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Yuritopiaposadism [none/use name]@hexbear.net to technology@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 month ago

PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunct

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PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunct

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PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunct — public TV channel sues Iron Mountain data center, which hosts archival materials, to ensure preservation
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This wouldn't have been an issue if the organization bought a $1,000 NAS and populated it with a few hard drives.
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    m-discs and blurays supposedly will last many centuries with data intact in a dry cave, but can’t store very much per disc.

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      blurays supposedly will last many centuries

      My toddler has entered the chat

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        TBF most storage media are weak to toddler

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          I’ve found the most resilient storage format is board books and even they take a beating after a while

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      Yeah, storage capacity is a big part of the issue. We can carve data into stone, but not a lot.

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        There was an announcement some months back that a very durable, very high capacity data crystal had been made in a lab, but I can’t comment on the prospects for such tech becoming widely accessible.

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