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.
  • ohulancutash@feddit.ukEnglish
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    3 days ago

    None of it is solely funded by CPB. This is Nine PBS not PBS. 50TB is very low for broadcast footage so it’s likely a small handful of local shows, and a partial archive at that. For context, a 2000s consumer camcorder tape was 17GB per hour.

    • PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      17 hours ago

      Woah that is some wild context. So wait does that mean it’d take 17GB to digitally store an hour’s worth of that footage…“faithfully”?

      Not trying to paint you into some “gotcha!” corner or anything weird, ya just made me curious.

      I also just find weird and tortured units of measure fun, so “magnetic tape, ya know, the 17GB/hr kind” really tickles me.