Netflix's Open Connect offers another option though. The company will gladly put a box with a copy of itself—which is to say, nearly the entire catalog of its offerings—inside your friendly neighborhood ISP data center. That way, when your whole neighborhood is sitting down to watch Netflix after work, it doesn't tax the internet at large, or the hand-off points between different parts of the 'net. Instead, the deluge of data is confined to the "last mile," that last chunk of network between the local data center and your cul de sac. It saves everyone a lot of headache.
When Comcast and Netflix argue—or Verizon and Netflix argue, or Netflix and anyone argue—about Open Connect, it's these boxes that are at the heart of it. Netflix wants to hand them out for free, but Comcast and Verizon want to be paid for undertaking care and maintenance. And both Comcast and Verizon got their way, which is kind of a bummer.
No details on the type of RAID it uses, it may be 100 - 200 tb in total capacity but thats unlikely to all be usable space. I was actually expecting them to have a larger capacity considering I have a 2tb drive under my TV for the last 4 years, 200tb for netflix seems kinda small...
Does, doesn't it? Backblaze has a lot of detail on what they're using for their storage needs - 4RU, 180TB, $5k without drives. I suspect the OCE pods are sort of a "Netflix Greatest Hits" repository rather than the alpha and omega of all you can stream. Start poking around in the back catalogue and you definitely get the sense that your stream is coming from somewhere much more distant than the local ISP.