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.
So not even redundancy? Just cope with losing whatever media happened to be on the dead drive?
The article also mentions the box stores multiple copies of done things for increased throughput on popular titles.
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.