who /datahoarder/ here?

just scrolled through my phone's camera roll because the memory is full. 99% of it is shit like pic related, memes, and lewed pics of random girls from 4chan

>tfw your camera roll has no pictures of life experiences but instead full of Internet culture images I

>>34311531
I had like 3000 4chan images
Formated my old phone and got a new one
I miss my memes

>>34311876

What do you do with the photos? Delete them? Back them up? What?

I'm always terrified to show anyone my camera roll as I have a lot of pics from random cute girls anons post

>tfw erotic models hoarder

I wish I could be free

>>34312730

It's so addicting

I don't know why I save these pics to begin with

>>34311526
>pull as much data as possible from API
>store it into a database
>run calculations on the datasets collected
>find interesting results
>document them
>repeat
I have a huge problem with doing this. I would give out more information, but I'm pretty sure one of you faggots would recognize me.

>>34311888
I save them only if I mean to send them in the near future
Even creepshots but mostly reaction images and memes

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I download history related stuff, like pictures of art and architecture, PDF articles and books, illustrations and reconstructions, etc. I've built a catalogue of almost every world civilization from Sumer to Industrial Britain to obscure shit like the Tlingit and Yoruba. There are still huge gaps though, so it's not near complete.

Right now there are 36.7 GB, consisting of 20690 files in 1617 folders. All neatly arranged by region, culture, period and category. It's basically my life now.

And I will never share it.

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>>34311526
>tfw 3tb of anime and still going

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>>34313645
>And I will never share it.
That's cruel, anon.
Are you NEET?

>>34313706
I'll share individual files in relevant threads, but I don't want to upload the whole thing. It would be like uploading my mind. It has become a part of who I am.

I'm in college, doing shit because I focus on my collection over actually studying.

Still have a bit of high school papers, ccollege papers, clothes I don't wear and stored away, unopened mail, textbooks. It's okay!

>>34313800
I have a few questions if you don't mind answering.

Why history? Do you think you'll ever get bored and move onto another subject? Which sites do you use as your main source? Do you store your data on an external hard drive?

>>34313421
you're most probably on the other side of the earth.

it's okay if somebody were to recognize you because in the next thread you will vanish again.

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>hard drive is only 500GB
i can't live like this, lads

I keep a bunch of cringy old drawings and old documents from high school and previous jobs in the backpack of shame. I'm going to bring it to a firepit and burn it one day

>400GB of pirates video games
>7,612 images in 4chan folder
Everything is okay

Bought a 1.5TB external harddrive.
Mostly filled with anime.
I try to save the best releases obviously, even if they take up a lot of space. Also love saving really obscure stuff.
I save stuff I know I'll never watch again.
If there's Youtube videos I really like I save them too (500~ videos; 39GB).
Also collect a lot of 4chan related stuff.
Keeping all my images organized is a pain sometimes.
I try to save and keep everything organized more than I should.

>>34313645
I thought about doing something similar but only with paintings.
Just creating a huge collection of famous paintings.

I know what you mean with it being a part of you.
Simply scrolling through my reaction image folder is bringing back memories.
But I love sharing my stuff, it being of use to others.
Like when someone asks for a specific image and I have it I love digging it out and posting it, though that happends rarely.

If I died and people looked through my hdd they'd learn so much about me.
In a sense my computer is my best friend, he knows everything and will never betray me.

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Not really, I have a ton of porn and wallpapers, but i cant fap to videos so its not really a ton of porn.

i only save reaction images

>>34314053
>love saving really obscure stuff.
like what?

>>34313910
>Why history?
No idea. I wish I had a different hobby, history is depressing and useless to me (I'm too awkward to be a teacher and not smart or original enough to be a historian). But I can't get away from it. It's an autistic obsession as much as an interest.

>Do you think you'll ever get bored and move onto another subject?
That happens sometimes, for weeks to months, but I always come back in the end.

>Which sites do you use as your main source?
Wikipedia for stuff I know nothing about, though its quality varies enormously. If I want to research something properly I download books or articles from different places, like archive.org or my university's online library thing. Depending on the specific subject there are a lot of good specialist websites, like Encyclopedia Iranica for stuff related to Iran, or Latinamericanstudies.org for articles about pre-Columbian cultures.

>Do you store your data on an external hard drive?
No, but I back up everything on Google Drive as soon as I download it.

Apocalypse Zero
Dragon's Heaven
Tobira o Akete
Tomoe ga Yuku
California Crisis
Umi Kara no Shisha
Windaria

Old OVA's nobody ever talks about or has ever heard off.

>>34313997
Why not burn it now if it's so bad? People unexpectedly die every day. It could be any of us, and if you mean to be rid of that stuff anyway, why not do it immediately so that nobody'll find it if/after you've passed away without having gotten rid of it already?

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>>34314053
>Like when someone asks for a specific image and I have it I love digging it out and posting it, though that happends rarely.
I love that too. It's just uploading the whole collection to Mega or something that I couldn't do.

I this just a collectors' way of life, or is there a deeper motive behind datahoarding?
I've been doing this since i've bought my first pc 20 years ago, and my only explanation is that i like to have stuff available offline.
My harddrives are filled to the brim with anime, manga, porn, music, movies, programs etc.
4tb external & about 10x 32 gb usb flash drives for music

>>34314305
Where did that come from?
And do you recommend them? Old OVA's are hard to find online.

>>34314396
I do it with the pretext I'll have something to amuse myself with should there be a power outtage

>>34314396
I like having everything neatly categorized and quickly available, and I like knowing that I'll still have stuff if it's deleted from the internet or the site hosting them is taken down or something like that.

I don't hoard music, but I'm tempted to considering how often stuff I like is deleted from Youtube and other sites.

>>34314528
>stuff I like is deleted from Youtube and other sites.
Well, this feeling is partly to blame for my collection.
Every once in a while you come across something great, and if you want to look them up again they're gone.
I've had much trouble searching for things that i wanted to see again for nostalgia's sake

>>34314353
Ahh ok that's a different think, I can understand that.

>>34314396
One part is it being available even offline, yeah.
It simply feels more independant and you can easily watch or listen to the thing whenever you want.
For me it's almost symbolic, even if it sounds silly.
By saving it it becomes part of who you are, it remains with you. Might sound retarded but whatever.
And when the apocalypse happends, it's not gone, it's still on my hdd.

Another thing for me is having that stuff saved and it becoming more rare and then being able to share it with people.
In 10 years my hdd will be a treasure chest of memes, anime and everything else.

>>34314528
Yes that's a good point too.
There was this awesome Evangelion AMV on Youtube to Here Comes The Sun from The Beatles.
I downloaded it because it's fucking great.
One day I noticed it was deleted from Youtube, the guy reuploaded it but with a different version of the song, making the video way worse. But I still have the original one and it's great.
I wouldn't like it if cool stuff was just deleted and nobody remembered it.

>>34314454
wupps, >>34314305 was supposed to be a response to >>34314175
I would recommend them.
Even if some aren't that great by themselves they are really interesting just by being different and well, obscure.
Doesn't make them good by default, but certainly interesting to watch if you're an anime fan.

>>34314339
I'm saving it for when I finally move away from this place, it'll be symbolic

>>34314819
>By saving it it becomes part of who you are, it remains with you
Agreed.
>treasure chest of memes, anime and everything else.
I sometimes wonder if our data will outlast us, and what will happen to all the stored information we collected. Will someone find my hdd in 80 years time? Would he be able to tell what kind of man i was, knowing all the stuff i kept for so long?


Anyways, thanks for those recommendations, anon. I will make sure to look into that

>>34314396
I think I have a fear of forgetfulness. I write down a lot of half assed ideas I have too. Forgetting something feels like a mini death

>>34314305
>california crisis
fuck man, I just downlo0aded that the other day becuase of this video on youtube that I liked

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK4zXaLjfd0

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I'm running out of space on one of my drives and I'll probably have to figure out how to reorganize my data.

>>34314396
I just enjoy having lots of data. even though I've only used like 600gb on y hdd, it's a lot of books and stuff so it's pretty cool. I have enough anime to last for weeks, and music that would take months to play through it all.

I also like organising it.

>old PC had about 6 TBs worth of reaction images, wallpapers, anime, porn, and games
>build entirely new PC with only a 256GB SSD
>4 months in I'm only using 80GB, including windows
>5 games installed at at time, 0 porn or anime, and only about 10 images saved

Feels liberating.

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bought a 4tb drive about a year ago, switched from 1 tb drive.

The amount of data I deleted before I had the new drive is mind boggling

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>>34311526
>your very spesific fetish has only about 30GB of material in existence and you have it on your hard drive
>scared shitless to lose it

I have been fapping 4 years to this same set of low quality videos.

>>34315773
Which fetish?

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i have 5 1tb hard drives and looking to get a sixth
the first one i got i filled with emulators for the psp, gb-gba, ds, nes, snes, n64 and the gamecube
and comics, manga, music, books and videos
the other 4 have tv shows, animes, cartoons and movies
>>34314819
>And when the apocalypse happends, it's not gone, it's still on my hdd.
this is honestly the reason i started doing this

i also download them at 360p to get as much on each hard drive as i can

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I'm looking to set up a home server of sorts with lots of drives in RAID.

I'm a total retard and don't know where to start, anyone point me to a guide?

>>34316037
Why do you want to do a RAID? They're not very easy to setup unless you have some idea of what you're doing. Even if you do set them up what's the reason?
Remember, RAID is for REDUNDANCY. It's not a form of backup. If you or something else writes over your precious data it will be fucked no matter what you do.

>>34316246
Mainly want it in case a drive fails, that's what its for right?

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>>34316274
RAID is meant to keep the data available in case of hardware failure. A cheaper solution would be to use periodic backups instead. That way you can store multiple versions of your data while still being protected from hardware failure.
If you do go the RAID route then I suggest RAID5. It's still highly suggested that you do periodic backups even if you have RAID however.


https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/RAID_setup
This should be a decent guide. I hope you're somewhat familiar with Linux however. Another option would be to use webmin.
http://www.webmin.com/deb.html

I highly suggest Debian for the OS.

>>34316427
RAID can protect against more than just hardware failure. He could use something like ZFS that lets him take snapshots and revert to them later.

Also if you're going to use pairity RAID you need to be using RAID 6, not RAID 5.

>>34317290
Last I checked ZFS is unstable on Linux. You'd also need to make sure you have enough RAM to even run a large ZFS partition. RAID in general is meant to provide redundancy, not protection from data loss.

If you're running a home server you probably don't need to bother with RAID6. You'd be better off using RAID5 to maximize the amount of data you can store. If one drive fails you can just turn the computer off while you wait for the new one, though I can't imagine the risk of two drives failing before you can get a replacement being very large. In datacenters their drives are always working, unlike your home server.

>>34317570
>Last I checked ZFS is unstable on Linux
I don't know where you read that, but it isn't true. Even if you don't want to use ZFS you can use mdadm and LVM for snapshots, both of those have been around for many years and are very stable.

>You'd also need to make sure you have enough RAM to even run a large ZFS partition
Don't turn on deduplication and ZFS will happily live in ordinary amounts of memory. The main thing it uses RAM for is caching, and if you're a home user for whom saturating gigabit ethernet with sequential reads or writes from one or two clients is plenty enough performance, you can get by with 4-8GB of RAM, even for 10TB+ arrays, no big deal.

>RAID in general is meant to provide redundancy, not protection from data loss.
It's meant to provide both availability and protection from data loss.

>If you're running a home server you probably don't need to bother with RAID6. You'd be better off using RAID5 to maximize the amount of data you can store. If one drive fails you can just turn the computer off while you wait for the new one, though I can't imagine the risk of two drives failing before you can get a replacement being very large.

It's not about that at all, its about the chance of an unrecoverable error in a rebuild when a drive fails. If you can afford to have multiple drives for RAID in the first place, and you're doing it for data integrity, you can afford one more.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/why-raid-5-still-works-usually/

I have a few gigs of pictures of cities around the world.

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>>34311531
Life experiences are for me, they stay upstairs.
Memes are for sharing, they go to the phone.
Theoretically.
t. nofriends

>>34317860
I didn't know about snapshots, neat.

>It's meant to provide both availability and protection from data loss.
Only protection from data loss via hardware failure. It doesn't protect you from data corruption or user error like proper backups would.

>It's not about that at all, its about the chance of an unrecoverable error in a rebuild when a drive fails. If you can afford to have multiple drives for RAID in the first place, and you're doing it for data integrity, you can afford one more.
The article (and other sources) seem to imply UREs aren't as big of a deal these days. Am I wrong? It still seems like using the extra drive for backup of your truly important data would be better.

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exact opposite
I delete everything
I've had this computer for almost 5 years

>tfw my meme folder is 2.5 GB now

>>34318861
>>Only protection from data loss via hardware failure. It doesn't protect you from data corruption or user error like proper backups would.

ZFS certainly does protect you from corruption, everything it writes to disk is checksummed and when the data is read back, the checksum is calculated and compared to the stored value. If they differ, it knows the data is corrupted, and it can be rebuilt using redundancy and rewritten to disks with incorrect copies. And you can scrub the array - which is basically just read all data and perform this verification.

Btrfs has the same feature, but you're stuck with RAID 1, since pairity RAID is broken in btrfs right now.

>The article (and other sources) seem to imply UREs aren't as big of a deal these days. Am I wrong? It still seems like using the extra drive for backup of your truly important data would be better.

from the article:
>Seagate's Barracuda Pro and WD's Gold datacenter drives are spec'd to less than 1 URE in 10^15 bits read.
>However, many other large capacity drives aren't at the higher spec. If you use a low-spec drive in a RAID, there's a good chance the rebuild won't work.

We're probably all using low-spec consumer drives. Which are usually specced at 1 URE in 10^14 bytes, not 10^15. That order of magnitude makes a difference. But enterprise drives are so expensive, and MTBF numbers so fuzzy, that you'll both save money and be more safe from data loss by increasing the redundancy using cheaper drives, rather than buying more expensive enterprise drives.

None of this makes backups a bad idea, they're still a good thing. But true backups (different medium, offline and offsite) are time-consuming and expensive, and an anon with a few TB of anime to protect can get most of the way there with modern RAID.

>>34311531
>>34311876
Get out phoneposters

>>34313645
>And I will never share it.
Not even to another collector?

>>34319869
>ZFS certainly does protect you from corruption
I was talking about RAID, not ZFS.

>true backups (different medium, offline and offsite)
On site periodic backups are still better than no backups. After all, RAID doesn't protect you from data loss via software. If you accidentally rm -r half your anime then you better hope you can get it back via data recovery. With backups it wouldn't be an issue at all. I'd assume most people don't need their entire storage backed up, only the more important data they have saved, which means you wouldn't need to match all the storage you have.

>>34313694

>3tb of anime

I honestly didn't know that much anime even existed. You're like the (((Jared Fogle))) of anime.

>>34320578
Honestly it's probably not as much as it sounds like, bdrips tend to be over inflated and can easily get to 50+gb