6TB helium-filled hard drives bump capacity, decrease power use

Re:6TB helium-filled hard drives bump capacity, decrease pow... by WestCoastJustin on Monday November 04, 2013 @11:39AM (#6669524)

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

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Re:6TB helium-filled hard drives bump capacity, decrease pow... by wmf on Monday November 04, 2013 @11:43AM (#6669551)

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

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Re:6TB helium-filled hard drives bump capacity, decrease pow... by cperciva on Monday November 04, 2013 @05:17PM (#6671577)

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.

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Re:6TB helium-filled hard drives bump capacity, decrease pow... by WestCoastJustin on Monday November 04, 2013 @11:45AM (#6669560)

Yeah, they talk about that on slide #9.

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