Full title: 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
Full title: 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
Well, before 2026 it was. Now prices are bonkers and PBS is being defunded.
Even at current prices it’s $3k tops.
I bought four 12TB drives in 2023 for about $150 each.
Now they’re roughly $300-600. It’s awful for consumers, but not for a company or nonprofit with decades of data.