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Question Any advice for people with low hard drive capacity?

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Patrick_Bateman

Patrick_Bateman

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As the title says.
I like to download stuff and keep it on my hard drive in case they get deleted or I lose the link.
But now the files starting to get heavier as the quality improves, 4K has become the default quality of professional porn or even amateur porn like the one on this website.
I started using Handbrake which can be used to reduce a file size without losing too much quality but I'm no video expert so I only change the Bitrate and average quality to make videos less heavy and it works (can reduce file size up to 75% sometimes) but some file get heavier like the professional porn vids.
o far I can manage by deleting files I don't really find useful or keeping the links when I'm sure the file won't get blocked and I also plan to buy a new hard drive soon but I think it will be useful to know how to manage files.

Do you have any advices on how to manage my hard drive, and possibly reduce file sizes (like 4K to 720p/1080p)? I'll take everything.
Sorry for the long post and thanks in advance.
 
Personally, I use software I purchased to reduce some vids to save space by converting them using a 4:4:4 high profile (removes unnecesarry pixels) at a variable bit rate. However, that takes a lot of time & PC usage so I tend to just convert/downsize 4K vids by manipulating the kbps and/or fr/sec. Besides, 4K is overkill and is just too big so I reduce them to 1080p and save a ton of space. The video quality loss is there but not enough to make it look bad at all.
I recently reduced 75GB of 4K to about 35GB using the following method:
4K video at 60fr/sec @ 30,000kbps
reduced to
1080p at 30fr/sec @ 6000kbps.
Also, I sometimes will take a 12,000kbps 1080p and downsize it to 5000 at the same bitrate to save space with no discernible quality loss.
On average, those methods cut the file size in half and the video is still sharp.....just not 4K sharp. Just remember to check the video for pixelation BEFORE deleting the original file.:pogU:
Ultimately, if you plan on collecting, save money for ext. HD space. Oh, and word to the wise:
Don't go cheap. Bite the bullet, get the 10TB+ (I always use seegate) and thank me later.
BTW, only ever had 1 seegate crash and that's because I dropped it. Actually, it still works....sort of, kind of.:leokek:
 
brokensaph said:
Personally, I use software I purchased to reduce some vids to save space by converting them using a 4:4:4 high profile (removes unnecesarry pixels) at a variable bit rate. However, that takes a lot of time & PC usage so I tend to just convert/downsize 4K vids by manipulating the kbps and/or fr/sec. Besides, 4K is overkill and is just too big so I reduce them to 1080p and save a ton of space. The video quality loss is there but not enough to make it look bad at all.
I recently reduced 75GB of 4K to about 35GB using the following method:
4K video at 60fr/sec @ 30,000kbps
reduced to
1080p at 30fr/sec @ 6000kbps.
Also, I sometimes will take a 12,000kbps 1080p and downsize it to 5000 at the same bitrate to save space with no discernible quality loss.
On average, those methods cut the file size in half and the video is still sharp.....just not 4K sharp. Just remember to check the video for pixelation BEFORE deleting the original file.:pogU:
Ultimately, if you plan on collecting, save money for ext. HD space. Oh, and word to the wise:
Don't go cheap. Bite the bullet, get the 10TB+ (I always use seegate) and thank me later.
BTW, only ever had 1 seegate crash and that's because I dropped it. Actually, it still works....sort of, kind of.:leokek:
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that’s rough, loosing the 60FPS content and making it 30fps. I get that 4K is overkill for many and even I don’t own a 4K Display but for rare stuff I absolutely always keep the highest quality for archiving purposes. I mean I’m glad pornhub offers 1080p/4K nowadays and I don’t have to download low resolution 360p content anymore like we did in 2006-2010.

since i also collected a lot of (4K) VR scenes (probably 15TB), I just started to delete many of these since I would have to upgrade them to 5k,6k,7k,8K anyways For newer VR headsets like oculus quest 2.

and that makes a big difference when I delete a vr scene being at least 10-20GB each.

And for mainstream content, I always can count on the petabytes of data Usenet has backed up, meaning I can get any mainstream scene in 1080p or 4K as I wish.

my advise to the creator of this thread: Think twice about what is unique content thats hard to get or find again if your hard drive would crash, and what content exists in many places backed up already.
also might use cloud backups, but always have in mind that especially with unencrypted content, mega.nz, GoogleDrive, Dropbox etc can and will delete your account & data at any time.
 
Rough, you say? Oh, contraire, mon frère!
After being too busy the last week to hang out at Simp City much, I finally got a chance to do some downloading last night and wanted to convert a 4K scene (6.9GB) to a very watchable 1080p conversion (1.6GB) saving OVER FIVE GIGS of space. On a 4K monitor or if you zoom into the shot, you can see the difference. But the gofile/vid below shows that the difference is negligible IF YOU ARE INTERESTED in saving space.
Hell, if you have the $ for a 4K screen, shelling out for 10TB ext. hard drives should have been in your budget anyway.
conversion-therapy-1.gif

 
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OF content is bloated for some reason. I can compress the jpgs at 80% quality, for virtually no visible difference (maybe extreme pixel peeping will reveal something), and reduce the file sizes to ~25% of what they were. Videos too - I usually reduce them down to 720p/30, because even 1080p can be as much as double the file size for a slight gain in quality at regular viewing distance. Yes, the slight enlarging required to view a 720p video fullscreen means it's not absolutely sharp, but it just depends on what you can live with. Sometimes I even go down to 540p.

I'm on macOS, and I use Handbrake for videos and Resize Lite for images (I really should pay for the full version). Sometimes I chop up videos and discard the unimportant parts. I haven't found a good app for that yet, aside from MPEG Streamclip, which unfortunately is 32-bit abandonware, so Mojave is the most recent version of macOS that can run it. QuickTime Player has that functionality, but its implementation is terrible. I'll have to give avidemux a try.

Doing all this compression takes time though, which is the annoying part. And I still need to buy a new backup drive, I have less than 200GB left, lol.
 
Wotan said:
https://i.imgur was here once, but it's now gone/1ap877o.png

I don't need advice I'm gonna buy new hdds soon I just wanted to share because I find it hilarious how little space those drives have left.
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same situation for me :PepeWhy:

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Avidemux to take out unnecessary portions of videos, handbrake to reencode to h265. Sometimes I'll even down scale the bitrate or resolution if it's not a video I particularly care for.

I have around 40tb of storage right now and still go through every video to make it more efficient.

That said, 14tb drives are under $200. It's a worthwhile investment.
 
rexin said:
Avidemux to take out unnecessary portions of videos, handbrake to reencode to h265. Sometimes I'll even down scale the bitrate or resolution if it's not a video I particularly care for.

I have around 40tb of storage right now and still go through every video to make it more efficient.

That said, 14tb drives are under $200. It's a worthwhile investment.
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I did The cutting as well a couple years ago but now I wouldn’t do it anymore because it’s not smart doing it to old scenes you might never get fully back again if all sources/sites die Etc., I nowadays care about original files
 
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short of just re-encoding files or downsampling 4K files, the only thing I could suggest would be to use something like shutter encoder (which is really just a GUI for ffmpeg) to cut parts of videos you don't like such that previous posters said. beyond that, look into deduplication tools like czkawka, videoduplicatefinder, visipics, dupeguru or video-comparer to make sure you aren't hoarding redundant files.

but ultimately, if you plan on archiving these things, you really should just get larger drive(s) or build yourself a NAS; you are just kicking the can down the road otherwise
 
Best advice I could give to someone who doesn't have a lot of storage and doesn't want to buy and maintain hard drives is to abuse the unlimited storage on Google Photos. Now to achieve this you've got two options, the easiest but most expensive is to buy a secondhand Pixel 1, phone comes with unlimited storage out of the box, you can upload any image and video files and stream a compressed version of them or download them. Second option which is cheaper but requires just a bit of knowledge is to root an Android phone and use the app Pixelify to trick Google into thinking you have an original Pixel 1, most Xiaomi phones are easily rootable, last one I tried was a Xiaomi Redmi A1, around 90 USD, was able to root and pixelify within a day, you could go for an expensive phone as some custom ROMs already come with this feature out of the box too, currently using PixelExperience.
 
I use External Harddrive Bays - 4-6TB each from Seagate and Western Digital.

You can label them and organize your files accordingly.

I am content with 1080p, nothing higher; otherwise the file size becomes way too large.
 
The amount of time you spend editing and/or reencoding the files is probably more expensive than an external 4gb harddrive if you try to save a lot of space that way. Reducing quality and reencoding manually can be worth the trouble to avoid some techniques of user tracing in case you are leaking content, but not for reducing file maintenance costs.

I only edit files when the amount of running time I care about is less than 10% the amount of running time of the whole file, and for that I use LosslessCut. It is a frontend for ffmpeg, very easy to use.

Another thing you could consider is deduplication. For that I use stash, which calculates the perceptualhash of any video you add to its database and then shows you the duplicate candidates: https://github.com/stashapp/stash
 
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