When the harddrive gets full I plug in my external hard drive.
I like to keep everything that I read and I only read something that I like.

Burning to DVD's (or CD's) is a bit annoying since it's time-consuming and gives you the extra trouble of having to keep track of all those DVD's (or CD's).

Really; external hard drives are a real life saver for me. It provides back-up so you can do whatever you want with your laptop's HD's data.

I also notice that those years of mangareading have seriously slowed down my laptop (I haven't defragmentated even once yet :s). Well defragmenting takes 15GB of free space preferrably; and it's hard to make that amount of space free

I don't really know exactly how much manga I have (since I lost track of statistics a bit); but I guess it's somewhere from a minimum of 60GB till a maximum of 100GB of compressed archives.

I don't collect anime. In my country there's still something called bandwidth limits ^^. I'm already pushing it over the limit wich is costing me money; if I'd start collecting anime I'd probably have to kill myself
I only have my old cd-collection of DBZ episodes.

I keep all manga on my hard drive, one copy on my computer and one on my laptop both for redundancy and so I can read it anywhere. All anime is burned onto DVDs and removed from my hard drives as soon as I finish watching it (I have over ~300 DVDs collected in this way).

I have a 500BG hard drive and it is my baby. Nothing is ever deleted from it, anime, manga, or otherwise. I even have a folder for my manga that is meticulously split into subfolders like "To Try", "To Read", "One-Shots" "In Progress", and "Finished", all of which have their own subfolders. I even have a folder labeled "FAIL", specifically for housing all of the manga I downloaded and ended up hating. My anime folder is nowhere near as organized.

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I delete stuff after I watch it. I have a 110GB off-peak download limit (150GB all together). My harddrive is only 200GB.

My computer's hard drive is only 120 GB, and I have an 80GB iPod to use up as well.

I actually delete everything after i finish reading it, so I don't have to worry about running out of space. I'd rather cram it all with music files that I can listen to while reading manga.

Thats pretty much what my manga folder looks like, I have many folders and subfolders so I can easily find what manga I need to.

My 320GB hard drive is getting filled up with lots of stuff (its the familys) so im looking out for a good External hard drive (with atlest 320GB).

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500gb Western Digital External Hard Drive. I love it more then my family.

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oh, don't make me remember what I did. I had to delete a lot of my beloved stuffs.
Now I got another 250GB hard drive, but one day I'll have to face with this head-aching problem again.

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Eh...I've done multiple things. Burn DVD's, get external HD's and add in internal HD's

so far i've filled up a 350GB, 250GB, and 1TB external HD. My computer has 300 GB's and that's running low. My laptop's 40 GB's are gone as well......

Uve already filled up 1TB for manga and anime? christ man.

I have a TB on hard drives, and another 1.5 TBs on DVD, although not all of the DVDs are anime/manga (most are though).

i know the feeling
i barely have anything on the computer, i got about 2.5gb of music, and thats faaarrrr more than i got for anime and manga

Only backup manga which i like and i had it complete. Other go to recycle bin.

When my hard drive fills completely, and my external, I go through and carefully trim the stuff I think I was foolish to save in the first place. Y'see, I only keep the good stuff (and this expands beyond anime and manga--we're talking music, movies, games--I hate CDs, so I Iso all of my titles), and I organize it very carefully. And then, when I begin to run out of space, I go through it all bit by bit, and if I figure I used poor judgment in deciding that something was good, I get rid of it. Obviously, this gets less effective each time I do it--less and less things are good for getting rid of, or they'd be gone!--and when it becomes ineffective, I grab another external hard drive. Simple.

I think I've got 200 gigs of all of that stuff. My drive is 220; my external is 250 or so. Much of the space on my hard drive is consumed by my art hobbies--seventy or eighty gigs of rendered videos, still shots, test shots, etc--so I have overflow on the current external. But I've still got space on the bastard.

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I just buy a new hard drive whenever my hard drives get full. I've recently bought a 250G internal harddrive and a 400G external harddrive on top of the original 120G that was in my computer when i first bought it... I don't think I will have to worry about storage space anytime soon.

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