I’m not worried about backups since all of Myrient content originated elsewhere. The true value of Myrient was how accessible and fast it was and that’s the hard part that this project hasn’t demonstrated yet.
this post was submitted on 31 Mar 2026
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For me the true value was updated romsets. So only with archiving todays content does not fix the problem for me. I need the future updates.
I have 48TB usable storage at home and it cost a lot to set up. Where do these guys store 390TB of data?! I'd love to keep a local copy.
Some people have access to corporate cast-offs, so there are some people sat on massive supplies of used gear.. It all disappears somewhere eventually 🤭
Ah, good point. I had a few 1u servers from work but never got many disks. They always had to be destroyed with an actual certificate of destruction... Everything else was taken to recycling in my personal vehicle.
I can tell you right now that not everything that goes to recycler and gets a cert even gets wiped.
Someone, somewhere said it was, therefore, the box is ticked.
And this will remain so until there isn't an economic imperative.
i used to work for a company with sensitive data. disks that did get a certificate, where wiped by our guys first. then a truck from the recycling/destruction company would arrive and disks get shredded 1 at a time. the whole setup was in a way, that you could observe the disks being torn into pieces, somewhat bigger than sawdust.
two of our IT guys, two of the guys doing the destroying and some C-Suit would have to sign for every disk they observed being torn to pieces. if you do want to make sure your data is gone, there are ways to do it. admittedly, this way is a bit of a stunt. but it was fun being paid for observing bits of metal being reduced to pieces.
So, I present my paradox: If the data was sensitive, it wouldn't be disposed of properly. If the data is irrelevant or encrypted at rest, the disks are disposed of unneccisarilly.
I bet what you were handling wasn't -that- comparatively sensitive, so its a whole bunch of human effort and material being pulverised for no reason.
Because I can ensure you that the people who should -always- be that thorough are not. Especially right now. There's all sorts of drives that shouldn't be out in the wild, out in the wild.
I'm a little surprised there isn't buyers for liberated disks (and their data) from ASEAN datacenters.
Additionally, if an attacker wanted to steal your business data, they'd be your contracted, approved disposal partner already.
what would be your way of disposing that sensitive data?
not arguing that there are disks beind disposed inproperly.
if its encrypted at rest, it doesn't need it.
Until that encryption is broken. Maybe not today, or tomorrow, or next week, or next month.
But if the business is paying the money to have the disks shredded, then there’s probably a good reason to do so. I wouldn’t want to find out that my bank sold their old (server) drives to the public.
The problem is is that I severely doubt that there's anything of value on it. Have you any idea how many disks are full of banal static?
And how many disks aren’t full of banal static?
Should we recycle drives? Abso-fucking-lately; make the AI data centers run on refurbed drives.
for me and you, that is probably enough.
but you always need to know who or what is a potential threat to you. in the end it is just about making it enough of a pain for whoever might be interested in your data, so it is not worthwhile to them. having to break out forensic tools - just to get encrypted data, is probably painful enough for most. make them play puzzles with metal and glass shards will for sure open some wounds to pour salt on.
cremating disks is a thing for hacker collectives. termite is an extremely interesting thing to observe. but i am pretty sure there are more practical reasons, why people do that.
That's wild, thanks for sharing
Tape, probably.
also note that the site https://minerva-archive.org/ isn't quite there yet as I imagine it'll take time to get fully going so don't get hung up if you can't search/browse for anything.
I thoroughly appreciate the work done here, both by Myrient and by Minerva!
Hosted on cloudflare, a company known for being hostile to this type of media. I don't have an alternative, though...
Edit. Lol! The DMCA information page is pure gold!
things like this give me hope for the future, if we can come together and preserve our cultural legacy like this - what else can we come together and do?
What's the 0.1% that wasn't backed up?
Duke Nukem Forever
Not so forever now
Duke Nukem Forawhile
I actually downloaded the PS3 version of DNF off Myrient so I can vouch that’s not it 👀
Oh well
Probably non-games and repeated games
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