Dat/a/ hoarders

Concentrated cancer

I started using an inbox folder for ongoing seasonals. At the end of every season, I decide on 2-3 shows to move to my permanent archive, and the rest of the inbox folder gets wiped clean. Backlog shows go directly into the archive, and only get deleted after watching if I really didn't like them. If a long series has multiple FLAC tracks, I sometimes strip out the dub tracks to save space.

It works pretty well to keep everything manageable. The only thing that clutters my archive is that I sometimes download multiple versions of a show to compare them and keep only the best one, but then get indecisive and keep all of them.

I'm up to 7.12 TB of anime across multiple hard drives. I'm planning to put together a media server box with mergerFS and SnapRAID in the very near future to centralize everything. That seems like the best way to take advantage of all the drives I have without needing to do traditional RAID or ZFS or anything. I'd love to hear advice from other people with similar storage solutions though.

I don't think RAIDs are a good idea when you don't actually need to access the data regularly. If the drives are handled separately, you can keep the drives turned off until you want to access them. So they will probably live for much longer.

I prefer simple solutions that have fewer point of failure, so I've been using two identical drives that I sync manually using rsync. As says, that probably also helps the drives last longer.

Do you use jpg or png?

I abuse my drives rather heavily between constant seeding and sharing my collection with people via Plex. I don't think keeping the drives separate is really an option if I want to keep using them the way I am, at least without buying enough drives to do full backups.

From what I've read mergerFS + snapRAID is a good in-between where the drives are still logically separate from each other and not striped, but you still see all the data across them combined as if it was RAID. Then snapRAID calculates parity and stores it on a separate drive once a day or so to protect against individual drive failures. It seems to me like the ideal solution for media storage without needing to worry about a RAID controller, having all my drives the same size, being able to increase the total storage size easily, etc.

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Depends on the image and what I'm planning on doing with it.

Animu girls for example. What do you use?

That doesn't tell me much.
jpgs are good at reasonable quality at small file sizes. But they always introduce artifacts, and they are horrible at minute details and also fuck up reds.
That's basically what you need to know.

Has anyone done RAID with flash drives? Is it more stable?
I have two external regular drives (3 TB and 2 TB). Thinking about upgrading my PC because it keeps crashing with the torrent client running in the background.

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I've probably discussed with you in JJK threads, coomed with you in TLR threads and called you a filthy nigger in Oregairu threads.

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Fuck off.

I have a decent sized anime HDD but not very notable, like 2.75 TB or so, I have a 1800 file waifu folder, but I imagine that’s small compared to some other waifufags.
Not sure what to do when I eventually run out of case space for HDDs, but that should be a decent ways out.

If all you care about is filesize then jpg wins in 99% of the cases. You could easily save either image for 5 KB if you really wanted to. It would simply look like crap.
The question with jpg is always what you consider an acceptable quality for an acceptable filesize.

With png, you get perfect quality and variable filesize.

This. That picture made sense 10 years ago, if anything. Nowadays with cheap storage and fast internet available everywhere (but the US) there's no reason not to use PNG all the time.

That's not what I said.

Only manga and comics. I need to re-arrange my older HDs from my previous PCs to stop having series split since I hate having first 10 volumes in one HD and then having 11+ in another one. That, and I need to buy a bluray burner to replace my old dvd collection.

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>If all you care about is filesize then jpg wins in 99% of the cases
It isn't? You have no reason to care about filesize in 2020.

>It isn't?
The text you just quoted is what I just said.

Your conclusion has nothing to do with what I said.

>PNG's strengths lie in flat colour images. Line art, digital sketches, ...
So... basically anime and manga?

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It depends.
A well-cleaned manga page fits really well into the png algorithm (and even if it's not well-cleaned, you should always save it as png anyway, because FUCK artifacts on line-art).
As for anime, they tend to have noise that makes jpg a good choice when you just want to share screenshots with other anons.