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my porn collection is getting close to 1TB

the core issue here has nothing to do with slr.

you have a storage requirement and a backup requirement. storage has never been less expensive. you can get a 4tb internal sata 6 drive for less than $140 (newegg). you could get two and just use one for backup or you could get tricky and read up on raid.

or you could look at nas. you can get 3 or 4tb of nas for less than $200 (again, newegg).

alasdair
 
You can get a few of these...

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you do NEED lots of porn - so much so that if you do watch a rerun you have forgotten about is so its fresh...
 
Honestly since this is real... You need to cut down on the porn.

I have like maybe 12-14 vids. And that's plenty.
Then again I have a girlfriend, but those videos are left over from before I even met her.

Are you obsessive about sex also, or just porn?

I would say just get laid but if you're also obsessive about sex idk how much that will help...

Ya idk what to even say.....

...yeahhh...
 
well if you're like most of us dont you get tired of the same scenes? I have a lot of porn and I do have a few scenes that have gotten a lot of mileage, but the rest gets old, delete what you dont watch any more, you'll know cause you'll skip over it to something better :)
I dont download whole scenes from a Video, I do ciips and I search "compilations" along with the main thing I like, as example anal, or blowjobs or whatever it is you like. Dont do torrents, thats copywright no no, just get a downloader such as "ANT" from ant.com and view videos on the porn tube sites and when you see one you like you click download and you're done. Screw the torrent routine and trying to get the full actual videos.
As far as hard drives/storage, I've only had 1 drive go bad on 20+ yrs and dozens of drives. it is VERY rare for the actual hard drive itself to fail. But the data is still on the disks. Usually its windows that crashes and gets fucked up and you end up doing a format C: :) When that happens just pull the drive out, plug it into another computer as a 2nd drive or as an external and you can still read the drive and pull the files off. Just because windows wont load or the system cant read it doesnt mean the drive is bad. There are things the drive with the OS on it has to perform for the OS to work that a 2nd drive or external does not and it can still be read. Even just partitioning a drive with the stuff on the other partition will save your stuff unless the actual mechanical part of the HD fails.
Get an external HD of whatever size you want that connects USB. Put your shit on that. Its that simple.
Or I should say get a Hard drive and an external hard drive case with USB that way you can plug it into any PC :)


If a drive is going to go bad its going to be the drive the Operating System is on. Because thats the one that gets worked over everyday all day and where things like viruses go. An external wont even be powered up until you want to watch your flicks. That drive should last you forever or until it becomes obsolete :) There is a maintenance/tuneup routine that all computers should have done regularly and if done regularly you stuff will run better faster longer and almost never fail and almost no one does it of all and the ones that do, dont do it right. Even your tech dude at your local PC shop or the geek squad dont know this. In the 20 yrs and dozens of PCs and or versions of PCs I've had I've only lost my stuff on my HD once and it was my fault because I didnt want to hassle with swapping the drive and copying all the files so I just a Format C:\

If anyone wants to know how to keep your PC tuned and running efficient all the time let me know. I have the end all method that if followed you'll never have another problem :) Of my costumers, the only ones that return with problems are the ones that dont follow the method :)
BTW I didnt just sleep in a holiday inn last night :)
I'm a tech with these certs A+, NET +, MCP, MCSE & CCNA, Server +, Security +
 
If you get a Hard Drive and an external case to put it in, the hard drive is exactly whats in the computer and they dont fail any easier. The case that you put it in fails, especially if you dont handle it properly. You cant just toss it down on the desk. Grab your PC tower and shake it, the system will stop and it will freeze the drive to try and protect it. You have to be gentle with them when they are external. There are 4 read/write needles (imagine old school record player but small) they are on springs and very sensitive and every time you move or shake the drive you bounce those needles around and they hit the disks, and if they spinning at 8,000 rpms thats not good. But even just the needles hitting things will damage them.
So if they crap out easily its user error, not part failure.
Burning Cds dont last, they get scratched, and you cant remove old used porn that you're burnt out on :)
External you can take with you, instead of 20 Cds that have to be played in a CD player with the write format :)
 
garbagegutz said:
you do NEED lots of porn - so much so that if you do watch a rerun you have forgotten about is so its fresh...
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this. lol

OP have no shame my friend, my collection rivals yours and I'm damn proud of it. It is tagged, sorted, and available in HD if the fap calls. I actively participate in tracker community, seed to share the wealth and getting into compilation making. I too am running into the "cull it down or size up" conundrum..

I have two external hardrives, one is 2TB Seagate that by all rights should have conked out years ago but I spent a bit more on the enclosure and can safely say it has paid off. :)
 
baggerr said:
well if you're like most of us dont you get tired of the same scenes? I have a lot of porn and I do have a few scenes that have gotten a lot of mileage, but the rest gets old, delete what you dont watch any more, you'll know cause you'll skip over it to something better :)
I dont download whole scenes from a Video, I do ciips and I search "compilations" along with the main thing I like, as example anal, or blowjobs or whatever it is you like. Dont do torrents, thats copywright no no, just get a downloader such as "ANT" from ant.com and view videos on the porn tube sites and when you see one you like you click download and you're done. Screw the torrent routine and trying to get the full actual videos.
As far as hard drives/storage, I've only had 1 drive go bad on 20+ yrs and dozens of drives. it is VERY rare for the actual hard drive itself to fail. But the data is still on the disks. Usually its windows that crashes and gets fucked up and you end up doing a format C: :) When that happens just pull the drive out, plug it into another computer as a 2nd drive or as an external and you can still read the drive and pull the files off. Just because windows wont load or the system cant read it doesnt mean the drive is bad. There are things the drive with the OS on it has to perform for the OS to work that a 2nd drive or external does not and it can still be read. Even just partitioning a drive with the stuff on the other partition will save your stuff unless the actual mechanical part of the HD fails.
Get an external HD of whatever size you want that connects USB. Put your shit on that. Its that simple.
Or I should say get a Hard drive and an external hard drive case with USB that way you can plug it into any PC :)


If a drive is going to go bad its going to be the drive the Operating System is on. Because thats the one that gets worked over everyday all day and where things like viruses go. An external wont even be powered up until you want to watch your flicks. That drive should last you forever or until it becomes obsolete :) There is a maintenance/tuneup routine that all computers should have done regularly and if done regularly you stuff will run better faster longer and almost never fail and almost no one does it of all and the ones that do, dont do it right. Even your tech dude at your local PC shop or the geek squad dont know this. In the 20 yrs and dozens of PCs and or versions of PCs I've had I've only lost my stuff on my HD once and it was my fault because I didnt want to hassle with swapping the drive and copying all the files so I just a Format C:\

If anyone wants to know how to keep your PC tuned and running efficient all the time let me know. I have the end all method that if followed you'll never have another problem :) Of my costumers, the only ones that return with problems are the ones that dont follow the method :)
BTW I didnt just sleep in a holiday inn last night :)
I'm a tech with these certs A+, NET +, MCP, MCSE & CCNA, Server +, Security +
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old school has mechanical failures
new school can only flash so many times
the last sentence is the most questionable statement of all, tho

ur method for costumers must be very complex.. what hi tech costumes are these??
 
baggerr said:
well if you're like most of us dont you get tired of the same scenes? I have a lot of porn and I do have a few scenes that have gotten a lot of mileage, but the rest gets old, delete what you dont watch any more, you'll know cause you'll skip over it to something better :)
I dont download whole scenes from a Video, I do ciips and I search "compilations" along with the main thing I like, as example anal, or blowjobs or whatever it is you like. Dont do torrents, thats copywright no no, just get a downloader such as "ANT" from ant.com and view videos on the porn tube sites and when you see one you like you click download and you're done. Screw the torrent routine and trying to get the full actual videos.
As far as hard drives/storage, I've only had 1 drive go bad on 20+ yrs and dozens of drives. it is VERY rare for the actual hard drive itself to fail. But the data is still on the disks. Usually its windows that crashes and gets fucked up and you end up doing a format C: :) When that happens just pull the drive out, plug it into another computer as a 2nd drive or as an external and you can still read the drive and pull the files off. Just because windows wont load or the system cant read it doesnt mean the drive is bad. There are things the drive with the OS on it has to perform for the OS to work that a 2nd drive or external does not and it can still be read. Even just partitioning a drive with the stuff on the other partition will save your stuff unless the actual mechanical part of the HD fails.
Get an external HD of whatever size you want that connects USB. Put your shit on that. Its that simple.
Or I should say get a Hard drive and an external hard drive case with USB that way you can plug it into any PC :)


If a drive is going to go bad its going to be the drive the Operating System is on. Because thats the one that gets worked over everyday all day and where things like viruses go. An external wont even be powered up until you want to watch your flicks. That drive should last you forever or until it becomes obsolete :) There is a maintenance/tuneup routine that all computers should have done regularly and if done regularly you stuff will run better faster longer and almost never fail and almost no one does it of all and the ones that do, dont do it right. Even your tech dude at your local PC shop or the geek squad dont know this. In the 20 yrs and dozens of PCs and or versions of PCs I've had I've only lost my stuff on my HD once and it was my fault because I didnt want to hassle with swapping the drive and copying all the files so I just a Format C:\

If anyone wants to know how to keep your PC tuned and running efficient all the time let me know. I have the end all method that if followed you'll never have another problem :) Of my costumers, the only ones that return with problems are the ones that dont follow the method :)
BTW I didnt just sleep in a holiday inn last night :)
I'm a tech with these certs A+, NET +, MCP, MCSE & CCNA, Server +, Security +
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I have training from the Dept. Of Defense and self-trained since I was 17 years old on computer systems of all types. I have had drive failures that were almost always data drives not O.S. drives. Such as STEAM drives and heavy usage data/media drives. I suppose it all depends on what is being loaded and recovered from the most. I have a an, O.S. drive-200gb, a programs drive-200gb, a STEAM drive-300gb, media drive-300gb and a back-up drive to separate the load (all Seagate Barracuda SATA mechanical). I had my rig running since 2009 (first core [email protected] GHz, Quad. 3GB RAM) and the damn STEAM drive went up and made the O.S. malfunction as it tries to access it. Somehow the programs drive went up, my son was using it while I was away for a bit and forgot to maintain the machine and it had a lot of mess (some virus and malware) to clean up when I got home. Remember, any drive can go at anytime. Especially mechanical drives.
have to pull it as it is dead and try to re-install the O.S.
 
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Pay a little more and get NAS drives - both Western Digital and Seagate have them. Then buy a NAS casing and RAID/mirror the drives - if you can manage to make 2 drives fail simultaneously you might as well go buy lotto tickets. :D For a home use such as you are wanting, mirror is probably all you need. It gives you a backup of all your porn with a 2nd one in the NAS box that is identical and having it in the NAS means your system performance is not affected.

And you can simply turn off the NAS when not needed - or let it run. Failure points for electronics are significantly increased by lots of turn off/turn on events. having them constantly on will, like a taxi constantly in use, significantly increase the lifetime. It's a bathtub cruve - they fail early in their life or very late.
 
Journyman16 said:
Pay a little more and get NAS drives - both Western Digital and Seagate have them. Then buy a NAS casing and RAID/mirror the drives - if you can manage to make 2 drives fail simultaneously you might as well go buy lotto tickets. :D For a home use such as you are wanting, mirror is probably all you need. It gives you a backup of all your porn with a 2nd one in the NAS box that is identical and having it in the NAS means your system performance is not affected.

And you can simply turn off the NAS when not needed - or let it run. Failure points for electronics are significantly increased by lots of turn off/turn on events. having them constantly on will, like a taxi constantly in use, significantly increase the lifetime. It's a bathtub cruve - they fail early in their life or very late.
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Good advice all of it...

Supportbluelight said:
Do sites like tube8 have viruses on them?
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Any site like that has the potential of viruses through it's links to other disreputable vendors and lack of security on their parts that may lend their links to intrusion thus affecting you the person who accidentally clicks that ole' bullshit. Always have good security measures in place, especially when shuffling porn.
 
SolidEther said:
I have training from the Dept. Of Defense and self-trained since I was 17 years old on computer systems of all types. I have had drive failures that were almost always data drives not O.S. drives. Such as STEAM drives and heavy usage data/media drives. I suppose it all depends on what is being loaded and recovered from the most. I have a an, O.S. drive-200gb, a programs drive-200gb, a STEAM drive-300gb, media drive-300gb and a back-up drive to separate the load (all Seagate Barracuda SATA mechanical). I had my rig running since 2009 (first core [email protected] GHz, Quad. 3GB RAM) and the damn STEAM drive went up and made the O.S. malfunction as it tries to access it. Somehow the programs drive went up, my son was using it while I was away for a bit and forgot to maintain the machine and it had a lot of mess (some virus and malware) to clean up when I got home. Remember, any drive can go at anytime. Especially mechanical drives.
have to pull it as it is dead and try to re-install the O.S.
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And thats why you dont want important files on the same drive as the OS, like I said it is way more likely that the drive with the OS will fail long before any others because its the one that gets used and abused :)
 
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