How much porn is too much porn? (size of one's collection)

[SexObjex]

OK, well, fuck it, it's Trump's America now, women are sex objects (including his wife and daughter, who are incredible pieces of ass), I'm not going to fight it any longer. I enjoy porn, and I enjoy having lots of it on hand.

This weekend I bought a hard drive auditing tool to figure out the size and nature of my collection. I lost my last porn drive in March 2013, so this is everything I've downloaded since.

Date of collection: March 20, 2013
Images: 3,505,869. 1.49 TB
Video: 15,801, 3.08 TB

Average # of images downloaded per day: 2,609
Average image size: 457 KB
Average # of videos downloaded per day: 12
Average video size: 204 MB
Average daily download volume: 3.48 GB

Unused capacity: 3.4 TB
Days until capacity exhausted: 1008 (August 28, 2019)

Here are some representative samples (all vintage)

Video:
Taylor Wane in an anthology ("Classic Legends, Scene 5" surely from another film early in her career.) 204.4 MB

http://k2s.cc/file/eeb586ee68bd7/cla...nds-scene5.avi



And a representative gallery of vintage smut, all images 457 KB



For the hell of it, I did some theoretical measurements based on some general assumptions:

Combined slideshow length (5 seconds per image): 202 days, 21 hours, 15 minutes, 45 seconds
Combined video length: 38 days, 15 hours, 13 minutes, 1 second

Orgasm potential (one per 10 minutes): 34,778
Jerking off once per day, this equals: 95.2 years
Cum (in L, assuming 5 ml ejaculation): 173.9 L
in gallons: 45.9

[Hertz]

My opinion.
You are too obsessed, get some girl and forget about it.
Or get a job in a porn industry.

[bowlinggreen]

Well, he's certainly ahead of me.

Nonetheless, I treasure my admittedly small collection of porn and have been pondering the best way to preserve my carefully chosen selections.

Removable HD - don't trust. Ditto USB flash drives.

Conventional Blu-Ray discs apparently only last 5-10 years as well.

There is a company making a special drive that uses a long-lived archival Blu-Ray, but it's very expensive, and with it's special formats (larger capacity) I wonder if in years to come it might be as difficult to find a way to retrieve the contents from them as it is, say, finding a working Jaz drive or a Super-Floppy drive today to recover some beloved porn from the 90s, if that was your choice of medium back then.

It's a problem.

[LadyLuck]

Originally Posted by bowlinggreen

It's a problem.

Any effective backup strategy comprises multiple backups i.e. duplication. Any type of backup media can fail. Multiples increase the odds in your favor.

I backed up my porn pics to CDR fifteen years ago and they are all still readable but most of them are such poor resolution I don't bother.

I have several terabytes of porn. A 1TB USB drive with pics and a 2TB USB drive with videos and both of them are mostly full. I don't bother with backups. It's porn. If either of them crashes life will go on.

[SexObjex]

Yes, the size of the collection is a big concern in a "too big to fail" way.

I had one 4 TB partition of an external drive and backed that up to a second disc until about May, when I ran out of room. Then I just said to hell with it and began using both as main drives (restoring some full thread downloads from here, for eg. Best Perfect Tits, what a great thread), one for images only, the rest for movies and everything else (music, documents, etc.) Helps with the accounting.

But that will need a long-term solution, as you mention.

A long, long time ago, someone told me that the first rule of bachelor life was never throw out porn. Any of it. I have betrayed that rule many times (usually when I have gotten a new girlfriend or had a fit of conscience) and it's always cost me. As I said above, I've just decided to embrace it.

Anyway, here is some random images out of my assorted folder.

[bowlinggreen]

I was looking at tape drives, which can provide a multiple-terabyte capacity, but a good tape drive is damned expensive - $1000 and up.

The other practical long term archival solution right now seems to be the M-disc, a special Blu-Ray disc. These can hold 50-100 GB of data each, but at 10 bucks a disc, they are not cheap either. If you've got multiple terabytes of porn to back up, you'll need a bunch of them.

There is apparently also a company working on holographic discs, which would hold around 6 TB of data each to start, but little has been heard from this company lately, so this technology may be a dead end.

[whop]

There is no such thing as "too much porn"!
I have nowhere near as big a stash as you guys mention, but what I have I enjoyed, and probably will again at some point. No harm in keeping it; you just might want to look at it some day.

[seany65]

If you've got so much porn that there's some you've not looked at in the past 12 months, then you've got too much porn.

[snowy25]

I tend to be picky about what I download and keep long term. So even though at times I may have multiple TB's of stuff its often trimmed down to a TB or so. For years I used to keep everything and rarely deleted anything. Then I decided I would only bother keeping stuff from sites that had vanished from the web as I wouldn't be able to get it again. Luckily most of the stuff I like is available and re-downloadable as their sites are still up and running. Most are also 10+ years old and have a big customer base so aren't going anywhere anytime soon. So rather than back up I would just sign up to a site or two to get the stuff again if my drive went down. It might be more expensive in the long run but it also means I can update my SD downloads to HD ones where applicable.

[SexObjex]

I tend to be a completionist. Also, if I am into a woman or her look I am really into her. I like having very large-size slideshows when I wake up and I am absolutely craving Andi Sue Irwin, or Shannon Stewart, or bikini models, or cheerleaders.

As for videos, cataloging those takes a lot of work, just so I know where something is. "Hey, that video where Randy West and Sabre were on the couch and Sabre used the vibrator on Randy ..." — well I know that's in her folder, for starters, and I generally rename there. But for high-volume performers oftentimes it's just pick something and go with it unless I recognize the filename. There's a scene from an arty flick called Hard Edge where Faith Adams gives Julian a shoejob and it is ... whew.