As a streaming video website with 223 million subscribers, Netflix occupies a large amount of Internet traffic. To ensure the smooth operation of the website services, the company uses a content delivery network called Open Connect (CDN). Each node consists of a series of servers that store copies of video content so that users can access nearby and deliver packages quickly. In addition, due to its rich content, Netflix also requires a lot of storage space.
Although Netflix shares a large amount of documents related to Open Connect, the server's hardware details are not disclosed.
The good news is that a Reddit netizen who works for a large Internet service provider (ISP) was lucky enough to find a retired Netflix server purchased around 2013.
PoisonWaffle3 said that the Open Connect server has cleared the data. He only knows that the machine runs the FreeBSD operating system and has a large number of mechanical hard disk (HDD) drives built-in.
After removing the three screws and removing the top cover, you can see a "quite standard" Supermicro server motherboard, a 10-core/20-thread Intel Xeon E5-2650L v2 processor, 64GB DDR3 memory.
has another 36 HGST hard drives that occupy most of the chassis space (has been acquired by Western Digital / WD), 8TB @ 7200 rpm each, plus six 500GB Micron solid-state drives.
also has a four-port 10 Gigabit (10 GbE) Ethernet adapter (NIC), four LSI SAS9211-8I disk array cards, and two redundant configurations of 750W server power supply .
Since it was originally placed in the ISP computer room, the noise of the default fan is like a plane driving. But in the future, PoisonWaffle3 is planned to be replaced with four standard chassis cat fans (Noctua) to get a more silent user experience.
is a simple power-up check, and it can be seen that this CDN server has a total of 262TB of storage capacity, but one of the hard disks is in poor condition.
