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
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This wouldn't have been an issue if the organization bought a $1,000 NAS and populated it with a few hard drives.
  • Chana [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    22 hours ago

    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!?”