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.
  • dead [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    7 hours ago

    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.

    https://archive.is/suZz6

    • Horse {they/them}@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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      4 hours ago

      the bbc archive is across multiple channels that almost exclusively produce original programming

      from what i understand, 9 pbs is a local news channel that mostly airs syndicated shows