A Reddit person has secured themselves a decommissioned Netflix cache server, posting about his expertise on Reddit.
Redditor “PoisonWaffle3” works for an ISP that has been eliminating outdated Netflix servers, as they have been upgrading to new programs. In a thread titled “So I bought a Netflix cache server…” with a bunch of images of the bright-Netflix-red server, and what’s within the cache server.
5A decommissioned Netflix cache server (supply: “PoisonWaffle3” on Reddit)
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PoisonWaffle3 defined on his submit on Reddit that every one he might discover on-line for the Netflix cache server was overviews, set up and configuration guides for his or her proprietary software program, and extra. The Redditor famous that he had “no specs, no clue what was contained in the crimson field”.
Within the Netflix cache server was a “pretty customary” SuperMicro motherboard, a single Intel Xeon E5 2650 v2 processor, 64GB of DDR3 reminiscence, and a 10GbE ethernet card. However the storage, oh boy… there have been 36 x 7.2TB 7200RPM HDDs and 6 x 500GB Micron SSDs for a complete of 262TB of storage.
5Within the Netflix cache server (supply: “PoisonWaffle3” on Reddit)
Dave Temkin, Netflix’s former Vice President of Community Methods Infrastructure advised Motherboard: “They’re simply an Intel FreeBSD field. We bought Linux operating on a few of the generations of that field as effectively. They’re designed to have an enormous pipeline from disk to NIC and never do a lot else. The CPU is simply sufficient to assist that mission. It has a customized NIC nevertheless it’s really nothing loopy“.
PoisonWaffle3 changed a few of the noisy followers within the server, in addition to one of many failed storage units, w right here he would possibly use it as a NAS (community connected storage) at dwelling. Is smart, given there’s an unbelievable 262TB of storage that he bought for FREE.
5Here is what 262TB of storage seems to be like in a Netflix cache server (supply: “PoisonWaffle3” on Reddit)
PoisonWaffle3 defined on Reddit: “So I bought a Netflix cache server… “All I might discover on-line was overviews, set up/config guides for his or her proprietary software program, and many others. No specs, no clue what was contained in the crimson field”.
“I’ve a possibility to get a newly retired Netflix OCA cache server/equipment from work (giant ISP). I haven’t got the entire particulars but, however I collect that the retired home equipment are about 4-5 years outdated and are crammed with SSDs that probably have a whole lot of learn/write cycles on them. I am undecided on the remainder of the specs but”.
“I ought to have a possibility to verify them out in just a few hours, and may both deliver one dwelling or nab just a few elements. I haven’t got a 4 submit rack (solely a 22u 2 submit that is wall kountrd), and I am fairly certain these will draw much more energy than my PowerEdge T620. What do you guys assume? Anybody have any expertise with these hands-on? I am unable to discover a lot on-line”.
