The main reason people are buying these right now is because LLMs need to train on yuge data sets, and there isn't a great alternative for storing the world's largest datasets.

Hard drive manufacturers got fucked by all of this because they had to find ways to make the drives bigger. They've all taken slightly different approaches, but the HGST one is kinda nuts because in order to work the machines all have to operate in a helium chamber. There's actual helium in your computer.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5663188&forum_id=2#48547721)

There are like 12 "packs" that took forever to download. I didn't even try to download the last one, which was every switch game, but I ran out of room on my PC. The xbox 360 library is shitty. The modern Windows games are fucking great though (also has older MS DOS and Scumm PC games). PS3 is ok, Wii U collection great.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5663188&forum_id=2#48552740)

EDIT: PS4 now:

https://lutris.net/games/platform/80

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5663188&forum_id=2#48553048)

I don't know the thing you linked to but I'm sure its cool too.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5663188&forum_id=2#48553134)

I'm waiting for someone to make a VM that can host this shit remotely. Not even sure how that would work but these emulators don't need a ton of resources. I can install servers for all these online multiplayer games I've never heard of, but can't find one that serves up old video games

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5663188&forum_id=2#48553163)

I also have an old raspberry pi 5 that I stuck a batocera build from arcade punks that runs everything up through N64 really well. Its cool - the batocera is the entire OS so it boots straight into the gaming front end. Now I just use the Pi as an arcade machine, my favorites list is like 800 games. The presentation on these front ends is really awesome now - has graphics of the game and logo and clips of gameplay for every game you scroll through. When I get a house I am going to make a kind of stand up arcade cabinet for this and stick a spare TV to make it like a real arcade.

The big 9tb build I got has all of this shit too plus some more modern stuff and some steam, it will go next to my xbox under my tv. It uses retrobat, which is great and has similar front end as batocera, without having to etch the image to your hard drive etc like batocera. Much easier to add games too. it is a mini pc but also has a gpu unlike most mini pcs hhttps://www.newegg.com/p/2SW-002G-000D3

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5663188&forum_id=2#48553203)

https://www.gmktec.com/products/amd-ryzen-7-5825u-mini-pc-nucbox-m5-plus

I considered a more powerful CPU, but the 8 cores on that chip are no joke. The "5" at the end tells you it was binned and basically flawless. The GPU is a generation older than yours, but I'm only using it to run Unraid and a few VMs. DDR4 RAM is also cheaper, and it has two 2.5Gbe NICs that work, not the busted i255-v controllers they put in some of these mini PCs.

My main server runs Proxmox with an Intel ARC graphics card that I can pass through to VMs. I plan to add a RTX 4070 to it, but only to run LLMs. I think the ARC will pwn any of these retro games without me having to fuck with Nvidia drivers. But it's a headless server, so until someone puts Batocera or whatever in a turnkey container I can't do what I'm thinking about.

EDIT: it's experimental but there's QEMU version:

https://wiki.batocera.org/run_batocera_in_vm

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5663188&forum_id=2#48553463)

I don't know how to use those newsgroups things but apparently it works a little better there.

And you have to make an account on arcadepunks

otherwise its straight up 18000000. I got a dedicated mini PC (bought with credit card points) and loaded it with 9tb of SSD specifically for this arcade punks build. It was worth every penny.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5663188&forum_id=2#48553143)