Anyone else given up hoarding data? I deleted all my hoarding stuff and sold my hard drives at Cex...

What kind of things do you save nowadays?

Diskspace is getting cheap.
There is literally nothing wrong with data hoarding.

I used to hoard chaturbate streams but now I only have a select few models and I edit anything good down to short clips, so from 2 hour videos to 5 minute

Degeneracy.

> really no different than people who horde piles of trash in their homes. same kind of illness
Not really. You have to ask yourself if (insert habit here) is affecting your life negatively, then you know if it's a problem, fatty.

I have my music, console game ISOs and NAND dumps and porn stored (as i wouldn't be able to find it again).
i also have my photos and university assignments backed up (as i don't trust onedrive).

even with all that my RAID1 2TB setup still has plenty of space.

>he has 25 TB of traps waggling their balls in front of a camera

There's literally no benefit

I've got quite a few files that went poof on many popular sites and I had to reupload to Archive.org.
You see, people like you benefit from people like me keeping this shit around and reuploading, so go fuck yourself.

Your files are trash, and Archive.org is only popular for hosting video game ROMS and other borderline illegal content.

I also felt the same way OP. Deleted my whole movie collection about 6 months ago and just left abou 4 or 5 of my favorites.

I feel so refreshed

>Archive.org is only popular for hosting video game ROMS and other borderline illegal content.
Have you ever even visited the site? Millions of books and magazines, movies, music and albums, etc, etc.

it's all fun and games making fun of data "hoarders" until the Dutch kill exhentai and there is no back ups, suddenly everyone goes mad.

Yes, copyright-infringing copies of trashy media. Infinite backups of inane data that in this day and age can be generated with machine learning.

I never got to "hoarder" status I don't think, but I used to have a massive backlog of movies, TV, music, games, and books.
Any time someone would recommend something, or I found something that looked interesting, I would seek it out, download it, and stick it in my backlog.
The problem was that I never watched, played, or read any of it because I never really had the time between work and school.
I kept buying hard drives because the backlog kept growing. Even when I had the time, the backlog was growing faster than I could clear it.

The breaking point was when I bought another hard drive only to find out that my desktop was out of SATA slots.
I started searching for a USB 3 external hard drive when I had the realization of what the heck I was doing. So I deleted everything.

I still keep a list for my backlog, but I raised the requirements for it to make it onto the list and I don't download it until I'm ready to complete it.

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my hoarding issue is with anime

not saving the anime episodes itself, but I watch anime and take literally thousands of screenshots per episode

I shit you not, I've taken almost 3000 screenshots on 1 episode that was 30 minutes long once

I don't understand why I'm doing this and I know it's terrible

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It's really easy to fill disks when you have 2160p HDR content, or even TV shows at 1080p. Hell, the Battlestar Galactica BDs take up something nearly 1 TB.

I want all the shit I might want to watch (a) easily accessible on all my devices, (b) backed up, and (c) constantly available. That means streaming services and discs are out, only solution is to rip BDs to MKV (remux) and store on my NAS with redundancy and daily backups to a 2nd off-site NAS.

Pleb tier hoarder. Getting your updates should be automated using sonarr and radarr, adding something should be done by just adding it in an app on your phone or by opening a tab in your browser and putting it in there.
If you got a decent collection you can also share it with your friends and family, help them save money and generally doing them a favor which they will properly not forget, i mean my brother is using my cloud basically every other day it's pretty hard to overlook that. He is thankful for it, as are some of my other relatives and friends.

show your folder ?

why?

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>almost 3000
>2168
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

what is it that you want to know?

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Sorta. I don't hoard music or video games that much and I only bother downloading anime that I can see myself watching at some point in the future (even if that isn't today or tomorrow, but the type of shit I would watch if I wasn't busy with schoolwork or work). Maybe it has to do with me reading more (in terms of textbooks and philosophy books mostly, but also JoJo's Bizarre Adventure's manga and that of Berserk) than watching shit in general.

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>it's all fun and games making fun of data "hoarders" until tendonitis kill exhentai and there is no back ups, suddenly everyone goes mad.
ftfy

> give up
> hoarding data
fuck off, faggot. and take your inane blogposts to fucking tumblr or facebook, you insufferable fag.

the dutch didn't kill exhentai

tendonjew got hit with gdpr lawsuits and he tried to downplay it as "lolicon laws" which was far from the truth, and he was very close to taking down the entire server instead of giving it to somebody else because he insists e-hentai/exhentai is his "little baby" even though e-hentai/exhentai was made by somebody else

that's why tendonjew moved the servers to a non-EU country in Europe

tl;dr exhentai would've never closed if tendonjew complied with gdpr

>being held hostage by your data
literally why
I have some 10 TB between music, movies, TV shows, anime and pictures, and never have I felt threatened by it
if I need it good if not who cares I'll just delete it eventually

Im not but i am happy now. Thanks user!

>10 hard drives in a corner
vs
>uninhabitable trash filled home

Yep, totally comparable!

yeah, i do the same but for random shit like flashes and old mobile games.

I've got 24TB of storage and backups and it takes up less then a square foot in my house.
I MUCH rather collect digitally then physically. I like my house it self being nice and clean with only the tools and items I need in a physical space.

Yes and no. I don't download anime, tv shows, etc anymore because the chances or rewatching it is too low and plus I don't watch as much as I use to years ago. I just stream. Music wise, I use to download the whole album of what ever band I like, but I only listen to a few songs. I haven't downloaded any music for a long ass time. But when I do, it's only going to be the songs I like. Anything I do keep long term are wallpapers, a few images, and pdfs. Only things I do hoard is old software for Macs, SGI, Sun, HPUX, etc.

I deleted my lewd image collection recently. Feels good to be free.

It's not about the physical size, it's the mindset.

Hoarding data is pointless if you're not willing to compress and zip and archives, and regularly clone and format disks, as the magnetism in the disks will gradually depreciate.

Writable optical discs will die to oxygen exposure

Flash storage mediums wear out quickly

HDD's need to be operated every now and then to retain data

All types of modern data storage are ineffective in the long term, and regularly need to be maintained and replaced

You can blame being on a big magnetic sphere for that one

I hoard porn.

It's a problem, I know.

Tapes, not necessarily magnetic.

but tapes are delicate

>as the magnetism in the disks will gradually depreciate.
Yeah, over decades. You just simply copy shit to a new drive when you purchase one. Not a hard concept user

Only reliable storage medium left is fucking punch cards.

I limit myself to 6tb of data. This include porn + music + movie.

Delete EVERYTHING is a bad idea since it is getting harder and harder to find a stuff at good quality.

I keep things I like, that's pretty much it. I don't download shit I'll never get around to just for the sake of it.

If it will never be hard to find due to many others having copies and those copies are of acceptable quality (ie no yify for films) then I don't bother hoarding it. This basically applies to all modern media made after 2000 so I exclusively only keep old unpopular stuff that never got a big release. This helps reduce what I need to keep and maintain making it less of a hassle. I think everything I have at the moment still adds up to less than 2TB.

why would you do this

>HDD's need to be operated every now and then to retain data
That's SSD/flash, retard. HDD is just frail and can die if you drop it or if it decides to commit senpuku when you are writing something.

I'm not sure how owning a few HDDs is a comparable mindset to literally living among stacks of trash to the point where your home is barely habitable anymore.

I screenshot things too, but from regular movies and TV-shows. Mostly clothes and architecture, but also interesting nature shots and stuff like that.
Some I use as inspiration for gamedev purposes, the rest is just things I find neat.

What's the point of that? You can't even make anime reaction images.

If you don't maintain an HDD every 2-3 years it can lose data. It can't just be dormant the whole time with data on it, it will lose magnetism.

What counts as hoarding? I mostly just keep stuff I might rewatch/replay in the future. That makes some 5TB of stuff, and I could still delete a lot of stuff if I ever ran low on space

I enjoy 18th century fashion for instance, I have a big folder of excellent examples of that from film and TV. I enjoy looking at them. I also have a large collection of screenshots of examples of column capitals spanning the ages, the roman composite is my favorite.

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user, that takes decades for that to happen, not 2-3 years. The drive will very likely mechanically fails WAY before it fails magnetically.
I've used hard discs from storage that were from the mid 70s (for a PDP8e) and maintained their data without issue.

store fags are always appreciated in the end of the day, but keeping the 200GB BD version of the current season of uguu girls is nonsense because if you're not really a fan of uguu girls then it's not useful for anyone, else you shouldn't be questioning why keep them in the first place.

how could you write this post and not post an anime reaction image you've made from your screenshots?

pls post some oc

For people to watch it on pirate sites for free when the publisher inevitably pulls all their content when they go bankrupt

Sonarr is broken and effectively useless for all but the most mainstream anime.

holy shit the amount of artifacts in this screenshot.

I don't claim to be a weeb myself i have like 10 on my cloud but i have not encountered a series sonarr didn't list (exept one but its a 40+ year old anime produced for german television so a program with a mainly english audience just doesnt have this). What has been a problem was finding actually seeded torrents for older less popular stuff but i can dl already released stuff from snahp.it and use sonarr and radarr only for new seasons/releases.

>implying you don't

thanks Obama

It's from an 8GB x264 1080p encode. I should probably redo them with a 4K remux version the next time I watch it.

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So, whats the answer to this? If you want to hoard 4TB of data then don't you have to buy 2 4TB hard drives in case one fails?

No problem if you store parity data on it and checksum the files. You loose some bits to demagnetization, then just XOR them back from the parity data and rebuild the file(s).

I torrent for the purpose of cultural preservation, so keeping the data allows me to seed it and preserve it. I am fairly selective with what i keep for that purposes. I am starting to get into terabytes now though

nigga, tell that to the Amiga I found on my dad's basement. You have no idea how HDDs work.

I started hoarding again, recently been downloading movies that I like and always have enjoyed. I also downloaded entire youtube channels that I enjoy. I plan to treat hard drives like VHS tapes, have one for youtube channels, one for movies, one for pictures and only plan on having redundancy for important things like family pictures. There's literally nothing wrong with hoarding, specially if its a hobby you enjoy.

I like my computer to feel clean. When I hoard, save bunch of Jow Forums images screenshots it feels dirty. Also everything has to have be renamed no: Interstellar_Haxor_BlueRay_1080p-RIP it's: "Interstellar.mkv" and that's it. Picture with descriptive titles and maybe some metadata. So I keep what I store small. Quality over quantity. Also I need my storage for content creation.

this. Hundreds of youtube videos that I "saved" by liking them are now deleted

>Picture with descriptive titles and maybe
*tags

Are you retarded? This would take almost a century.

>sold my hard drives at Cex
I hope you scrubbed them properly, user. I've found some very interesting stuff on used drives...

Had this happen to a channel I was subbed to, few dozen videos gone.

Does anyone know of any good script/software that can pull youtube videos along with their descriptions? Was wanting to back up a few channels on to Archive.org in case.

why do you store data in your computer as opposed to an external drive?

I have two of those, with more stuff. I also use my desktop to store backups and stuff on, and make music, I mostly USE my laptop though. I can stream movies from desktop over network or use an external drive, but my laptop stays clean, my external drive is "clean" also, and I need to clean my desktop.

You know that feeling you get when you see people with loads of unorganized icons on their desktop, that's how hoarding random stuff you'll probably not use again feels. the ~/ should be clean.

One I encountered, Konbini Kareshii was listed as Convenience Store Boy Friends, but all the trackers listed it as Convenience Store Boy Friends. I had to manually select it to pick it up. You can't force it to manually pull episodes that fit the filters, either. github.com/Sonarr/Sonarr/issues/395
This bullshit has been an issue for 4 years and completely defeats the purpose of using such a software. It's easier just to grab season packs from Nyaa and use FileBot to rename.

sounds like you just have problems organizing. i dont worry about keeping my computer clean because I treat my computer like a chromebook, i keep all my data on external drives and have only a 64gb hard drive for my OS.

>Getting this picky with which frame you want to see Rias' tits

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I mean the trackers listed it as Convenience Store Boyfriends so Sonarr didn't detect any of the releases. It doesn't use romanized titles as alternatives either, which it should since a lot of groups don't release with the English title.

Rias is a good girl so I think I can understand why.

Good solution I guess.
I do organize. I could be better I guess.
Pic is my external drive

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It's about whether or not your mindset is harming you

data hoarding is one of the few things in life that makes me happy
the more data i store, the more content i have to "look forward to" (although i know 90% of it will never be consumed)

I barely hoard anymore. Almost no games saved on my HDDs, only favorite movies and tv shows on reasonable sizes.
I have more music than I actually listen though, just in case, but I don't think I qualify as a hoarder.
I used to have tons of CDs and DVDs back in early 2000s but I either throw them away or gave them to friends. Next goal is getting rid of my Steam account, hopefully for some bucks.

why two movie folders? mine looks about the same actually lol

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It's newer and older stuff, one is from another external drive I don't use and the other is from the macbook before I did a formated and did a clean install. It's not downloaded movies it's personal stuff.

>no benefit

These, and also during those inevitable times when you have no internet connection for some arbitrary amount of time you have an entire hard drive worth of stuff to entertain you
>what if no electricity either
Then get a generator or a decent battery backup

I don't keep a lot of stuff, not even 10gb of music, less then 5gb of pics and some movies/animu. I've been deleting some of the music I know I won't even listen to ever again, feels good.

>feels good
It does. Minimalism feels good. Being a data-hog is bad, unless you're the NSA.

one tip from someone who has lost data a lot of times, if its personal and important enough, have more than one copy. I plan on moving out of my parents next year, and I plan on not having internet hooked up at home. So all the data should come handy. yet another good reason to hoard.