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Lately I've been pickier about what I keep but nevertheless, I'm still filling up my hard drives. I had 3.5TB of hard drive space till one of my 1TB drives crapped out after a year.
I'll delete JAV's after watching it once if I don't like it. If I like it, I keep it. I've run out of physical space and USB slots for any more hard drives. My next hard drive will have to replace a hard drive or I'm going to have to set up my other monitor-less comp that sits idly in my room collecting dust bunnies though that's unlikely since I'm lazy.
I'll delete JAV's after watching it once if I don't like it. If I like it, I keep it. I've run out of physical space and USB slots for any more hard drives. My next hard drive will have to replace a hard drive or I'm going to have to set up my other monitor-less comp that sits idly in my room collecting dust bunnies though that's unlikely since I'm lazy.
Personally I don't do fetish or u15 stuff, just cute and beautiful women and schoolgirls. I'm very choosy as to what I keep nowadays; I back up the best, delete the rest. As someone mentioned it's quite surprising how many girls look astonishing on the cover only to find they are in fact quite ordinary in the movie! The wonders of Photoshop!!
Been collecting awhile now and I've probably got close to 2 terabytes backed up and about half that on hdd.
Been collecting awhile now and I've probably got close to 2 terabytes backed up and about half that on hdd.
Harddrives are extremy cheap nowdays, 500gb isnt that much space either, if i were you i'd go for 1TB at least. Thats gonna be my next HDD purschase.
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All ISOs I download are immediately burned to dvds, and covers are printed and kept with the according disk.
and as mentioned before My AVIs are burned to dvds preferably Verbatim + r dvds.
Favorites like the Dance, leotard, Glamorous HIPs and T-back AVIs are converted to watchable Dvds with a program called ConvertXtoDVD.
I only use Ridata dvds or Verbatim dvds as WINDATA ink seems to corrupt in less than a year. (at least this has been my PERSONAL experience) I keep them either shelved on spindles or saftey..sleeves individual results may vary.
I also use 2 external 500 gb hard drives, howver I have had a failure with 2 western digital "MY BOOK" series external hard drives.. after about 2 years. Even after being verrry careful, plus regular defragging, not carrying them around everywhere, or leaving them on 24-7 still a 2 year average lifespan for me.
thats My PERSONAL experience. I dont care if you had your external Western Digital "my book" hard drive for 10 years, Mine tended to last about 2.
So all favs go to dvd+r...
I dont just do this with porn but with all data.
and as mentioned before My AVIs are burned to dvds preferably Verbatim + r dvds.
Favorites like the Dance, leotard, Glamorous HIPs and T-back AVIs are converted to watchable Dvds with a program called ConvertXtoDVD.
I only use Ridata dvds or Verbatim dvds as WINDATA ink seems to corrupt in less than a year. (at least this has been my PERSONAL experience) I keep them either shelved on spindles or saftey..sleeves individual results may vary.
I also use 2 external 500 gb hard drives, howver I have had a failure with 2 western digital "MY BOOK" series external hard drives.. after about 2 years. Even after being verrry careful, plus regular defragging, not carrying them around everywhere, or leaving them on 24-7 still a 2 year average lifespan for me.
thats My PERSONAL experience. I dont care if you had your external Western Digital "my book" hard drive for 10 years, Mine tended to last about 2.
So all favs go to dvd+r...
I dont just do this with porn but with all data.
Surprisingly the best brand I ever got was a made in Japan blank disk with no name. Got it from a wholesale/retail outlet in UK. Cheap too (relative), about £15 for 100.
A hint, don't store your unburned disks in sunlight or direct daylight for to long. It increases the risk for CD/DVD-rotting. Creating nasty blue-spots on the disks that make sectors useless. (Something in the UV that doesn't agree with silver on plastic.)
I will try to keep a pack in the fridge, if sealed properly to prevent humidity to get to it, but it's cold, secure, dark and can keep longer.
Another good tip for any "horder" (frantic collectors of everything under the sun)...
Burn the data files as data split with winrar and creating PAR2 files for the disk before burning it all to DVD. Then even if one of the split rar's is corrupt due to CRC errors, you can still recover the original and burn it again without needing to keep dual backups.
Out of thousands of dvd's burned over many years (not all this fine stuff of course), I've not had more than 10's that failed in total. I was lucky I guess.
The ones that did fail where almost all TDK, Verbatim or Fuji disks though.
Gemeines >> ... 2 years for WD drives... thats way short.
Seagate offers lifetime replacement on some, if not most, drives.
My 250 GB WD drive is turning 7 years old now, and it's still spinning circles around my other disks, with the exception of my 250 GB Seagate barracuda.
No name blank DVDs? Wow, that goes against my practice of using branded DVDs. So far I've had no problems with what I usually do and I'm hoping it stays that way.
Now about putting discs in the fridge.. what type of container do you keep those in? I've read a lot 'bout different ways on prolonging disc storage life and we're pretty much on the same page, except for the fridge part. I usually do dual back-ups for JAV/IV DVDs 'cause 4 GB of data ain't easy to download (aside from the fact that I'm OC). I've heard there are people who use tape drives for data storage but I haven't really encountered such usage.
Thats why i said MY experience.. 7 years...Thats impressive. I consider that to be pushing it.. I still use WD hard drives but do not trust any hard drive in existence, as they all fail. yes, 2 years is ridiculously short. but as I stated it is my experience. I am so sick of people telling me crap like "mine lasted 8 years and mine lasted 7 years and mines going on 10!!! MINE lasted 15 and is going strong!!!" bla! I dont give a damn. its going to fail.
You probably know best but since my experience is obviously different from yours. I would be backing up all my data from that 7 year old hard drive somewhere else. (which Im sure you already did)
Im not going to argue with a guy who calls himself techie, because its obvious you are proud of your I.T. background to call yourself that..and must be damn good at it. I have found Verbatim and Ridata dvds to be the best so far, and Un named brand dvds to be utter crap for backup...
...but then again I dont have access to a cheap no name brand spindle of rare japanese blank dvds either.
maybe I need to find some of those.
everyone's experience seems to be different, so to each their own.
If you have one of those household utilities that allows you to vacuum pack you can try that. Tupperware came out with a few solutions that let you vacuum seal plastic boxes with a pump pressure spot on top.
As long there is no humidity it should be fine.
For sure, batteries should always be stored in a fridge.
I used to work for a company where we always had about 3 tonnes of batteries in stock, and basically anything from batteries to media and certain other electronic circuits went into our dedicated fridge-room about 12x24 feet space cold storage.
You can try adding a few small paper wrappers with salt in the box if you're worried, and want to try. The salt gathers the vapors faster than anything else.
I agree with Gemeneid though, dont trust media for as long as I have had my disk. It is likely a rare occassion, and besides this, HDD's are magnetic media after all.
Most natural magnets loose permeability in about 5 years time so extending the lifetime is not to be trusted. Of course, as with natural magnets, they can be recharged, but not likely worth it on HDD's. It involves wiping your system and taking it apart... and since most users are not fortunate to have a clean-room in their backyard... (goes without saying)
