CadetStimpy Posted July 13, 2016 Share Posted July 13, 2016 Derek's future PC setup: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted July 13, 2016 Author Share Posted July 13, 2016 Don't feel like you need to answer Derek if it's too personal (I understand), but what the fuck do you have in all of that!!! I assume it's a bunch of stuff, then backup's of everything? I don't think I have a backup of anything ... >.> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CriticalCid Posted July 13, 2016 Share Posted July 13, 2016 That’s just…wow…and I thought that I’m a digital compulsive hoarder but your setup, Derek, tops everything I could ever handle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cash84 Posted July 13, 2016 Share Posted July 13, 2016 DOS76 said I would love to go rackmount! With what you have, I would!! Lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cash84 Posted July 13, 2016 Share Posted July 13, 2016 SentaiBrad said Don't feel like you need to answer Derek if it's too personal (I understand), but what the fuck do you have in all of that!!! I assume it's a bunch of stuff, then backup's of everything? I don't think I have a backup of anything ... >.> Well if he has just only blu Ray ISO format at average 35GB each movie, with 50TB, you'd have about 1400 blu Ray ISO movies. It doesn't take much. I have about 500 blu Rays and about 200 DVDs set up on mine and there no back up on it. No need to if you have the movies Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted July 13, 2016 Share Posted July 13, 2016 All the data that is in the dark blue of the pie chart is duplicated so I have 45TB of data but that is two copies of everything. Adult Entertainment - 861GB Audio Books - 276GB Comics - 2.65TB EBooks - 189GB Emulators - 7.52TB Movies - 544GB Music - 165GB Music Videos 22.9GB Pictures/Images - 34GB Recorded TV - 6.46TB Software - 1.58TB TV Animation - 1.29TB These results are from the DrivePool and from a real rough addition I'm guessing the pool only shows the one file in its size results and if you were to double this and add a few of the other odd folders I didn't report it would be around the 45.5TB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexis524 Posted July 13, 2016 Share Posted July 13, 2016 SentaiBrad said I don't think I have a backup of anything ... >.> and neither do I with close to 12TB of data. I don't feel too bad now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted July 13, 2016 Author Share Posted July 13, 2016 Damn that's a lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexis524 Posted July 13, 2016 Share Posted July 13, 2016 I know. I'v already been through one data loss. I accidently dropped a 5tb HDD out of its enclosure on a concrete floor. Skip, skip, skip, struggle to read,skip, skip skip... What was the most terrifying was that my wife had thousands of pictures of us and our daughter as she was growing up on that drive. I was able to save them by the plastic bag in the freezer trick. I'm not sure who's face you should've seen - my wifes face when she came downstairs for a midnight snack only to find cables running into the freezer with a laptop across from it, or my face when I had to think very carefully about explaining to her what I was doing. You would've thought I learned my lesson by now... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted July 13, 2016 Share Posted July 13, 2016 Backups are essential. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted July 13, 2016 Share Posted July 13, 2016 Sad part is that my movie collection is smaller than my porn. I'm really slacking on building it up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CadetStimpy Posted July 14, 2016 Share Posted July 14, 2016 DOS76 said Backups are essential. You got that right! Back in my Newbie days of running RAID configurations, this happened to me: I was under the impression my RAID setup would "save me", but due to a bum-steer from the Support guy on the phone, I ended-up losing a bunch of data (that may have been irretrievable by then, anyway). After a couple of weeks of crying, whining, and trying to figure-out how to recover the data, I became quite diligent at doing Backups. The tools I was using at the time didn't recover things in much of an organized manner. Nothing had an original file name (just long, cryptic names), so it was almost worse then having nothing at all. My motto at the time bacame, "If you lose all your data without Backups, it's all over, except for the cryin'!" Now I regularly B/U my Docs, Email, game progress, of course, and rebuild stuff - I try to be mostly 'portable', in that I have mostly current versions of my installation software, so I can do a pretty complete Rebuild without the Network (Microsoft Patches notwithstanding). About the only thing I have in the Cloud now (aside from those Guides I've been throwin' onto MediaFire), is my Master Password File. Perhaps I should put more up there. I believe Google alone gives ya 15GB for free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CadetStimpy Posted July 14, 2016 Share Posted July 14, 2016 DOS76 said Sad part is that my movie collection is smaller than my porn. I'm really slacking on building it up. I was noticing that. As first I thought you may have had the most of that, since it was at the top of the list, but then I realized it was just an alphabethical thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fablog Posted April 13, 2018 Share Posted April 13, 2018 On 7/12/2016 at 3:49 PM, SentaiBrad said: I've got Wii and GameCube on a separate external because my Wii (now Wii U) is modded, so I can play directly on the console. PS1, PSP and PS2 games are all compressed with specific formats. PS1 is compressed with PBP's and it combines multiple discs. Mednafen reads these natively. PSP and PS2 games are compressed with CSO's (at least most of them, some don't work in CSO's). PPSSPP and PCSX2 read these natively. In the case of PS2 I saved over 600GB, so the time it took me to do this was worth it. Xbox games I have too, but they're extracted so they can get FTPed in to my Xbox, so they thankfully don't take up all of that space (Xbox emulation pretty much doesn't exist). DS games I also used a trim tool for, so the roms are also a bit smaller as well. Some games also don't work well trimmed, but the overall savings is better. The Wii and GameCube games are also trimmed. My collection, all combined and uncompressed would be 5-6TB easily. Hi @SentaiBrad, I'm trying to trim my games. Could you explain how to do that for the Gamecube's isos please? I successfully used Gamecube iso tool but I don't know how to process all my iso in one shot and not have to do it one by one. Any games not working after trimming? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted April 13, 2018 Share Posted April 13, 2018 Brad hasn't been on here in quite some time so I doubt you will be getting an answer back on your question. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fablog Posted April 13, 2018 Share Posted April 13, 2018 Hope he'll be back some day! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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