How big is your porn folder?

[flozen]

@bi4smooth I'm impressed you got 16TB of fun uploaded into cloud.storage.

I subscribed to Carbonite and tried to use it, but it was so slow, I was laboring to get it past the second TB, so no good. I was using a slower Internet provider at that time, so perhaps...

Now I am using a twin 8TB as a backup, which of course still leaves me open to fire, flood or theft. I know clouds are great, but I feel like I read an article that some scan your uploading for particularly reported illegal images. And while I think I'm clean -- lol -- I can't say I've seen every image unzipped from generous torrent collections.

Or maybe this is just an Internet rumor.

[bi4smooth]

@flozen
Some cloud-based backup solutions definitely do scan your uploads!
I use Code42, in part because your data is encrypted - before being sent - and in part because they don't have storage limits.

Your experience is not rare - especially for people with cable-tv based Internet Service Providers. These providers, as well as DSL-based providers, base their Internet Service Model on the old dial-up assumptions: that you will download 100x more data than you will upload.

Think about it: in the early days of the Internet, you'd send at-most 1k of data asking for a website's HTML content, and you'd then download multiple MB of "content" for that page.

However, it's 2021, and dis ain't dat!

My ISP uses fiber-optic networking (at least from the outside of the house - it's CAT-6 inside the house). My service is 500Mbps x 500Mbps - that is, the data speed is symmetrical: the same upload speed as download speed.

This capability is unrealistic for cable-modems, and impossibly expensive for DSL: the equipment needed to transmit at those speeds is expensive for cable, and VERY expensive for DSL. That's why they can be installed at the distribution center ("local office" for telephony-based DSL), but not at your home.

With upload speeds of 500Mbps, my online backup should make more sense now

[flozen]

@bc22 said in How big is your porn folder?:

Lots of leftover 1TB and 2TB hard drives, several of which have been reformatted and zero'd out to be repurposed as cloned replacement basic drives for guest computers.

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I have three leftover 1 or 2TB externals -- but unlike yours, which have been repurposed, mine are in limbo. All have porn, and have been knocked over or dropped, guess they range from from 5-8 years old.

One clicks, one whirs, and other makes no sound. I do suspect there's a few things I'd like to recover.

Unfortunately, the world of hard-drive recovery repair is full of extortionists, hoping for a clientele of dumb small-business people who would pay anything to recover their client list.

And even if I found some young, independent techie at reasonable rates, I don't feel comfortable letting my drives out of the apartment.

I've seen Youtube vids on home repair, but they seem very iffy for someone with no practice. For now, they are a project for a future day.

[A Former User]

Clicks of death (thanks Sandisk) and whirs are both heart attacks and heartbreaks. Think I cried for two days once.

[A Former User]

I have total of 452 GB capacity in my Laptop and 440 GB occupied with various porn taken from different sources [excludes other external hard drives mostly TB capacities as back up]...
Now it happens yesterday that something went wrong in my PC that windows lost it start up configuration...
For long story short considered crash, so the only way is to re-format the whole thing, so I lost most of my favorites that I collected here for so many years and never recover those files today...
The point is, never ever to store important files in your main hard drive always back it up before something happen...

[renassiance]

Honestly waaaay too big, at this point it's probably getting close to 1TB. Across multiple hard drives.

Just checked one folder out of curiosity and it's 600GB

[Kevinsmc]

After reading through most of the replies here I realise that I'm actually a porn hoarder.
I have like a totally of 2.5TB of porn and still growing. Them bareback stuff are hard to experience in real life so most of them appears so precious to me.

[jsl76]

I have nearly 3 TB in what I call my "Named" folders (curated by performer) and an additional 4.2 TB in miscellaneous folders sorted at a high level by content type.

Then again, I never delete anything (except dups) and I have a large NAS drive, so space isn't an issue for me.

[kef30]

@groovedware said in How big is your porn folder?:

@Louism:

@groovedware:

It doesn't matter how big your porn folder is, it's what you do with it that counts.

True. I believe some liters of my cum have been wasted on them.  >:D

Ah well, put that cum to use and eliminate the waste, may I suggest:

300gb

[johnbdesires]

Currently at 200 GB

I just joined this website so it's increasing as we speak lol. Majority of my porn is Group Sex or Poppers Trainers.

[SoulCalibour]

I have a total of 3 TB of porn (around 3.600 files) and it's still growing (I have to re-download 300 videos from BelAmi in HD, so add about 350 GB)

[flozen]

@soulcalibour That's a big part of the challenge to any porn folder!

If you have a file in Standard Definition (SD) -- but then are tempted when finding the same clip in HD, FHD or UHD/4K...!

[jamessurtees]

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[taboi]

15.6TB (remember, Windows and Unraid count in Tebibytes (TiB) not Terabytes - Tebibytes are larger). I win.

I have been collecting for over 20 years and I never delete anything. I am the true definition of a data hoarder. Some of what's on there predates Bittorrent. Of course I have been replacing older things with better quality over the years but theres still some things with original file dates in the late 90's and have lived on a dozen or more hard drives over the years as they were upgraded. Yes, I sell access to my collection if you're interested.

[unoqualsiasi]

@taboi Ammazza!
Io ricordo che avevo qualche cd nascosto tra i libri con delle foto trovate su internet..
poi con l'avvento di pornhub o youporn non trovai più tanto utile "collezionare"..

[lovebearlove]

over 10tb i think

[GayJeongmin]

@young
I'm going to make 100 terabytes in the future.

[magentas]

@young I have a 1TB external hard drive which is mostly porn, but also regular movies, TV shows, and comic books that have gay content.

A second 1TB drive has movies, TV shows and comic books that are not gay.

[dorftimbre]

I think 3 TB . I have vast collections though and the Onlyfans rips I have are huge also

[kamyk]

I keep it semi-organized into different folders.

33Gbs of pictures from all over the internet since the 90s
650Gbs of porn from studios
57Gbs of video clips from places like Xhamster, etc

So around 740Gbs, not counting gay-themed movies like Patrik 1.5, The Mudge Boy, Mysterious Skin, My Own Private Idaho, etc. or homoerotic stuff like the Araki trilogy. That stuff adds 44Gbs