How do I build large data storage without everyone thinking I'm a porn addict?

I am, but that's beside the point.

>>105901482 (OP)
imagine caring about others's opinions.

also why would people know you have a nas, most normies wouldn't even recognize it.

>>105901482 (OP)
uh, dont tell them maybe?

>>105901534
Where do I put it so they don't see it when I have guests?

Only a porn addict would think storage is for porn instead op movies, games, etc.

>>105901593
Hollywood is dead, there's like only one game worth playing released every 5 years nowadays.

>>105901482 (OP)
if someone asks, ask them why are they thinking of porn right now

>>105901559
does it need to be on the dinner table? keep it in a cupboard

>>105901482 (OP)
who the fuck downloads porn?

>>105901482 (OP)
>without everyone thinking I'm a porn addict?
Extremely weird projection, why would anybody think that?

>>105901815
>pedos get headlines about terabytes and terabytes of cheese pizza after they are caught
>OP admits to someone he has tens of terabytes of storage
>some unwashed normie puts in the slightest bit of cognitive fortitude and makes a conclusion based on those two things
How much storage you got is essentially a power level you don't reveal to everyone

>>105901482 (OP)
Nobody thinks that

>>105901482 (OP)
why do you even need """"storage""" for porn? can't you just stream normal porn like normal people? unless...

>>105901482 (OP)
Simply explain that 4k movies are like 200 GB each.

>>105901482 (OP)
just build a regular pc, you don't need a perbuilt

Do you plan to use office software?
Do you plan to go paperless?
Those alone justify your server, if you're so retard doing illegal shit and your circle knows that you're a creep then you deserve to be insulted

Just add another hdd to your PC.

>>105901482 (OP)
If you're thinking of building an NAS
1. Find a laptop that you don't use
2. Hook it up to an external HDD drive.
3. Run Jellyfin(or WinSCP for FTP only)

>>105902630
That's fine but if you're tech savvy you can have home storage that uses less power than your home PC while being able to serve everything a single user will need for between 15-30 watts idle.
The variance is due to the energy some drives take
>>105903063
That burns too much power and he can get a odroid h4 and get the same thing done for less power draw

>>105901482 (OP)
Just say you do media production as a hobby or something.

>>105901482 (OP)
I have a 16TB NAS that's almost completely full and only 50GB of it is porn. There's honestly very little porn ever made that's worth saving. The last good porn star was Teen Kasia from 20 years ago so of course I made sure to save an entire sitrerip of her. I'll probably be still be jacking off to her 50 years from now because women keep getting uglier and fatter and porn only keeps getting worse and worse every year.

>>105901939
this is some serious fucking projection. literally nobody thinks this way except for...

>>105901806
Me, I even run stash to index it all

ACKSHUALLY MOM I'M A DIGITAL ARCHIVIST

>>105903439
I would like to get access to more lactation content especially lesbian stuff, there seems to be less and less of that on the internet and people that upload it keep getting banned for some reason

>>105901482 (OP)
There, problem solved

>>105903701
Not a real job.
>t. mom

>>105903725
The category that's dying the fastest is teen porn, because zoomers have been gaslit by decades of feminist propaganda to have a psychological aversion to young attractive women. Even actual 18 year olds making porn today don't really advertise themselves as teens and try to make themselves look older to appeal to the average zoomer. The decline of both porn and the quality of women in general is directly attributable to the weak will and mindset of the zoomer male.

>>105903439
>nokia
Wtf she's a granny now

>>105903779
I have seen a sharp decline so now I'm lost because I need to find other avenues. I have such a specific fetish that the shrinking of the ecosystem and spam of shitty content by shit creators on popular platforms is destroying me. I feel so lost

>>105903563
When a family member stumbled upon a dead man's synology with about 40tb of HDDs, one of her first reactions was that it needed to be powered on to check for CP.

It was later learned thr guy was a photographer but unless you are one if the few class of people where it makes sense that you would have terabytes of anything, its suspicious.

>>105903439
>I have a 16TB NAS that's almost completely full
So what are you actually storing? I don't even know what I would fill 16tb with.

>>105901559
Hide it under your anime body pillow, I promise you no one will touch the pillow.

>>105903843
I think it makes sense to share the drive with people you know and love so I have 16tb on my end and it's to store all of my main with paperless ngx as well as other people's mail and documents if the choose to do so. I also want to be able to run office suites on all of our devices without slow down so migrating our office to nextcloud seems like a sensible thing to do. The only worry is that I can't get a family member outside of my home to use it so offsite backups are kind of fucked and I can't really account for any stupid shit they might do on their network that could compromise this sensitive data.
I think that's a good usecase for a large server especially if you want to save money on shit like dropbox

>>105903843
nice made up story.
>unless you are one if the few class of people where it makes sense that you would have terabytes of anything, its suspicious.
brother, almost no one even knows what a fucking terabyte is or what a NAS looks like. i can PROMISE you that nobody is going around thinking "that guy has more than 2 terabytes on his computer? he must be a pedophile."

>>105901482 (OP)
stupid thread gets many replies good threads have been here for days with less replies. clown world

>>105901482 (OP)

enable sata hot swap in bios for mobo and add on cards buy eol wd blues and hitachis second hand by masses

>>105903845
Mostly full ROM sets and movie collections in remux'd blu-ray quality. It's also only really 12TB since a quarter of the space is being used for parity. I could easily fill up 100TB of space if I had it, but that's just too expensive for me.

>>105901482 (OP)
Only porn addicts think you get storage for porn

You want 1PB to hoard smut
I want 1Pb so I can mirror Anna's

We are not the same

>>105903913
>nice made up story
Pic related is what I was sent after they called me about it.
>almost no one even knows what a fucking terabyte is
They definitely know
They know if their laptop or playstation has maybe 1-2, their phone has under a TB. To have tens of terabytes is kinda unfathomable.
There is probably a class of normies who have absolutely no clue either way but anyone in the first world knows how many of their shitty compressed family photos can fit in a TB.
One of my coworkers proclaimed himself a "data hoarder" because he had an 8tb hdd.

The normie perspective isn't very good towards those with so much storage without a use case that makes sense. Even my NAS which mostly contains pirated media doesn't make much sense to the streaming population. My uncles used to be hardcore torrent users so they know the rub but even those who casually pirate now are streaming it.

>>105904031
That archive is shit though. Every time I've looked for a book on libgen that included full page image scans, it was always so low res and compressed that I just decided to buy the actual book instead. Nobody has ever really attempted to make a high quality archive of book scans, except maybe google, but they'll never be able to make it public due to copyright laws. I imagine an archive of every book ever written scanned at >600 dpi with in a lossless image format would probably take up exabytes of space though.

>>105904139
loling at the idea of a normie picking that up and finding its appearance frightening enough that it must have CP on it

>>105901482 (OP)
Put a label that says research on it and some science buzzwords

>>105903843
>a family member
Are you talking about your own family? Because if so, I'm sorry to inform you that your bloodline is extremely low IQ and it would be best for society if you never reproduced.

>>105904139
What kind of weird poorfag cope is this? The average person was already buying 1TB hard drives 2 decades ago. You can go on amazon and buy cheap 16TB external usb hard drives marketed towards normie consumers right now.

>>105904178

surely you must mean 100dpi

housegin programmer who made local library website can not get even book face to load in timely manner

>>105901482 (OP)
Is Qnap the go to choice now that Synology only wants Synology drives?

What about Asustor and other Chinkshit brands?

>>105904587
Why would you ever trust chinks with your data?

>>105903750
kek

>>105901606
Anime is still alive and well. I've got a NAS mostly for anime, manga, and tokusatsu.

I don't understand why you porn addicts need terabytes of stuff? Just keep your favorites and delete the rest?

It has never once occurred to me that people associate data hoarding with porn hoarding.
I use my NAS thing for pirated media (the vast majority of it), backing up important documents and priceless photos, syncthing (GOAT) and MAYBE some kind of game server once in a blue moon.
How do you even reach the point of keeping terabytes of porn? do you just save literally anything vaguely erotic you encounter?
If I were to save everything I like to the point of going back to it I doubt I could get to 50gb

>>105906179
hoarder mentality, or something
i have a containered jdownloader instance that my reptile/gooner brain makes me put many things into
usually just do an rm -rdf * in the download directory every month or so since it fills up my 4TB buffer drive quite fast
some stuff i do save, porn not so much anymore
i probably have a good 5TB of porn, much of which i havent even looked at since saving it
then there is the 42TB of movies and series also, and 8TB of anime
man i gotta get me more storage soon.........

>>105901482 (OP)
Just take 9 billion pictures of your cars and house and computers and whatever else shit you're trying to fix like I do and soon you'll be drowning in photos that you don't have room for.
The bonus is that when you need a picture of your van's AC compressor you'll spend 2 hours digging through archives for it instead of spending 2 minutes walking outside to look at the damn thing with your own eyes!

>>105901482 (OP)
i never hid the fact i have porn stored most people know i have a high sex drive so they dont judge me

after this my nas has 90% of old movies especially from wild west and shows

>>105901606
Dead now. Plenty of older stuff that's great and will fill up huge drives.

>>105901806
people who fap in 4k and not 720p

>>105903862
TSMT

>>105901482 (OP)
What a stupid post. Why would anyone know you even fucking have an extra device or several?

>>105906994
>The bonus is that when you need a picture of your van's AC compressor you'll spend 2 hours digging through archives for it instead of spending 2 minutes walking outside to look at the damn thing with your own eyes!

I reach into engine bays to take photos of what I CANNOT directly see and to take pics of work in progress, but I'm a mechanic so I understand how best to benefit. I also use USB borescopes and save those pics in vehicle-specific folders.

>>105901482 (OP)
I built a NAS about a year and a half ago using a Define 7. It cost less than your pic related (sans drives) and can hold 12 of them. My first build. It was definitely more work than just buying one of those things, so make your choice on that I suppose.

>>105903439
>you will never eat soup with Teen Kasia in a diner in 2009
Bro

>>105901482 (OP)
you can get a tower that has 12 3.5 inch bays inside it

>>105901593
porn is the best use case for storage at home.

>>105903750

>>105903439
I discard more and more of my porn every year despite having access to one of the big trackers. I've got like 12TB saved out of 14.4TB to my NAS and only 1.2 of it is porn. I barely ever watch any of it, even with the current state of things where I am super selective. Only amateur stuff feels worth preserving and thankfully usually has a very small file size. Some stuff you just cannot let go, because porn is truly the most likely kind of data to just go entirely missing off the internet with not so much as a whimper. We've all got a video or two like that.

>>105908386
I've also built my own NAS, using a 4U Silverstone rackmount and furnishing the rest of the parts from Supermicro. I ended up spending almost as much as a high end consumer NAS, but I valued being able to pick my own NAS OS and also have good build quality. 10 Bays but still haven't expanded past 3 (a mirror and a hot spare). I'll be relying on this motherfucker for decades to come.

>>105901482 (OP)
99.999% of all porn made for however many years now is complete trash, still you should download some because soon people in shitholes like the UK will pay you good money to get it to them without having to show ID
>>105903845
100TB full here
BDMVs, lots and big YT channels, tons of games, FLACs, ISOs, installers, etc

>recently deleted a shit ton of JAV
>now im regreting in
to be fair the fucking encodes are a bloat lol

>>105909569
At least JAV shit is all the same and easily replaced

>>105901482 (OP)
I would've assumed you were a weeb and/or a furry

>>105909569
>deleted a shit ton of JAV
Blasphemy

>>105903100
if he already has the old laptop then itll take 5 years of electricity use before hes spent what an odroid costs

>>105901482 (OP)
1. no one even knows what those things are outside of tech enthusiasts.
2. even people who know what they are will just assume that you have movies, games and other catalogued data
3. put it near your PC so it just looks like a part of your setup
4. you're the only one who knows how much of a coomer brain you are.

>>105904587
>>105904609
Are there any good chassis to hold 5-6 drives without any vendor lockin? I just want a nice, compact, cube that's around the size of a Synology NAS that I can install Debian + OpenZFS on to serve as my NAS.

Maybe two, so one could be the backup.

do you even need a nas? why not a jbod

>>105910525
Does the "NA" in "NAS" not tip you off to the benefits?

>>105910525
Well, what do you connect the JBOD to?

i have a western digital entry level nas for clueless home users. but thats literally all i use it for anyways, and just some video streaming. i cant use the whole 2tb cap. if i really wanted i could just buy one of those 20tb hdds and throw it in there.

>>105910538
>>105910547
99% of tards just connect it directly to their main pc

>>105901482 (OP)
just buy shit off the internet.

>>105903750
kek

>>105903676
does stash auto index based off title or do you need to do it manually? my collection has become pretty big and i am faced with analysis paralysis when it's coom time. i suffer

>>105906179
because the average person is a selfish leech and even high quality content worth preserving will eventually wither away and die forever because people lost interest in it and stopped seeding. storage is pretty cheap and should only get cheaper so this makes sense for me.

>>105901489
fpbp.
>>105901482 (OP)
you having a NAS is irrelevant to anyone but you unless you specifically tell them. they won't likely even know shit about that enough to even formulate this opinion that you might be a porn addict, as for most of them the concept of actually archiving and saving porn is outlandish when you could just stream it. if in some theorycraft scenario about someone asking you what your NAS is for or why you need so much storage, just list any of the gazillion facking reasons for doing so that arent related to your degenerate retardation, of which there are many, i use my NAS for archiving a lot of different mediums of work i create. video and audio work in lossless formats, scans of film negatives in large tiff images, lots of high resolution stuff, hours long radio shows in FLAC, backups of things, etcetc. you could tell them you're processing astronomical data from various international telescopes and solar probes. parsing weather data idk.

>>105901806
>>105902149
>websites go down
>accounts gets deleted
>accounts/videos go private
>videos get taken down for any reason
>streaming requires constant internet access
That's why you back up any good scene instead of wasting hours finding it again whenever you feel like it.

>>105913667
I have lost so much content of a relatively niche fetish that I have because I've been too lazy to archive everything properly over the years... it's depressing. Well, a lot of it was thankfully archived by someone in one form of another, but far from everything.

>>105914093
It's usually available somewhere out there but i don't see the point in people making it harder for themselves. Going back to rewatch favorite scenes is probably the most common use for a hard drive. There's some people who just stream anything they're presented with on a porn site's front page but i've never understood that. It's like choosing to eat subpar or gross food when there's tasty alternatives.

>>105901482 (OP)
Step 1: Don't needlessly mention anything about "porn """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""addiction""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" (not real)" when talking about creating a NAS/storage server
Step 2: Build the fucking thing
Step 3: Stop caring about some retard's imaginary opinion, you're literally schiz'ing out over scenarios you fabricated in your own head wherein you're oppressed by your own imagination

Are there any good SLC SSDs in the market other than the expensive industrial drives for datacenters and the leftover WD greens from 2015?

Is /g/ seriously arguing for NOT hoarding the content you enjoy? For shame. You'd think people would learn after so much good content has been effectively removed from the internet.

>>105901482 (OP)
>"hey anon, what's that"
>"a NAS, for storage"
>"so you have a lot of files?"
>"yeah, movies, pictures, old computer backups; I save everything"
>"ok, neat"
Wow, that was a truly difficult conversation to have.

Best sites I can re-upload random amateur porn or leaks? I don't like keeping porn in my storage.

>>105901606
>only new movies and shows exist

can anyone help a brother out and share a teen kasia archive

>>105918705
/g/ is infested with literal jeets who can't afford anything and don't have time to do anything but browse 4chan at work between scam calls. So anyone who actually uses tech to do anything is a tinkertranny, larper, etc.

>>105908666
correct
recently found out one of my favorite cum compilations was scrubbed off the few sites that still had it.
now it's gone...

>>105901482 (OP)
Isn't it better for them to think you are a porn addict than a pedo?

>>105919327
this is correct. storage is cheaper than ever and only getting cheaper, anyone who cannot afford to hoard is third world tier poor. even broke reddit bitches in the west can afford to hoard their most treasured files

>>105908953
how do you download entire yt channels?

>>105903845
I got 30TB, it's every movie, tv show, game, music file, book I have ever downloaded. Archiving is pretty addictive.

>>105919702
yt-dlp, the best software ever made
>>105919719
Easily the most addictive hobby I have, waiting for a 22TB to ship rn

>>105919775
Can you post the command for an entire channel?

>>105919402
The two are not mutually exclusive.

>>105901606
retard

>>105901482 (OP)
>How do I build large data storage without everyone thinking I'm a porn addict?
exclusively buy nvme drives
>I am, but that's beside the point.
then don't buy a synology or qnap you OnlyFans SIMP
True storage chads run workstations with ECC RAM and TrueNAS Scale
also, check out ligma

>>105920185
>wasting an enterprise SSD on media storage

>>105903845
>>So what are you actually storing?
I lived through the xvid avi rips on 13" 768p laptop days
once I finally got that 4K TV got that 4K monitor and got that deluxe apartment in the sky all my old shit became damn near unwatchable

the amount of shit I had to reodownload...not just redownload actively hunt down decent copies of. And then you find out a bunch of 4K transfers are actually garbage.

I learned all that shit about encoding just to see in the end what it always was, just a cope for low space. Sure you can filter with some stuff or you can tinkertranny with mpv all you want at the end you are just masturbating to your own autism. Once you just start grabbing remuxes it's easier to just buy another hard drive than sort this shit out. If you don't like the look just grab another one.

I see some people are reencoding shit to AV1 to save space on their hoards. I don't have the energy for that anymore. Even ripping discs yourself requires special sauce BD drives with the goldilocks firmware. Shit even playing some of these discs requires the last of its bloodline intel CPU generation if you don't want to go full boomer with dedicated BD players. Dolby Vision has just piled on the shit to make things even more annoying.

At this point the hoard is in control. But the other side is 2 billion times worse.

Audio/Visual media was a mistake

bring back the text boards

>>105901482 (OP)
>it's 2001
>work at small college in IT
>every night the South campus network goes down at 6PM
>find out that 100mb fiber link to south campus is fully saturated for 5 hours every day.
>Use Netcat to trace traffic down to 1 port receiving thousands of SMB traffic connections in a dorm room
>Win2K Server with system name PORNSTAR. probably a pun of Primestar, an ancient Satellite TV service.
>has 100GB of shared folder data on it. tens of thousands of videos. All Porn.
>limit port to 10MB half duplex. South campus immediately comes back online.
>60% of total internal network traffic disappears.
>Next day, forced kid to bring in PC. Abit VP6 with 4 40gb IDE drives raided together to form the ultimate porn delivery machine.
>actually has more storage then our campus data storage server.
>CIO is pissed, but opts to keep his port on 10MB half duplex because he didn't do anything wrong.

>>105901482 (OP)
Just tell them it's all family pics and videos.

>>105901482 (OP)
Run a Jellyfin instance for your friends

>>105918816
eporner, thothub, cambro, erome, thisvid

>had empornium account
>disabled it
>threads like this make me wish I hadn’t
I just don’t have time to post up for a long fap anymore. Still, I probably should have kept it, though the temptation of it led to many wasted nights in the past, hence disabling it.