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.
  • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Well… if it’s in a cloud provider with 3 copies locally and 3 more geo-redundant why would we need that?

    You’re right, but it is an easy fallacy to fall into.