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PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunct (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 5 points 2 months ago* (5 children)

m-discs and blurays supposedly will last many centuries with data intact in a dry cave, but can't store very much per disc.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    blurays supposedly will last many centuries

    My toddler has entered the chat

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, storage capacity is a big part of the issue. We can carve data into stone, but not a lot.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    There was an announcement some months back that a very durable, very high capacity data crystal had been made in a lab, but I can't comment on the prospects for such tech becoming widely accessible.

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