This is soo a geeks way of saying that you read Playboy for the articles.
Comment from Fleshbot a porn blog
“How Do You Organize Your Porn?” NSFW Link
My collection at the moment is about 9TB, all stored on a pair of local file servers. About 8TB of that is video, but I have around 1TB of pictures as well.
I have incoming directories for unsorted material, but generally speaking, I try to break things up by the studio responsible (Girlfriend Films, say, vs. Danni.com vs. Playboy etc).
For materials that I can’t categorize that way, either because I don’t know the producer or because it’s a one-off sort of deal (amateur stuff), I go ahead and but the material in a directory of generic content (Straight sex vs. Tranny Zombie Midget porn) or by the name of the principle performer (Faye Valentine, Tera Patrick etc) under a /starring directory.
Video content mostly isn’t that bad. Images are nuts. When possible, I still try to categorize by model name, but if I don’t know it, or if she’s one of the billion or so Eastern European models, the images get filed by the studio or “branding” on the image (Femjoy, MetArt etc). Picture collections just stay in their own directories.
Videos are indexed by name on my servers. I wrote a simple little web app that lets me search the whole collection by file name or with keywords gathered in a text file with the same name as the video (I make those myself, but only if I need to).
I actually don’t have much difficulty remembering where I’ve put things, even through 9TB of data (that’s 150x more stuff than the guy with 60GB) and even without my little search tool. The whole project of constructing this system has really been an ongoing project to teach myself about Enterprise-level data storage and information retrieval. There’s a whole system of failsafes and backups that I’m not even talking about.