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in mass effect 2 one of the salarian npcs says something like “you can never have enough redundancy with digital storage” and it’s shaped the the way i use computers to this day
It’s also important for space travel and is why I find the idea of a private company in charge of space exploration very silly
70 years of television is not 50tb. 50 tb is like how much storage a typical reddit nerd has.
Let’s say 1 hour is 1 GB. It’s not, 1 hour at 1080p is like 5 GB at least, but let’s imagine.
50,000 hours is ~6 years. Did PBS only produce 6 years of video over a 50 year period?
50tb is just not that much storage for a television channel. The older stuff probably also is recorded on film or physical media.
The total amount of video that PBS has is probably in the PETABYTES, not terabytes.
probably compressed fam and the old shit won’t be hd
the old shit won’t be hd
I can tell that you were born after 9/11 based on this comment. That’s not how anything works. Old shit was filmed on film, it is made HD by scanning the film. Old shit doesn’t have smaller file sizes.
Do you ever wonder why you can buy 1960s movies on bluray in 1080p? It’s because old films were still HD, they were stored on analog on film reels. Old shit is made digital recently by scanning the film reels.
Could be low quality original archives that were then digitized at like 480p, depending on when they made the archive.
Amazon published an article about how they made a cloud backup of BBC archives, UK tv channel. The article says that 100 years of BBC content amounted to 25 petabytes of storage (~25000 TB). I would think that PBS archives would need a similar amount of storage.
Videos with the sizes per hour mentioned by OP are already highly compressed.
Stone tablets with dick drawings survived 10000 years but these chucklefucks can’t preserve our history for 100
Unfortunately we did in fact lose the vast majority of dick drawings made 10,000 years ago and what has survived did so through mere chance. Not much has changed really.
We probably shouldn’t store all our dick drawings in one place
But joking aside we should be better at this by now. Passing down knowledge that came before us is pretty damn important to science and human advancement. Unless we want every every generation to have to rediscover what germs are and stuff.
I wish the final paragraph was the first paragraph.
It’s not clear if the channel has backups of its data, but based on its determination, we suspect not. This is strange, though, especially for a major organization, as one can easily purchase a six-bay NAS on Amazon and populate it with the best HDDs. This also goes against the 3-2-1 backup rule, which says you should keep three copies of your files stored in two different mediums, with one of them running offsite. Hopefully Nine PBS will implement a better backup system once it regains access to its data. And at least there’s still a chance — it’s not like the fire that the South Korean government experienced last year, which saw 858TB of data go up in smoke.
You just know some clueless c suite chucklehead got hoodwinked by a smooth sales presentation and FOMO over “the cloud is the future” into signing this contract.
Backups are always seen as inefficiencies by the bean counters. “What, you mean we have to pay 3X as much for storage for no reason!?”
the reality is that the could is the future. as in “i could have done better smh”
Not just that, but the C suite probably ignored warnings of that vendor going defunct and didn’t copy/migrate/backup the data.
they scraped it for AI and then sold the hard drives
Never trust a cloud
All data will be lost eventually. Catastrophically or piecemeal.
Even though everything dies you should still try to keep it alive the best you can regardless
Fucking enraging
