Any Data Hoarders here?

[CaptainToad]

There must be. Wanna' describe your setup or aspirations and what you're hoarding, preserving, etc.?

I'm tempted to start backing up my PS4 games to burned blu-ray discs as installable .PKG files (on a hacked console), but the cost of blu-ray discs compared to HDDs is still pretty unfavourable, at least as far as I can find. I have all of my ROMs backed up (except the PS4) on the SD/HDD in the console and then also on an external HDD. Would love to back that stuff up to BD-R too, but again, the cost. Looked into those LTO-10 tapes but damn, those are expensive and probably too complicated for myself to really use.

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

I own like 17 SD Cards full of episodes of things I like, irreplaceable home media and back-ups of back-ups of back-ups.

I may have a problem.

 

[χKai]

I possess thousands of illegal, bootleg, modifications, homebrews and aftermarket games.

 

[Pearly]

I just buy blu ray collections or 4k versions of anything I will rewatch more than once where I can. I let everything else go, lest I become a hoarder with a bazillion SD cards, hard drive or servers.

As for games, I have them all across my modded vita, ps3, 2ds and my ps5 and steam account, the ones I play and I liked at some point or another. Which is easily a few thousand games across my life if you include things I am planning to play or wanted to at some point.

There's definitely an anxiety to worrying about the loss of media and I do my best to preserve where I can of what I can, without it becoming an issue. I think I've managed it so far.

Just last night I bought a steam key for a Disney steam game collection for $7, as it had Tron evolution on it(long since delisted), I love that game and have it for my ps3, but after playing space marine 1 on my laptop, I needed to play Tron evolution on my laptop. The multiplatform games were weak on the ps3 and my laptop can make these games buttery smooth and crystal clear, like playing a 4K HD rerelease of the games, it can only really do this for games of that generation and older though, doesn't do much for more modern games.

 

[Lod 10]

EThese are the games I play a lot on emulators; I'm a collector of games, but since I don't have the money for retro games, they're way too expensive.

 

[χKai]

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[Lod 10]

Não mostrado; Jogos para celular Android, ROMs de Sega 32x, DOOM, Fallout 1, Morrowind, Crossover com Super Mario Bros., Katawa Shoujo
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UmA great selection of platform games that will make you say if you scroll up you'll see my

 

[Don Patch]

Thing about backups is you need to continue to backup your back ups. And then have redundant back ups of those. Media is volatile. And at the rate which newer manufactured things fail, the "every five years rule" is starting to feel like maybe not enough... and then it gets expensive.......

Started a while back ripping and storing games and movies and home videos from friends and family and have begun to realize the scope of the task not too long ago. Tis a biggin.

 

[Dawg19]

Yep, that's me. A bit of a story: I loved the Problem Solverz as a kid. But everybody else hated it, so there was little to no archival of the series. And recently, the only websites that host the series has started malfunctioning, and some episodes can't be played.

I'm really paranoid of things I like being lost, especially media. I recently bought a DVD collection of Ed Edd n' Eddy the Complete Series since I don't want that taken off the web.

I got my hands on a 2TB hard drive, and that where I rip my games and emulators. Digital may be forever, but without physical means to access it, digital can be easily lost :^/