How do you keep your tv downloads.(for a long long time)?

>watching anything more than once.

life is short, movies and shows are infinite. there is no need to backup when there is fresh new content to be consumed.

Same here. Got several WD drives 1tb that have been in service (constant use) for about 8 years. Got a seagate 5tb been in service for 4years. Several drives in external cases that have been offline most of the time that are up to 20 years old, all still work.

Had one drive failure when i dropped a bunch of keys onto an external and it developed the click of death instantly.

i still have like 2 500gb drives but they both tick and they are from 2007 i think

yeah i only killed 2 drives like that ironically one was a 2.5"

My WD black is from 2008 and has pretty much been online all day every for 8 years.

Things do fail though, that is how it always has been. Regardless of manufacturer or product it can just fail. With a proper redundancy for your shit, when something fails it's no issue.

I had a Seagate fail about 12 years ago, never again. Have never had a problem with WD. 12TB now.

>basing your view of an entire company on a single product failure

No company has produced a technological product that hasn't at least some level of failure rate.

When I lose everything I have I'm not going to go out and buy the same product the next day. I've had a WD 500GB, 1 TB, 1 TB, 2 TB, 3 TB, 4 TB, 6 TB, 12 TB, and not a single issue with any of them.

So what you are saying is you are an easily biased idiot?

I never watch things from my drives while it is plugged in since that burns the motor out quicker and I think that's why so many fail on a lot of people. I usually just plug into my laptop's port then copy and past whatever I need to get onto my laptop and just watch it.

I download a ton of shit from passthepopcorn.me, kargagara.in and hdbits.org and just delete stuff i've seen when I run outta space
It's not hard

Yes, I'm an idiot for not buying the exact product which just failed. They don't even make anything bigger than an 8TB. You're just a faggot, have fun when your drive fails and you lose your loli and hentai folders.

You know you can just download them again in ten years? Movies aren't going to completely disappear from the internet anytime soon.

hard drives made 10 years ago are better quality than today. there are only two hard drive makers in the world now and everybody else just rebrands their shit. 5 year warranties are a thing of the past.

>Yes, I'm an idiot for not buying the exact product which just failed.

It's not that, it's your feverish brand loyalty has blinded you to the notion that both drives have probably something close to exactly the same overall failure rate, and are probably the same fucking drive rebranded or using large quantities of the same parts and assembled in the same building.

That's what makes you an idiot, the complete opposition of all things X when you had a failure and the complete adoption of all things Y because they haven't yet.

what's the lifespan though? I've got dvd's I burnt 10 years ago that worked fine then but are now unreadable

> Not backing up your movies on magnetic tape every 6 months

>movies and shows are infinite
this is objectively incorrect

just keep a list.

Both brands are the same. Neither one is better, i've had both fail on me and currently have one of each working for 5+ years. Stop buying into the jews claiming their product will last forever because they say so.

The only tv show you ever need to rewatch is LOST.

kys if watch anything else

>le 2 brands
is this a new and especially shitty meme?

Buy a fucking HDD you pleb.

Stop being retarded.

>saving up for a 8tb drive
Jesus Christ what's it like being poor? They're like 10 bucks by now. git gud

actually no faggot they are like $400 shipped a peice here in Aus and i need two of them for reasons so reeeeeeeee

>Aus
Oh, I didn't mean to offend then.

I only collect YIFY so CD-Roms are fine :^)

HGST is a subsidiary of Western Digital so there's only le 3 brands

only since recently, and the Hitachi drives are still out there and different from WD's

there is stuff i downloaded in 2013 that's no longer available on the internet. At all.

Like what?

I have a BTN account and 250mb/s internets. I can download anything within a few hours. no reason to keep things I am unlikely to watch again for years. I'll just download them again.

Like 80% of all drives are manufactured in a fucking building in thailand. Brands are pretty irrelevant at this point.

keks for days m8 all good ai

I can't really think of anything specific right now, but I remember when i accidentally deleted The Unaired Supernatural pilot i found it incredibly difficult to find and ended up having to grab it from a weird tube site.

This picture is no longer on the internet

>supernatural pilot
>difficult to find

?

you mean this?
extratorrent.cc/torrent/1603875/Supernatural 1x01 Unaired Pilot avi.html

I was in a thread earlier that some drunk Aussie made. Can you guys really buy Emu and Roo meat to eat?

I've downloaded a bunch of bootleg live shows that are no longer on the internet.

Wasn't there when I looked. My point remains valid though. There WILL be stuff that is only available for a short time. stuff does die the internet isn't eternal once something is uploaded.

I'm more worried about quality youtube content than mass-produced stuff. There's always people who care about stuff like movies or tv shows, even just libraries or collectors, but not necessarily things like Every Frame or Redlettermedia.

fuck outta here with that youtube shit

Now that youtube and even lots of tube sites use html5 saving content has never been easier. You can literally just right click save video.

enjoy your shitty History channel and TLC

>Every Frame
>Redlettermedia
vastly superior to your shit tastes

I don't recommend discs, they're too fragile. I had waterdamage once from my retarded upstairs neighbor and loads of those discs are retarded. I still chuckle at myself for my xvid/divx collection of shit quality, I had over 700 movies in cases, 2 years ago I started throwing like a bunch at a time in my garbage bag each week.
Now I just stuff my hard discs, when I get the cash I'm gonna get an extra one for backups. I'm actually re-downloading/encoding most of what I have to hevc x265 cause it saves so much space.

Storing everything on two HDDs in RAID 0. What the fuck was I thinking? I'm just waiting for one of these shitty drives to fail so I can beat myself up.

>retarded
kek, broken, forgot to add that other discs that didn't get caught in it just deteriated in their cases too just from age.

>WEB-DL
>SD
>HDTV
Plebs.

jesus christ mate, abort

>raid 0 is purely for read/write speeds
>use it for storage
>don't use its main advantage and double your chance for failures

what

the

fuck

nigga

unironically yes

ive also had aussie croc meat a bunch at this burger place.

Croc meat (tastes like chicken/pork) > roo meat (gamey and a bit tougher than middle-older steak but still very nice) i havent tried emu but we also have camel meat i tried it was noice

Lifespan can be indefinite (Relatively)
It just depends on the environment and how you store them.
Hotter and saltier environments rot discs faster. Are your discs stores in the open?

Also, Blu Rays have much better protection over the data layer, they've got some fancy film covering it, it was a whole selling point back in 2006 that Blu Rays could take a beating.

use a linux/zfs based OS (FreeNAS) for the cheapest NAS box you can muster. It's like a raid filesystem setup where you can swap out the physical drives with any variations of size and manufacturer and it will rebuild upon failure of a drive. $250 will last you long enough until the tech has increased to where storage size is no longer an issue.

Fascinating. If I ever visit there I have to try all three of those. Just to say I have.

My high school had a senior trip to Australia and a few classmates have told me stories about how they got plastered at the bars (they were over 18 but under 21 so drinking at a bar was a big thing). Anyway they always tell me about all these weird beers they had there.

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>It's like a raid filesystem setup

It IS a raid setup...

euro, I went and tried Barramundi once, it's amazing

I do still download shit to it, it's only half full. But when it's full I'm going to kill myself.

On NAS drives because I'm not a retarded poorfag

Why the fuck do you still have it in raid0? Just use JBOD setup or just have two basic drives. God damn.

There is absolutely no reason to use raid0 if you don't want max read/write on a mechanical hdd.

yeah fresh barra is amazing our seafood in general is great

Most of you are colossal idiots. Just get HDD's, copy data to it and use a database app to meta it. Pull it when needed and enjoy.

Is it true that drives more than 2TB fail easily?
I have been reading that it is not advisable to get 3TB or 4TB drives.
What gives?

I bought two 1tb drives that failed within a year, now i'm using a 4TB that's lasted me for 4 years now. No matter what size or what brand there's always going to be a risk of failure.

>there are people on Cred Forums that don't know there is such thing as a NAS
>they continue to either buy BDs/DVDs or stream extremely low quality shit from the internet
>they think buying a shill stick and putting on kodi is super cool and makes them seem intelligent
>they are actually happy with their shit quality streams from their magnificent kodi machine

>iamverysmart
did you write the database yourself or are you just a pleb?

why is nobody talking about using SSD for storage? is it not a good option? or are you all just poor

I have a 4TB Transcend external hard drive, that's where I keep everything.
I had a 3TB WD that died last year - one of the shittiest events in my life. I recovered pretty much anything, but I still don't have something that will keep my downloads (almost) totally safe.

How many low-space SSDs are you gonna buy? Are you fucking retarded?

SSDs suffer storage loss when turned off for long amounts of time

I have two 500s in my laptop and I have eight 180s in a box not being used.

does anyone know if there's a USB thingy that can read old IDE drives? I have a bunch of them from way back in the day I'd like to see what's on them

i have 3 1tb passports and 1 hdd from an old laptop

so just like HDDs. if it's not being accessed every once in a while, it's not really worth storing.

>so just like HDDs
gonna need sauce on that

what website is this?

>he's not on BTN

yes. google ide to USB and you should find what you need. like 20 bucks.

No, 4TB are the most reliable size right now. HGST is the best brand.

Because I'm retarded. I still got an old 3TB hdd lying around. Might just install it, transfer the most important stuff to it and dissolve this RAID.

nice, tnx

>he doesnt know kinos made from Poland, Croatia, Norway in the 60's 70's now are lost, like tears in the rain

oh no, how will we ever get over it

Whats the true difference between bdrip and brrip? I know the latter is a shitty transcode of the former, but ive seen a lot of shit quality brrip sized bdrips lately

A CUTE!

I want to get an internal drive but I haven't got one in a while.
Which brands are good these days?
Thinking of 3TB 7200.

I have 8 externals and and 4 hdd...all them full of fucking shit...i think i have a problem, i literally have a couple of tb of porn in some of them, like wtf would i stockpile fucking porn for?

Evidence

OP here. I have plenty of HDD's like 20TB+ (plenty of 3TB's and 2TB's with loads of choice. I have a NAS also. The thing is, in 10 years, all my HDDs will be dead, in 20 years thou my dvd's that i'm burning now (Like choice stuff that is worth rewatching) will hopefully still be readable, since I have CD's from mid 90's that work today.
The reason i decided on dvd's is because I had a 3TB drive fail this year and it sucked, and it was one that was just sitting in the cupboard, inside a static bag, inside a box and it still failed for no good reason after purchasing only a few years ago.. I have mirrors of most of my shows that i love, upto 3-4 times. But eventually the HDD's will die so burning disc's is a longer term solution. So I never lose anything I wanna watch later in life. I just cannot think of a better solution.

Been buying hard drives (both internal and external) for at least ten years now and had a bunch of them fail but I still think they're the best option. In my experience about 1 in 10 hard drives fail, usually around the 2 or 3 year mark, whether you've used them much or not. Some are just born dodgy it seems. It takes forever to burn DVDs though if you have a few TBs worth of stuff. Probably best to get an NAS. Get a cheap 4-bay one, fill it with 6TB hard drives and you've got 24TB of storage connected to your home network.

Of my bad taste maybe? most of it is Brazzers shit.

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