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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 (current.org)
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[โ€“] fuzzzerd@programming.dev 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

In the pre-AI days maybe, today 50TB is expensive due to increasing prices of all computer gear.

[โ€“] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

today 50TB is expensive

I don't believe you can go back more than five years and find per-TB rates under the current rate. Ten years is straight out. Twenty years is laughable.

Meanwhile, PBS has an annual operating budget of around $340M. They can afford to manage their own data, at the scale of tens of terrabytes. And I guarantee you that whatever they're paying Iron Mountain to host the data is multiples the cost of self-hosting.