Myrient dies today, but Minerva-archive.org rises in its place! Thank you to all of those who helped to keep this 390 TB treasure trove alive 🫡
I’m not worried about backups since all of Myrient content originated elsewhere. The true value of Myrient was how accessible and fast it was and that’s the hard part that this project hasn’t demonstrated yet.
For me the true value was updated romsets. So only with archiving todays content does not fix the problem for me. I need the future updates.
I have 48TB usable storage at home and it cost a lot to set up. Where do these guys store 390TB of data?! I’d love to keep a local copy.
Some people have access to corporate cast-offs, so there are some people sat on massive supplies of used gear… It all disappears somewhere eventually 🤭
Ah, good point. I had a few 1u servers from work but never got many disks. They always had to be destroyed with an actual certificate of destruction… Everything else was taken to recycling in my personal vehicle.
I can tell you right now that not everything that goes to recycler and gets a cert even gets wiped.
Someone, somewhere said it was, therefore, the box is ticked.
And this will remain so until there isn’t an economic imperative.
Tape, probably.
also note that the site https://minerva-archive.org/ isn’t quite there yet as I imagine it’ll take time to get fully going so don’t get hung up if you can’t search/browse for anything.
What’s the 0.1% that wasn’t backed up?
Duke Nukem Forever
Not so forever now
Duke Nukem Forawhile
This comment made my day
Take some Lemmy gold
I actually downloaded the PS3 version of DNF off Myrient so I can vouch that’s not it 👀
Oh well
I thoroughly appreciate the work done here, both by Myrient and by Minerva!
Hosted on cloudflare, a company known for being hostile to this type of media. I don’t have an alternative, though…
Edit. Lol! The DMCA information page is pure gold!
Yeah it is!
things like this give me hope for the future, if we can come together and preserve our cultural legacy like this - what else can we come together and do?
Wanted to help but there was a waitlist or something
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@Naho_Zako That’s great but you can only download the files one at a time.
Is there a way to download a full set ?
