Do you want anything from the 4TB AMV HDD?

[DJ_Izumi]

If you need contact outside of this forum, you can email me at ashleyashes1983@gmail.com This will also be the Paypal address I'll be paying you with.

[SQ]

Alright, I'm finally home and can answer all the questions from a keyboard.

Do you know which videos are on the HDD but aren't available on Local? I was under the impression that the Local database hasn't really changed, but I could be wrong.

To clarify my previous answer:
Local videos that were removed due to the cease and desist regarding two musical artists are on the hardrive.
I don't have any videos to test the other categories I mentioned, but my gut says they are also on the harddrive.

Also, what playlists are on there?

A quick once-over looks like .wpl files for everything that played at Anime Detour 2009 - 2015, including VCAs.

Then there are additional m3u files for various genres and one for "all videos". I think these were Phade's playlists but I can't be sure. (With the exception of the "all videos" playlist, which is literally all videos on the harddrive).

Seriously, why are you even erasing that drive?

It's been sitting around for years without seeing any use. I originally didn't want to format it, but after some events (one of which being a harddrive failure earlier this year), and asking if anyone wanted anything both on the .org (albeit a few years ago) and on a fairly active AMV-related discord server, nobody seemed interested in its contents. So, given that kind of feedback every year, I figured it wasn't worth all that much. Since nobody wanted anything (one person requested the database recently, so I did give it to them) I finally figured I should use the drive for something other than collecting dust.

But you shouldn't judge me too harshly, here (I'm curious as to what the context to the first line of that screencap from discord is about...). I did make this thread after all, because I know people are interested in this stuff. It was my last ditch effort to possibly be guilt-free before formatting this thing.
I also like the history of AMVs - Hell I donated several AMV DVDs and CDs to the AMV Documentary project earlier this year - but when almost everyone I turned to seemed to imply content on the harddrive was unwanted, well, I kinda took their word for it.

I'm with Izumi on this, but I believe SQ's current Internet situation would prevent him from realistically uploading the entire drive anywhere.

This is correct. My internet connection is 100kb/s down on a good day.

But something tells me this is unlikely, especially given that the reason SQ even has this HDD at all is because he bought it during Phade's fundraiser for new servers several years ago at a hefty pricetag of like $1,000.

Yep, I paid 1k for it. (Well, I donated 1k to the .org, and got this gift in return.)

I'll PM you, Izumi.

[DJ_Izumi]

I'd argue that right now, the data is of little value to people. The Org is still up and the minority of this fandom who care about that can access it at will. The value comes later, when The Org inevitably dies, and archivalists and those who highlight fandom gone byares scrambling to see who has copies of what. I'd rather they realize I've had a torrent of 4TB seeding for half a decade, plus offline cold storage, plus Amazon Glacier, plus anyone ELSE who got copies off me.

[SQ]

The harddrive has been shipped to Izumi.

[DJ_Izumi]

SQ, you overpacked this box and really upped it's shipping cost. $62 USD to ship it here? However it did arrive super fast so that's great.

We wanna make sure you get your new HDD so you should see an additional $25 USD in the form of two $12.50 gifts from myself and another friend involved in helping me archive this drive.

[SQ]

To be fair I thought the flat rate box would apply to Canada.
But then when I got to the post office I was like "Fuck it, I don't want to repack it" so I just paid it. lol.

Thank you though.

[SQ]

Alright so thanks to you guys I was able to get a 4TB Toshiba X300. Thank you.

[DJ_Izumi]

Oh right, BTW, this is infact a 5TB drive.

[SQ]

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[DJ_Izumi]

However it's also an unremarkable Seagate 5900 RPM desktop drive. That Toshiba you got is a fair bit faster for a mechanical drive.