Yep, that's right! At the time of this post BetaArchive reports the archive to be 2002.77GB !

The latest release broke the 2TB (that's over 2000GB, 2 million MB people!) limit. BetaArchive is still going strong and there seem to be no end to the uploads .

A little bit of trivia:

• When the redesign of the FTP started the total archive size was 45.5GB.
• It takes on average about 15 minutes to prepare each file. Large files take longer (game betas etc), as well as batches of small files (Macintosh classic OS:es etc).
• There's an average of 20 steps to prepare a release. Some takes a lot more depending on how hard it is to identify and clean up the release. See my general flowchart here.
• At the time of writing, Abandonware uses: ~253GB, Betas uses: ~1460GB and remaining categories uses: ~311GB.
• At the time of writing, Operating systems uses: ~1113GB, Games uses: ~356GB, Applications uses: ~159GB and remaining categories uses: ~394GB.
• Smallest release: Boogie Demo (prototype) (2.3KB)
• Largest release: Microsoft Windows Essential Business Server 2008 (''Centro'' 6.0.5496.11) (x64 rc0) [Chinese] (11.5GB)

Thanks goes out to all the members of this forum that has taken their time to find and release all the precious betas and abandonwares. This was all possible because of you .

Yes, Thank you mrpijey. And then I will upload the rare Mac OS betas at time.

Yay Congratulations BetaArchive

Here to more soon...

Add: And big "Thank You" goes to you mrpijey for your hard works toward having great FTP Server. Rarely we can find someone who has his life and works for the benefit of other.

Congrats

Great job!

Congratz! Thanks mrpijey for your hard work!

Congratulations BetaArchive and of course to Andy and mrpijey for all their hard work!

Congratulations,we are becoming the worlds biggest beta and abandonware website.

I think we are the world's biggest beta/abandonware repository.

But we are getting bigger with every release

I remember, was it 1.5 Tb we reached and were celebrating. Well, all I can say is I couldn't download the entire collection if I tried (no hard drive's that big and not enough bandwidth).

Great news

Wow! Now imagine backing that up onto floppy disks.

@linuxlove
That would be funny if we resort to putting on Floppy Disks. Now try backing it up onto hard drives since the 1960s, how big would the room have to be for the amount of hard drives to hold all of this stuff..

Nice! 2 Tb of data is a lot if you think about it in terms of how much files is on the FTP. BA is the best!

Cheers mrpijey ! I'd buy you a beer but I doubt I can mail it, so here's what I can afford :


@Cats869
Nah, Audio Cassettes are way funnier. You can even listen to the sound of betas !


EDIT:

Unbeknownst to anyone, I've secretly backed-up the entire server on floppy disks !

You know what, I think I have that many unused floppy disks well, not really, more than a few anyway

Actually 2 097 152 floppy disks if each one is a megabyte

Under the FAT filesystem, HD floppies format to about 1.37MB, so 2,000,000 / 1.37

That if you used 1.44MB. What about 180KB Floppy Discs lol

@Cats869: loooooool. You remind me when I have listened once to BASIC Program recorded on Casette. Imagine its sound
The casette was from ZX+ Spectrum Personal Computer from 1990. I still have the casette, and will post picture of it soon.

ripey, Do you need more storage.. i have a couple of 2tb disks i might could sponsor

We have about 500GB free at the moment so we're all good for now

Allright .. Let me know.. I have 5 x 2tb that us going on blocket soon

Remember you can keep an eye on our storage status on the server info page.