How do you guys organise your anime folders?

How do you guys organise your anime folders?

I've just about passed the 2TB mark, and now I need another hard drive. Probably going to sort them A-M;N-Z, split between two drives, but I'm open to ideas.

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Length (number of cours), Movies, OVA's, and Multiple Categories. Alphabetical within those folders, of course. Can't claim that system as my idea, a friend bequeathed it to me along with his anime collection before confronting the NHK. I added my collection to his and continued rejecting reality.

What hard drive are you considering? You can get 4 tb portables and 5 tb externals for 110 these days.

>everyone lives in 1st world where electronics are cheap

Probably just another Western Digital 2TB Green.
I can buy pretty much anything, but I'm trying to cheap out as much as possible.

That's not a bad idea. Thanks.

This isn't Sup Forums where everyone can see flags, and this IS a board on an American website with a North American majority population and a 1st world nation supermajority. It is both reasonable to assume that the OP is first world, and unreasonable for you to expect every comment to accommodate every nation on Earth.

Trying to keep the size down is just going to kill you on price per GB.

5TB is the most price effective drive size these days, and will be less than half the price per gigabyte of a 2TB. Don't be such a poorfag that you screw yourself in the long run looking at the immediately cheaper option over the long run efficiencies of scale.

Fair point.

I'm not seeing any 5TB though. And I thought higher-capacity mechanical drives had a proportionately much higher chance of failure?

>Internal
Found your problem. I'm talking about external drives. Here's Seagate's newest model on Amazon. a.co/7LD7UyT

And the failure rate of larger drives is 'much higher' in the sense that 1.5 is 50% more than 1. It's not much higher in absolute terms. And 5tb is no longer the larger drives, it's the midsize they've had a couple years to iron the issues out of.

Where the hell is that chart from, anyway?

>250 gig drive
>everything in one folder

I have to delete everything once I'm done with it, as I have other stuff than anime on my computer.

Seen and not-seen.

Seen stuff under studio/director/something of origin, or just in a dump.

e.g. seen_animu/Shaft/SZS

Just pile them on faggit.


>mfw accidentally nuked 2TB of my collection while I was making a back-up

>Where the hell is that chart from
MSY, which is unfortunately the best Ausfag retailer. Behold this unholy chink abortion of typsetting:
msy.com.au/Parts/PARTS.pdf

>that link
Well I'll be fucking damned.
The external drives locally are much more expensive than their internal counterparts, and oddly they don't even exist here in 5TB increments.

I might even try to import that. It'll actually work out cheaper.
Cheers.

Oh shit I mixed up some of my porn collection.

Nothing special. I have one folder called "Anime" and a "Movies" sub-folder with a special character in its filename so it's always on the top. I organize alphabetically by series, so all associated seasons and OVAs are kept in one neat folder with their own respective sub-folder. Additionally, I use that icon pack from anigay for aesthetic reasons.
Also, sometimes, if I feel like it, I will pick up official art of a show and drop them in the relevant folder.

>North American majority
Might want to check the numbers there.

Sure thing. To be fair, 5TB is somewhat odd, since it obviously deviates from the even sequence that storage sizes tend to follow, but in this age of multiple platters in a hard disk drives, that doesn't matter as much.

I don't know how it went in other countries, but the prices of internal and external drives flipped several years ago in the US, at the same time that laptops were rising and desktops cratering. Simply put, laptops are now powerful enough that desktops largely aren't necessary, even for power users, so now there's a lot less demand for internal drives to upgrade or augment desktop systems.

However, laptops are still cramped for storage, so there began to be a lot more competition for external drives which everyone and their mother can figure out. Now many people, including myself, only have a laptop and one or more externals back home.

catalog.neet.tv/stats.html

I see over 50% just with the US and its hat.

Just make sure the title is in the name of the folder and use Everything to find it.
It is by far.

Folder per franchise.

I should clarify just in case it isn't obvious, that there are several Length folders. 1 cour, 2 cours, and 3+ cours

dont organize it purge it

Ah, so basically demand for external storage drummed up competition. Cool.

Anyway, just ordered that 5TB. Worked out to $170 Australian dollars with shipping and currency conversion, which is basically less than half it'd cost me for an equivalent of that capacity locally. The only remaining issue is the voltage of the power supply, but if the included one doesn't take 110/240v then I can probably pick up a compatible DC one locally.
Thanks again.

I just looked at mine and it says input is 100/240v.

I looked at the pdf link, and holy god. It's unfair to call it chink, because even China has better design than that these days. It's like they set up in 1995 and never upgraded. Even a store chain with a branch near me that keeps dot matrix printers running for receipts has a better system than PDF pricelists barren of HTML Fuck, the Japanese worship fax machines and I have yet to see a moon site that didn't look terrible, but at least they've all been HTML pages the last 5 years. My sympathies, Antipodal America.

>it says input is 100/240v.
Sweet.
Just need a USA>AU plug adapter then.

Thanks for everything today mate.

Folder for each season of shows I'm watching as they air. Everything else gets its own directory. Movies are in one.

Anime is kept separate from other media.

I only archive things that I'm actually going to rewatch someday, which is a very very short list.

Images simply have a folder per series, and per character or pairing if necessary. Older series are in their own folder so my most commonly used stuff is easy to access.

I back them up into individually wrapped caramel chews

I have 12 tb and they are pretty much all in 1 directory (with sub directory for TV anime)

4 folders
>airing
>backlog
>watched
>hentai
I only archive series good enough for a rewatch.

I just bought a new 1TB drive (my first, so excited) and I've got about 700 gb out of the 950 or so usable. Been downloading a lot and have a huge backlog.

Put them all in the trash.

>Finland
>3.16%
>more than Germany
>more than France
>more than Australia
>5th overall worldwide
>population less than 5.5 million
I'm proud.

I simply don't.

I delete them as soon as I finish watching.

Airing, watching, backlog, finished and dropped. Just dump them all in where appropriate.

Not in the morning, also neet != Sup Forums