2015: How much porn on your hard-drive(s)

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brummie1 Member 567 Posts 6/14	Posted - Feb 23 2015 : 6:21PM I read a number of threads about the different sizes of porn collections but they all date to a number of years back. With the availability of HD; 1080p sometimes even 4k file sizes are bound to get larger. So how much porn do you have? And how much of it you think is HD? I currently have a 2tb about to get filled up. I thought about upgrading and getting a 3 or 4tb but I am scared about one prospect. It crashing. So I thought might settle with any other 2tb or even 1 because I am not ready to lose that much porn. Edited by - brummie1 on Feb 23 2015 [Link]
Daz1990 Member 84 Posts 5/13	Posted - Feb 25 2015 : 3:59PM Mine is currently at the 1.5TB mark sitting on a 2TB partition of a 4TB drive - so plenty of room yet, but I do share your fear about losing data so I mirror mine to two separate 1TB drives as backup. I always encrypt my HDs using TrueCrypt so this adds to the risk of data loss as one failed sector could mean the whole lot is gone! [Link]
dogzcatcher All-Star Member Fat bottomed girls make the rockin' world go round! 1551 Posts 5/09	Posted - Feb 27 2015 : 11:08PM Mine is at the 1.45 TB mark on a 5.45 TB portable drive. [Link]
bsl69dp Member 54 Posts 6/07	Posted - Mar 14 2015 : 11:10AM brummie1 wrote: So how much porn do you have? And how much of it you think is HD? I currently have a 2tb about to get filled up. I thought about upgrading and getting a 3 or 4tb but I am scared about one prospect. It crashing. So I thought might settle with any other 2tb or even 1 because I am not ready to lose that much porn. Click to expand I have about 8 TB on two 4 TB drives, with capacity for another 8 TB. Regarding backups, if you buy a HDD that big, buy two and keep a full backup. You'll never recover otherwise. Yes I have had it happen, and yes I was glad I didn't have to re-build manually because I simply wouldn't have done it! It's a scary amount of data but I'm really unwilling to spend much time on the download process and organization so it's a semi-automated and long-term (5-10 year) accumulation. About half the volume is DVDs imaged to HDD and the rest of it is downloads. About 3/4 of the downloads are HD. And yes I paid for all of it. My basic process is: 1. I'll save as a file in the format of: [Series] - [Episode] - [Actors] - [Studio] - [Director] - [Year] - [Source File] So an example would be: AnalRequired - sc2 - JessieVolt; MarkWood - EvilAngel - LeWood - 2013 - 21619_02_1080p.mp4 Or for a DVD: DeepAnalDrilling1 - DVD - AmyRied; ShylaStylez; RebeccaLinares; ToriBlack - AssFactory - JulesJordan - 2010 - DVD.nrg 2. I'll either download the cover art as a jpg or use Thumbnail Me to generate a video thumbnail, and save the jpg file with the same name as the video. 3. Use JRiver media center to automatically import the files to the library and populate the metadata fields of its internal database automatically from the fields embedded in the filename. 4. Use JRiver to automatically find the thumbnails Presto, fully searchable and thumbnailed library of a massive amount of porn. I can search any actor, title, director, etc and instantly play the file over the wireless network using my laptop. If I have to mass-rename files I use VB functions I wrote in Excel to import and modify filenames. Imagine adding semicolons to the actor lists manually - no way am I spending much time to do that! But I was able to do it for all the files in about 30 minutes. It might sound unbelievable but I spend very little time on it - only a few minutes per day. I've just learned to be super efficient at building it so I can spend time doing all the non-porn things I enjoy (of which there are many). When I have those precious few minutes to watch some, I can easily find what I want. BSL Edited by - bsl69dp on 3/14/2015 11:13:03 AM [Link]
brummie1 Member 567 Posts 6/14	Posted - Mar 20 2015 : 9:58AM If I have to mass-rename files I use VB functions I wrote in Excel to import and modify filenames. Imagine adding semicolons to the actor lists manually - no way am I spending much time to do that! But I was able to do it for all the files in about 30 minutes. Edited by - bsl69dp on 3/14/2015 11:13:03 AM [/quote] Very interesting, I like the way you set out your content, I wish I was this organised. Would you be kind enough to explain (in more detail) how you mass rename files. I have to do this for hundreds of videos that I have and I simply don't have the time. [Link]

bsl69dp Member 54 Posts 6/07	Posted - Mar 24 2015 : 7:04PM [/quote] Very interesting, I like the way you set out your content, I wish I was this organised. Would you be kind enough to explain (in more detail) how you mass rename files. I have to do this for hundreds of videos that I have and I simply don't have the time. [/quote] I use VB to import the names of files in a directory to Excel. At this point each file name is on one row and in one column (i.e., one cell). Then VB parses the file names using the delimiter I define in the code. At this point each file name is on one row and split into multiple columns. Then I edit each column as I see fit: manually, using find-replace, or by VB. Then I have a function that uses the information I just updated to build new file names. At this point the new name of each file is in the "last" column. Then I use the file system object to rename all the original files to the new names. It's probably about 100 lines of code. Most of it I found on the web and adapted to my style and circumstance, some I had from previous projects I worked on. It was totally worth the investment in time to figure it out. BSL [Link]
daviangel Member Only time I would buy a girl flowers is if she was in the hospital 455 Posts 1/04	Posted - May 14 2015 : 7:07AM Yeah 4k eats harddrive space fast! They tend to average 5GB each or more! Anyways, I had to buy 6TB drives just to hold all my stuff since just my EvilAngel collection fills up 3.3TB Most of it is HD because anything less looks like crap when you use a 4k display. I back it all up to a NAS that has 15TB of redundant drives. I use Plex to stream it all from NAS to tablets. [Link]
Goldstein All-Star Member "You have sacrificed nothing and no one." 3689 Posts 8/10	Posted - May 22 2015 : 9:13AM To echo some thoughts here... #1 Back Up, Back Up, Back Up! I've ceased buying porn on DVDs, and now download everything from the numerous websites I maintain memberships with. This makes having backups important. I download everything in the highest resolution available up to 1080 HD (4k just doesn't interest me). My current regimen is: (a) Download all files to my "Edit" drive (local internal hard drive, solely used for downloading and processing porn) (b) Defrag downloaded files (c) Copy files to my library of archive hard drives (currently using WD Green 4 TB desktop drives) (d) Copy files to my library of portable "media viewer" hard drives (these drives are used for actually watching files on my TV, etc.) (e) Burn files to single-layer 25 GB Blu-ray BD-R disks (since these are for archival purposes, I only use single-layer disks) (f) Verify every file on the burned BD-R disks, then move the corresponding files on the archive hard drives to their respective "studio" folders (g) Delete the original files from the Edit drive and start all over again (lather, rinse, repeat) This leaves me with three copies of all porn videos: archived Blu-ray disk, archived hard drive and a "media viewer" copy for watching) #2 Naming Rules I save every file the same way: "Girl's Name (Scene Title _Stud's Name) Studio Scene ID" example: Peta Jensen (Peta Pays Your Cock a Visit _Johnny Sins) bex_peta_jenson_bb032515_1080p_12000.mp4 It's good to have a hobby :) [Link]
brummie1 Member 567 Posts 6/14	Posted - May 22 2015 : 12:56PM ^Wow a lot of hard work goes into your collection dude. A lot. lol I don't think I can ever get the time or willpower to do all that. But how big is it though(no homo)? I just wanna who has the biggest content on ADT? So far bsl69dp got everyone beat? I presume it's over 1 tb? [Link]
brummie1 Member 567 Posts 6/14	Posted - May 22 2015 : 12:59PM bsl69dp wrote: Click to expand Very interesting, I like the way you set out your content, I wish I was this organised. Would you be kind enough to explain (in more detail) how you mass rename files. I have to do this for hundreds of videos that I have and I simply don't have the time. Click to expand I use VB to import the names of files in a directory to Excel. At this point each file name is on one row and in one column (i.e., one cell). Then VB parses the file names using the delimiter I define in the code. At this point each file name is on one row and split into multiple columns. Then I edit each column as I see fit: manually, using find-replace, or by VB. Then I have a function that uses the information I just updated to build new file names. At this point the new name of each file is in the "last" column. Then I use the file system object to rename all the original files to the new names. It's probably about 100 lines of code. Most of it I found on the web and adapted to my style and circumstance, some I had from previous projects I worked on. It was totally worth the investment in time to figure it out. BSL Click to expand That is too advanced for me. lol. I think I will just stick to my basic method until I shore up my IT skills. But thanks anyway. [Link]
Mister Fahrenheit All-Star Member Meh 4655 Posts 10/13	Posted - May 22 2015 : 4:28PM Goldstein wrote: (b) Defrag downloaded files Click to expand I don't do this, should I? What's the benefit of defragging the files you download? [Link]
Goldstein All-Star Member "You have sacrificed nothing and no one." 3689 Posts 8/10	Posted - May 23 2015 : 10:06AM Goldstein wrote: (b) Defrag downloaded files Click to expand Mister Fahrenheit wrote: I don't do this, should I? What's the benefit of defragging the files you download? Click to expand Primarily, it makes the burning of the Blu-ray disk more reliable, smoother and less taxing on the system. Benefit: no "coasters" (Blu-ray blank disks still cost enough that you don't want to waste your money). Now, when you copy files from one drive to another, they are essentially defragged as part of the process (i.e. on the destination drive). But, the copying process also goes smoother when you're dealing with defragged files to start with. The #1 reason to defrag your downloaded files is to maintain larger contiguous chunks of "empty" hard drive space for your subsequent downloads. Remember, it is an ongoing process. You are actually going to download a few hundred GB's of files before you start burning them off in 25 GB chunks to your Blu-ray disks. Having an assortment of files and file sizes available makes it far easier to build disks that fully utilize the space available (basically, 23.1 GB of available burnable space after your Blu-ray disk accounts for it's formatting and file structure). This would seem counter-intuitive, but downloaded files are fragmented as they are being written to your hard drive (especially when you are downloading more than one file at a time). Basically, it's like throwing poop into the proverbial fan. As your disk fills up, the files are increasingly broken into more and more fragments as they are downloading. By defragging regularly as you go, you maintain larger contiguous chunks of "empty" hard drive space, which results in files with far fewer fragments, and also helps to speed-up your download times and maintain file integrity. If you don't defrag as you go, you often wind-up with files broken into 20,000 fragments each as the disk fills. Defragging regularly results in files of typically less than 10 fragments. Important I am NOT defragging the entire disk drive! This would result in unnecessarily moving around 100's of GBs of already defragged files (arguably creating more problems than benefit). Rather, I use the FREE version of Piriform's Defraggler utility (which allows you to selectively defrag the files you choose). So, since you will be defragging regularly (I do it after every 25 GB or so), when Defraggler analyzes your drive for fragmented files, it only returns the next group of downloads needing to be defragged. And, it only defrags those files you tell it to (this is an option you choose after Defraggler analyzes the drive) without unnecessarily moving around other files on the drive. Just for fun, try playing a 4 GB video file broken into 20,000 fragments vs playing the defragmented version of the same file. Now, try rewinding, fast-forwarding and playing slo-motion (porno watching gospel) on the heavily fragmented file. LOL So, for you guys just downloading files to your hard drive -- without all the archiving stuff I go through -- defragmenting is actually even more important to maintaining your video quality viewing experience. And, it keeps the fragmenting on your hard drive from getting ridiculous. Just remember to use Defraggler the way I described. Also, I highly recommend using a second hard drive for your video files and NOT using the drive with your OS on it for video downloads and storage (really makes no difference if it is an internal or external drive). And, for you guys still using XP, remember that XP will really only recognize hard drives up to 2 TB. Yes, you can format larger drives into multiple partitions to get them to work with XP, but you really don't want to have to do that. And, will other devices you plug a partitioned drive into be able to see all the partitions? Many don't. So, I use Windows 7 and use 4 TB Western Digital Green internal hard drives for my archival storage. However, I limit my portable "media viewer" hard drives to 2 TB, so that they will be reliably compatible with whatever I plug them into. An excellent drive for "media viewer" purposes is the WD Elements 2TB USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive Happy whacking [Link]
Mister Fahrenheit All-Star Member Meh 4655 Posts 10/13	Posted - May 23 2015 : 5:39PM ^ Thanks for the detailed response. I copy all my video files off my PC to an external hard drive, so going off what you said they are essentially being defragged already? One thing's for sure, I need to buy another external drive for back-up purposes. Manually copying all my files (over 1,000) to another drive seems like it would take forever though. Is there any way I can transfer the files to the second drive more quickly? And what about cloud storage? Anyone use it? Edited by - Mister Fahrenheit on 5/23/2015 5:41:38 PM [Link]
Bill All-Star Member 5334 Posts 6/00	Posted - May 24 2015 : 8:38PM You don't want to use cloud storage. It's slower and more expensive. If your PC supports USB3, make sure that you get a USB3 external hard drive. It's much faster than a USB2 drive. However, if your primary external drive is USB2, that's the best speed that you're going to get, until you eventually replace that drive. As far a copying, just let the copy run unattended. Start it before you go to bed on a weekday and let it run all night and the next day when you are at work. [Link]
daviangel Member Only time I would buy a girl flowers is if she was in the hospital 455 Posts 1/04	Posted - May 25 2015 : 4:00AM Mister Fahrenheit wrote: ^ Thanks for the detailed response. I copy all my video files off my PC to an external hard drive, so going off what you said they are essentially being defragged already? One thing's for sure, I need to buy another external drive for back-up purposes. Manually copying all my files (over 1,000) to another drive seems like it would take forever though. Is there any way I can transfer the files to the second drive more quickly? And what about cloud storage? Anyone use it? Edited by - Mister Fahrenheit on 5/23/2015 5:41:38 PM Click to expand I use this UASP USB 3 external dock with 6TB drives and it's fast enough for even my 4K files! http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CBE17JG/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I use Microsoft's OneDrive to backup and mirror my most important porn. You get 1TB if you have an Office subscription and it's the cheapest and only one that can fit all my porn LOL. Currently I got a bit over 500TB uploaded. You will need a superfast connection because even with my 120Mb/s Comcast 10Mb/s upload it took several months to upload that much data! The benefit of having it on OneDrive is that I can access all my stuff on my Apple iPad and Android tablet's wherever I go. But that's really a last resort in case I lose all my drives and blu-ray's somehow. I do it cuz I have the speed and storage like I mentioned and I'm paranoid since I"ve lost so much porn in the past! And if I had to start all over and had the time I would put the girls full name in the file name because right now I'm spending a ton of time going through all my thousands of files tracking my favorite performers because some websites down use the performers name anywhere in the filename making me have to browse through the video and using the adult internet moviebase to track them down. p.s. Defragging your drive becomes even more important if you are downloading 4k porn since a single file can be almost 10GB and get scattered all over the drive and is the only time I notice any slowdowns because it's looking for space to save it and trying to piece it together when playing back that you'll definitely see stuttering and glitches if you get close to filling the drive without defragging. Edited by - daviangel on 5/25/2015 4:03:12 AM Edited by - daviangel on 5/25/2015 4:07:32 AM [Link]

DarkDeveloper Member 57 Posts 6/10	Posted - May 25 2015 : 6:15AM In response to the original question.... "So how much porn do you have?" Far Far Far too much..... ;-) [Link]
Goldstein All-Star Member "You have sacrificed nothing and no one." 3689 Posts 8/10	Posted - May 25 2015 : 8:57AM Bill wrote: You don't want to use cloud storage. It's slower and more expensive. If your PC supports USB3, make sure that you get a USB3 external hard drive. It's much faster than a USB2 drive. However, if your primary external drive is USB2, that's the best speed that you're going to get, until you eventually replace that drive. As far a copying, just let the copy run unattended. Start it before you go to bed on a weekday and let it run all night and the next day when you are at work. Click to expand Bill is exactly correct. Also, the reason the files copied to your destination drive get defragged during the copying process, is that the various fragments of a file are assembled and copied one file at a time to the destination drive. The only thing that is going to fuck this up is -- you guessed it -- if your destination drive is so fragmented and full to the point that there aren't any large enough contiguous chunks of "empty" hard drive space that you can copy a large file to in one piece. So, if all you do is copy and archive files to a destination drive dedicated to this purpose, you will never have an issue :) [Link]
charn fubar 2880 Posts 12/09	Posted - Jun 13 2015 : 8:53PM It's in flux as I occasionally watch everything and toss some stuff that doesn't meet raised standards, then buy a membership and download files 10 hex the rate I watch them. Before I buy another one, I may need another TB, so that's a month or few of watching and tossing before I make a decision of buying a bigger drive. [Link]
cubesnake Senior Member 3858 Posts 10/02	Posted - Jun 16 2015 : 1:53PM DarkDeveloper wrote: In response to the original question.... "So how much porn do you have?" Far Far Far too much..... ;-) Click to expand no no :), 2T to 4 or 5T is too much . 500T is Far Far Far too much but to stay on topic ... here is my solution ... 12bay NAS with 12 4TB Drives in RAID 6 MODE and a USV for scary weather. Backups ? yeah sure ... no Even though i "only" have about 10T in X-Files Backing that up regularly is no fun. Whereto anyway ? a second 12bay NAS in RAID 1 ? Cube [Link]
cubesnake Senior Member 3858 Posts 10/02	Posted - Jun 16 2015 : 2:10PM @brummie1 regarding mass filerenaming lets say your files are all in one folder and they all have a name like cubes_xfiles_collection- hex xx.ext where xxx can range from 000 to 999 Now you want to rename them like this brummies_xfiles_saved-on-Date-collection- hex xx-private.ext You mean something like this ? There is a Programm with a function who can do it. It´s "order" would sound like this ... brummies[N6-13]saved-on-[YMD]-[N14-]-private the name of the programm is Totalcommander ... check it out http://www.ghisler.com Cube [Link]
Evil_Rip Senior Member Power overwhelming 1117 Posts 12/99	Posted - Jun 17 2015 : 2:02AM brummie1 wrote: I read a number of threads about the different sizes of porn collections but they all date to a number of years back. With the availability of HD; 1080p sometimes even 4k file sizes are bound to get larger. So how much porn do you have? And how much of it you think is HD? I currently have a 2tb about to get filled up. I thought about upgrading and getting a 3 or 4tb but I am scared about one prospect. It crashing. So I thought might settle with any other 2tb or even 1 because I am not ready to lose that much porn. Edited by - brummie1 on Feb 23 2015 Click to expand For a home environment I suggest using FreeNas: http://www.freenas.org/ Purchase 4 identical drives and set it up. Say you get 4 x 5TB now you will have about 10TB of space with 10TB in Mirror mode. Meaning if one of the drives crashes, you just have to replace that drive and you'll be back in shape. Now if you have the space and computers, you could very well setup a Ceph: http://ceph.com/ cluster and go from there [Link]
julesx Member 77 Posts 7/12	Posted - Jun 30 2015 : 7:39PM figure this is a good place to plug my new app :) www.pornganizer.org all you people organizing your stuff using filenames and windows explorer are crazy! [Link]
zambi Senior Member 1451 Posts 3/10	Posted - Jul 2 2015 : 5:07PM ^ I agree. I haven't tried organizing my stuff yet but I figure there must already exist software for organizing, browsing, and playing a collection of movie files? You need a database which could be used to tag movie files. Using the tags you can simply search for what you are looking for (e.g. tags for cast in movie like Jesse Jane, tags for type of movie like IR or gangbang). Once you have the tags you can browse and search a collection. The front end UI for this could also use thumbnail images like boxcover photos and pornstar images). I think WDTV Live Hub has some interface like this? I suspect apps like XBMC and MythTV do something like this also? The actual movie files would be stored on a server or NAS. Like I said I think WDTV Live Hub is the only thing I've seen that comes close to this. If anybody knows other alternatives post them. [Link]
daviangel Member Only time I would buy a girl flowers is if she was in the hospital 455 Posts 1/04	Posted - Aug 4 2015 : 7:29PM zambi wrote: ^ I agree. I haven't tried organizing my stuff yet but I figure there must already exist software for organizing, browsing, and playing a collection of movie files? You need a database which could be used to tag movie files. Using the tags you can simply search for what you are looking for (e.g. tags for cast in movie like Jesse Jane, tags for type of movie like IR or gangbang). Once you have the tags you can browse and search a collection. The front end UI for this could also use thumbnail images like boxcover photos and pornstar images). I think WDTV Live Hub has some interface like this? I suspect apps like XBMC and MythTV do something like this also? The actual movie files would be stored on a server or NAS. Like I said I think WDTV Live Hub is the only thing I've seen that comes close to this. If anybody knows other alternatives post them. Click to expand Actually Adobe lightroom can do this or is supposed to. Was able to handle my image files but choked on all the video I had and gave up. [Link]