GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world to Fuck AI@lemmy.world · 6 days ago390TB video game archive being taken offline due to skyrocketing RAM, SSD, and hard drive prices — AI-driven supply squeeze results in closure of one of the largest online video game archiveswww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square26fedilinkarrow-up1310arrow-down12cross-posted to: retrogaming@lemmy.worldretrogaming@lemmy.worlddatahoarder@lemmy.world
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minus-squarecurbstickle@anarchist.nexuslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·6 days agoNot 390TB, but I can easily spare a few TBs on my NASs. I’m sure there are enough others with some TB they can toss at torrents, enough to chunk it out and have plenty of seeders to cover all of it.
minus-squareosaerisxero@kbin.melroy.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up14·6 days agoSame, i could spend 5-10 TB for a while holding a chunk. Actually, wasn’t there some distributed storage platform using torrents as a backbone a while back or did I hallucinate that?
minus-squarecurbstickle@anarchist.nexuslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·6 days agoBTFS - bit torrent file system. Still getting worked on afaik
Not 390TB, but I can easily spare a few TBs on my NASs.
I’m sure there are enough others with some TB they can toss at torrents, enough to chunk it out and have plenty of seeders to cover all of it.
Same, i could spend 5-10 TB for a while holding a chunk.
Actually, wasn’t there some distributed storage platform using torrents as a backbone a while back or did I hallucinate that?
BTFS - bit torrent file system. Still getting worked on afaik