Yuritopiaposadism [none/use name]@hexbear.net to technology@hexbear.netEnglish · 11 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-square45fedilinkarrow-up196arrow-down10cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldtelevision@piefed.socialpcmasterrace@lemmy.worldhackernews@lemmy.bestiver.setechnology@lemmit.online
arrow-up196arrow-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 · 11 hours agomessage-square45fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldtelevision@piefed.socialpcmasterrace@lemmy.worldhackernews@lemmy.bestiver.setechnology@lemmit.online
minus-squareKnilAdlez [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·7 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-up2·3 hours 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-up2·edit-24 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-squareMeetMeAtTheMovies [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·34 minutes ago blurays supposedly will last many centuries My toddler has entered the chat
minus-squareDort_Owl [they/them, any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 hours agoOh right muh bad
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.
My toddler has entered the chat
Oh right muh bad