beep@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoPBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunctcurrent.orgexternal-linkmessage-square117linkfedilinkarrow-up1553arrow-down12file-text
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minus-squareelucubra@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 day ago50TB is not a lot, it’s actually a capacity that some homelabers and data hoarders have or surpass.
minus-squaregrrgyle@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·21 hours agoIt’s a lot if you were trying to source the hardware with today’s process, but 5 years ago that would be nothing to an organisation.
minus-squareRamRabbit@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·18 hours agoIt’s a 4-digit number, even today, to build a 50tb local backup box. Absolutely nothing to a company. They were simply lazy and didn’t do the bare minimum.
minus-squareHugeNerd@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 hours agoOr they were sold a bill of goods by a cloud vendor.
50TB is not a lot, it’s actually a capacity that some homelabers and data hoarders have or surpass.
It’s a lot if you were trying to source the hardware with today’s process, but 5 years ago that would be nothing to an organisation.
It’s a 4-digit number, even today, to build a 50tb local backup box. Absolutely nothing to a company. They were simply lazy and didn’t do the bare minimum.
Or they were sold a bill of goods by a cloud vendor.