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I’m the type of person that wants to keep everything; I spent several days deliberating what songs and albums would be deleted in favor of new anime downloads. With physical objects, I’m the same way. Over the years this annoying attribute of my personality has diminished and it’s become easier, but not so much for music, pictures, and videos.
My hard drives have a combined capacity of 264GB with much of it occupied by anime and music. Nowadays, one 720p (H.264/AAC) episode takes about 300 MB, and I always want to keep the episodes just in case I need them. You never know when you’ll need a screen capture from a specific episode for a review or whatever. Unfortunately, my limited hard drive space doesn’t allow for that.
Lately, I’ve been forced to delete my spring 2008 anime after I’ve finished watching them. Of course if I had enough space, I’d definitely save everything I could, even if the show was complete crap (ahem, Love Hina). Some people, however, can easily do away with episodes after watching. Perhaps I’ll buy a new hard drive soon.
What about you? Do you keep or delete your anime after watching?
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You could burn them to a DVD. That’s what I do. It would be a lot cheaper and that way and you don’t have to go to the trouble of buying and installing a new hard drive.
I have to keep everything because I know that if I don’t, I’m going to eventually regret it. When I was super strapped for hard drive space what I would do was burn the episodes to DVD, so I would have them but they wouldn’t take up space. Also, this allows you to still view them at any time and easily take screen caps. Plus, the price of DVDs has gone down a bit, a 100pk is like $20-30 and you can easily store 4 or more episodes to a disc. (especially if you keep them as data and not convert them to the DVD format… but then again, that wouldn’t let you watch them easily on any DVD player?)
Let’s do some math!
100 DVDs x 4 episodes each = 400 episodes saved
400 episodes x 300 MB each = 120,000 MB total
which then / by 1024 = 117.18 GB
soooooooooo you can get 117.18 gigs of watch able dvd for the price of a computer game, or spend well over that amount on a hard drive.
or if you store the episodes as data, you get 4.7 GB per DVD.
that’s 4812.8 MB per DVD
which / 300 = 16 episodes stored data-wise on your dvd!
x 100 dvds = 1600 episodes saved from computer hell!
I burn all my downloaded stuff. I keep all the rewatchables on an HD.
Jeeo: in the US, dvds are expensive, or at least I’ve never seen 4.7 GB DVD+R’s at 100 for $20. .That is insane. where do you shop?
4.7 gigs will give you a ranging amount….perhaps two complete 12-13 episode series (not 1020p or dual audio) or like 85% of a 5gig series (i hate when that happens).
I delete all the anime I download. If I really like a show that much, then it gives me incentive to buy it. I rarely if ever rewatch an anime anyway, so as far as I’m concerned, burning it onto dvd is a useless thing to do.
I really should delete, but I almost never do. That includes stuff I’ve yet to watch and which I might never get to, if I forget.
Yes, that’s not happy.
And this is talking about a guy who still uses CD-Rs and only has a poor 160 GB HD.
I’m thinking of buying a 320 GB external HD to compensate, but I know even that wouldn’t last more than, say, the rest of the year if I’m really lucky.
I usually burn off most of what I’ve downloaded for reference but also if a friend wants to watch it. Except that I haven’t done it in a while so my 300gig external drive is mostly full along with music I’ve ripped from CDs. I should probably transfer some off this week…
delete.
If it’s worth watching again, you either download again or rent/buy the DVD.
I keep what I really like but at the same time burn the rest, DVD style! =D
@Lelangir: check your local swapmeets! (the TRW swapmeet is bomb if you live in SoCa). I’ve gotten two spindles of 100pk dvd’s for $40. and one spindle was entirely DVD-RW’s. Otherwise at retail shops, I guess it’s more in the $30-40 range, realistically.
I save money for 500GB external HDDs that cost me $100. ^^; They’ve been very helpful. I probably fill one in two years, since I don’t watch -that- many series.
And if I ever get tired of anime (perish the thought), I could always wipe all the drives and then have tons of space for other personal effects.
But the DVD idea is more economical if you don’t mind the slower access and having to maintain a binder of anime DVDs.
I usually keep shows I like a lot, or which I think I might need to refer to (screenshots for blogging). I ‘only’ have an 80 gig HD, though.
I keep a show if it’s really good and/or I know I’m going to re-watch it. Otherwise, delete. But I usually get rid of the burned stuff when I buy the official DVDs.
I delete it unless I know it will never be brought onto DVD (like Ebichu).
I keep the stuff to an obsessive level keeping it first on external hard drive and then to disc. It is not kept if I buy the actual DVDs though. although the 1TB hard drive I have makes burning discs a rare chore.
I delete everything once I’ve finished the series. Rewatching good shows just makes me forget why I liked them in the first place.
For the lame stuff I’m watching for stupid reasons, I’ll only ever keep the latest episode or two.
I always delete :P I realized that well I’m not gonna rewatch this because I don’t have time and there will always be new stuff to watch…rewatching was something I did in the early 2000s when I didn’t have such easy access to new shows.
I’ll probably watch old ‘archived’ stuff this summer seeing as though it looks like it won’t be nearly as good as spring.
Depends what it is.
If it’s something I plan on reviewing, I keep it. If it was interesting psychologically or otherwise intellectual, I’ll probably keep at least part of it. If it’s the BEST EPISODE YET OMG, I’ll keep it for a while.
… If it’s D.Gray-man, I’ll keep it xD;;; Although that’s actually not true anymore now that it’s licensed.
Well, unless I really, really liked it, I usually delete. Or if it has absolutely no chance of a license, and I just liked it, I’ll save it (so, shows like Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne, for instance).
I keep everything that I don’t think is shit. I have two 500GB and a 160GB externals. Of course, the problem is when one of the drives die (as one of my 500s did earlier this year) you lose a lot of shit and go through a lot of anguish.
I’m slowly rebuilding now though.
I kind of tend to be in the middle. I keep stuff I know im going to re-watch on my HD (thank god for 1TB, but that’s getting full ^^;), the rest, if i know i wont touch it ever again, gets trashed. and the somewhat interesting stuff gets burned onto dvds and showed on the shelves.
the question is: blu-ray dvd writer or couple of extra HDs…. ^_^
I was going to say I keep stuff until a series is over, at which time I’ll archive it to a DVDR, unless it’s H2O ~Footprints in the Sand which I ceremonially burned, but I got distracted by the Love Hina-hating.
I used to have problems to storage the stuff i downloaded due to the lack of space in my hard disc (40 gb =\), so then i bought a dvd burner and put everything i downloaded on cd/dvds.
Then i didn’t have material space where to put all the dvds, so i just ended throwing away all the games and many anime i had, except the few i know i’ll play or watch again. Now i burn only the few stuff i really like, and for the music i have an ipod 80 gb =P
BUUUUUUURN
I don’t think I’ve had the urge to go back and rewatch an anime episode in years.
Stream so I don’t have to go through the process of deleting. I can count the number of episodes that I would rewatch that I’ve seen in the last 3 years on one hand. Not even series. Episodes.
Hmm. I don’t delete, but not because I want to but it’s more of a hassel than to just keep it lol…
In my room alone I have ~2 TB’s of disk space (laptop alone has 250 GB’s and it has a firewire 800 1TB disc connected that i use for time machine + video/media design).
The “House” server has ~1.2 TB’s. I’ve never been hard pressed for disk space, as “cheap” disk space seems to be pretty relative to how much I need. So each new PC has more, new external HD has more (I went from having a 160gb Drive to 2×500GB raid-0 external drive in ~2-3 years).
Now for rewatching, thats rare. I mostly have it in case a friend wants to watch it, and like i said, I have the space.
Most ironic, as anime shows have gotten bigger in the era of 720P my Design jobs have gotten smaller, as more and more is done in illustrator, resulting in ~1 mb file sizes, yet the same poster done in photoshop would have been a ~450mb file -_- . Ironic how time progresses.
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