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> Response was epic. As in, no one believed him at the time? And what does Netflix have a need for SSDs for? Their load seems entirely predictable / serveabl
by supernova87a 4y ago
> Response was epic.
As in, no one believed him at the time?
And what does Netflix have a need for SSDs for? Their load seems entirely predictable / serveable / stable with spinning disks and reasonably (but not lightning) fast access patterns? I would have guessed the network latency is always dominant.
- jasonwatkinspdx 4y agoThere's still a huge long tail, so iops matter. Netflix definitely wants to minimize any time you ever see a waiting on network spinner. I dunno what talk the above comment is referring to but most likely the young hero was saying something somewhat clueless, not being kept down by the tyranny of older idiots or whatever is being insinuated. Netflix's content is pre baked. They have to do like a dozen versions of every episode to get the best experience across the variety of hardware, but it's not livestreaming or such. Where they use SSDs it's not an erase/update heavy workload, at least for the CDN part (Netflix does a ton of other stuff including basically running entire movie studios out of the cloud, not referring to that). Density and power also matter a ton as they want their POPs to be as easy as possible to convince people to run at peering points.
- SteveNuts 4y agoNetflix has a lot more to it than just serving video data
- NavinF 4y agoSure but don't they use AWS for everything else? I have no idea what that guy is talking about or why Netflix would care about SSD failures more than a normal company that just uses mirrors/raidz for everything.