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kingdom_elladrel · 2006-12-27, 12:26

As of now, this is how I store my anime. About half of them, maybe around 100 titles, are stored on both CD/DVD and on a 320 GB SATA RAID drive setup on stripe. For the other half, they are stored on only CD/DVD, but eventually, I'd like to have all my anime stored on both HD and CD/DVD.

In the near future, I'll be getting 2 external 500 GB HD's on Firewire to backup ALL of the anime that I have. That way, I have 2 copies of everything, on CD/DVD and on the huge HD's.

onepiecelover · 2006-12-28, 01:00

I usually just watch anime episodes once and thats it for me but if I really like them I just burn them to DVD's I can get like 80 bleach episodes in one DVD ^_^

-KarumA- · 2006-12-28, 07:36

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Originally Posted by onepiecelover

I just burn them to DVD's I can get like 80 bleach episodes in one DVD ^_^

agree, i do the same, when a series is worth burning that is
i dont burn every series i get my hands on, only series that i feel are worth storing up i burn on dvd, not lose episodes, i only burn them when theyre at the max dvd capacity or if theyre completed

i got a neath dvd storage system of slidding tubbes

its a square box and if you press ont he side a drawer slides out with dvd's, a gift from my sister and if a series is that good and after 4 years i come across it in ou only dvd box selling naime store in the neighbourhood i buy it

Kempis Curious · 2006-12-28, 10:25

Bad news. I got a large external harddisk last year and then got lazy about offloading to DVD. The stupid piece of junk lasted less than a year, and now I'm trying to re-download the animes I wanted to save.

You can imagine how motivated I am to do that. :P Hopefully someone will hear my sad story and finally get around to backing up their harddisk.

-k

curious

Nergol · 2007-01-07, 23:17

On a big honkin' external hard disk. Thank God for Fry's.

I now have a 300GB external (for anime and other video) and a 250GB external (for mp3s, hard drive backup, and everything else).

kauldron26 · 2007-01-08, 08:36

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kempis Curious

Bad news. I got a large external harddisk last year and then got lazy about offloading to DVD. The stupid piece of junk lasted less than a year, and now I'm trying to re-download the animes I wanted to save.

You can imagine how motivated I am to do that. :P Hopefully someone will hear my sad story and finally get around to backing up their harddisk.

-k

curious

after seeing so many posts like this across the net, ive been burning all my anime and putting them on dvds. I can only imagine how angry u were when ur hdd died. my sympathies man. if u want i can send u some good DDL links via PM.

Nk_Rizel · 2007-01-08, 08:55

I used program that wrote by my friend for manage my anime that I got around 150 series, and I stored into my 250Gb X 3 SATA HDD. Now m looking for new HDD that have a bigger capasity for store another anime that I got everyday.

capture · 2007-01-08, 18:17

Quote:

Originally Posted by onepiecelover

I usually just watch anime episodes once and thats it for me but if I really like them I just burn them to DVD's I can get like 80 bleach episodes in one DVD ^_^

Same here just burn and when i wan't to watch it again just turn the player and the tv on and have some snacks.....

traziemykel · 2007-01-08, 22:21

i usually buy anime that i liked...
and i dont delete anime..
i keep them in extrnal harddrive.. try buying it ^^

Koshiba · 2007-01-10, 03:59

I don't really bother burning anything anymore. As for my DVDs and what not, I store on shelves, which I can't even fit anymore shelves right now so as of late I've just been stacking things in random places.

ShadowrazoR · 2007-03-19, 06:25

I'm faced with a dilemma right now. My hard drive's free space is shrinking at a rather steady pace due to all kinds of downloads, but while I can burn any given 24/26 ep anime series to a DVD with no regrets (since they usually fit into 1 DVD nicely), I don't know what I'm supposed to do with the shorter series.

I could burn each series onto 1 DVD, but it's quite a waste of the remaining space on the disc, or I could also get 2 short series and burn them onto 1 DVD, but that makes it really hard for me to organise my collection.

So... What I want to ask is, what do you guys do with the shorter series that you want to keep?

Skyfall · 2007-03-19, 06:41

Well, you can go for regular CDs

...though that takes up a lot of space, and i stopped doing so a long time ago. I'd go for one anime per DVD - it is not that expensive, and it won't be a pain in the rear to find what you are looking for later down the road.

shiro83 · 2007-03-19, 09:53

I had an external HDD a while back, with quite a lot of anime.

But one day, the drive failed and I tried and tried but could not restore it.

Now keeping all my anime on my desktop and notebook computers...

Kempis Curious · 2007-03-19, 10:23

I'm seriously considering using an automatic Internet backup service like Carbonite.
It's a luxury at $50 a year for something I should be doing myself, but there's the added bonus of having the anime collection out of the building in case of fire.

Has anyone else tried such a thing?

O'course, they might change their "unlimited storage" clause once they start having to store my 7 year digisub collection.

-k

curious

Vexx · 2007-03-19, 10:27

Be sure and burn at a slow write speed and always verify the data ... I've encountered several instances of different DVD burners "burning successfully" only to find the resulting disks have bit errors because they can't actually handle it.

Myself, I have a two-stage system. Torrents land on a "working daily" hard drive. Once they're verified (watched), I move them to a large hard drive which is obsessively folder arranged. Once a month or so, I'll burn partial series to DVD .... but once a series completes, I'll archive the whole thing to DVD and store them in a hard case. I have enough time invested in them now to consider copying the more memorable series to another set of DVDs and throwing that into my safety deposit box (where I also store critical files archived onto disk).

I have a large enough manga and purchased anime section that I'm trying to decide what to do with those since many of them are irreplaceable (i.e. out of print).

edit: I find the "internet backup services" interesting... but thats a hell of a lot of GB to be slinging across the pipe that could be used for other things, especially since most ISPs have some sort of "fair use policy".

Skyfall · 2007-03-19, 11:17

Aye, the "internet backup" sounds interesting, but i am not exactly fond of the idea that i would have to pump a couple of hundred GBs across the net for safe keeping. Not to mention you have to pull them back should you want to watch something from there

Seems highly impractical to me.

Necro- · 2007-06-21, 18:08

i'm talking about those that are downloaded of course, the problem i've run into is that unlike anime which eventually ends most manga tend to go on and on which leads to the problem of storage.

Unlike anime where u can just burn a season or half a season on dvd and put the rest on another with some other anime, with manga you can fit quite a lot of a dvd but due to the ever-continuing nature of manga you'll eventually end up with lots of different manga's on each cd and many cds with the manga your looking for, for example berserk - say you put 10-15 volumes on a dvd with some other manga that might fit then the rest go on another dvd, now you've got 2 dvds filled with berserk and the remained filled with misc manga A and misc manga B but then the mangaka released more chapters - and now your faced with a dilemma, how long do you wait before burning it on yet another dvd and if you do then you have 3 dvds you have to find if you wish to read berserk again!

SO, how does everyone store their manga!

Folly · 2007-06-21, 18:20

While DVD's are a highly efficent form of storage if you just want the most space for your dollar, they are very troublesome to use and maintain for reasons you already described. If you can afford it, I strongly reccomend you get an external storage drive.
Western Digital makes some good storage drives, and they generally get the best reviews for not breaking down on you. For under $100 you can get a nice compact 320Gb drive that you just have to attatch to your computer with a USB cable and you can move files to and from it just like any other drive.
Search around on Newegg and Amazon and anywhere else you can think of to find the best deal.

Risaa · 2007-06-21, 20:31

Yup yup! I just recently got a 500GB Western Digital external myself (which I have named "Kona" due to it's nice shiny blue LED). For any mac users, I recommend it; I wouldn't know how it works with windoze, but I imagine it's just fine.

If you can, I recommend buying the books instead of downloading scanlations all the time.

Alexandrite · 2007-06-22, 01:47

I prefer an external drive, especially since around here there have been a lot of sales on them recently, and larger drives (over 1 terabyte) are now in greater stock. I suppose Western Digital is a good brand, though my first experience was terrible - after 2 weeks, the thing crashed, taking 140 gigs of anime with it. However, given some of my friends' long history with them, I went with a replacement of the same kind (now named for the phoenix, Suzaku due to its rebirth). Anyway...

Buy large external drives, and keep DVD backups if it makes you feel safer about your data. Risaa reported success from a Mac, though I don't really see a reason why it wouldn't work with a Windows machine as well (I just have bad luck it would seem). And yes, buy the books if you can. Looking at a large collection of manga on a bookshelf feels kind of rewarding.

2007-03-19, 06:25	Link #111
ShadowrazoR Unlimited Bishoujo Works Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Pick any eroge harem	Dilemma: Burning 13-ep anime onto DVDs I'm faced with a dilemma right now. My hard drive's free space is shrinking at a rather steady pace due to all kinds of downloads, but while I can burn any given 24/26 ep anime series to a DVD with no regrets (since they usually fit into 1 DVD nicely), I don't know what I'm supposed to do with the shorter series. I could burn each series onto 1 DVD, but it's quite a waste of the remaining space on the disc, or I could also get 2 short series and burn them onto 1 DVD, but that makes it really hard for me to organise my collection. So... What I want to ask is, what do you guys do with the shorter series that you want to keep?

2007-03-19, 06:41	Link #112
Skyfall Lost in my dreams... Join Date: Jun 2006 Age: 38	Well, you can go for regular CDs ...though that takes up a lot of space, and i stopped doing so a long time ago. I'd go for one anime per DVD - it is not that expensive, and it won't be a pain in the rear to find what you are looking for later down the road. __________________

2007-03-19, 10:27	Link #115
Vexx Obey the Darkly Cute ... Author Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ... Age: 67	Be sure and burn at a slow write speed and always verify the data ... I've encountered several instances of different DVD burners "burning successfully" only to find the resulting disks have bit errors because they can't actually handle it. Myself, I have a two-stage system. Torrents land on a "working daily" hard drive. Once they're verified (watched), I move them to a large hard drive which is obsessively folder arranged. Once a month or so, I'll burn partial series to DVD .... but once a series completes, I'll archive the whole thing to DVD and store them in a hard case. I have enough time invested in them now to consider copying the more memorable series to another set of DVDs and throwing that into my safety deposit box (where I also store critical files archived onto disk). I have a large enough manga and purchased anime section that I'm trying to decide what to do with those since many of them are irreplaceable (i.e. out of print). edit: I find the "internet backup services" interesting... but thats a hell of a lot of GB to be slinging across the pipe that could be used for other things, especially since most ISPs have some sort of "fair use policy". __________________ "It Really IS Rocket Science", Novel series rough drafts; vol. 1 thru vol. 3 complete Volume 4 in work, Visit the thread for short stories!

2007-03-19, 11:17	Link #116
Skyfall Lost in my dreams... Join Date: Jun 2006 Age: 38	Aye, the "internet backup" sounds interesting, but i am not exactly fond of the idea that i would have to pump a couple of hundred GBs across the net for safe keeping. Not to mention you have to pull them back should you want to watch something from there Seems highly impractical to me. __________________

2007-06-21, 18:08	Link #117
Necro- Member Join Date: Jun 2007	how do YOU store your manga? i'm talking about those that are downloaded of course, the problem i've run into is that unlike anime which eventually ends most manga tend to go on and on which leads to the problem of storage. Unlike anime where u can just burn a season or half a season on dvd and put the rest on another with some other anime, with manga you can fit quite a lot of a dvd but due to the ever-continuing nature of manga you'll eventually end up with lots of different manga's on each cd and many cds with the manga your looking for, for example berserk - say you put 10-15 volumes on a dvd with some other manga that might fit then the rest go on another dvd, now you've got 2 dvds filled with berserk and the remained filled with misc manga A and misc manga B but then the mangaka released more chapters - and now your faced with a dilemma, how long do you wait before burning it on yet another dvd and if you do then you have 3 dvds you have to find if you wish to read berserk again! SO, how does everyone store their manga!

2006-12-27, 12:26	Link #101
kingdom_elladrel Ayu-ism Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Canada	As of now, this is how I store my anime. About half of them, maybe around 100 titles, are stored on both CD/DVD and on a 320 GB SATA RAID drive setup on stripe. For the other half, they are stored on only CD/DVD, but eventually, I'd like to have all my anime stored on both HD and CD/DVD. In the near future, I'll be getting 2 external 500 GB HD's on Firewire to backup ALL of the anime that I have. That way, I have 2 copies of everything, on CD/DVD and on the huge HD's.

2006-12-28, 01:00	Link #102
onepiecelover Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Classified Info :P Age: 35	I usually just watch anime episodes once and thats it for me but if I really like them I just burn them to DVD's I can get like 80 bleach episodes in one DVD ^_^

2006-12-28, 10:25	Link #104
Kempis Curious :love::love::love: Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Loving a peaceful life in San Clemente, California. Age: 50	Bad news. I got a large external harddisk last year and then got lazy about offloading to DVD. The stupid piece of junk lasted less than a year, and now I'm trying to re-download the animes I wanted to save. You can imagine how motivated I am to do that. :P Hopefully someone will hear my sad story and finally get around to backing up their harddisk. -k curious

2007-01-07, 23:17	Link #105
Nergol Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006	On a big honkin' external hard disk. Thank God for Fry's. I now have a 300GB external (for anime and other video) and a 250GB external (for mp3s, hard drive backup, and everything else).

2007-01-08, 08:55	Link #107
Nk_Rizel Member Join Date: May 2006	I used program that wrote by my friend for manage my anime that I got around 150 series, and I stored into my 250Gb X 3 SATA HDD. Now m looking for new HDD that have a bigger capasity for store another anime that I got everyday.

2007-01-08, 22:21	Link #109
traziemykel Chimpira Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Canada Age: 36	i usually buy anime that i liked... and i dont delete anime.. i keep them in extrnal harddrive.. try buying it ^^

2007-01-10, 03:59	Link #110
Koshiba Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Lakeland, Florida Age: 35	I don't really bother burning anything anymore. As for my DVDs and what not, I store on shelves, which I can't even fit anymore shelves right now so as of late I've just been stacking things in random places.

2007-03-19, 09:53	Link #113
shiro83 Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006	I had an external HDD a while back, with quite a lot of anime. But one day, the drive failed and I tried and tried but could not restore it. Now keeping all my anime on my desktop and notebook computers...

2007-03-19, 10:23	Link #114
Kempis Curious :love::love::love: Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Loving a peaceful life in San Clemente, California. Age: 50	I'm seriously considering using an automatic Internet backup service like Carbonite. It's a luxury at $50 a year for something I should be doing myself, but there's the added bonus of having the anime collection out of the building in case of fire. Has anyone else tried such a thing? O'course, they might change their "unlimited storage" clause once they start having to store my 7 year digisub collection. -k curious

2007-06-21, 18:20	Link #118
Folly Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2007	While DVD's are a highly efficent form of storage if you just want the most space for your dollar, they are very troublesome to use and maintain for reasons you already described. If you can afford it, I strongly reccomend you get an external storage drive. Western Digital makes some good storage drives, and they generally get the best reviews for not breaking down on you. For under $100 you can get a nice compact 320Gb drive that you just have to attatch to your computer with a USB cable and you can move files to and from it just like any other drive. Search around on Newegg and Amazon and anywhere else you can think of to find the best deal.

2007-06-21, 20:31	Link #119
Risaa Evil Little Pixie Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: bleeghhh Age: 36	Yup yup! I just recently got a 500GB Western Digital external myself (which I have named "Kona" due to it's nice shiny blue LED). For any mac users, I recommend it; I wouldn't know how it works with windoze, but I imagine it's just fine. If you can, I recommend buying the books instead of downloading scanlations all the time.

2007-06-22, 01:47	Link #120
Alexandrite Bloody Hell... Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: International House, Nisshin, Japan Age: 36	I prefer an external drive, especially since around here there have been a lot of sales on them recently, and larger drives (over 1 terabyte) are now in greater stock. I suppose Western Digital is a good brand, though my first experience was terrible - after 2 weeks, the thing crashed, taking 140 gigs of anime with it. However, given some of my friends' long history with them, I went with a replacement of the same kind (now named for the phoenix, Suzaku due to its rebirth). Anyway... Buy large external drives, and keep DVD backups if it makes you feel safer about your data. Risaa reported success from a Mac, though I don't really see a reason why it wouldn't work with a Windows machine as well (I just have bad luck it would seem). And yes, buy the books if you can. Looking at a large collection of manga on a bookshelf feels kind of rewarding.