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The mature question would be: If you are a member at HD-Bits or CHD-Bits, do you need another tracker to get your HD-needs filled?
HDBits is actually about the only HD tracker I'm not on, so I can't comment on it. However, I definitely need more than two very good HD sites. More often than not, one site has a certain older release other sites don't have, this is particularly the case when it comes to full Blurays. Not to mention all the internal groups whose releases remain 'internal' more often than not - there are at least half a dozen HD sites that have very good internal groups, releases I wouldn't want to miss.
I've been using HDBits, the Usenet and occasionally DDL-boards for all my full Blu-ray needs and am more than satisfied with it.
The question is how much HDD-space, bandwidth and or Blu-Ray-discs one wants to fill.
I sometimes wonder what people do with all those untouched blu-ray, considering to are up to 50 GB a piece.
Do you people have unlimited HDD-space, unlimited internet quota's and unlimited empty blu-ray-discs and tons of spare time or am I missing something?
One word: NAS.
Hard disk space is dirt cheap, the challenge is to have a certain degree of protection and redundancy of your data. This can be achieved with a NAS and RAID (level 1, 5 ,6 etc.), or specialised storage distributions like unRAID etc. unRAID currently allows you expandability up to 40TB of protected hard disk space (2TB drives).
A cheap mans storage solution would be those multi bay hard drive enclosures that allow RAID / JBOD.
Bandwidth is no problem over here, and optical media is dead.
I own a NAS myself ... nothing fancy, just a synology 411j with 4 X 2 TB HDD's in raid 5, and another 3 X 2 TB HDD's in my desktop. All my torrenting and usenetting is done on the NAS since some weeks so my desktop can finally be powered down after years of seeding 24/7.Quote:
Originally Posted by shipwreck
Currently +- 10 TB of storage, unlimited internet-quota and download untouched Blu-ray's that I remux myself, stripping language soundtracks and menu's and the likes. But a decent stripped blu-ray still is around 30 GB (varying from +20 to +40 GB in general) ... a 2TB HDD still costs about € 70,00 or 80,00, and I can easily download +2TB a month, meaning I would have to a new HDD every month.
I do like movies and tv-shows, but I frankly won't spend that kind of money, nor time to watch all of that without having no real life left.
When I look at many members at HD-trackers I cannot shake the feeling most of 'em just use their seedbox to build massive buffers (like 10's or 100's of TB's) but they would have to invest a fortune if they would store all the blu-rays they downloaded.
I do remuxes myself, too, so I do feel your pain. However, not every single movie out there deserves 30 and more GB of space. Often, the original transfer is simply not good enough to justify the download, or the movie itself is not good enough, or both, so an encode is more than sufficient. I definitely don't download full Blurays or remuxes exclusively, that would be madness. Most of my downloads still are encodes.
However, once in a while I do look for an older full Bluray I like, e.g. when a proper remux hasn't been released yet. That's when having a number of HD sites to search comes in handy. As I said, I'm not on HDBits, but I heard that retention of full Blurays is very good there in particular. The same supposedly applies to newsgroups, too, so that probably explains why you don't see the need.
No offense but after you like watch a movie whot's the point of having a copy of it?Quote:
Originally Posted by shipwreck
Especially since you apparently are never at a loss to have something else to watch.:unsure:
I don't live alone, my girlfriend may want to watch it, too. And I actually like watching certain movies more than once. However, I do delete a lot of crappy movies, too. Not everything deserves to be stored, let alone bought...
Can't speak for anyone else, but I for one have a large collection of kids-movies and kids-tv-series. My kids can watch a movie over and over again, same thing with tv-shows.Quote:
Originally Posted by IdolEyes787
I myself keep some movies that I find exceptionally good for 'collection'-purposes. I doubt I will watch them in the near future, but there might come a time I'll have some more spare time and feel like watching a particular movie again.
BINGO!Quote:
Originally Posted by IdolEyes787
There are only a few series I keep around out of simple adoration, and to have available to force my new young mistress to watch when I find her. Most the stuff is in and out, I mean with Usenet, it's all pretty much On Demand, why store all of it yourself? Oh wait, right, this is a BT thread, why am I here?
that's how is going at me..download watching deleting :)
unlimited bandwith on internet and blazing speeds...
Yeah, I have a pretty ridiculous collection of TV shows and that, and I really can't justify the reason of having it all. Compulsion? Addiction? Boredom? Mental illness? Probably a combination of the above.
/Hehehe thank fuck for cheap HDD's, or I would be on an episode of Hoarders :P
CHDBits >>>> HDBits for sure for me. Have both tracker and also SceneHD but this fight win CHDBits !! Great content a lot of seders and speeds just are amazing. Love their stuff
You're still young so don't lose hope.Quote:
Originally Posted by kingeater
i prefer HDBits.org
But your country is banned :lol:.Quote:
Originally Posted by subzero2011
Predicting a "[WANT] HDBits account" thread as soon as he can access the invite section.Quote:
Originally Posted by Daniel_30
I know, I could be famous and be buried in paperwork. I would bo on TV, and people would feel sympathy for me, and I heard those guys who are on that show get laid constantly :PQuote:
Originally Posted by IdolEyes787
/Also, Intervention is a great show to drink to
I think it also helps if you are mental but from what little I've seen you probably already have that part covered.Quote:
Originally Posted by kingeaterI know, I could be famous and be buried in paperwork. I would go on TV, and people would feel sympathy for me, and I heard those guys who are on that show get laid constantly :PQuote:
Originally Posted by IdolEyes787
Also if you ever got on TV think how cool it would be that somewhere on the internet people would be arguing about which site is the better source to get the HD files of your episode from.
Win and win.
I have both. Here are the differences IMHO.
HDbits- Fast Servers - Even if there is one seeder it's fast. CHDbits- Slow - But if you have enough seeders No worries.
HDbits - Excellent Database - You'll find almost every show, movie, etc in HD that's ever been released... CHD - Fair database. NOt all shows are accounted for.
Hdbits- Internal INcoders - MIA? CHDbits - Internal Encoders Are On top Of It.
HDbits - Slow Scene Releases - CHD - Fast but takes about 24-48 hour to complete download
Hdbits - Navigation is easy to use CHD - If you can find the english text settings then no problem.
Hdbits - Community is real cocky. Chdbits - Good community. Use a translator.
Hdbits - Point System is useless CHDbits - Point system is great but takes a while to build up.
I prefer chdbits. I think hdbits is very overated. The reason why its a rare tracker is because thier invite and registration system is closed and no one can get it unless you buy an account (70 - 150 euros) which most of the times is shared with more users or you know an admin and he\she gets you in. But once your in it's not that big of a deal. This site should really be in a lower tracker level. I have more fun with my HD-Torrents account than hdbits.
Anyway Chdbits is the WTG.
Thanks
Speeds have improved quite a lot on CHDBits in the past year or so. The reason for this is likely the growing popularity of the tracker, especially amongst users with seedboxes. Either that, or CHD have a few (European?) seedboxes on their own, which also explains why their releases get spread quicker than their Chinese competiton. I max out my 100Mbit link on many torrents there these days.
CHDBits
This one on its own kills the rest of your post. I have been in loads of sites (not really proud of saying it) and it's clear to me HDB has one really helpful userbase. I don't see the need in criticizing it. So yea HDB users are proud of their site, how else could it be? They have been the best HD site in like forever. Even if now there are other good HD sites they should still be proud. It's a proud userbase :)Quote:
Originally Posted by theshadow1234
Also, not at CHDbits but how do their caps compare to HDB's caps?
As I keep saying, it's interesting that they are actually nice people. A few years ago, I never thought that I would actually be saying it now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Supervisorand it's clear to me HDB has one really helpful userbase.Quote:
Originally Posted by theshadow1234
Ffs it's an internet website .The particular tone of the majority of the postings( I assume) like anyplace else is more a reflection of what is "excepted " than anyone being in actuality " nice" or not.Quote:
Originally Posted by OlegLAs I keep saying, it's interesting that they are actually nice people. A few years ago, I never thought that I would actually be saying it now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Supervisor
that's 100% opposite mateQuote:
Originally Posted by theshadow1234
I know, given whose likely to browse this thread ,that I'm beating a dead horse but what difference does it make?
None. :unsure: It's more about egos. There will always be people who complain about free shit.Quote:
Originally Posted by IdolEyes787
Strange that it happens in all the time in bt since I can't remember anyone ever complaining about how shitty a movie was that they snuck into.
Maybe you just need to talk to more potential movie sneakers. :unsure:
Tried to think of something half- witted to go with this but couldn't . Maybe I'll just join the club and ask if it's on either CHDBits or HDBits .:unsure:Quote:
Originally Posted by anon-sbi
It's on both, but you must wear movie sneakers to see it. :shifty:
Alternatively, you can donate.
I give to Habitat for Humanity and sometimes the World Wildlife Fund .Quote:
Originally Posted by anon-sbi
Which tracker is better depends on where people are located? For example, it is very difficult for some people from particular countries to seed back up to ratio 1 to 1 because the connection of those countries to Hong Kong or China has been throttled by HK or CHina. Even if you have very great bandwidth. For those people, HDBits could be better for them.
That's a valid point. But seeding back isn't that difficult on CHD, even for "foreigners" like us. Besides, all the internal releases, the major attraction of the tracker (any tracker actually) are 50% or even full free leech, hence keeping a good ratio there isn't that much of a challenge.
I really wonder how things will shape up after CHDBits opens their invite system tomorrow.
This time, it seems that they will accept more members since the requirements are easier.
HDBits continues keeping it closed, I wonder how will they compete.
As a guess. CHD are aiming more after the Chinese user market than taking on HDBits. Their foray in taking onboard a lot of European seed whores earlier in the year might of put them off. Remember their natural rivals HDC doubled in size a couple of months ago.The first month requirements are more tailored to Chinese home users as well. No 1TB upload this time.
With a bit of luck even IdolEyes787 might join.:whistling
Geez, how many forums are you going to continue this discussion on?
Open signups will do no good to HDC, they did gain many users, but shortly most of them started being inactive already.Quote:
Originally Posted by stan
European users didn't put CHD off :P, their retention greatly increased.