Episode Storage

I ask myself "is this worth saving? did I enjoy it to that extent?"

I haven't run out of storage so I don't need to worry about that

I save every series I find enjoyable, and that I believe is worthy of putting time into watching, so when my casual friends ask me for recommendations, I can give them a flash drive and be done with it. This helps for older or esoteric shows I can't show my casuals on Crunchyroll or Daisuke.

How'd you decide on that star system, OP? Have you ever had to re-download an episode because you realized too late that you wanted to watch or refer to it?

>>133734998
I only save the episodes I like the most of a series, with a max of 3 episodes per series (because of storage space).

>>133734998
i buy manga
lel

I only save episodes I've never watched and will never watch.

>>133734998
>Do you generally save your downloaded episodes after you've watched them, or mostly just delete it?
Is it an airing anime? If I decide to follow it, I keep the episodes at least until the end of the season when I decide whether I keep the TV version or delete it.
Is it a finished anime? Depends on whether I like it or not.

>>133735111
Makes sense, I don't think much about that because of the people I know irl that care at all about anime, most of them either watch dubs on TV or stream it, and the others know enough to figure shit out themselves. Nobody really relies on me.

I guess it started with a phase where I was specifically looking for older stuff, and some of them were either crazy hard to find or had almost nothing by way of seeds. I realized that a lot of the stuff I like now might go that way some point in the future, so I might as well start saving stuff now while it's still easy to do.

So in that sense, I guess it was kind of a pragmatic thing? I generally don't like making decisions that are hard to reverse later unless I'm sure that I won't regret it. If the choice is between action and inaction and one of them can be done at any time but the other can only be done once (or in a limited timeframe), I tend to choose the former more often.

Since then though, I saw that a lot of the stuff I had saved was just sitting there though, and I never got around to watching them. It's not like I needed to clear up space, but I just felt that it was kind of pointless to keep it around anymore if I hadn't even touched it by that point. So now I put a little bit more thought into it from the start.

I have one folder for ongoings on my internal harddrive and one for backlogged shows on an external one, if I know it's something I'll never watch again or if I drop an ongoing, I'll just delete it.

Space is hardly an issue for anyone these days, even with 1080p Hi10 FLAC releases.

>>133735173
are they just any 3 episodes you liked the most, or is it always the first 3 or some rule like that

I delete after I watch.
If I really like it, I'll wait for BD rip to rewatch.

>>133734998
>pretty simple system
that's pretty damn autistic op

>watch show
>if I enjoyed show, save it
>didn't like show/felt nothing towards show, get rid of it
that's it

space is incredibly cheap nowadays I don't feel bad about having hudreds of gigabytes of footage I'll probably never use

>>133735214
>I only save episodes I've never watched
backlogs are cool too
>and will never watch.
wait what

I'd store anime if older stuff wasn't so impossible to find. I only have a few dozen gigs of newer anime.

>>133734998
I normally keep everything unless it was dropped. I have three hard drives. One for the eternal backlog and current shows. One is for putting shows I probably wouldn't watch again, but keep around just in case. Last one is for memorable shows I'd like to think I'll rewatch.

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>>133734998
I save everything.

One folder for currently airing shows, one for backlog, and one for archive.

I only delete shows when I either decide to drop them (or decide I'll never get around to starting them in the first place), or I complete them but don't feel like archiving. Occasionally do a sweep of the archive to prune shows I know I'll never revisit.

>tfw only have a dinosaur-tier PC that runs XP and only has about 10GB left of space for anime after the VNs I installed
>tfw constantly deleting shit as I watch it and saving nothing because I don't have the room for it
fuck being broke, this thread makes me jealous

>>133735577
Thats it? Casual as fuck.

>>133735577
>tsukihime
anon...

>>133734998
I don't save anything airing, but I normally redownload the BD later if I really liked it.

I save everything. Though at this point I'm not sure I want to spend anymore money on hard drives.

>>133735577
>totalhourswatchedworkinprogress1

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>>133735728
ouch. that hurt me deep anon.

>>133734998
Other than replacing TV rips with BD rips, I keep them. I like to have things.

>>133735838
>I like to have things.
kelpto/hoarder spotted

Usually delete after watching. If I feel like watching again later there will often be a better version out by then anyway, so no point holding on to it. Especially when it's just a TV rip that is pretty much guaranteed to be superseded by the BD rip when it comes out.

If I'm going to save it later, I download it in 720p to begin with. Otherwise I just stick with 480p like usual and delete it after.

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I save every episode until I start running low on space

I stream and download BDs when they come out

I archive everything that I finish watching. Anime that I drop or can't finish get deleted.

>>133736186
how do you decide what to delete? is it painful?

>>133734998
Keep everything until memory runs out, then do some spring cleaning

Why is this even an issue? You should be able to just save everything ever. If you're poor, why not just not be poor and have more money to spend?

>>133736271
WinDirStat, just look at the top few space hogs and decide which of them I REALLY need.

>>133736225
Kill yourself spic.

>>133736414
To be fair its a super easy way to tell if a series is worth starting if you already have doubt, give it 3 episodes and if it's worth continuing then you can download it properly.

>>133735466
>I delete after I watch.
this

>>133735178
I stream anime and buy physical manga so I don't need to worry about downloading a bunch of shit. The somewhat "bad" quality of streams is not enough for me to give a shit about.

>>133736414
being this autistic
it's not like I stream from crunchyroll or something

>>133736711
Thats because you're a filty normalfag.

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I save everything, most folders are empty because the files are stored externally, any anime not completely watched is in the Temp folder. 10-20 anime are somewhere else because I'm too lazy to keep it organized.

>>133736946
I won't roast you because it's your first day here, welcome to 4chan btw.

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I used to keep everything but I decided one day that I'm never ever going to watch it again and it's essentially just a collection of evidence the police can use against me so I nuked it all. Now I have 13TB of free space across 21 empty hard drives of various sizes. Probably going to open up the lower capacity ones, extract the magnets and then trash them.

>>133736994
What you are missing here is nice folder icons to make it also look nice and easy to navigate.

>>133736994
>hidden folder

>>133734998
I download stuff in 480 or stream it when it's airing and then if I think I'll watch it again I'll download the 1080 BD rips and store it on an external.

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I stream.
But when I find something really enjoyable, I download it and save it.
I used to actually download the episodes and shit but I eventually found myself just watching the new episodes on Kissanime.

What have you named your hard drives /a/?

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>>133734998
Save everything I download, even if I drop the show. Have a backlog and a completed hard drive which I back both up at the end of each anime season

>>133737997
>Nujabes
Is it only because of his work on Samurai Champloo?

I was collecting any show I downloaded for a while, but then my 2TB HDD with only anime on it died and I just stopped after that.

I've got some shows saved now, but I'll probably delete them and only keep my favourites from now on.

I want to collect keep manga instead, but I can't bring myself to keep it if it's not all great quality.

Why don't the chinamen do digital releases of their comics?

>>133738074
Yeah, that's the only OST I ended up keeping

>>133736999
Nice numbers

>>133737891
1TB storage - Ikaros
250GB SSD - Nymph

>>133737856
>>133737604
>>133736225
>>133736711
2015 /a/ everyone.

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>>133737891

Save a show until I finish it then I delete it. That simple. For airing shows, wait till it's finished then delete the whole series.

>>133734998
5 Stars. Massive franchises like Gundam, Macross, TYPEMOON/fate shit & LoGH get a single folder where everything is comprised and a txt file noting the chronological order of watching it all.

Seasonal shit is on a seperate hard drive entirely and is transfered over to the first hard drive if I felt it was good enough to watch again in a year or two.

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>People in this thread who don't use icons

>>133738415
Have you got a program to do it or do you do it all manually?

If I loved it enough to give it an 8, I save it on my hard drive. If it got a 9 or 10, I wait until it comes out on BD then delete it so it's on my shelf forever.

7's and below, I delete after finishing the show (if I even finished it).

>>133738560
Manual. It doesn't take long at all.

>>133738602
Ah okay.
I can never be bothered converting them all to .iso files.

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>>133738415
>people in this thread who have seen less then 50 anime

>>133736307
>WinDirStat

Muh nigga.

If I didn't like it or finish it, I trash it at the end of the season. I keep almost everything else.

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>>133738415
>Square Anime Icons
my nigga

>>133738227
I can't fucking stand it

>>133739229
I should definitely order by year, thanks!

>>133734998
I just slap the shit i think i'll watch more than once on cd/dvds and be done with it

>>133734998
I'd be saving everything except I only have a laptop right now. I have a flash drive I keep of favorites, but everything on my computer is fair game for deletion whenever I get low on space.

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I'm about to finish Noein for the fourth time, I think I'll delete it. I have an ancient toaster with very little hardrive space and no hopes of upgrading any time soon so I think it's time I get rid of everything that isn't movies once I watch/rewatch at least once more.

>>133735577
Anon, why are you here?

>>133736307
i want to like windirstat but it takes like way longer to finish than spacesniffer

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>>133734998
I save all of it because why not? I have a shitload of storage and storage is super cheap anyways. Why not just save all of it?

I store pretty much everything I'd ever enjoyed on my old desktop which I swap out for Blu Ray rips if I'm eager to watch them. It never took any real effort on my part, and the ~$100 every three-ish years was never significant enough to notice.

>>133739229
woah dude that is sexy as fuck, how did you do that?

>>133735577
Same.

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>>133740922

>>133740951
Those only exist for a few series. I used to use this, but just switched to posters when the majority weren't there

I save whatever I think I'll rewatch, I make note of everything I've ever watched in a spreadsheet along with various details about the files if I have them.

I usually save just screencaps and webms. Only keep in permanently in my HD a few of the shows I really, really liked. The rest goes to an external (have a ton of CDRs and DVDRs with older shows too).

I don't get you spreadsheet guys. Is it just anime, or do you record every movie and TV series as well for time reasons?

>>133741016
>all aussie adventures
time to hit the road

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I save everything. I had another 2TB drive for my backlog, but it died. Thanks Seagate.

>>133741114
I probably should record the movies I've watched and movies I want to watch. Honestly we need something like MAL, only for everything, not just anime. TV, movies, books, video games, etc.

I only delete the episode after one week, sometimes I need to re-watch a scene ecause I didn't notice something at first or something like that.
I don't see the need to hoard anime. If I want to re-watch something I just download it again, if it doesn't have seeds then I look for another show.

>>133741191
My external almost shat the bed but chkdsk actually got it working again.

>>133738415
what is the website that has those?

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I've probably deleted half of everything that I've DLed since 2006. Pic is what I have left.

I only save shows based on seasons and in most cases delete the shows when the season ends. I only save certain shows that I like and rewatch them after the season ends. I also keep a list of all the shows that I have watched, so far I've watched 372 shows

I save some shows after every season, marked TV, then check once a month or so for bluray releases and replace the TV encodes. Every other month I go through my library and delete half my collection wondering why I saved such shitty shows in the first place.

Don't have enough hard drive space to save any, one day I want to get a large hdd just for this soul reason

Save everything, sorted by Archive, Backlog, and Currently Airing.
Each series gets it's own folder, ex. Archive>Full Metal Panic [Collection]>[2006] Full Metal Panic TSR> 04 - Daylight
It's pretty organized, if I do say so myself. I also use the Square Icons. I've got probably close to 1.5 TB worth on my drive.

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>>133741706
And this is the collection. 1.34 TB

>>133741303
Just search up blogspot animuandmango, you should be able to find it.

>>133742240
thanks pal

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i save everything. 2TB hard drive for movies and anime. i use Media Center Master for Metadata and works great on kodi.

>>133735577
>>133736994
>>133737997
>>133740743
>>133741313
these are all decent starts for novices

>>133741016
>all aussie adventures

great idea to hide porn

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I only ever save things long term if there's a chance I want to rewatch it, or if I want to seed it for a few months because good, complete 1080p BD rips can be a bitch and a half to find sometimes if they're not on nyaa.
Seasonal shows usually get deleted at the end of the season.
Then I fuck that all up by indiscriminately start downloading shit to watch later that I never watch.

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I delete the files after watching / playing because I'm running out of HDD space, but I keep a huge list of shows, movies, and games for my own reference. An asterisk next to the title means I've started it; double asterisks means I've finished it. Ones that I don't like enough to finish are just deleted from the list like they never happened, but I don't do this often because I generally only add things to the list if they sound like something I'd enjoy.

I store most shows / movies in Plex to watch with friends if I'm so inclined. Otherwise I can just watch them natively on my computer.

Used to save it all until storage finally became an issue. Even though it's cheap I don't feel like spending more on HDD space than I have to, so now I only safe shows which I enjoyed/might watch again/might need again for future reference, also shows which I might become obscure and hard to get by later on for their sheer rarity value. (Won't ever have a problem to get Titans somewhere, but Trapeze might be a whole other issue.)

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>Fill up HDD with anime and games
>Instead of deleting I go out and buy another drive.


What the fuck is wrong with me?

>>133746741
You never know when they'll finally crack down on any and all piracy, so might want to have something to fall back on.

I just delete shows I've watched because the only HDD that's plugged into my PC is 500gb.

I've got a 4TB HDD but that requires me to plug it into a power socket and I can't be fucked.

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Hoard everything just to make sure I have them reliably
If I want to rewatch a show I make sure I have the highest quality BR rip
There's no reason not to when it's 2015 and you can get a 4tb drive for a benjamin and copywrite laws are becoming more and more ridiculous at a near global scale by the day

Watch'n delete

>>133735577
nice entry level collection

>>133746741
>implying it's wrong to buy another HDD for the same price as 1-2 BD's with the capacity to store dozens of them

>>133747211
This..

A decent NAS is cheap now. And yes, I do as you, I make sure to have the best copy stored.

>>133734998
I just let Shanaproject+Deluge auto-sort everything for me and delete episodes of the shows I dislike after I watch them.

>>133734998
I save everything. Everything. EVERYTHING. Even shit like Dragonauts.

I have all my anime on my file server. I keep each thing in a folder for the series and try to make everything as organized as possible. I keep track of what I've seen and what I haven't seen through MAL (set to private.)

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>>133747765
Whoops, forgot my pic.

>>133747814
Shit, anon. I have 1.3TB on my laptop alone. Step it up.

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I always have the same fucking dilemma regarding disc space. Not even my new 2TB HDD is enough to store everything I want, and the worst part is that I know I'll die before I even watch half the stuff I have.

>>133747850
Nice collection, nowhere near as entry-level as some of these other fags.

I hope you've already seen Slayers and Lodoss. If you haven't get on that ASAP.

>>133747814
>naming your anime drive A:\
I like you

Dl New stuff to temp seasonal folder, keep about 40 series I'm likely to like/watch on hdd, about 400 series/seasons on external for rainy day

>>133747839
I need to add some HDDs to my file server. Maybe during Black Friday.

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>>133747894
I've actually been re-watching all of Slayers, can't wait for the 720p Movies/OVAs with subtitles. As for Lodoss, I still have to watch the TV series.

Also pic related is my full folder (except the more recent stuff), which is "only" 1.1TB, but I rarely download and store anime in 1080p, so that's probably why.

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>>133734998
Within my seasonal anime folder I have a finished episodes folder. Whenever I finish watching an episode I move it to that folder. Once a week I go through that folder, deleting the files from there and updating my MAL account.

>>133748123
I like the icons. Looks very nice and neat.

Before I moved my stuff to my file server, I had a good chunk of my stuff with custom icons of the logos of each series, but it seems the file server broke that part. I'll have to try to figure that out later.

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>>133747814
>>133747931
There are terabyte sized floppy disks now?

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Save just about everything I watch. Separate folder for ongoing series.

>>133747211
>you can get a 4tb drive for a benjamin
Why does every thread argue that there's no excuse because of how 'cheap' hdds are? 2tb is at least 100 bucks, that's not cheap for everyone letalone all the neets who like anime.

Admittedly I have 11tb worth of space but I keep plenty of stuff other than anime on it, have an autistic compulsion to back everything up, and really hate getting close to filling them up. I don't want to keep shelling out hundreds for more to save absolutely everything, and I wouldn't blame other people who don't either.

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I use the Tags feature on OS X.

>>133748598
What are those?
I fucking wish Windows would let me customize folders by letting me group them by custom tags (for example the name of a series).

>>133748598
Enjoy losing everything to your shitty filesystem.

>>133748680
Waste of time frankly. If you want tagged shit, get something similar to a booru system and browse folders via a local webserver or application.

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>>133748418
What?

no time to rate \ organize
just buy new hdd when fill up and script a catalog for search

>>133748834
>Enjoy losing everything to your shitty filesystem.

Havent lost a thing in 8 years buddy, nice meme tho.

I keep all the files on an HDFS cluster with a small Lucene database to keep track of series. Everything is also backed up to Amazon S3 of course.

Considered moving to Glacier to save money but the retrieval part seems too easy to fuck up.

>>133748877
Shanaproject automatically sorts it for you. How do you not have enough time to let a program sort it as you download it?

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>>133734998
I save everything I watch.

>>133749605
Rename those drives you savage.

>>133734998
I'm usually archive the show that i watched, if there's BD rip later i'll replace the TV archive with it.
But if the show are just shitty or i lost my interest on it, big times i juat delete it off or just sitting on my disk for few weeks.

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I only save shows that I really enjoyed and think I'll watch more than once.

Most everything I have saved I've watched multiple times.

>>133750039
>not having icons for all your folders
Triggered

>>133734998
I keep everything. It all amounts to about 780 GiB size, but I plan to go through it again, once it's at a tebibyte, to delete anything that I think is less than a 7 or 8 out of 10. Moreover, I just divide up the shows locally in alphabetical order, except for things I'm planning on watching, which I keep in a separate folder.

Even after coming back to anime after a years break, it's still giving me strong feelings of loss and wanting that made me leave it in the first place. I just don't know what's wrong with me. I used to love it, but now I think of only those things that have passed and those things that are to come.

>>133750079
I fixed them just for you anon

>Stuff downloads via RSS to currently airing directory
>new episodes sync to my file sever
>I watch new episodes from wherever
>move episodes I've watched to finished directory in respective series folders
>once season is finished move them to storage HDD
>Eventually replace them with BD's if I liked the show enough

I've only recently started to archive anime that I've watched. Damn, my collection is small. Can I visit your house and copy your anime?

Ha ha.

>>133734998
I archive every episode of shows I'm enjoying and replace those copies with the BD copies when they come out.
Show I don't enjoy don't get archived and dropped.

For seasonal anime, I'll keep the latest episode until next one comes, then delete it. Rinse and repeat until the series ends. The shows that naturally leave a strong impression long after they aired are the ones that I will remember and re-download.

>>133738227
I started streaming anime for the first time because I found a job and bringing my downloaded anime in the office take too much time, and I can't tell the difference between kissanime and HS. Downloading is way better if the show have BD / is an old anime, but for ongoing show there's almost no difference.

How do I customizable folder icons pertaining to a particular show?

>>133751103
I know /a/ probably does it a different way, but I find find a picture that I want to use as the icon, edit in whatever way, run it through this site

http://converticon.com/

save the .ico at the highest possible resolution, go to settings, and change it.

I'm sure there's a more efficient way, but I'm retarded when it comes to computers.

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>>133739229
>ordering by year
Yes.

Should i just get some premade icons or what?

>>133746741
Nothing. Storage is cheap nowadays. No reason to delete anything if you ask me.

>>133746826
This, but torrents do die eventually.

>>133751103
>download icons (just google it, there are big packs of them)
>right click->properties->customize->change icon

>>133751125
just convert the image with GIMP dude.

What is the ideal external hard drive format for interfacing with a Windows 7 machine? NTFS or ExFAT?

\Anime\[Sub Name]\Show name

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I've just piled up gigs of BDs that i'll watch one day onto hard drives.
I keep TV series that i've finished/older series that never got BD subs on G:.

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>>133752237

>>133734998

I archive everything.

Even the stuff I think is shit, even the stuff I watch 3 episodes of and drop. The internet is going to shit, store and save fucking everything you come across. Anime, books, manga, TV, movies, various manuals, textbooks, EVERYTHING.

I don't have this 12TB + 14TB for no reason. One day I'd also like to archive archives, like wayback machine and so on. Having a personal library of digital media (and scanned books etc) is great for when connection issues occur or your friendly neighborhood jew/multinational starts to fuck with the ISPs of your country vying for control of all information networks.

Tl;DR: Keep all your shit, space is cheap as fuck currently.

>>133748492

Because it's under $100 per TB. That's like ONE day at work. And it will last 5~ years and take a good couple of months to fill up. It's even easier if you're on autism bux because you're not spending money on other things.

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>>133748877
example of script