Where do you store your anime?
| Burn to DVD? internal/external hard drive? do you watch and delete and/or stream? or other? elaborate the cons and pros of each. |
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| i download and delete if i really like a series i'll buy it, but only if it's cheap |
| Usually download and delete but sometimes depending on the show I store it and I usually buy the DVDs if they have it. |
| All of the above actually. I download the series I really like and keep them on my HD, most of the time they come from private trackers, so I feel kind of obliged to seed them. If I really like a show I burn them on DVD's. I watch shows via stream if I'm too lazy to download them. |
| download everything onto my 1 terabyte external hard-drive |
| Since I can only buy either dubbed or dutch-subbed anime here, I download it all to my 1TB ext HDD (tho that one is nearing it's lilimt, so I'll have to switch to my 500GB ext. HDD soon) - Lith. |
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| Burn/HDD |
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| Harddrives until I buy the DVDs; even then I tend to keep most of my fansub releases as I'd rather give people digital copies than my precious physical media if they want to watch something. As for how big... well, I have quite a few harddrives. 2x 1Tb, 1x 750Gb, 2x 640Gb, 2x 500Gb, 1 320, 250, 160 and 80Gb. Though the smaller drives have been retired to backups. I cycle out smaller drives and merge them through to larger ones from time to time. |
| 2.25 TB of HD space. Questions? |
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De-JaY said: 2.25 TB of HD space. Questions? Why dont I have that much? |
De-JaY said: 2.25 TB of HD space. Questions? Yes, I have one actually. Is it full yet? :3 |
| I usually download and delete but I feel bad when I don't seed for at least a few days and since I only have ~2gb left on my computer (due to other various pirated material) it's hard to do that. And I know if I start storing stuff on an external HD I'd end up with TB's of video's, games, and music cause I'm a digital packrat like that. But ~$120 sounds like a safe estimate for long term. I don't want to have to merge drives later on. There's also the DVD route ~$40 for the burner and ~$25 per 100 dvds so it's a little cheaper but less organized. plus burning them takes some time. Also of course if there's a show I really like I'll go out and buy it, that goes for everything. So those are my worries for the day, I might end up not going either way and just keep feeling sorry for people since I can only seed for a day or two (at least 150%). How sad for them. |
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shinkeikaku said: De-JaY said: 2.25 TB of HD space. Questions? Yes, I have one actually. Is it full yet? :3 Knowing myself, I'd be able to fill one up in a couple of months. Though right now mine is only 320 GB (packed full, of course). I burn almost everything I download to DVD's. It feels like a waste of bandwidth not to, and I sometimes do feel like rewatching stuff. I'm also sorry to confess that I have never bought a legal DVD, please don't hang me for it. |
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| I download to HD (only has about 30 free gb), move to an external drive storage (around 80 gb, today it's quite full) and then I burn to dvd. Usually 2 to 3 copies (one for me, one for my friend, another one for further distribution). As soon as I watch the series on the dvds I delete them from the storage. I have to do this because my desktop, that has the internet, refuses to read anything more complicated than avi. So I burn dvds and watch them on my laptop. Sometimes I buy a dvd, but haven't done it for a while. And I used to stream a lot, but then my computer decided he did not want to complete the buffers of anything and had to quit doing it. |
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| I download them, then used to burn them on DVDs for safe keeping. When my DVD writer broke, however, I switched to storing them on External HDs (current one is 500 GB, previous one - which is almost full - is 320 GB). I buy DVDs of shows I like (and can find), while I keep the downloaded version to seed torrents and/or watch it on my comp. |
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| iGot 120 GB in netbook and 40 GB in Laptop, had 500 GB in pc but sold it iGot 250 GB in external HD (where iStore everything right now) iWont buy 1 TB, way too much data! not recommended! iLL buy a 500 GB external HD when my external HD ll be full. iDownload 1 GB to 4GB everyday it depends if there is a very good anime. iWont mind deleting haruhi thou, why da fuck iWatch this anyway its so random lolz |
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shinkeikaku said: De-JaY said: 2.25 TB of HD space. Questions? Yes, I have one actually. Is it full yet? :3 Not yet. Since I just started 2 years ago to store them on the HDDs. |
| I use a 149GB External drive and a 40GB Internal one for storing stuff, and both are full because I can't find a job. I plan on building a new computer depending on how much money I get for graduation, I need a new one anyway. |
| Depends on the greatness of the series. The ones I really like and get attached to are saved and the others are deleted. |
| There's technically already a thread about this exact subject, but meh.... Thread moved though.... |
| All downloaded anime eventually get put on a data DVD to free up harddrive space. If I really like the show and I know it won't be licensed in my lifetime (which is 99.99998% of the shows I download) they get put on DVD. My R1 releases get stored on a wooden shelf. |
| External and internal HDD external: 1x 500 GB, 1x 320 GB internal: 1x 250 GB |
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| 250 gig external only 8 gigs still free =( |
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Tidalz said: 250 gig external only 8 gigs still free =( uCan still compress it thou |
| I store my anime on a 300 gb external harddrive. If I keep them or not... Nerox89 said: Depends on the greatness of the series. The ones I really like and get attached to are saved and the others are deleted. |
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| Burn into CDs and DVDs, until I acquired a 640gb ext hard disk earlier this year. |
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| i prefer to burn in dvd so i can watch them on my comp/laptop whenever i want hehe |
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| 1 TB RAID. |
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| Download, watch, delete. If it's good, I'll buy it, if it ever gets released. *rages at Spice and Wolf* WHERE'S MY RELEASE DAMN IT. I do occationally buy random series if I feel like it and it looks shiny, although that's proven to not be the best choice in some cases. |
| I buy anime on dvd and store them on my shelf I never download any anime =/ |
| I save all the animes I like to my External Hardrive and delete the rest or watch streaming :) And I buy DvDs xD |
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| I rarely ever save anime that I download (I rarely download as well and the ones I do I usually delete after I watch them) But if I do happen upon an anime that I want to keep I keep it on my 80gb book hard drive. |
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| 1 tb external. 250 gb internal for backup. 1tb ftw. |
desolato said: All of the above actually. This. I have an 640 GB external HD, which is about 75% full at the moment, where I store most of the stuff I download. a few of the series I really like are backed-up on DVDs, especially the lengthier and older series (Gundam series, LoGH and Slayers come to mind). most of the anime DVDs I bought weren't series that I saw a fansub of, then bought after I enjoyed them but rather series I saw years ago and a couple of impulse purchases as well. |
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| If I fansub, I don't save them, no reason, if I want to catalog anime I would get the DVDs, just keeping downloads is kind of wrong. |
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| I stream and buy most of them on DVD |
| I got 500GB internal HD dedicated for anime, movies and music... it's always full. So i usually end up burning already watched stuff to DVDs. *sigh* maybe i should just buy 1 or 2 1TB HDs <.< |
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| Used to burn on DVDs but now I store most of them on my External HD. (1TB) If they're an anime I don't like, I'll delete. |
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| My 1TB external hard drive. Because my 200Gb regular hard drive won't fit everything. |
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| I burn it.. since my hard drive disk's space is too small |
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| External Hardrive, like most of use do, (i think) atm i have about 400GB of anime =/ |
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| I buy the Retail DVDs. |
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| Series I like I burn to a disc for later use of lending out to friends. I buy the series I adore and like to watch over again, but I don't like lending those out, hence the use of dvds. I like space on my computer for series that I'm currently watching or don't know what to do with yet etc. |
| I have 2 500gb internal drives and one 1 TB internal drive. Everything is on those. |
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