# What are some good strategies for paring down your erotica video collection? To recover hard drive..

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 18, 2013, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-good-strategies-for-paring-down-your-erotica-video-collection-to-recover-hard-drive/653302 "2013-03-18T21:52:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-good-strategies-for-paring-down-your-erotica-video-collection-to-recover-hard-drive/653302/21 "2013-03-19T07:39:52Z")

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> [@JamesQueue](#):
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> I end up jacking off and not completing the task at hand.

Jacking off IS the task at hand! 😃

> [@JamesQueue](#):
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> I end up jacking off and not completing the task at hand.

Have you spoken with your doctor about this? ☹

> [@JamesQueue](#):
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> I end up jacking off and not completing the task at hand.

You’re doing it wrong. :dubious:

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**Author:** ![Mr.Accident](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Mr.Accident](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Accident)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-good-strategies-for-paring-down-your-erotica-video-collection-to-recover-hard-drive/653302/22 "2013-03-19T10:23:28Z")

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Get a bluray burner and burn your collection to blank bluray disks. Or convert to a standard video format and burn to regular DVDs.

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**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-good-strategies-for-paring-down-your-erotica-video-collection-to-recover-hard-drive/653302/23 "2013-03-19T10:38:29Z")

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> [@WhyNot](#):
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> So what you’re really saying is that your hard drive is too small to satisfy?

I think he’s saying he’s got too much and comes before he can fit it in.

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**Author:** ![Mavic\_Chen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Mavic\_Chen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mavic_Chen)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-good-strategies-for-paring-down-your-erotica-video-collection-to-recover-hard-drive/653302/24 "2013-03-19T12:46:00Z")

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Get a NAS server, [this one](http://www.qnap.com/useng/index.php?lang=en-us&sn=862&c=355&sc=526&t=690&n=9906) can take 8x 4TB drives, in RAID5 you get 28TB of porn to play with.

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