PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunct — public TV channel sues Iron Mountain data center, which hosts archival materials, to ensure preservation
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This wouldn't have been an issue if the organization bought a $1,000 NAS and populated it with a few hard drives.
  • cm0002OPEnglish
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    23 hours ago

    For LTO8 which can store ~12TB/Tape it’s about a 3k investment for used and cobbled togetherness for the drive and anything else, e.g. tape loaders or HBA cards.

    About 6-8k new and properly done.

    Then 50-80 per tape

    Just looked it up and there’s like 20 terabyte tape drives on NewEgg for about a hundred bucks.

    Tape? Where‽