How do you store your JAV/Porn Collection?

[Speeny]

Currently, I am looking into finding the most robust way to store my collection in case of a hard drive fail or something alone those lines. I thought possibly a cloud based storage system would be good, e.g. Mediafire, but no so sure they allow pornographic content to be uploaded and stored on their site.

Throw me some ideas..

 

[CodeGeek]

Why not doing a backup on another medium, like a USB harddisk or some DVD-RW / Bluray-RW (is that available?)?
It will be a lot faster (at least the USB harddisk).

 

[ElAngelo]

External harddisk. Otherwise, you could try dropbox. I usually stream most online on xHamster or theporndude though

 

[alexkiallys]

Everything worthwhile that I've downloaded, I've burned to dvd (put them in binders) AND copied it to an external hard drive. I recently bought a 5TB hard drive for $130. That's pretty cheap and prices will continue to fall, I'm sure. I've even thought of duplicating my hard drive to another hard drive and putting it in a safety deposit box. (right now, I keep it in a safe)

I want to try dual layer dvds, but for some reason I'm not feeling it right now. I wouldn't save anything to a place that would require me to go online. It's not as if things can't be hacked, regardless of how secure someone tells you it is.

 

[Casshern2]

I actually bought an internal Blu-ray read/write drive (on super sale) and some 12-disc cases with the intention of backing up what is on my external drives onto Blu-ray for backup. That's as far as I got. Really, I was going to try that because the drive was so cheap at the time. I'm truly unprotected if my HDDs crash. I use internal drives and a docking station for everything I collect recently. I have a 2GB Seagate drive with all of the WMV FHD files that used to be available. Haven't watched them in so long. Point being...I store it all...for storage sake.

 

[CodeGeek]

I have a NAS and make backups on USB HDDs - more or less regularly. But isn't far from being cheap, but it works.
Long, long ago I burned also DVDs (also it wasn't JAV back then). It was a lot of work and also not very cheap.

 

[shaniandras2787]

Cloud based storage is a definite no-no. I would avoid it. Plus, it's costlier and it doesn't give you immediate access to them.

The most traditional and safest way is to have a portable hDD. hDDs are cheap as hell now but you need to run the risk of the hDD failing on you but there are always signs in which you can spot so yeah....

I used to store them in a portable hDD when I was younger but then it failed on me, no backups.

 

[Immergeil]

Have a 8x3 TB RAID-6 server (18 TB available) and it will be full in some months, 90% of it is IV's and I haven't even skimmed half of them... not sure why I'm even downloading stuff.

 

[Casshern2]

Have a 8x3 GB RAID-6 server (18 GB available) and it will be full some months, 90% of it is IV's and those I haven't even skimmed half of them... not sure why I'm even downloading stuff.

Isn't that the truth...

 

[Elldallan]

Have a 8x3 GB RAID-6 server (18 GB available) and it will be full in some months, 90% of it is IV's and I haven't even skimmed half of them... not sure why I'm even downloading stuff.

I assume you mean TB, but other than that yeah it's a good idea, tho isn't RAID-6 a tad overkill? seems RAID-5 would suffice and give you another 3Tb of space to work with for something that isn't all that critical

 

[Immergeil]

I assume you mean TB, but other than that yeah it's a good idea, tho isn't RAID-6 a tad overkill? seems RAID-5 would suffice and give you another 3Tb of space to work with for something that isn't all that critical

Yeah, 18GB isn't much lol, fixed that.

I went with RAID-6 because if one drive fails it puts a lot of strain on the system during the rebuild and with RAID-5 that could possibly mean losing the entire raid.

And as I hinted it's more like I'm hording stuff that I will never watch anyway so it is kinda pointless.

 

[CodeGeek]

RAID-5 is maybe okay if you have 3 or 4 drives. But using 8 drives in a RAID I *strongly* recommend using RAID-6. I went through some very bad experience while using RAID-5 with 8 drives. 1 drive dropped out because of bad sectors. And while rebuilding the RAID (which puts a lot of stress on the remaining drives) another drive showed bad sectors.

 

[Casshern2]

The problem with storage, for me, really isn’t the storage. It is the fact that I have (for example) a really nice Seagate 2TB external FILLED with HD titles I grabbed from Yipman (back when he was able to produce WMV files) and others that has quite literally been sitting on my desk for the better part of two years. Just sitting. It has a power supply. That hasn’t been plugged in for almost as long. Why do I have them? I haven’t watched them. I don’t even remember, aside from Knights Visual titles, what is on the stupid thing. I mean…c’mon…who wouldn’t remember having Knights Visual titles, but…that’s not my point!

Point is…it is kind of a pointless game I’ve been playing. Who am I kidding? I will never watch all of that. My need to acquire has been out of control for quite some time if I’m able to fill that drive, plus another 500GB drive, and another 1TB internal drive, and another older 650GB internal drive and yet another 500GB internal drive. NONE of this backed up, by the way. That fact is probably that’s my subconscious way of hoping the drives fail one by one so perhaps I can be free of this. What a way to be. If you’ve been around long enough and happened onto an early post of mine, I had once before just deleted everything I had. I dumped it all because it was just there and that’s all I wanted to do, get more. Then later I fell back into this JAV life and here I am today spilling my guts. This can consume a lot of time. But with the content being so amazing…it is quite easy to fall into it. There are MAYBE one or two Western stars that are that “followable” (I’m making up words, now) but in JAV there are so so sooooo many that are just dreams. No wonder Japan is the land of Pokémon. Gotta catch ‘em all!

They should come out with JAV trading cards. Then I could show certain people my comic book collection, and those to a whole other audience.

* On Topic: None of my drives are backed up, so in the case of failure, that’s it. Gone. I’m too lazy for the RAID solutions and what not, so, that’s the boat I put myself in. Truly it would be a shame to see it all go, part for the time put in and part for the content. They are all so pretty, aren’t they? *sigh

Is there anybody else that has a lot of storage that isn’t backed up? Kind of playing that game of “nothing’s going to happen”?

 

[Elldallan]

RAID-5 is maybe okay if you have 3 or 4 drives. But using 8 drives in a RAID I *strongly* recommend using RAID-6. I went through some very bad experience while using RAID-5 with 8 drives. 1 drive dropped out because of bad sectors. And while rebuilding the RAID (which puts a lot of stress on the remaining drives) another drive showed bad sectors.

Yeah for any data you actually care about I'd totally agree, even tho I only have limited experience with RAID setups.
But since he specifically mentioned it was mostly hit and run downloads it seemed like overkill for something that trivial

 

[needs more loli]

The problem with storage, for me, really isn’t the storage. It is the fact that I have (for example) a really nice Seagate 2TB external FILLED with HD titles I grabbed from Yipman (back when he was able to produce WMV files) and others that has quite literally been sitting on my desk for the better part of two years. Just sitting. It has a power supply. That hasn’t been plugged in for almost as long. Why do I have them? I haven’t watched them. I don’t even remember, aside from Knights Visual titles, what is on the stupid thing. I mean…c’mon…who wouldn’t remember having Knights Visual titles, but…that’s not my point!

Point is…it is kind of a pointless game I’ve been playing. Who am I kidding? I will never watch all of that. My need to acquire has been out of control for quite some time if I’m able to fill that drive, plus another 500GB drive, and another 1TB internal drive, and another older 650GB internal drive and yet another 500GB internal drive. NONE of this backed up, by the way. That fact is probably that’s my subconscious way of hoping the drives fail one by one so perhaps I can be free of this. What a way to be. If you’ve been around long enough and happened onto an early post of mine, I had once before just deleted everything I had. I dumped it all because it was just there and that’s all I wanted to do, get more. Then later I fell back into this JAV life and here I am today spilling my guts. This can consume a lot of time. But with the content being so amazing…it is quite easy to fall into it. There are MAYBE one or two Western stars that are that “followable” (I’m making up words, now) but in JAV there are so so sooooo many that are just dreams. No wonder Japan is the land of Pokémon. Gotta catch ‘em all!

They should come out with JAV trading cards. Then I could show certain people my comic book collection, and those to a whole other audience.

* On Topic: None of my drives are backed up, so in the case of failure, that’s it. Gone. I’m too lazy for the RAID solutions and what not, so, that’s the boat I put myself in. Truly it would be a shame to see it all go, part for the time put in and part for the content. They are all so pretty, aren’t they? *sigh

Is there anybody else that has a lot of storage that isn’t backed up? Kind of playing that game of “nothing’s going to happen”?

Dude I'm right there with you! Last time I checked my JAV collection was over 11 TB, its probably over 12 now. And just like you, none of it is backed up! Sometimes I panic inside thinking about what I would do if one of my hard drives crashed... so much amazing JAV lost!!! Maybe deep down inside I'm waiting for that to happen so I can finally be free of my addiction. But until then...

PS. I've actually watched (fapped to ) all of them.

 

[example100000]

first of all, are you sure need to keep the JAVs? will you be realistically watching them again later to make them worth keeping and worth backing up for? I, for one don't backup JAVs (not that i watch much of it in the first place).

 

[Speeny]

first of all, are you sure need to keep the JAVs? will you be realistically watching them again later to make them worth keeping and worth backing up for? I, for one don't backup JAVs (not that i watch much of it in the first place).

For sure, there are JAV's that I watch once, and don't exactly care for. But I guess it's just nice hanging onto them to go back to every now and then.

 

[pikuseru]

11TB of JAV seems like A LOT but I wouldn't call it a symptom of JAV addiction necessarily. It's just a part of our hunter-gatherer instincts to collect things. A lot of video games are designed around acquiring items, for example. It's just human nature.

But I only have 71GB of JAV (49 files) on my main hard drive. All are SD, which I share P2P (because I figure if I spread these videos around, then I will be able download them back later on if needed). Some of these files were transcoded from an HD version, and I do still keep those HD versions on a portable drive HDD for archival purposes, which is another 36GB.

 

[Speeny]

Dude I'm right there with you! Last time I checked my JAV collection was over 11 TB, its probably over 12 now. And just like you, none of it is backed up! Sometimes I panic inside thinking about what I would do if one of my hard drives crashed... so much amazing JAV lost!!! Maybe deep down inside I'm waiting for that to happen so I can finally be free of my addiction. But until then...

PS. I've actually watched (fapped to ) all of them.

I've got around 355 GB's worth of JAV.
When I see users comments addressing they have 3TB worth of JAV, or even as "needs more loli" said...11TB!
I think, these guys must have been collecting for years on end..that, and they love to fap.

 

[Ghostbird]

I've got around 355 GB's worth of JAV.
When I see users comments addressing they have 3TB worth of JAV, or even as "needs more loli" said...11TB!
I think, these guys must have been collecting for years on end..that, and they love to fap.

11TB isn't that much,
especially if it's those 8-11GB FHD movies.