| I just bought another HD. A 500GB HD, anyone else bought this much storage just for anime? I have most of my anime on DVD anyway... I have a 2 meter shelf which is nearly full up with anime I've purchased. |
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| I've got two external hard drives - a 350 and a 500gb. They're both full and I've got about 80 gigs of space devoted to torrents on my internal drive. A little of that is music though, and some manga. |
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| That's lost due to formatting... Every HD loses a bit for formatting. Check any other drive you have they won't be exactly 80GB. The bigger the HD the more you lose. They shoudl make HD's bigger and account for loss of room due to formatting. |
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Damoizgod said: Erm, no.... A 500GB HD has 500 "Giga" byte (=500000000000 byte). They actually use 1000 instead of 1024 for kilo. So they aren't actually wrong when they call it 500GB. Not that I know why they do it that way. To calculate how much Gigabyte you have, you just multiply number of GB with 1000^3/1024^3.That's lost due to formatting... Every HD loses a bit for formatting. Check any other drive you have they won't be exactly 80GB. The bigger the HD the more you lose. They shoudl make HD's bigger and account for loss of room due to formatting. And for the topic... I just bought a 22" widescreen to my computer. Not especially for watching anime, but it's great for that as well. And my HDs, I have 840GB totally. I don't have one just for anime, I use 'em for what I need room for at that moment, if I need more space for a game, then I use it for that game. |
| Last time i went to fry's i bought a hard drive solely for anime. More specifically, for those really long series like Detective Conan, Bleach, etc. It was a 300 GB one i think. |
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| Damn do I need a new HD... Or perhaps getting a new Pc altogether would be a better idea... |
| Yarr, due to lack of a dvd burner I am doing the same. |
Baman said: Damn do I need a new HD... Or perhaps getting a new Pc altogether would be a better idea... Me too. My little 40gb is so pathetic. |
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Ufozile said: Erm, no.... A 500GB HD has 500 "Giga" byte (=500000000000 byte). They actually use 1000 instead of 1024 for kilo. So they aren't actually wrong when they call it 500GB. Not that I know why they do it that way. To calculate how much Gigabyte you have, you just multiply number of GB with 1000^3/1024^3. Because they are using SI prefix (decimal) when they should use IEC prefix (binary) SI (base10): giga = 10^9 = 1000000000 IEC (base2): gibi = 2^30 = 1073741824 so 500 GB = 465 GiB |
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| There's a little lost due to the file tables and such though, if I'm not mistaken. That said, the real reason is money. If they can get away with selling you less, why give you the full 500 gigs? |
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| I was told it was lost due to formatting. So have always thought that haha. |
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| please god.. grant me more diskspace to... or a job so i can affort new diskspaz0rx |
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yriel said: Ufozile said: Erm, no.... A 500GB HD has 500 "Giga" byte (=500000000000 byte). They actually use 1000 instead of 1024 for kilo. So they aren't actually wrong when they call it 500GB. Not that I know why they do it that way. To calculate how much Gigabyte you have, you just multiply number of GB with 1000^3/1024^3. Because they are using SI prefix (decimal) when they should use IEC prefix (binary) SI (base10): giga = 10^9 = 1000000000 IEC (base2): gibi = 2^30 = 1073741824 so 500 GB = 465 GiB I said I dont know why they do that :p |
| my archieve is on DVDs (450 DVD) they really take some space and i am planning to buy a couple of 1TB HDs as soon as i get a job. |
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| My external is closing in on full =( |
Aokaado said: My external is closing in on full =( |
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| My external IS full =( I need to delete some. Can't afford a new one right now. |
| Hard drives are getting full too. I'm way behind on burning DVDs and making labels. My DVD label printer is being wasted, sitting idly on my cluttered desk. |
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| i still have a have 100 gigs left on my 250 hd, ive been burning the really big series. i have a lightscribe drive for my labels |
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| I've only used about 70 gb so far on my 300 GB HD for anime series so I have enough space for many more :) |
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| I only have 200gb on my hd but I have burned heaps of anime on 4.5GB dvds so I have heaps. |
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| I'm bad at taking care of DVDs, so I'm afraid to back up my anime on them. I'm thinking about buying another external hard drive - I saw a 1TB Western Digital drive at Best Buy for like $400. |
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Liunee said: darkvoltage said: i still have a have 100 gigs left on my 250 hd, ive been burning the really big series. i have a lightscribe drive for my labels Sharpies win you. XD ive become pretty good with it too now. i have a sharpies font xD |
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| I've seen this post at least 3-4 times now but i digress.... ...just bought a 50 back of lightscribes the otherday ^_^ 50pk of lighscribe dvds (approx 235GB) for $26.99 is much better than spending $150+ for a 500gb hd. |
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ranivus said: I've seen this post at least 3-4 times now but i digress.... ...just bought a 50 back of lightscribes the otherday ^_^ 50pk of lighscribe dvds (approx 235GB) for $26.99 is much better than spending $150+ for a 500gb hd. and if they were normal dvd's then it'd be like $5-$12 for 50pk ;P |
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ranivus said: I've seen this post at least 3-4 times now but i digress.... ...just bought a 50 back of lightscribes the otherday ^_^ 50pk of lighscribe dvds (approx 235GB) for $26.99 is much better than spending $150+ for a 500gb hd. where did ya buy em? |
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| Bought a 500G Western Digital (the one that looks like a book) for $180. It was cheaper than getting the 1 Terabyte for $450. And it's cute too. BTW. How does burning stuff on DVDs work? Can someone give me advice on which type of DVDs to buy and what program to use to burn them? To be honest I don't really have shelf space to store the DVDs on that's why I bought the 500G HD and it's already 150G used in 2 weeks. /sigh. |
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| I now watch anime on internet, so there is no need to purchase HDDs I guess? |
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| "500GB HD Just For Anime." I have 2 terabytes of anime on my computer, so...  |
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| have synology NAS backup system for that. With plenty of space. |
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I now watch anime on internet, so there is no need to purchase HDDs I guess?
| If you like watching censored TV releases on streaming websites instead of superior bluray encodes, and if you don't want to safeguard yourself for the internet apocalypse, then sure - there's no need for HDDs. But that's not very smart. I hope they release those 50TB HDDs by the end of this decade. My 20TB is getting almost full. |
| that's about 1/3 of my downloaded backlog, buy a bigger external, always think ahead. |
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| My main anime directory has 1.3TB of stuff in it. About another 50-100GB of stuff that hasn't been sorted yet. |
| I was gonna say 500 GB isn't very much, then I saw this thread was from 2007 lol. I use a 5 TB external HDD and that's almost full now. I looked up getting a second but they want $135 now. It was $99 when I got mine three years ago so that's kinda a big jump in price. |
| I kneel, I haven't downloaded anime in a long time but I might start soon. I have a 1TB ready and all, but I might start to burn some of them into BD, just so I can use them on other platforms, and also to let my external HDD available whenever my PC makes a whupsiedupsie and I have to save my old stuff in the drive |
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I now watch anime on internet, so there is no need to purchase HDDs I guess?
| @DinoNo1 Are you a sociopath? Why did you bump a SEVENTEEN yr old thread to add an innocuous comment!? |
| If you reply back to me and I never respond, I lost interest and don't care. Sorry about that. |
| wtf is wrong with you people? This thread is fuckin 17 years old! Of course they wouldn't have 10 TB of storage at that point. |
| Imagine being the OP and getting an notification for a 17 year old thread that he probably forgot he made. |
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| Man I have two external hard drives for storing anime - one is 1 TB and the other is 4 TBs. P.S. Lol, I just see now it is a 17 years old thread. :) |
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| I was so confused and then noticed the date and everything made sense. |
Wow.. someone reviving an old post.. well since its revived.. Here are the ones I usually carry [office or in the field].. I took this image when had a similar conversation with a friend couple of years back.. I stream at 1080p and store at 720p, so not much space is needed.. have some 772 anime titles stored [~760 GB].. But 2007 huh.. back then I was in 4th grade/class.. and the only PC I had access to was the one at school.. 500GB for then.. for me is like couple of 8TB SSDs now lol.. |
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| 500GB in 2024 is basically nothing for media, but in 2007 an episode could weigh at most 100MB so it was sort of reasonable back then. |
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| Damn... reviving a 17 year old thread is truly something. |
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