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bashinator on July 23, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Netflix's Open Connect Appliances

> Exactly. If a drive dies, the capacity of that box is just reduced.

So not even redundancy? Just cope with losing whatever media happened to be on the dead drive?

MBCook on July 23, 2014 | [–]

The box is effectively one giant cache. If you lose a drive you can get the movie back from the main distribution network.

The article also mentions the box stores multiple copies of done things for increased throughput on popular titles.

wmf on July 23, 2014 | [–]

They can always download another copy onto a working drive.

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