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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 — public TV channel sues Iron Mountain data center, which hosts archi… (www.tomshardware.com)
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Full title: 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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[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

50 Tb is smaller than I expected

[–] NateNate60@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

It's possible that 50 TB is just the portion that they could not recover from other backups. But even then, prior to the 80s and 90s, the archives would have been physical film, and any digitised versions of the footage could have possibly been just simple MP4 (or other format) video files, which at 1080p 24 FPS would be barely 1 MB/s.