How big is your porn folder?

[cp2000]

@MrMazda lol thats badass... do you have any sort of backup or are all those drives part of a collective system? Ive been looking into Raid 10 with just a swarm of drives.

[cp2000]

@cp2000 crazyyyyy.... after cleaning up all my dupes in both drives... lots of open space now compared to before.

[MrMazda]

@cp2000 Sadly, I do not have a backup as of yet. I'm working on that though. The drives are split across 3 different machines on my network.

Tweety is on my TV Tower PC in my bedroom.

Sebastien & Gaston are on my Office PC in the basement.

Stuff Drive is on my server in the furnace room.

There's also a few drives for other stuff, like the DVR functions for our IPTV, but those drives there are all porn.

[musclejizz]

about 800GB

[frostycab]

I'm something of a collector. I like to grab whole collections even though I may not like all the vids. As such I'm currently at about 27TB, which according to my StashApp database equates to 3.5 years of playtime. That's actually come down in recent weeks as I'm going through large chunks of it and deleting duplicates and whole batches of stuff I never liked in the first place, plus it means I can get it all organised properly so I can upload a bit and also find stuff to fulfill reseed requests.

Oh, and that 27TB is AFTER I've run everything through Handbrake to fix playback issues and shrink everything down to a maximum of 720p. LOL

[bi4smooth]

@frostycab
I know what you mean - I recently ditched several studios that I just don't enjoy anymore... I am "limited" to my 32TB storage array... I was at 29TB and didn't want to invest in new disks... I'm back down to 25TB in use...

I also run all of my videos thru Handbrake - I recode them to .x265 (aka h265) and limit to 720p as well (who wants to see the stubble on that pretty boy's ass??? Let me revel in the fantasy that it's as smooth as silk! ) But, that limits what I can reseed to essentially my own torrents... which I need to upload more of. (Side effect: all of my re-coded videos no longer match the signatures used to detect piracy - no match makes it MUCH harder for them to prove I have their content!)

I use a self-managed seedbox (though, for the life of me, I haven't been able to get RSS feeds to work off of this site under qBitTorrent on Linux) for this and 3 other torrent sites I subscribe to (not all porn: my 32TB porn array has a brother... another 32TB array for non-porn... enough movies & TV shows to last well into my retirement!)

[cgnz]

too much... My nas is sitting at 16tb

[pwnlvr]

About 2TB

[skygrind]

I have about 2TB of files that are extremely messy and uncategorized, so I’m looking for ways to organize them. It feels like a huge project. Are there any good methods, software, or information about relevant studios/companies that can help with manual sorting and categorization?

[frostycab]

@skygrind said:

I have about 2TB of files that are extremely messy and uncategorized, so I’m looking for ways to organize them. It feels like a huge project. Are there any good methods, software, or information about relevant studios/companies that can help with manual sorting and categorization?

Have a look at StashApp, which link to StashDB. I've been using it for a while now, and it will catalogue your entire library. It generates perceptual hashes for every video and can compare them to entries in the StachDB database to fill in details such as actors, studios, dates, descriptions, tags etc. If info is still missing then you can scrape websites for the data, though that's not always successful. There are plugins for it that will rename the usual "987632490yio1h418y3b-fc9812.mp4" files to match your entries in the app, and even organise them into folders based of studio or actor or user-defined tags. I haven't been able to get some plugins to work, but when I have enough time I'll have a proper go at it.

Once you've got everything scanned and added some of the info then running a search on the whole database is lightning fast. I've save myself so much in terms of duplicate downloads now as I can quickly check if I have a file that looks familiar before downloading. I run it on my little N100 mini-PC and its incredibly simple to stream to my iPad, TV, gaming PC or whatever.

https://github.com/stashapp/stash

[skygrind]

@frostycab Thank you so much! I’ll organize it following this method, and it’ll be much easier to share once I’m done!!

[frostycab]

@skygrind You do need some spare drive space for the database though. When you scan your library it can generate all sorts of stuff. At the moment all mine is doing is scene covers and phashes. It can generate previews, scrubber sprites and all sorts if you want, but it will eat space. A lot of space, depending on the size of your collection.

Mine is only about 10GB right now, but I seems to remember it growing to about 400GB when I had a few more options turned on.

[RonFunches1]

For the first time I can use this,well,it's must be 400 G already.

[jockstrapau]

I have 1.08 TB in my porn folder
I have downloaded 1.15 TB from here on GT

Am I an addict?

[john32123666]

How big is your porn folder? Wrong
data Storage ...

• Not all of us are collecting porn, all mix up ...
  music.video/.movies/photos etc ...

I have 60 TB Total ... all external drives HDD ranging from 5 - 2 TB each ...

[cgnz]

@frostycab +1 for Stash, an actual game changer. Legit turns porn collections into your own personal porn Nextflix. And with scrapers, most major studios have one or you can use one of the community driven Stash Box databases like stashdb.org which 90% of the time already has a scenes details ready to go. Other than scenes and movies I've downloaded myself (not torrented) I dont even bother with organizing my physical files, I only need to really now view and organize with Stash

[cp2000]

@john32123666 i mean if we're talking total my last calculations were around 80TB across various storage that I have

IT SUCKS RENEWED HARD DRIVES ON AMAZON ARE SO EXPENSIVE NOW

if anyone has tips on getting the best deals on hard drives let me know please.

Ive loved getting the enterprise level renewed drives on amazon. i always by them in sets to have an identical backup.

[john32123666]

@cp2000 if you live in U.S. try main store like Walmart or Best Buy ...
Amazon External HDD or SSD drives are expensives ...
I am using those portable Toshiba/Canvio & SeaGate External HDD not SSD ... They have highest capacity however I'm not into ... { I prefer 2 TB - 5 TB individual }

• https://www.walmart.com/c/kp/toshiba-external-hard-drives |
  https://www.walmart.com/browse/electronics/seagate-external-hard-drives/3944_1089430_132959_1956376_3011786

• https://www.bestbuy.com/site/seagate/external-portable-hard-drives/pcmcat327200050020.c?id=pcmcat327200050020

They are portable cheaper and save space ...

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[bigwhitedog]

around 3 terabytes