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Why not just move it to torrents?
Because individuals can't afford 390 tb of storage in 2026 either.
I mean, I kind of figure they would split it up into chunks. That's how Anna's archive works I think.
I'm not saying that's wrong, but it sounds like you're not hosting it. And I'm not either (can't spare the space).
I'm just impressed by how much of the tech world shrugs off these horrible losses of critical infrastructure as "well, someone somewhere will fix it." When projects get shut down "someone will pick it up and continue it".
The good will and resources of underappreciated people are not an infinite resource we can rely on to keep making miracles happen for nothing, especially as the number of people with CAPACITY and skill to spare for good will keeps getting eaten away by our dystopia. And we're not that far away from "I'd like to run a box to host 10 Tb of Anna's Archive. The hardware will cost $4000 and the electricity per month will cost another $400." At some point we either stop the attack on our futures, or accept that it's over.
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
I've got ~20TB I could spare forever, and ~80TB I could spare temporarily. I could also hunt down a few of my unused 8 and 16TB drives as well, but those don't have the redundancy of the other volumes. I bought a fresh batch of drives for my media collection to expand into last year, so I paid normal prices for these drives
Ah, we found the source for the ssd shortage...
Nah, I'm too poor for SSDs, i use spinning rust for media at this scale
Realistically, it would likely be broken up into smaller chunks. For instance, each console could be broken up and sorted by name, if it’s too large for a single torrent.
Individuals may not be able to afford the 390TB of storage for the entire thing… But plenty of people could spare a few MB to seed the “NES” section, or 398GB to seed the “PSX” section. How do I know? Because I have 398GB of PSX games being seeded on my NAS. It’s the entire PSX collection. And since no more PSX games are getting released, the torrent has been alive for literal years now. From that original 398GB, I have a ratio of over 300. That’s almost 120TB of upload traffic, purely from a PSX torrent.
And for the more modern systems, (which take exponentially more storage), those could be broken apart into more manageable chunks. For instance, the entire Xbox 360 collection is anywhere from 7-21TB, depending on how it is stored. Maybe the 7TB would be palatable, but it could even be broken apart further. For instance, maybe it could be broken into A-G, H-M, and N-Z (or whatever most evenly splits the collection into three separate torrents) to encourage more seeders.