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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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[–] 49 points 2 days ago (2 children)

15x8TB drives gives you about 72TB in raidz2, for about £4k in disks, add a server for say £2k

So by not spending £6k they lost everything, they spent $19million on IT in 2025

Someone fucked up

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