beep@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 hours agoPBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunctcurrent.orgexternal-linkmessage-square57linkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10file-text
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minus-squareWildmimic@anarchist.nexuslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 hours agoRefurbished Exos X22 drives with 24GB Capacity cost around 650€ these days, those 2k are the high end even nowadays.
minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 hours ago Refurbished If you’re a multi-billion dollar broadcast parent company doing long term storage for a 70-year archive catalog, you can spring for new. Maybe even go Big Fancy and get some RAID drives and tape backups, for extra redundancy.
Refurbished Exos X22 drives with 24GB Capacity cost around 650€ these days, those 2k are the high end even nowadays.
If you’re a multi-billion dollar broadcast parent company doing long term storage for a 70-year archive catalog, you can spring for new. Maybe even go Big Fancy and get some RAID drives and tape backups, for extra redundancy.