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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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[–] BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month 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.