Yuritopiaposadism [none/use name]@hexbear.net to technology@hexbear.netEnglish · 9 hours agoPBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunctwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square39fedilinkarrow-up179arrow-down10cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldtelevision@piefed.socialpcmasterrace@lemmy.worldhackernews@lemmy.bestiver.setechnology@lemmit.online
arrow-up179arrow-down1external-linkPBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunctwww.tomshardware.comYuritopiaposadism [none/use name]@hexbear.net to technology@hexbear.netEnglish · 9 hours agomessage-square39fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldtelevision@piefed.socialpcmasterrace@lemmy.worldhackernews@lemmy.bestiver.setechnology@lemmit.online
minus-squareKnilAdlez [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·edit-29 hours agoAll data will be lost eventually. Catastrophically or piecemeal.
minus-squareDort_Owl [they/them, any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·6 hours agoEven though everything dies you should still try to keep it alive the best you can regardless
minus-squareKnilAdlez [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·5 hours agoNo, sorry, I mean digital data. Like all these computer stuff. It is a severe problem that we don’t really have a way to backup out enormous amounts of data in a way that will last, say, 100 years. We’re currently living in a dark age.
minus-squarebalsoft@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 hour agoThere is absolutely tech that can store digital files for centuries or potentially millennia e.g. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/project-silicas-advances-in-glass-storage-technology/ It’s expensive to store and slow to read, so it can only be used as an archival format for the most important data, but it does exist nonetheless.
minus-squareIldsaye [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-22 hours agom-discs and blurays supposedly will last many centuries with data intact in a dry cave, but can’t store very much per disc.
minus-squareDort_Owl [they/them, any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 hours agoOh right muh bad
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
No, sorry, I mean digital data. Like all these computer stuff. It is a severe problem that we don’t really have a way to backup out enormous amounts of data in a way that will last, say, 100 years. We’re currently living in a dark age.
There is absolutely tech that can store digital files for centuries or potentially millennia e.g. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/project-silicas-advances-in-glass-storage-technology/
It’s expensive to store and slow to read, so it can only be used as an archival format for the most important data, but it does exist nonetheless.
m-discs and blurays supposedly will last many centuries with data intact in a dry cave, but can’t store very much per disc.
Oh right muh bad