Part of their CDN uses custom boxes based off Backblaze pods. http://gigaom.com/2012/06/06/why-netflixs-cdn-should-scare-t...

Netflix has CDN's they put at peering points, you can read about it here @ https://www.nanog.org/sites/default/files/tue.lightning1.gen...

But you can also check out the Netflix open connect site @ https://signup.netflix.com/openconnect/hardware

IIRC the latest version of the CDN is 100% flash, though.

Their newest boxes are 100% flash, but they're still rolling out the older spinning-rust designs. The all-flash boxes are for the most frequently requested movies, in the locations where there's enough traffic to justify them.

Yeah, they talk about that on slide #9.

For computing power, it would be ridiculously expensive to try and use AWS to stream all their video.

probably talking about the openconnect CDN, which I don't believe is AWS based. One of the options for openconnect is for the machines to be hosted at the ISP, so that part definitely is not AWS.

Are HAMR drives commercially available yet? Wiki makes it sound like 60TB HAMR drives will be readily available at low cost for consumers by 2016 or so, do you think that's likely the reality of things?

Seagate is suggesting the first HAMR drive will be a 3.5 inch Barracuda of 7.5TB

I think they are taking it gradually.

The problem with HAMR is evaporation of the surface film.

Amazing technology in due in 3-5 years? Probably not.