Sony's Preservation team, led by Garrett Fredley, is dedicated to safeguarding PlayStation's 30-year legacy through the PlayStation Studios Vault. This vast digital repository contains not only game builds and source code but also documentation, audio assets, and cultural artifacts connected to game development. Currently housing over 650 terabytes of data, the Vault aims to preserve everything related to PlayStation studio projects. Despite the challenges in file organization from various studios, tools like Vaultron assist in reading and retrieving thousands of discs. With a growing collection, the team anticipates surpassing its cloud storage capacity soon.
The Vault now houses game builds, source code and source art, but it has all kinds of other files, as well.
If it's adjacent to a PlayStation studio game, the team will store it in the Vault - even photos of developer teams that made the game.
He expects to quickly go over the 1 petabyte of cloud server storage that the team's current setup can handle.
The preservation team uses tools to help its work, including a robot called Vaultron that can read thousands of discs to find files.
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