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’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.
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 🤭
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.
