Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn8h0nPoxM8

Myrient dies today, but Minerva-archive.org rises in its place! Thank you to all of those who helped to keep this 390 TB treasure trove alive 🫡

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.

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.

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.

Tape, probably.

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 🤭

What's the 0.1% that wasn't backed up?

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.

Duke Nukem Forever

Not so forever now

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.

This comment made my day

Take some Lemmy gold

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.

Probably non-games and repeated games

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.

I actually downloaded the PS3 version of DNF off Myrient so I can vouch that’s not it 👀

Wanted to help but there was a waitlist or something

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.

Oh well

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!

Duke Nukem Forawhile

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.

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?

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.

https://www.wired.com/2009/12/fail-duke-nukem/

That's wild, thanks for sharing

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.

Yeah it is!

@Naho_Zako That's great but you can only download the files one at a time.Is there a way to download a full set ?