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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 (current.org)
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1332594/pbs-broadcaster-loses-access-to-50tb-of-data-comprising-70-years-of-tv-history-after-con

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[–] 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

50T isn't even that much data anymore. You're talking about maybe $2k in hard drives.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    Refurbished Exos X22 drives with 24GB Capacity cost around 650€ these days, those 2k are the high end even nowadays.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 days ago

    Refurbished

    If you're a multi-billion dollar broadcast parent company doing long term storage for a 70-year archive catalog, you can spring for new. Maybe even go Big Fancy and get some RAID drives and tape backups, for extra redundancy.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    In the pre-AI days maybe, today 50TB is expensive due to increasing prices of all computer gear.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 days ago*

    today 50TB is expensive

    I don't believe you can go back more than five years and find per-TB rates under the current rate. Ten years is straight out. Twenty years is laughable.

    Meanwhile, PBS has an annual operating budget of around $340M. They can afford to manage their own data, at the scale of tens of terrabytes. And I guarantee you that whatever they're paying Iron Mountain to host the data is multiples the cost of self-hosting.

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