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> It looks like the drives are not hot-swappable,

That's correct.

> so I'd guess Netflix is able to remotely track loss of redundancy and will just send out an entire replacement unit when needed.

Exactly. If a drive dies, the capacity of that box is just reduced. Once enough drives die, the box gets an RMA.



> 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?


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.


They can always download another copy onto a working drive.




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