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]

Not shown; Android Phone Games, Sega 32x ROMs, DOOM, Fallout 1, Morrowind, Super Mario Bros. Crossover, Katawa Shoujo

 

[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 :^/

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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.

I have a similar problem, but with flash drives filled with miscellaneous files. Some videos, a web game, and like 2 copies of Windows 7 disc images for 32 and 64 bit systems.

Post automatically merged: Yesterday at 7:17 PM

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.

I have a similar problem, but with flash drives filled with miscellaneous files. Some videos, a web game, and like 2 copies of Windows 7 disc images for 32 and 64 bit systems.

 

[qw90700]

I'll never rely on "oh I have internet anyway" so for me offline backups will always matter, especially when as time past source of files can go offline without any findable copy around the internet. I started hoarding e-books (back then like 1/4 of my 40 GB HDD was e-books lol), and then music (I bought an MP4 player with decent storage capacity to able to store the music I was keep downloading lol), and then Wikipedia (started as downloading interesting pages), and then roms, and then video game development and program development tools, tv series, movies, game modding tools, music development tools, some "offline dictionaries" from various languages, and then useful programs, modelling programs and model file converts, pictures of interesting stuff, tons of funny memes as in pictures and videos and all et cetera... As I lived for a long time I basically hoarded whatever seems "interesting and useful". Naturally I have even backup of backup of these that is stored in different places I can (so they either don't stay in same building or close parts of the same building) and here I am, I feel like downloaded most of the internet!!!! lolol

 

[JG5009]

I only do that for things that would be interesting to me or are more "unique" and could easily disappear of the web and have a practical use, things like rom hacks and patches, tools, some weird program here and there. (books and regular media as well)

I don't see much point in doing so for romsets and things that are more popular since many others already have hundreds of backups of those and once a site goes under another one with these same contents would appear, but less common games should fall in the "unique" category though.

 

[Bakuma1997]

i have 10000+ memes in my phone, so moch of them i have to keep them in Volume file each one of 5000 images

 

[JG5009]

But I do fear a day where the entire internet archive disappears, that place is constantly in the brink of falling apart.

 

[qw90700]

But I do fear a day where the entire internet archive disappears, that place is constantly in the brink of falling apart.

There are way more pressing matters to think about. What threatens the future of accessibility of pirated content is strict regulations with severe punishment for downloading anything illegal even without the owner of the product complaining. And then government can go full "white listed widespread intranet model" that imagine a system that every website you can enter is specifically allowed by government, which means only government-allowed connections are allowed to you to connect so anything else is unconnectable. You mat start a website that no one can enter because it's not allowed. Then it will mean no one who specifically doesn't bother related government agency that they wanna start a website within what is lawful cannot start a website no matter what. It will end piracy for good. Happy ending!!! lolol

However it wouldn't just end piracy, it would end many websites for many reasons. No one would risk their personal life just so you can watch anime for free, download e-books illegally, play video games without paying for it, et cetera. And the thing about involving your government to even run a website is something "unfair", and unless the website is really necessary not many people would bother with that. It would also come with a new tax model to pay your government to keep your website online.

Your website may be approved by your government, but it won't mean other countries' government has to care about your website so your website, unless demanded, would be unreachable to other countries in existence.

For a long time piracy is a global problem but why such a future of internet is likely because basically countries are done with how hard it is to prevent and detect crime on internet. Their cyber team is not enough, and you cannot make your society safe by just working via "we will deal with crime when we learn about it". You may never know what kind of fucked up human trafficking scam and shit going on on internet until hundreds of people dies or gone. Either way climate of future leans into such a restricted internet model. But before that they will use AIs and try to deal with VPNs to detect and prevent crime. Until they kill internet enjoy your freedom and download whatever you can yo!!! Companies and parents really pushing the world for such a model so shit is really serious!!! I don't even write "lol"!!!

 

[diet_orange]

I have a Toshiba 750gb External Hard Drive that I've had for ages that I mainly got because my old HP Compaq Presario Laptop had barely any storage at all (I think 128gbs?). Mainly used it to hoard comics, but then I branched out to TV shows and Movies when I still actively torrented (got a C&D from Disney after downloading "What We Do In The Shadows" season 1 and I pretty much stopped)

(Also have still sealed 2tb WD that I bought a couple of years ago that I've been meaning to transfer stuff over to. But it feels like such a headache doing so)

 

[thumbsdown]

But I do fear a day where the entire internet archive disappears, that place is constantly in the brink of falling apart.

They're a serious organization and the most resilient out there tbf, not that your fear is unjustified cus that's just the nature of things these days... But mostly for the stuff copyright does not apply and even the rare ones running the risk of becoming lost media, they take procedures to preserve from backing up til maintaining physical archives of media. Afaik, EFF (another solid organization) is their partner in regards of the legal frontier or at least have represented their interests in the past.

Edit: but of course this is not an excuse for not taking measures on an individual scale.

 

[IrkenElite]

All my console ODEs and flash carts have almost full romsets, def not the disc based ones. I have a lot saved but not really backed up. I need to invest in a NAS.