Is one 4TB hard drive big enough for an anime collection?

is one 4TB hard drive big enough for an anime collection?

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your hard drive will fail before you even fill it 1/2 way

unless you're a pleb using some shitty encoding and have 2gb 1080p files...

Why waste money and free space on chinese cartoons when streaming does neither?.

>streaming

Just kill yourself.

I can't believe I'm replying to bait this obvious.

most of them come with 3 year warranty and I already have 1TB of files ready to transfer.
Are hard drives really that unreliable? uwu

Depends on your collection, right?

>not having a NAS full of anime and you stream them across all your devices

ultimate pleb u are

this
also why waste time or effort on chinese cartoons

The bigger they are the more mechnical parts they have leading to higher risks of data loss. It would be smarter to buy 4 1TB drives instead of one 4TB.

You're going to want 2 4TB drives in RAID for high availability, and then grab yourself an LTO-4 tape drive and tapes for backups.

You're almost right, but it's moreso due to the fact that for every x amount of TB read, there's probably going to be a read error. With today's massive hard drives, these read error rates are magnified compared to 10 or 15 years ago. Combine that with not a huge increase in read/write speeds, and these large hard drives are basically big data investments that can die at any time.

Check this out, it explains it pretty well.
blog.dshr.org/2015/05/unrecoverable-read-errors.html

weebs can't help it. they are brainwashed with heavy myelin sheaths

>draw a girl
>call it a boy

its enough
depending on the amount of anime you consume you should be set for a year at least, longer if you dont opt for 1080p or blurays
i for one am closing in on capping my 4tb anime drive after just over two years, got about 200 shows on it and still 600gb space left

Thanks for reminding me to check out the ebay pricing. LTO4 drive be easily gotten for $100 if you go for an auction and are ready to lurk a little bit. LTO5 goes under $500 in auctions.

Depends if you keep everything you download.

>is 4tb enough
no not even close
t. obsessive data whore with 8 tb

Those URE's are old dude. Most drives are rated at having one URE every 125TB, see zdnet.com/article/why-raid-5-still-works-usually/

>most of them come with 3 year warranty

This isn't a valid response to "your hard drive will fail before you even fill it 1/2 way".

This isn't a lamp or something. When hard drives fail, you lose all the data on them. Many dozens if not hundreds of hours of your life, gone.

well its going to be used for anime only so its okay (´･ω･`)

Maybe if you're an unwashed casual. And your waifu deserves a RAID

>And your waifu deserves a RAID

Well geez user, don't just say that.

Honestly, for non-enterprise uses, it's probably best to buy 2 or 3 external hard drives, keep them in a few different locations (work, parent's house, etc) and back up to them on a rotating basis.

If you re-write each one yearly, the data will stay fresh and not suffer from degradation, and you can take advantage of the re-writes to replace the hard drives every so often.

Do you keep everything you download and watch? I normally just keep my favorites or things I plan to rewatch.

Probably but the second they start releasing 4k BDs you're going to feel that 100GB per season. I'm personally thinking of buying an 8TB drive for my build but I feel uneasy having no way to back it up if it starts failing besides buying another 8TB drive.

How are Seagate ironwolf drives by the way, any opinions for using one as a desktop drive(noise)?

I have no idea how good seagate or wd are but if you are looking for good inexpensive drives then you should go for toshiba. HGST drives are also good but they are usually expensive.

I have all mine on my 2tb I've had for the last 4 years. Bought another and going to do raid 1 (for the personal data not the anime)

lol true 1080 anime is rare as hell Most are just upscales

Why do you Sup Forumsutists rail against streaming? The quality now is much better than a couple years ago. I like to watch in my home theater and appreciate not having to put in the extra effort.

What's the name of this anime? I want to see more of this cute girl.

This. What's the point of saving everything? There's always a better version coming out, and how much will you actually rewatch?

spotted the faggot who streams all his anime

Blend S
>Girl

Fucking retard.

It's big enough for a 4TB collection.

You can make a much larger collection if you want. Or smaller. But 4TB is a bunch of hundred hours at normal 1920x1080 h.264 anyhow, so.

you can watch torrents after a buffer period, though. just enable sequential.

too small, unless you don't download bdmvs

I know, I wasn't the one who made the picture but maybe I'll change it before the next time I post.

This. Its just a waste of space if you aren't going to watch it again and you'll more than likely be able to download it in future anyway.

I've seen an updated version before but don't have it.

what I don't get is why are you such fucking hoarders? I'll have two anime series downloaded at once. I delete when I'm done watching them. Thats like 30gb in total max I have at any time.

anandtech.com/show/11903/seagate-ships-consumerfocused-12tb-helium-drives

anandtech.com/show/12035/seagate-barracuda-pro-12tb-hdd-review

No, you need 12TB of storage

It must be hard having Sup Forumsutism get in the way of actually enjoying something. Streaming has improved a lot since that meme chart was put together.

It might have improved, but its still worse than the alternative.

>improved
anitay.kinja.com/the-state-of-anime-how-legal-anime-streaming-went-to-s-1794100602

Sup Forumsutism.
>B-but what if I want to watch one episode of some forgettable series from 7.3 years ago?

Anime website, idiot.

He definitely looks like a boy all the time. Especially when his cheeks are wide for comedic effect, it's like a baby boy, even if that sounds offensive.

I'm not into anime but I have plenty of full series saved and I've only used up about 500GB. As long as you're not getting everything in 4K or some shit you should be fine.

I suppose you're not into gay porn either despite having 500GB of that saved as well.

Nah, I'm pretty open about my enjoyment of women getting lewd with other women.

"Lesbian" porn and how "hetero" males regard such is probably the most offensive direction you could've taken this conversation. You have no idea what an actual lesbian is. I feel like vomiting even seeing you drag your dick across this subject.

Autism.

On-demand streaming in near-broadcast quality is worse than slogging through the mess of torrents and device compatibility issues?

Interesting article, though I pay for CR so I haven't had those issues. Licensing issues aren't new either. But guess what? For those few shows that I can't stream, I can torrent as a last resort (with above mentioned issues).

Not an argument.

>slogging through the mess of torrents and device compatibility issues
You need to elaborate as nyaa is very straightforward and any video player works.

>the mess of torrents
What mess exactly? All you have to do make a search on Nyaa to find the torrent you were looking for.
>device compatibility issues
Use a better player, most computers won't face with this problem unless you watch anime on your phone which in that case you just can fuck off.
>I pay for CR
You're paying for an inferior service that offers you shit quality. If you're content with that, keep paying for them.

>paying for an inferior service
This. People need to get out of the mindset that they are a charity and stop supporting shitty business practice.

> torrents
I've run into issues with anything obscure or non-current mostly, though I've had trouble with newer stuff on occasion. Could be my client or ISP, I've never bothered to investigate.
> device compatibility
I'm referring to playback devices for TV. Absolutely nothing is 100% compatible with today's files. Sometimes I can find a Deadfish encode that will work but they can be unreliable.
> inferior service
It's not tho. It works quite well. And it's worth a slight degradation in video quality for increased convenience.

What do you find objectionable about their business?

Off the top of my head:
>flash in current year and charging more for html5 (has been in beta for months)
>quality downgrades
>laying off lots of their core staff members

>issues
Be more specific. Finding the content? Downloading it?
>device comparability
Not sure what your use case is but it isn't that hard to set something up to get your downloads on a TV.
>increased convenience
It isn't hard to find what you want to watch and get it downloaded and its not like they don't have their fair share of server problems either.

Not to mention how they started as a website took videos from fansubbing groups and hosted them on their site illegally. That's the only reason they're a thing currently.

>Is this fridge big enough for food?
Depends

>When hard drives fail, you lose all the data on them
but when you get the warranty replacement you can just put your weekly backup on it?

>Off the top of my head:
>flash in current year and charging more for html5 (has been in beta for months)
Not an issue on a streaming box.
>quality downgrades
Not something I've experienced, but I would agree that it's an issue.
>laying off lots of their core staff members
Can't say I care one way or another.
>Not to mention how they started as a website took videos from fansubbing groups and hosted them on their site illegally. That's the only reason they're a thing currently.
Fansubbing is illegal, unless you're going to invoke honor among thieves. That was almost a decade ago tho. Do grudges run that deep?

>Be more specific. Finding the content? Downloading it?
Yes
>Not sure what your use case is but it isn't that hard to set something up to get your downloads on a TV.
The only other way is to set up a streaming server. I own nothing but toasters so that doesn't work.
>It isn't hard to find what you want to watch and get it downloaded
Until it is. The reason I went to streaming was that I was tired of wasting time dealing with download issues, file/encode issues, and player issues. Things are better, but they're not as simple as streaming.
>and its not like they don't have their fair share of server problems either.
I've never experienced one.

All in all, it just werks.

i delete anime when i'm done watching but i have ~400gb of not-yet-watched stuff on my hdd anyway because i'm an idiot who spends more time finding anime/manga to add to my backlog than I spend actually watching/reading

If your anime collection is worthwhile, not a chance.
I store all my anime in my company's private cloud. Not kidding.

>not streaming freshly downloaded 1080p anime from your seedbox
>C O M F Y

>4TB hard drive big enough
>2018
pick one

How much anime does Sup Forums watch?

basically this, I personally would (and have) gotten 4 1tb and run them in raid, raid5 for you

Better than a few years ago, but still not comparable to torrenting.

Speaking the truth.

>Not an issue on a streaming box.
I'm using a desktop PC though and I don't want to use flash.
>Can't say I care one way or another.
It could impact the quality of the service in the future.

I think we Sup Forums now.

yes (´･ω･`)

Important question is, how to organize porn?

>The only other way is to set up a streaming server.
You can get video on a tv without a streaming server
>download issues, file/encode issues, and player issues
You must be doing something wrong. You can have a seasonal episode playing within 5 minutes, including download time, with no problems. How are were you doing it to get these issues?

I'm in the same boat as satan is. My 4TB drive is about 2/3 full after quite a few years of hoarding anime and movies on it. Mostly 720p. The warranty went out a long time go. About the only effort I go into saving space is avoiding any movie larger than 10 gigs and any Coalgirls encodes when possible. On the flipside, this is a dedicated media NAS and sees very little use and doesn't have anything but media on it so if it fails I'm not out much. I imagine if you buy a 4TB hard drive and stick it into a tower and put anime and movies and music and games and reaction pics and read & write to it constantly it wouldn't last nearly as long and losing it would hit harder.

It's close tho. It isn't crap like it used to be. I think it's just below broadcast quality.

Old as fuck.

>I'm using a desktop PC though and I don't want to use flash.
I'd take a fucking VHS tape over Flash.
>It could impact the quality of the service in the future.
They should be mature enough now to avoid such issues. The jews will make sure everything werks.

> have a WB 2TB from 2009
>is at 1.98TB capacity
>Still going strong

>2018
>watching porn

What kind of a fucking answer is that? Are you that NPC from Pokémon?

do you watch anime? If yes, 4TB is enough.

do you download a backlog? If yes, get two.

>You can get video on a tv without a streaming server
10-bit MKVs don't work with any boxes I've found, so you need the computer to do real-time transcoding. Otherwise you wait for a couple hours to watch a 30 minute episode.
>You must be doing something wrong. You can have a seasonal episode playing within 5 minutes, including download time, with no problems. How are were you doing it to get these issues?
Could be ISP throttling, client issue, downloading over Wi-Fi, there's a lot of possibilities. I just started streaming and forgot the whole mess. With so many fansub groups withering and dying I thought I might as well join the borg.

Sup Forums doesn't watch anime. It only talks about it.

I come from a dial up household that became a 2G household that became a gen 4 satellite household before getting fiber optic about 5 months ago. You don't fucking delete anything when a single 300 meg episode of CGDCT #44 takes 9 hours to download. Hard drives are cheaper than the time it takes to redownload.

perhaps one day you'd like to watch something in the future but it won't be available for download because you've persuaded anons to use streaming services, instead of downloading

And bitches about streamers.

I've been shilling downloading in this thread, I'm just against storing every download.

Is getting a better connection out of the question?

There is absolutely nothing wrong with deleting the video after you've done watching it if so you desire, but why deprive yourself of the possibility to keep it?

what is an edge case?

I keep some, but if its something I want to rewatch I can always download it in future.

It used to be more common than you'd think. That and old habits die hard for former edge cases.

>Torrents
>Easy to find old releases
RIP rares

I just put all those ebooks in a separate category on my kindle away from the rest of the novels/nonfiction/etc

depends on how much you care about quality.

nyaa.si/view/994593

There's a thread on /h/ for that. Or there was, I don't know.

I have about 4.5TB of anime