How do you store your JAV/Porn Collection?

Nasu no shogun said:
I currently have one 4TB HD only for compilations and Best Of videos that's only about half full. I also have an 8TB HD that's completely full, both from Seagate. I just bought a second 8TB to backup the first. I'm wondering if I should buy another 8TB or invest in a server. The server might be the right choice though because no matter how much I try to limit myself only to videos of my favorite actresses and only those videos that really get me off, the collection just keeps growing too fast!

In the past, I lost two computers full of JAV when they failed completely (and before I knew you were supposed to back up your files). I've lost maybe 100 gigs of JAV from the early 2000s (the OIKAWA Nao, MONBU Ran era), most of which I've found again, some of which I cannot find anywhere.

-Nasu
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don't bother with seagate externals, they overhead and die when trying to sustain 8TB of copying

you can see this for yourself if you install crystaldiskinfo and keep it running when doing the copy/backup...it gives a verbal warning that the drive is overheating

if you get a NAS or better a server, you can run RAID5 or zfs to give you drive redundancy

I have a NAS with 4 drives each of 4TB running zfs z1, giving 12TB usable...last week one drive failed, but no problem, with z1 redundancy I copied off the 12TB to a 2nd NAS, replaced the drive and rebuild the zfs vdisk...I could have kept the data in-situ and resilvered, but I felt it was safer to backup and rebuild

my server has 8x 4GB drives, giving 28TB usable running RAID5
 
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Nasu no shogun said:
Impressive!
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I'm building a new pair of servers to host my main movie collection (non JAV)

one as the main server, the second as backup/failover

40TB of usable storage on each, 8x6TB drives in RAID5 config


I've seen the servers sell for around $100 second hand, plus extra for the drives...but 8x3TB server for about $300 in total

the benefit of the server over the NAS is that I can run loads of other stuff on the server too...jdownloader, plex server, qbittorrent, nzbget, virtual machines hosting home websites/NGINX, all really easy when you have 48GB and 16 vCPU, all for $300 :D
 
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chupachups said:
one as the main server, the second as backup/failover

40TB of usable storage on each, 8x6TB drives in RAID5 config
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Just out of curiosity, did you explore RAID50 as an option? Figure that might give you even faster read speeds than two independent RAID5 setups.

chupachups said:
the benefit of the server over the NAS is that I can run loads of other stuff on the server too...jdownloader, plex server, qbittorrent, nzbget, virtual machines hosting home websites/NGINX, all really easy when you have 48GB and 16 vCPU, all for $300 :D
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I feel like off the shelf NAS offerings from Synology, QNAP etc. can also accomplish most of these tasks now pretty well, either through manufacturer packages or run through a Docker installation.

Nice setup by the way!
 
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intrepid8 said:
Just out of curiosity, did you explore RAID50 as an option? Figure that might give you even faster read speeds than two independent RAID5 setups.



I feel like off the shelf NAS offerings from Synology, QNAP etc. can also accomplish most of these tasks now pretty well, either through manufacturer packages or run through a Docker installation.

Nice setup by the way!
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RAID50 is too expensive for personal usage,115 is cheap and fit.
 
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I try to upload to some cloud platform like google drive. It's not as quickly accessible as storing on a physical disk, but there won't be any disk corruption and data loss.
 
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quxinna said:
RAID50 is too expensive for personal usage,RAID5 is cheap and fit.
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the dell T320/T420 servers I get 2nd hand have H310 and H710 HBA in them, and they support RAID50

stand alone cards on ebay are about $30...the servers have been selling for about $300 with drives
 
Sad Preference said:
I try to upload to some cloud platform like google drive. It's not as quickly accessible as storing on a physical disk, but there won't be any disk corruption and data loss.
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I did this using youtube some years ago...making the videos private...so far youtube hasn't banned me...but its a chore to upload at most 12 videos a day
 
intrepid8 said:
I feel like off the shelf NAS offerings from Synology, QNAP etc. can also accomplish most of these tasks now pretty well, either through manufacturer packages or run through a Docker installation.
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I have a couple of QNAPs...but being about $300 without drives for a 4 caddy system, I'll stick to the 2nd user servers to give more bang for buck
 
It's a good thing I don't care about quality too much so even though I have a lot of content hoarded, it's enough to fit into external HDDs without much issue. I usually back them up every few months. I think most people myself included don't think to back up the data they've had until their first data loss experience.
 
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Personally, I am picky on some of the content I choose to save into external HDDs and SSDs. Thankfully, I don't think I any need to upload huge file sizes and to a server nor I do need to download and save so much that I need a NAS server or do any RAID configurations. At least for now...

hentaiqwerty said:
It's a good thing I don't care about quality too much so even though I have a lot of content hoarded, it's enough to fit into external HDDs without much issue. I usually back them up every few months. I think most people myself included don't think to back up the data they've had until their first data loss experience.
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That is very true and data loss are a pain to recover and they can also get expensive but it's one of these lesson learned and not to repeat experiences.
 
I've been storing all my stuff now on 5TB Seagate Portable Haddrives. Originally I had 1 5TB Seagate and 1 5TB WD Drive. But the WD started malfunctioning after just over a year. I had a desktop external WD that had completely died before, so now I can't trust WD at all.

It started off small at first, with 2 externals acting as a failsafe should one die, and the WD still functional enough that I used it to store files that wouldn't be a big deal if they were lost. But like anything once you have all that "space" you quickly started finding movies to start filling it up... and now I have 2 pairs of external 5TBs covering movies that are keep-worthy, and another new drive to keep anything skippable.

It's probably not ideal compared to chupachup's setup. But yeah just never thought my collection would balloon so rapidly.

Edit: I'm open to suggestions if anyone knows a better method to store my files. I'm not sure if portable drives are really good for long term storage but didn't see an alternative at the time.
 
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Schow said:
I've been storing all my stuff now on 5TB Seagate Portable Haddrives. Originally I had 1 5TB Seagate and 1 5TB WD Drive. But the WD started malfunctioning after just over a year. I had a desktop external WD that had completely died before, so now I can't trust WD at all.

It started off small at first, with 2 externals acting as a failsafe should one die, and the WD still functional enough that I used it to store files that wouldn't be a big deal if they were lost. But like anything once you have all that "space" you quickly started finding movies to start filling it up... and now I have 2 pairs of external 5TBs covering movies that are keep-worthy, and another new drive to keep anything skippable.

It's probably not ideal compared to chupachup's setup. But yeah just never thought my collection would balloon so rapidly.

Edit: I'm open to suggestions if anyone knows a better method to store my files. I'm not sure if portable drives are really good for long term storage but didn't see an alternative at the time.
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I've seen 2TB SSD and NVME drives for quite low prices

much more reliable than spinning rust...find a reliable brand, and consider either a backup solution or a RAID/ZFS solution
 
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damn it

I had my eye on 12 low cost servers on ebay....all capable of taking 16 SSDs so using cheapish 2TB SSD, that is 32TB + separate SSD for boot drive

when 4TB become cheaper, thats potentially 64TB of SSD on a server with 80w CPU

someone bought them all in one go ! gutted
 
chupachups said:
damn it

I had my eye on 12 low cost servers on ebay....all capable of taking 16 SSDs so using cheapish 2TB SSD, that is 32TB + separate SSD for boot drive

when 4TB become cheaper, thats potentially 64TB of SSD on a server with 80w CPU

someone bought them all in one go ! gutted
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Dammit indeed! :eek:
 
chupachups said:
damn it

I had my eye on 12 low cost servers on ebay....all capable of taking 16 SSDs so using cheapish 2TB SSD, that is 32TB + separate SSD for boot drive

when 4TB become cheaper, thats potentially 64TB of SSD on a server with 80w CPU

someone bought them all in one go ! gutted
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:(

Also guessing you're a fellow Brit haha.
 
chupachups said:
I've seen 2TB SSD and NVME drives for quite low prices

much more reliable than spinning rust...find a reliable brand, and consider either a backup solution or a RAID/ZFS solution
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Spinning rust is quite reliable and pretty much the only option if you need a lot of storage, cheap SSD's have quite low endurance and could end up dying pretty fast if you write a lot to the drives, one positive is that when the endurance is used up they can still be read just not written to.

Personally I cannot see any reason to use SSD's at the current cost.
 
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