▲ 554 ▼ PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunct (current.org) submitted 2 days ago by beep@piefed.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 117 comments fedilink hide all child comments 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
[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 child) No in house backups? Sad. permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 child) "But optical discs are an old technology, everyone uses SSDs! Tape drives are even older technology! We need to SSD everything! SSD good! Oh no, why is that external SSD I haven't powered up for five years and kept important file on it for fast access suddenly died? It was supposed to be the optical CDs that flake off and oxidize in a year or two!" permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago Well, there are archival grade optical disks for exactly that purpose. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 child) "But optical discs are an old technology, everyone uses SSDs! Tape drives are even older technology! We need to SSD everything! SSD good! Oh no, why is that external SSD I haven't powered up for five years and kept important file on it for fast access suddenly died? It was supposed to be the optical CDs that flake off and oxidize in a year or two!" permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago Well, there are archival grade optical disks for exactly that purpose. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago Well, there are archival grade optical disks for exactly that purpose. permalink fedilink source parent