in mass effect 2 one of the salarian npcs says something like "you can never have enough redundancy with digital storage" and it's shaped the the way i use computers to this day

You just know some clueless c suite chucklehead got hoodwinked by a smooth sales presentation and FOMO over “the cloud is the future” into signing this contract.

I wish the final paragraph was the first paragraph.

It's not clear if the channel has backups of its data, but based on its determination, we suspect not. This is strange, though, especially for a major organization, as one can easily purchase a six-bay NAS on Amazon and populate it with the best HDDs. This also goes against the 3-2-1 backup rule, which says you should keep three copies of your files stored in two different mediums, with one of them running offsite. Hopefully Nine PBS will implement a better backup system once it regains access to its data. And at least there's still a chance — it's not like the fire that the South Korean government experienced last year, which saw 858TB of data go up in smoke.

Stone tablets with dick drawings survived 10000 years but these chucklefucks can't preserve our history for 100

Never trust a cloud

local network attached storage servers stay winning.

70 years of television is not 50tb. 50 tb is like how much storage a typical reddit nerd has.

Let's say 1 hour is 1 GB. It's not, 1 hour at 1080p is like 5 GB at least, but let's imagine.

50,000 hours is ~6 years. Did PBS only produce 6 years of video over a 50 year period?

50tb is just not that much storage for a television channel. The older stuff probably also is recorded on film or physical media.

The total amount of video that PBS has is probably in the PETABYTES, not terabytes.

lmaoooooo fucking morons not even keeping a local archive of their own works? that's pleb shit

All data will be lost eventually. Catastrophically or piecemeal.

public TV channel sues Iron Mountain data center, which hosts archival materials, to ensure preservation

Ahhh yes suing the business that's gone bankrupt I'm sure that always works.

Honestly it's just funny... the empire that thrives off of, and is built upon erasing and defacing other peoples' histories, cultures, etc. is also now fumbling with their own (though it's not like as if their "history" and culture as they try to preserve it isn't almost entirely made of shameless lies). Self-inflicted "karmic justice," if not even 1/1,000,000th of what they have done to others- not that anyone else even wants to do to the west what they do to the rest of the world, they are their own worst enemies, and their only true enemies.

The rest of the world, and those suppressed groups within the core whose histories are actually precious to them- those who the US tried to erase- will live on, and the only thing the rest of the world really needs to remember of the empire is its hatefulness and treachery, hopefully even their descendants will disown them and base their identities on rejecting and being better than them.

...perhaps there's a bit more spite to my usual schtick from just seeing some typical racist/"colonialism was good actually" bullshit. But it's not like any of what I said is incorrect either, I'd love to be proven wrong in a positive sense but this always works too.

When the average homelab hobbyist has a better backup strategy than a major broadcaster.

they scraped it for AI and then sold the hard drives

Fucking enraging

Surely a cloud storage provider like this would offsite backups on tape, right?