beep@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 hours agoPBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunctcurrent.orgexternal-linkmessage-square90fedilinkarrow-up1429arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: technology@hexbear.nethackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
arrow-up1429arrow-down1external-linkPBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunctcurrent.orgbeep@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 hours agomessage-square90fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: technology@hexbear.nethackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
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minus-squareTheoriginalthon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up36arrow-down2·11 hours ago15x8TB 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
minus-squareBillCheddar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·5 hours agoA tiny PBS office in St Louis has a $19 million/year IT budget? I really doubt that.
minus-squaremrgoosmoos@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·8 hours agoyou forgot the $10K in labour to handle the backups changes everything on that $19M budget!
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
A tiny PBS office in St Louis has a $19 million/year IT budget? I really doubt that.
you forgot the $10K in labour to handle the backups
changes everything on that $19M budget!