Archivefags, how many gigs of anime do you have stored? How do

>>148422308

about 120 gigs of shota/traps
around 1 TB of anime, I rarely delete stuff
around 20 gigs of random anime pictures and reactions

>>148422308
>how many gigs of anime do you have stored?
Maybe 3TB, probably a bit less.

>How do you choose what to store and what to delete?
If it's a final release and I like it, I keep it.
TV/stream rips get deleted after watching.

>not deleting anime after you've watched them

I only keep what I know I'll rewatch.

>>148422308
I have about 3 TB of anime stored across multiple devices. I only store anime that left an impression or ones that I enjoyed.

>>148422394
>Not keeping anime alive by seeding
>Slowly killing hidden gems
Thanks for killing anime, anon.

>>148422308
~800GB of anime movies and ~3.3TB of anime shows and OVAs.

I only keep BRD rips of shows I would watch again everything else gets deleted.

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>>148422308
> How do you choose what to store and what to delete?
TV/HS get replaced with BDs every few months

>>148422308
I just buy a new hard drive when the old one is full.

My porn, video games animu and mango is spread all across my different hard drives so I can't tell you which is how big, but so far I have stored 7,5 TB of shit.

>>148422308
I stream anime so 0 GB.

>>148422308
If you have any amount of money at all, a NAS is a worthwhile purchase in general.

You can chuck in several 4+TB drives for not too much and have a huge storage pool and not much worry about data loss short of a housefire or burglary.

Having all your media storage on your network, plus the ability to painlessly back up individual desktops/laptops is great.

>>148423969
MODS

I've got about 2 terabytes of stuff stored right now.
I'm at that awkward point where it doesn't feel worthwhile to buy another HD for more storage, but this one is full so I'll probably prune some stuff at the end of this season.

A short took out 3 HDD's in succession in 2013 and I lost several terabytes, basically everything I had watched and every image I'd saved since becoming a weeb. It was a big loss.

Strangely, my current archive is only about 150 shows yet takes up so goddamn much space. I've taken to deleting seasonal harems and LN adaptations instead of storing them, but I think there must be some bloated BD release kickin' around on there that's eating up more than its fair share

>>148422308
If I like something enough to bother getting the DVD/BD I hold onto it forever.
Since this is such a small number to begin with it hasn't really been a problem. It's only about 1.5 TB and I've been hoarding since 2007ish.

>>148422308
I've got a mostly full 3TB internal HD which has the newest stuff on it. I also have around 10TB of external storage (again nearly full) of older stuff. There is some anime music and some doujin games mixed in, but not much. Thinking of getting a very big NAS next.

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About one terabyte. If I like the show, then I keep it.

I use Filebot with tvdb to auto organize my library. And screw anidb and their tendency to list every season as a different show. I tried them once and clusterfuck was unmanageable.

Emby+Kodi to play media.

Around 1TB of series that I considered "good".

I instantly delete series that I know I won't rewatch.

>>148422308
About 3TB total, including some hentai I have on a separate drive.

>>148422308
Everything but my ssd is mostly anime. Roughly 4.5 TB worth of anime

>>148422557
If I know something is underseeded I try to seed it as long as possible.

Not him btw, but I do indeed delete animes I won't rewatch.

>>148425154
It's a pain keeping anime on your main HD for seeding purposes. I prefer my archive to be at rest so it lives longer.

>>148422308
>How do you choose what to store and what to delete?
>delete

Hard drives are cheap, glorious anime is forever!

>>148422308
I've long lost track of all my external hard drives.

>>148422308
had around 4tb until I decided to fix up my computer and something happened with my 3tb hard drive. Long story short I lost 3tb of anime so nowadays I have around 2tb.

About 2tb, and I watched not even 1/3 of it.
Stockpiling for when the internet goes out forever.

>>148422308

About 7TB, only maybe around 1/3rd or so watched since I keep adding more.

>>148422308

~400 GB. I only recently got a computer that isn't a trash laptop, so its not nearly as much as it could be.

I store what I like and dont store what I dont like. Only exception is that I'll keep something that was hard to get or low on seeders.

I only keep the things I plan on rewatching again, so I have 900GBs.

I had 3TB of anime and 1TB of other stuff like manga and images but I went insane and deleted all of it

>>148422308
nearing 1TB. 2TB if you count the stuff I lost from my old laptop.

I kinda don't see the point on having them deleted unless you really have no storage left. It's not as if you won't have an option to buy another drive. plus there's a sense of security in knowing that you have animu with you even when an apocalypse happens. fuck zombies imma watch hotd

> x TB
> has only a dozen 1280p anime

>>148422308
About 1-1.2 TB of anime because I don't want to shill out cash for a new 3-4TB drive

>>148422394
I usually seed the old-rare stuff, but delete the newest anime.

>>148422308
2TB, most are converted to Hi10p using ordered chapters for OPs and EDs.

>Not having a commercial freezer full of dozens of NAS boxes with four 16TB disks, custom-built using 64 xeon cores each and constantly writing to a series of 100GB M-Disc burners at undisclosed locations, as well an identical setup on the opposite side of the world, connected by fiber, to minimize the risk of a meteor strike or solar flare wiping out your collection anime girls with question marks by their heads

Around 5TB. The resolution of some of the old TVrips is so small, look terrible on HD monitors. But I refuse to delete anything I liked.

I keep almost everything I watched till the end. I feel like it was worth it because it's really hard to find some of the old stuff nowadays. And one day the shows we're watching right now will meet the same fate too.

>>148422308
>how many gigs of anime do you have stored?
We measure it in terabytes these days.
>How do you choose what to store and what to delete?
Store everything, delete nothing.

There really is no reason to do it any other way, 3TB HDDs are dirt cheap.

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Including raws and some bdmvs (duplicating subbed stuff), roughly 26TB.

I still need to download all the manga from madokami, too. Most of what I have here is from those mangatraders backups that got posted on nyaa a while ago.

What's the safest HDD brand I can buy?

>>148430069
I use seagate. Its been good for me so far.

>>148430069
I'm skeptical when it comes to 1+ TB drives. But I wemt with WD black that was 5TB

>>148429234
>650G of music
>15.7G of books
How?

>>148430702
Probably audio books.

>>148430702
>>148430789
Light novel scans are poor quality and take up a lot of space.

Internet will shut down in a few years, so better stock up.

>>148422308
At last count, 3.15TBs on the main external anime drive with 2tb of redundancy of a backup drive.

Remember kids: Back ups are your friend.

>the numbers in this thread
you people are scawwwy
SCAAWWWY I SAY!

Around 5TB or so. I delete stuff I don't like.

556 GB after a cleaning. I'm currently getting some old movies if I can.

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My HDD is getting full. I'll have to clear some shit out soon.

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9TB all in all (I have another external)

None of it is backed up

I live in eternal fear

(not really since I can just use AnimeBytes and 1gb/s fiber to get it all back)

>>148430946
What?

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Only around 575GB.

I'll collect more eventually.

>>148431783

>Master and Commander
>Zulu

I mean good taste etc, but why not put them in their own folder

>>148431840
I don't have enough 3D movies to warrant their own folder.

currently a bit short of 1TB of anime I've really enjoyed

wanted to make a torrent box, but I couldn't access the BIOS to continue the process.

Around 2TB and I'm still missing a lot of stuff. I need more drives for backups and new shit.

>>148423283
>average of 351 Mb/episode
>BDs
Uh um.

>>148434074
>What are early 2000s DVD rips?

>>148428043

>totally worth it

>>148434174
Those are BDs?

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>>148422308
It's hard to get a number for just anime, but I have around 2-2.5TB of media in total. I archive pretty much everything now, but only started doing so recently

My archiving strategy is rather odd - I basically pretend that HDDs are tapes. I have a 2TB HDD in my PC, and when that get's full I start copying stuff to hard drives (just full size internal drives mounted in a hot-swap bay) then put them in anti-static bags in a cupboard. I take checksums of everything and do random manual spot checks, and put stuff I really like or would be hard to redownload on multiple drives

Since this is the internet, I'm sure I'll be told that I should have a multi-kilowatt FreeBSD NAS with 64TB of WD Reds on ZFS plus offsite backup but I'm semi-poor so it's just old drives with EXT4 on them

Pic related shows the CSV with all the drives I own (M=media, P=priority media mirror. Also lol Barracuda) and one of the index files (which are not very structured, just human-readable markdown which I can grep quickly)

>>148422557
eh I use XDCC anyways

>>148438400
>Since this is the internet, I'm sure I'll be told that I should have a multi-kilowatt FreeBSD NAS with 64TB of WD Reds on ZFS plus offsite backup
Definitely.

How do you know where each series is if you want to rewatch it?

>>148422308

Having security issues with my external HD, so, probably zero in 2 days.

Bout tree fiddy GBs of /ss/

You don't

Had about 500 gigs on my old external HD, but then I dropped it and got a critical hardware failure.

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>>148438496
>How do you know where each series is if you want to rewatch it?
I have a seperate file for each volume and just grep for it. The screenshot shows that my K-On stuff is on both media 1 and priority 1 (and the physical drives have labels on obviously)

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>>148438466
>XD

Fuck off

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I've watched about 80% of it, dropped the rest.

>>148429234

can you pipe that through `sort -h`

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>>148438694
:DDD

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>>148422308
Not including anime movies.

>>148422308
1.2TB. I keep everything I download unless I decide it's so absurdly bad that I can never imagine never wanting to see it again for any reason.

>>148438400 My archiving strategy is rather odd
Indeed. For 1/10 the amount of effort you spend on manual management and record keeping, you could build a proper backup solution that would do a much better job of protecting your data and you wouldn't have to swap drives to access it. You're running Linux ffs, use the tools that are available to you.

how do i find out which 1080 bd releases are upscales or not so I can save bandwidth

>>148438874

If the filesize is bigger that's the one you want.

>>148438745
":D" is aggzebdible

2.5 TB right now
I only delete stuff I didn't like

5 or 6 TBs? Including some stuff from about 11 years ago that could really use replacing, but I'm a lazy bastard and when the fuck am I ever gonna watch B Gata H Kei again?

>>148438859
But what's the point of building a new computer and keeping a load of drives spinning when I don't touch the drives all too often and it wouldn't be the end of the world if one of them failed (hence the mirroring of important stuff)? Yes it would be simpler, but it would cost significantly more resources for next to no benefit

I should mention that I back up the rest of my data properly (daily Borg to an offsite server plus a weekly rsync to an external drive)

>>148439011

By that argument you should stream

>>148438915
but it would be redundant if the media player upscales anyway

>>148439011
You could just get a JBOD tower and flip the switch on and off for the cold storage. That way you wouldn't be running them all the time.

>>148439053

It would, but that's half the fun. Redundant storage means that lost bits are less meaningful.

>>148439049
But streaming is lower quality, no files that you can manually handle how you want, requires an uplink, is volatile, only some shows are licensed, may have poor subs. The main reason I hoard is because it can sometimes be hard to track things down again (though anime is much better for this than western media)

>>148439079
That sounds like a fair idea, I'll look into it

>>148424391
>filebot/kodi
My nigga. Once I get kodi running again I'll leave qbit running for the RSS downloader. That way it's totally automatic and I have a working 'recently added' queue that I don't have to lift a finger for.

I still use anidb though. There's a lot of shit not on tvdb.

I really just have a few series actually saved so only a few GB. There are only a handful of series that have animation so good that I insist on watching in HD.

Streaming is just so much easier if you don't mind the quality being inferior. The quality of the animation is usually the limiting factor for me, not the stream quality.

>>148439079
That's going to cost you almost as much as a bare-bones PC, but won't give any sort of redundancy and you'll have a shitty dirt cheap RAID controller that will probably crap out and corrupt all your data.

>>148439011
It seems pretty obvious to me, but I guess some people have so much free time that they don't mind spending it doing menial tasks that could easily be automated. Besides, your drives shouldn't be spinning all the time anyway. And you can always set it up as a file server and put it to sleep/turn it off when not in use.

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>>148422360
>120 gigs of shota/traps
Why?

>>148439496
Do you find it insufficient?

>>148439433
>but I guess some people have so much free time that they don't mind spending it doing menial tasks that could easily be automated
It's literally just this every few months
* Put drive in
* Copy media across
* Fill out one line of indexing
* Unmount and put back in the cupboard
And the same sort of thing in reverse on the occasions when I want to watch a show not currently on my PC. I don't see how this could be massively shorter with a NAS, but setting it up could take an afternoon, ie. the time it would take to fill hundreds of drives

>>148439544
>I don't see how this could be massively shorter with a NAS
I just navigate to the file and play it. I don't have to mess about with plugging in drives or manually indexing where something is.

>>148439544
>I don't see how this could be massively shorter with a NAS
I turn my head to look at my upper-left screen, pick up my remote, navigate Kodi to the show I want, pick the episode, read the synopsis, and click play.

I have about 25 terabytes of anime stored on various external hard drives. Each hard drive has different years of anime stored on them.

>>148439540
It's to damn much.

>>148439879
Explain.

>>148439879
Ireland please.

>>148422308
9.7TB so far.

>>148423969
>tfw no blood

How do you guys store them?
My plan is a couple of External HDD, but that might become problematic unless I buy at least 3tb. But if that does, I might break down.
If desktop HDD, I have limited places on my PC. Or should I build my home FTP server?

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9TB is backed up so I have about 11TB of actual space. About 7TB of that is anime.
I'm probably going to build a NAS with a RAIDz2 array using six 4TB drives for more storage. I sure wish I had tape for better backups.

>>148440207
>How do you guys store them?
NFTS mostly.

>>148422308
About 30 gigs. I stopped bothering after I lost everything in a house fire.

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>>148422308
12gb of mango
100gb of anime, i delete almost everything i won't rewatch or seed