Author Topic: Anyone else get the feeling Fansubs are an evil plan of hardrive manfactures? (Read 3066 times)

datora · « **Reply #20 on:** February 08, 2011, 09:17:15 AM »

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Quote from: Xiong Chiamiov on February 08, 2011, 06:37:19 AM

Quote from: AceHigh on February 07, 2011, 07:12:42 PM
First of all, there is always an option to delete anime to free up space.
You can... delete anime?

Of course not. Don't go taking that sort of crazy talk seriously or you'll start a panic. He's probably just stoned and won't remember he said that when he wakes up.

Calm, everybody ... be calm. It's just another loony who somehow got on teh interwebz by mistake. Nothin' to see here .. move along, move along ....

Sosseres · « **Reply #21 on:** February 08, 2011, 09:24:36 AM »

Quote from: Pentium100 on February 08, 2011, 08:04:32 AM

IIRC Windows Vidta/7 have some kind of DRM that "protects" bluray or something.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-bandwidth_Digital_Content_Protection
Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows 7 both use HDCP in computer graphics cards and monitors.[15][16]

This protection has been broken and only applies if you watch a legal version.

Burkingam · « **Reply #22 on:** February 08, 2011, 12:13:25 PM »

Quote from: Sosseres on February 08, 2011, 09:24:36 AM

Quote from: Pentium100 on February 08, 2011, 08:04:32 AM
IIRC Windows Vidta/7 have some kind of DRM that "protects" bluray or something.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-bandwidth_Digital_Content_Protection
Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows 7 both use HDCP in computer graphics cards and monitors.[15][16]

This protection has been broken and only applies if you watch a legal version.

It still sucks that we have to break a protection.

AceHigh · « **Reply #23 on:** February 08, 2011, 01:18:24 PM »

Quote from: datora on February 08, 2011, 09:17:15 AM

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Quote from: Xiong Chiamiov on February 08, 2011, 06:37:19 AM
Quote from: AceHigh on February 07, 2011, 07:12:42 PM
First of all, there is always an option to delete anime to free up space.
You can... delete anime?

Of course not. Don't go taking that sort of crazy talk seriously or you'll start a panic. He's probably just stoned and won't remember he said that when he wakes up.

Calm, everybody ... be calm. It's just another loony who somehow got on teh interwebz by mistake. Nothin' to see here .. move along, move along ....

Hahahahaha! Good one guys!

Meomix · « **Reply #24 on:** February 08, 2011, 01:55:26 PM »

That reminds me, i should make it a standard to buy 500gb solid state hard drives only, it's only a matter of time before the hardrive crashes. Dumb dad refuses to let me use the SAN. ( - -)

fullblue · « **Reply #25 on:** February 08, 2011, 02:00:09 PM »

SSD! O.o

You know, you can buy a good pc with a price of 500GB SSD.

Burkingam · « **Reply #26 on:** February 08, 2011, 02:19:20 PM »

You could just buy 2 HD and use Raid 1. That would be less expensive.

Meomix · « **Reply #27 on:** February 08, 2011, 02:29:00 PM »

Quote from: Burkingam on February 08, 2011, 02:19:20 PM

You could just buy 2 HD and use Raid 1. That would be less expensive.

Raid is slow, EXHD backup would be the cheapest alternative.

AceHigh · « **Reply #28 on:** February 08, 2011, 02:35:16 PM »

Quote from: Meomix on February 08, 2011, 02:29:00 PM

Quote from: Burkingam on February 08, 2011, 02:19:20 PM
You could just buy 2 HD and use Raid 1. That would be less expensive.

Raid is slow, EXHD backup would be the cheapest alternative.

You don't need it fast in order to use it as a storage. For my next rig I plan to have raid 0 for OS + installed applications to have better speed and 5HD in raid 5 for storage. That way I will never lose any data again.

fullblue · « **Reply #29 on:** February 08, 2011, 02:39:18 PM »

Would you mind sharing a bit on how you build your RAID system?

Burkingam · « **Reply #30 on:** February 08, 2011, 03:53:44 PM »

Unfortunate I have never done it so I don't know the details but I know the theory. There is more than one way to do it. It can be devised in 2 categories. Hardware and Software.
A Soft Raid will use a software, usually it's integrated directly in your OS. I will generally slow down your computer because it uses your CPU to manage itself.
A Hard Raid will use a RAID controller which is a material that can be integrated on your motherboard or on an extension card. How to proceed will depend of the material you get. A true hard Raid will use a dedicated Chip to manage itself which will not slow your computer down but they are usually expensive. There is a lot of disk array controllers with a fake hard Raid. The driver of the controller simply contain a Raid Software. Unfortunately, it's rarely obvious on the documentation provided by the manufacturer if it's a true Hard Raid or if it's driver based.

As you can see it's not that easy to answer your question. For more information I suggest you look on a specialised forum, maybe search on google. there is a lot of documentation about how to proceed out there.

fullblue · « **Reply #31 on:** February 08, 2011, 04:25:16 PM »

Thanks for the info.

I'm sticking with external HDD at the moment. Since they might cause trouble (dead + data loss) once a while or anytime soon, someone adviced me to built a RAID 1.

Meomix · « **Reply #32 on:** February 08, 2011, 04:27:40 PM »

If your EXHD comes with raid thats a bonus.

AceHigh · « **Reply #33 on:** February 08, 2011, 04:38:01 PM »

I would build it around HighPoint Raid controller cards.

That is "hard RAID" that Burkingam was referring to. Those cards cost from 30 to 1000 bucks, so I will choose one I need for my needs when the time comes.

Thing is, unless evga has a motherboard that I like and it has 2 PCI-E 2.0 slots, I will either have one software raid and one hardware, or only have raid 5 for the storage.

StarDruid · « **Reply #34 on:** February 08, 2011, 05:11:38 PM »

Quote from: fullblue on February 08, 2011, 04:25:16 PM

Thanks for the info.

I'm sticking with external HDD at the moment. Since they might cause trouble (dead + data loss) once a while or anytime soon, someone adviced me to built a RAID 1.

Just in case you didn't know with the prepackaged external HDD in some cases if it just dies the it might be the the HDD on-board power or controller boards that went down. It's just a normal internal hard drive (though might be a smaller 2.5 laptop drive in smaller externals) that inside so can be installed in your machine to test it. Have to look at your warranty but might be able to save the data that way.

Personal I never delete a series, I ether keep it on my hard drive or put it on the plastics disk of the forgotten aka data DVD. I got several hundred data DVD, but always forgot what I have and on/in which spindle/Mass DVD/CD case. Just need to get of my lazy but and make a database for all the series and where it stored. Sadly DVD are about useless anymore, since we're talking about back up series from 4 1 Tb drives. That about 250+ DVDs per drive.

AceHigh · « **Reply #35 on:** February 08, 2011, 05:17:24 PM »

Really? Nobody deletes anime that they downloaded on someone's recommendation, but then found out that it was uttermost crap?

harpy · « **Reply #36 on:** February 08, 2011, 05:34:02 PM »

My never goes for all these hight quality stuff, just unneeded usage of the space. I can see the details just fine in a bit lower quality video. Beside I watch the stuff for the meaning not the cute details like - look look look that tree have 101 leafs and not 100 as I thought before....
It does piss me off that most new releases come out huge. I just want to watch the thing and delete it. I almost never keep around anime if I have seen it (even if I like it) unless I have to seed it to get proper ratio or I am one of the last seeders.... and well yeah most of the time I do not watch it right away

I just do not get all that keeping the stuff I already have seen. If I want to see it again I just download it again.

RedSuisei · « **Reply #37 on:** February 08, 2011, 05:35:57 PM »

Quote from: AceHigh on February 08, 2011, 05:17:24 PM

Really? Nobody deletes anime that they downloaded on someone's recommendation, but then found out that it was uttermost crap?

Most likely I would, fortunately ever since I started downloading stuff instead of streaming, I've become quite picky with what I take from people's recommendations (gotta save that bandwidth), and haven't got something I'd call uttermost crap.

Cuan · « **Reply #38 on:** February 08, 2011, 05:52:20 PM »

I just deleted some 200 old episodes of Naruto.
Good riddance, 33 GiB freed.

This should leave me with enough space for… HOLY SHIT ONLY 3 OR 4 RECENT MOVIES???

harpy · « **Reply #39 on:** February 08, 2011, 10:17:02 PM »

^ If you are lucky you can get only one......