That is a eulogy for plastic. Your Metal Gear Solid 2 disc is already oxidizing from the edge inward. Your Burnout 3 has micro-fractures from the PS2's violent spindle hub.
The Redump archive is the only copy of the PS2 library that will outlive the original media. ps2 redump archive
For the PS2, this means dumping the entire disc—not just the game data, but the error correction codes, the "wobble" of the lead-in track, the useless padding sectors. They preserve the physical fingerprint of the silver plastic. Let’s talk numbers. The PS2 Redump archive is currently hovering around 7+ terabytes . That is a eulogy for plastic