So, as you all probably have heard, southern louisiana is now part of the gulf of mexico. I live in Denham Springs, LA. My house took 3ft of water, and unfortunately with it, it took my preciousness, massive WAM collection How does everyone else store their collection?

On a laptop, with external hard drive backup. Not extremely secure, but better than just a laptop that I used to use that crashed and took out 100gb+ of material. Sorry to hear about your flooding. I would think offsite storage would be only way to combat the loss of data from a catastrophic event like a fire or flood. Again, sorry about your losses and hope things start looking up for you.

Locally and crash plan.

Most of my collection has been on increasingly large external hard drives (first 500 GB, then 1 TB, now 2 TB). The majority of that has been downloading 90% of the complete Leonmoomin collection so it'll be interesting to see if the rise of his new streaming site affects that.

I also have a 128 GB flash drive to collect my absolute favorites.

Please stay safe, friend.

Sorry to hear bro. :/ Hope you're safe and sound. I've lost one hard drive before, and some purchases I made that are no longer available were lost along with it. Maybe when disk recovery services drop in price I'll consider salvaging what's left of the drive.

I overwhelmingly use external drives. I actually just got two new ones in the mail today - a 1TB and a 4TB. I mainly got them so I could transfer material I don't need to access frequently onto other drives that I don't use often, to prolong their mechanical lives. I now have four externals, with 9TB storage in total. WAM content probably uses the better part of 2TB of my overall storage capacity - the rest is mostly movies, games, and my Adobe Lightroom catalogs (I shoot in RAW, hence the need for lots of storage).

Really sorry to hear that, flooding is a terrible thing, we forget just what water can do, and the terrible damage it can cause.

Regarding storing WAM, I always recommend three copies:
1 on the local computer hard disk, available to be watched.
1 on an external hard drive that's kept somewhere else and disconnected most of the time - a friend's house, or at work, or even in the trunk of your car.
1 in the cloud - I recommend BackBlaze for this, $5 a month and they back up your entire computer. backblaze.com

So sorry Jason. What kind of videos do you like? All I have to offer is sending you some of mine. I hope you and your loved ones are safe and have a place to stay that's dry. Message if you aren't and I can hook you up with a place in New Orleans.

Thank you all for your kind words and advice. Luckily i have a boat, so i was able to get myself and surrounding neighbors out, however, the water came so quick, i couldnt grab anything other than a few family herilooms. Water is receding and we've begun to strip the house. Again, thanks everyone.

You might be able to recover the hard drive - as long as the platters aren't damaged, the data is still there, strip the computer and pull the disk, there are specialists who can recover data from disks like that.

I imagine if any of the stuff you had was from the UMD MM will be able to re-enable those downloads, I'd certainly be happy to help you out if any of what you lost was from my sites.

I backup as much as I can onto my Dropbox account -- a full TB of private online storage. More than enough space for all my porn. There's also Business accounts, with 2TB and a bunch of administrator options, like employee sub-accounts.

You can also publicly share files and folders, and thereby use Dropbox as a file hosting service. Just don't let other people download more than 20GB of stuff per day, or Dropbox'll get mad at you.

Dropbox has already saved my fuzzy ass a few times when hardware has failed on me. Highly recommended.

Also, if your hard drives and stuff just got wet but not broken, carefully take it apart, slowly dry all its parts out with a low-speed hairdryer, then put it back together. Or get a professional to do it.