beep@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoPBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunctcurrent.orgexternal-linkmessage-square117linkfedilinkarrow-up1558arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up1555arrow-down1external-linkPBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunctcurrent.orgbeep@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square117linkfedilinkfile-text
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minus-squareTheoriginalthon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up51arrow-down2·3 days ago15x8TB drives gives you about 72TB in raidz2, for about £4k in disks, add a server for say £2k So by not spending £6k they lost everything, they spent $19million on IT in 2025 Someone fucked up
minus-squareBillCheddar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·3 days agoA tiny PBS office in St Louis has a $19 million/year IT budget? I really doubt that.
minus-squareTheoriginalthon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 days agoI may have taken the whole PBS accounts, I’m not from the US
minus-squaremrgoosmoos@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down2·3 days agoyou forgot the $10K in labour to handle the backups changes everything on that $19M budget!
minus-squaretakeda@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoThat’s budget for the whole network, this happened to a small local station.
15x8TB drives gives you about 72TB in raidz2, for about £4k in disks, add a server for say £2k
So by not spending £6k they lost everything, they spent $19million on IT in 2025
Someone fucked up
A tiny PBS office in St Louis has a $19 million/year IT budget? I really doubt that.
I may have taken the whole PBS accounts, I’m not from the US
you forgot the $10K in labour to handle the backups
changes everything on that $19M budget!
That’s budget for the whole network, this happened to a small local station.