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> 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
by bashinator 12y ago
> 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?
- wmf 12y agoThey can always download another copy onto a working drive.
- MBCook 12y agoThe 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.