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It's funny to me that entire companies exist that have a fraction of storage that I personally have in a datacenter on flash let alone in total. 50 TiB is so li

by arjie 2mo ago

It's funny to me that entire companies exist that have a fraction of storage that I personally have in a datacenter on flash let alone in total. 50 TiB is so little. It's like $7k annually on R2 and under a thousand bucks on S3 Glacier Deep Archive. I suppose it's just whoever knew the cousin of whoever at whatever position of authority but it's funny how just using deep glacier means he would have such insane margins over paying Iron Mountain.

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Melatonic 2mo ago
Your assuming it's all digital and can be stored on drives. It might be a large amount of physical film reel, magnetic tape, and tons of mixed legacy formats
- gpm 2mo ago
  It's reported in bytes - thus it's all digital. It's a "cloud storage vendor" - thus it's all digital. Nine PBS might well have non-digital data, but it's clearly not the data this article is about.
  - Melatonic 2mo ago
    Doesn't Iron Mountain store mostly tape ?
gpm 2mo ago
50TiB is like $4k consumer SSDs in a shoebox at this point (not actually the recommended solution, but...). And that's massively inflated thanks to the AI boom.
- pavel_lishin 2mo ago
  > not actually the recommended solution, but... That $4k plus the free shoebox could have saved them quite a bit in lawyer fees :P
Tangurena2 2mo ago
> 50 TiB is so little. Still, it is 70 years of video from that PBS station.