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Not to discourage you, but I have nearly 10TB of apk files and I still think its not enough haha

I started with small, so you can

Good luck!

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Wow thats beyond massive

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How on earth do you have 10TB of APK files? Console game collections are that size and they can get pretty damn big in size per game.

Genuinely curious, that sounds like an amazing collection.

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Web scrapping, constantly updating and keeping old files, years and years of data collection

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Make sure to have different versions of Android on tap as well. Custom roms from XDS would be a good place to start.

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8 gigs isn’t really alot so I would say it’s worth it tbh

Also lots of older data is getting way harder to find now, so it might be useful for you in the future too

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A lot of old mobile games become lost media. Absolutely 100% worth it. I would honestly recommend you to see if you have some lost media in there

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I would say yes… for the following reasons:

- some mobile games get updated often, with the new versions being worse than older ones, or having content cut from them etc…

- then there are a lot of games that never gotten updated for a long time, and can no longer be installed and run on modern devices

- perhaps there are a lot of delisted games from the Google play store since 2016?

So I think this collection of yours does have some archival value! :)

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