inGearX
3.1415 9265
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New York
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|  Do you erase?
Do you erase the media or other data you download? By what criteria? ... details 
I have a tendency to keep all that I have gathered - that creates a bit of a storage problem 
How about you?
Looking forward to an informative, thoughtful and interesting discussion...
Any tips, tricks, links, suggestions are much appreciated 
Thank you all... |
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Alcohol
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join:2003-05-26
Edison, NJ | I shift delete after watching, or burning.
I keep a DVDR collection of good movies. Have collected about 200 so far.
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nfx
The Wire
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join:2001-05-21
Vancouver, BC
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said by inGearX  :Looking forward to an informative, thoughtful and interesting discussion... Any tips, tricks, links, suggestions are much appreciated Thank you all... 
Any way...
said by Alcohol :I shift delete after watching, or burning. That's what I do. There are no tips, tricks, links, or suggestions involved.
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GanJa
Just Say No
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join:2003-02-24
Crack House | reply to inGearX
Digital pack rat. |
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jp10558
Premium
join:2005-06-24
Willseyville, NY | reply to inGearX
Pretty much pack rat. I do occasionally use eraser on files I want to make sure are gone, or if I'm feeling especially paranoid. |
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kados
Hail Odin
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join:2003-03-14
Watertown, SD
 ·Midcontinent Commu..
 ·Qwest.net
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only thing I usually keep are mp3's...I have about 70 gigs worth now...
movies, I usually watch then delete...if they are really good, for example 300, I keep untill it comes out on DVD then I buy it and delete it off the pc
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Doctor Four
My other vehicle is a TARDIS
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join:2000-09-05
Dallas, TX
 ·AT&T U-Verse
·RoadRunner Cable
·AT&T Yahoo
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Digital pack rat here as well. In over 4+ years of having a
Usenet account with Giganews, I've amassed 235GB of music and
478 GB of movies, TV shows and anime.
Along the way I've gone through 6 hard drives, which either
got too full or more frequently died on me, forcing me to
restore everything from backup DVDRs.
Pretty much since day 1 I backed up everything I downloaded
onto CDR, then DVDR. I currently am up to 185 DVD's worth.
I've listened to about 40-50% of the music, and watched
maybe 20-30% of the video (though the actual amount seen
is larger since much of what I downloaded I had previously
recorded on VHS during the 90s.)
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Cthen
join:2004-08-01
Ypsilanti, MI
·Comcast
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I save what I like.
said by inGearX :Any tips, tricks, links, suggestions are much appreciated A good tip is don't eat the yellow snow, another is to buy a bigger HDD.  |
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hihi
join:2007-05-06
Port Orange, FL | YES, to replace by better quality ones. |
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inGearX
3.1415 9265
join:2000-06-11
New York
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| said by hihi :YES, to replace by better quality ones. good point now that I started getting HD - 720p movies - I feel that I can finally let go and erase some of the regular 700MB ones... |
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Boricua65
Oye, chico
join:2002-01-26
Sacramento, CA
| reply to inGearX
Another digital pack rat here. I've been getting larger hard drives since downloading. Right now, I have a 320GB SATA drive which I will start downloading into, once I get my desktop back. I'm currently using a laptop and saving my stuff on an external HDD. |
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Midak
Doctors suck
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join:2002-02-26
Yonkers, NY
·Optimum Online
·Verizon FIOS
| reply to inGearX
Yeah, I have saved everything since my p2p start with the original Napster. I just keep adding hard drives, bigger and better. Right now, I run 3 HD's independently. Heck, I rarely delete anything I DL, even game patched. Definitely a digi-pack rat |
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dadkins
Living on a Blu Planet
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join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA | reply to inGearX
Watch, delete. |
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sivran
God Save The Suite
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join:2003-09-15
Arlington, TX
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·RoadRunner Cable
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| reply to inGearX
Anime gets saved, dumped to dvdr when storage gets tight. Anything else is subject to deletion either after viewing or when space is needed.
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Edge1
Workin' ta Live
join:2006-03-01 | reply to inGearX
Audio - save & burn
Music video - save & burn
Other video - watch (rarely burn) -> delete
Games - burn -> delete
Apps - save small; burn large image files -> delete |
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johnarama
join:2007-02-15
France
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I save all music on my harddrive, back up new music to DVD-R every quarter.
Movies I delete if I watched and bad.
Good ones I keep and burn to DVD-R...really good ones I leave on harddrive for friends to have a go at it.
Software and pictures and other crap can all fit on a single DVD, which gets backed up every 3 months at the end of each semester.
Gotta stay organized! |
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Chiyo
Save Me Konata-Chan
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join:2003-02-20
Minneapolis, MN
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·Comcast
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I'm a digi pack rat but not a huge one my main pack rat is anime.
[C:] 210.66/232.88 GB
[E:Media1] 155.63/186.31 GB
[F:Media2] 148.96/149.05 GB
[H:ANIME] 27.80/298.09 GB
[I:ANIME2] 17.49/298.09 GB
[J:Data3] 465.67/465.75 GB
Media 1- music, games, movies
media 2- spill over for 1 also keep my disk images.
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chRoniX10
I hold the key to nothing
join:2004-05-22
Tarzana, CA | reply to inGearX
Download, burn to CD-R or DVD-R, repeat.
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AdamB
join:2001-01-07
Westerville, OH
·RoadRunner Cable
·AT&T Yahoo
| reply to inGearX
Only if it's a bad copy of whatever I've downloaded or something better comes along. I download a lot of stuff and never get around to even watching it some times. I have about 3/4 of my 750 GB full. Need to build a fileserver or something eventually when I finish my media center build.
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TwKs
join:2007-04-29 | reply to inGearX
I have a big honkin' external drive for storage and thats where all the good stuff ends up.  |
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