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.
  • haxboar [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Check out the Domesday Project

    The BBC set out to store a bunch of data for future generations. They thought that putting it on laser-discs would allow people to read it centuries from now.

    Within 25 years, it was basically unuseable.

    Modern humans are soooooo good at this.