No in house backups? Sad.
this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2026
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"But optical discs are an old technology, everyone uses SSDs! Tape drives are even older technology! We need to SSD everything! SSD good! Oh no, why is that external SSD I haven't powered up for five years and kept important file on it for fast access suddenly died? It was supposed to be the optical CDs that flake off and oxidize in a year or two!"
Well, there are archival grade optical disks for exactly that purpose.
50TB isn't even that expensive on a HDD! Couple hundred to a thousand bucks! How much were they paying for that much storage?
I'll store PBS's content on my Plex server if they want. I'm sure I've got 50Tb free
This is PBS St Louis. So get ready to store hundreds of hours of this:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOBToc54vT5C1tdWJuXBFFD1eh7DCI4CR
I like the music but you're right, I probably won't watch 50Tb of talkback tv
That's some bullshit.
so invest in friggin local storage, wtf
I wonder if there’s something that can be done. Sure the company may be out of business, but their hard drives somewhere that still has the data on it, right?
Reading the article explains the article.
Iron Mountain says the data is currently safe, but that OSS owns the hardware that contains the data so they cannot hand it over. The lawsuit is for an injunction to prevent deletion and retrieve their data.
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