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> Sometimes it'll even have multiple copies of the same show, if something is in crazy high demand.
that statement from the article lends one to believe that the raid arrays are in parallel.
These boxes are meant to reduce the number of packets going all the way across the internet not necessarily remove the need.
Also, in addition to lots of storage, these boxes probably have loads of ram that they can buffer popular streams into and then serve it.
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> Sometimes it'll even have multiple copies of the same show, if something is in crazy high demand.
that statement from the article lends one to believe that the raid arrays are in parallel.
These boxes are meant to reduce the number of packets going all the way across the internet not necessarily remove the need.
Also, in addition to lots of storage, these boxes probably have loads of ram that they can buffer popular streams into and then serve it.