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390TB 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 archives (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] errer@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Out of curiosity, what games take up so much space? I’m assuming modern ones.

You can easily downloaded a torrent of all games before the CD era and it’ll fit nicely in a few TB.

[–] DarkSirrush@piefed.ca 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They have every available variant of every game, so there are anywhere between 2-10 copies of the same game for each console it was released on.

[–] BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Plus all the original Xbox games I've seen there are raw disk dumps, they have to be converted to xiso and that shaves off several GB per disk when completed.

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 8 points 4 days ago

My PS2 archive is around 2,9TB compressed, so "modern" is relative. PS3/XboxOne is a multitude of that.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 6 points 4 days ago

Shit, you could probably fit everything before the DVD era on a single drive.