How do you archive your anime?

[Ryllharu]

I have about 200 gigs of space solely for keeping the anime on my hard drives, but eventually, even those fill up. After a series has sat completed on my hard drives for a while (a little over a year), I burn them to DVDs. I'd like to use dual-layer, but they're just not economical. A spindel of 50 DVD+Rs on sale at Staples for $19.95 are hard to beat.

DVDs are permanent (for the most part) and clear up space in the most external way possible. If you want to watch the series again, just copy them back to the HD.

Ideally, what I would want is a Removable HD rack. Then you can have huge amounts of anime in a swappable set of 250 gig drives. Label them by year...*drools*

[kooshi]

DVD-Rs are the way to go for me. I don't download much anime, so I haven't bought a new spindle of DVDs for a very LONG time now.

[xDarkMaster]

Currently I am keeping everything on my 300 GB hard drive. However, soon I will get a new DVD burner and archive them all on DVDs to clear up some space.

[RyougaZell]

Since I have over 300 gigs of anime, and only a 120 gig hdd I burn them on DVD.

[complich8]

1.1TB Fileserver. Delete things that I can't realistically see myself ever watching again.

Used to burn cds, but that got old after 3 binders or so worth. If I'm going to collect anime for the long-term, it's going to be commercial dvds, in boxsets, preferably at fairly heavy discounts.

[Board of Command]

I store good series on DVDs, if they fit that is. If they don't, too bad. I wish Shinsen would encoded smaller versions of Ergo Proxy

Everything else gets the instant Shift+Delete+Enter

[Kraco]

DVDRs. I have 120 GBs of space of my second HD reserved for anime, but I prefer to keep it at most 50% filled (and so I never need to defrag it). And partly because of that I burn series right when they are finished, or half finished (like 13 and 13 episodes of a 26 episodes series). So, I don't actually archive any series on HD at all. They are all just waiting for to be burned.

And of course I have some movies and series as commercial DVDs.

[mage]

I have a 250gb and store incomplete series/ones im watching on my HD and burn the rest on dvds.

[Lucifus]

I have now killed 3 harddrives.........somehow.....

I've only got one 250 GB HD left. I don't really keep my anime.....on the count that I can dl the entire series overnight and that it would cost a pretty penny to store em all. I keep like all the eps of the current anime I'm watching, and archive like One Piece but thats it.

[el_boss]

I watch it, then I delete it. I'll just download it again if I ever would get the urge to rewatch a show. Which is very unlikely.

[Sandldan]

Currently have around 500gb of hard drive storage, recently added 300 more so guess i'll be fine for a little while atleast.
Some series gets deleted instantly after i've watched them and i just leave some to be dealt with later. I always had to start deleting something when i wanted to download something new and now in the end only the ones i didnt want to delete remains... so i had to buy a new HD.
But many series also gets archived on DVD's, many because of my lazy friends that rather burn them from me than download it themselves.

[kAi]

Well, my anime and manga usually stay on the HDD, two HDDs with 200GB of space, until that is close to full and then I burn it to DVD.