How big is your porn folder?

[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 }

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• 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

[epdravis2]

49.64 TBs as of August '26.
Built out a huge home lab for professional certifications. TrueNAS with 3 expansion shelves on an R730xd.
Sad thing is, that 50TiBs doesn't account for 20% of total storage.

I think the real problem is, that gay porn folder is almost 2x the size of my Plex content, both TV & Movies. I gotta put my *arrs to work better.

Anyone who has experience with StashApp: How difficult is it to generate hashes for a massive library? Also, I have a lot of OF content; is there an indexer / scrape for the fan sites?

[frostycab]

@epdravis2 With Stash you just tell it which folders to scan into your library and it will index them all. While it's doing that it can also be set to generate all of these, though be aware that it will take a looooooong time with a library of that size.

I just get mine to make a scene cover and phash for each one and it can take a while just to do a couple of thousand files. It can also start to eat up disk space quite rapidly if you include animated previews and scrubber sprites, but they're nice to have. My advice is if you're going to give it a go then just start with a small folder and see how long it takes to churn it out, then decide if you want to let it run for a couple of weeks to do your whole library. LOL

As far as I know there aren't any scrapers for the fan sites, but that's hardly surprising as the perceptual hashes would struggle to differentiate between a lot of the cam shows and such given that if you've seen one show from a performer then there isn't much difference between that and the others. I have all my amateur stuff sorted into folders, so I just point at a folder, select all the entries and tag them with the performer. If I had a few years to spare I'd go through and add tags to all of them, but I don't think it's worth the time and effort.

If you need help then drop me a DM, but be aware that I've barely scratched the surface with some of the features. I've got it doing what I need it to so happy to live with it as is, but I occasionally try to play with something new before I realise I lack the know-how.

[diabangical]

@frostycab I didn't know about stash. Pretty neat. I used to use plex ages ago but now I guess they've become some sort of netflix thing? I miss when it was less... corporate. Hopefully stash doesn't go that way.

[epdravis2]

@frostycab
I think my real challenge behind it is, I'm a Perma-Seeder; I never stop seeding once I've downloaded. As a result, I don't have any organization or sub-folders within my collection; it's all just dumped into one giant folder I use for seeding it all out. (I suppose I could start to use categories in qBT and organize that way, but...)
I'm assuming that once Stash finds a match, it'll rename the file(s), the way Sonarr and Radarr do? Doing so breaks the ability to seed it out.
Hmm. I could hard-link a copy of the library, which would let me continue to seed the original file name, and then have a mirror I could play with using Stash...
The box that would be hosting Stash is also my storage array, and it's got plenty of compute and RAM available, so i might just turn it loose on a copy of the library and see what happens.

(Also, mods, if this needs to move to a new thread, apologies, and will do.)

[frostycab]

@epdravis2 Stash doesn't rename files unless you want it to and use a plugin to do it. As standard the files retain all their original properties, so when you use scrapers to ID vids any names or metadata it pulls with scrapers just affect the internal database entries. The original file isn't modified in any way. Be warned though that if you use the delete button you will first get a warning dialogue and clicking delete there WILL delete the file itself. Should you end up with entries for files that you have actually deleted yourself then use the CLEAN function in the Tasks screen as that will just remove broken associations within Stash itself.

Having everything in a single folder won't stop Stash from doing its thing. It will make it harder to run tasks on a small section of the library though. Bear in mind that whenever you run a scan to find newly added files it will walk through the entire directory structure unless you tell it to limit the scan to specific folders. I already had my folder partially sorted before I started with Stash so just continued on, and it has made it easier to attribute amateur stuff to the right performers.

I reckon that so far I've only organised about a third of my library thanks to Stash. It's not a silver bullet that will solve all of your curating needs, but it does do a lot for you. When I first worked out that I didn't need to go and scrape every individual scene manually and instead just ran the Identify task it filled in data for over 30000 files that were on my to-do list.

It currently only scrapes scenes, not full films, so if you have an entire DVD rip you often need to enter data manually, though I often find that if I have a quick look I'll already have the whole thing as individual scene somewhere anyway.

My advice, since you seem to have the space and runtime to do it, is to create a new folder and copy/paste a small chunk of your stuff (literally just 10-20 files) into there then let Stash run loose on there so you can get a feel for it. If you like it then you can throw it over the fence at the main repository.