say
£55 for motherboard + cpu
£20 for ram
£25 for raid card + battery backup
£40 for case
£20 for PSU
£300 for 6 2TB drives
could easily make something similar for much less - look into hp microservers, can get some of those at very reasonable prices
>>141594093
I feel honored knowing that you posted in my thread.
>>141590947
0TB
I've slowly been deleting as I've been rationing my hard drive space as other things take up space, it's a couple hundred gigabytes or something
I've stuck myself at a single terabyte for years and I'm going for a 2gb external drive soon
>>141595616
>Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Apprentice Sysadmin of !GEnsOKyOwY
Refresh my memory, is this the tripfag who had the Umineko room?
I wonder what that room looks like right now.
>Your room will never be that glorious
>Just the price of tatami mats made you give up on the idea of improving your shithole.
Somewhere around 50GB
My connection is fast enough so that whatever I want is downloaded by the time I've taken a pre-watch piss.
>>141590947
None, I stream in 480p
>>141594542
Three 4TB drives?
I have around 0.5 TB on my external harddrive filled up. Theres a few western shows but I'd say its roughly 85% anime.
Been watching since Jan 2013, 3 TB now.
I've got a pair of 2 tb external drives that I use to store he highest quality copies I could find of about 100~ series/films I love, with a few more added each year.
Got another 1 tb drive of artbook/light novel/fanbook/etc. for those same series, plus a few general ones just from authors/artists I like.
Currently planning to buy a 4tb drive to start stockpiling manga, and then burn everything to a fat stack of BDs just to be safe.
I'm doing this solely because I'm convinced one day this shit will be damn near impossible to pirate as copyright holders continue to clamp down hard on it.
>>141593108
>Also every other year or so I have to sit in the desert for six months
Why?
bump, interesting thread
Almost 2 TB, but most of them on externals
I know you need to back your hard drives, but how do you back up your back ups? And how about your backup backups? And so on? Will this cycle ever end?
>>141597960
Just set up a RAID, when one fails just buy another
Some of it isn't anime and I have another ~60GB of anime movies. Only download 1080p Blu-ray rips if I can, but have only been downloading for a few months as I streamed before that.
>>141598109
>TV Shows.
Nice to know I'm not the only one that pretends I'm not a weeb.
>>141590947
>>141590947
My other HDD died with 3 TB of anime, now I only got ~800 GB.
>>141590947
4x5TB array 99% full, out of which anime 58% manga 5% h-doujins and h-manga 11%. Then various backup external drives, no idea of the percentages. Most likely two thirds at least anime+manga.
1.21 TB, and I think I have a pretty insignificant collection.
Around 500GB on my 1TB but then I dropped it, the spindle got stuck, I need to fix it temporarily and salvage what I can asap.
>>141593933
I named it "loliprison" ;_; RIP. I'll get two this time maybe an SSD.
>>141598090
>Just set up a RAID
I might be nitpicking, but it would be best to specifiy the type of RAID. RAID 0 wouldn't do much for fault tolerance.
>>141590947
Lost count after 4 HDDs. Rest what I haven't bought already on DVD is burned on DVD. How else would one storage fucking 172 episodes of Inuyasha and all the other shit? Maybe about 6 TB?
It's a bit more than this, i keep actual season stuff seperate.
>manga/h-manga
>anime/h-anime
There are no screenshots and very little seperate subtitle files.
Most of my anime are for archiving purposes so only 480p-720p.
>>141590947
>Wasting hdd space on anime you already watched and will likely never watch againthought saving hentai is a good idea considering that you jerk off to it frequently
>>141598531
I just realized that the one kind anime I regularly rewatch is the one I stream. Their quality is so shit to begin with I don't bother downloading any.
>>141598187
Nah it's for Plex's file ordering
>>141598507
I know some massive shitcunt that only saves 360p rips;maybe less than 360p to save space because he watches shounen shit with a ton of episodes. The nigger is literally up to date with One Piece.
>>141598418
1 if you have only 2 HDDs, 5 if more.
>>141598448
Why even store Inuyasha?
I feel like I've got a pretty strong collection so far.
>>141598531
Personally I only store stuff that I see myself rewatching(minus the backlog of course), so I'm not wasting anything.
>>141598701
This.
>>141598531
>wasting
You know if you get tired of looking at something you can just rm -rf it, right?
>nobody mentions using EMP protection for their anime
sasuga weeaboos
>>141598594
>>141598701
I was referring to those who keep TBs of anime; it's fine as long as you keep anime you rewatch frequently
>>141598876
You mean burning to optical discs? Eh. I've got some boxes full of dvds from 10+ years ago. I even took out the dvd drive from my computer because I don't use discs anymore.
About 1TB. I need to clean it up a bit though. I prefer to keep only my favourite shows.
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How the fuck do I organize my 4chan images?
I have 30 gigabytes of them, all in a single folder.
>>141590947
I don't save anime since it's a retarded thing to save things that you already watched and make it waste space by not rewatching it, although I do have a hentai stash that's relatively small
>>141594093
Holy shit, it's sysadmin!
>>141599079
Subtle folder name
enough for now
No more than 20 gigabytes, I guess (they're scattered all over my drives)
pic related is my 4chan folder
Just under 40GB at the moment. 2 terrabytes if I count hentai though.
>>141599070
You don't. Name them usefully and stick em all in the same folder.
>>141599106
it's an encrypted disk, and the file name itself is not obvious
2TB on 2 separate drives
I stream but I have 5gb worth of wallpapers,gifs etc
>>141599291
and 100gb of various hentai
