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by wmf 4342 days ago
Start multiple streams of high bandwidth videos and the maximum throughput from the drives drops sharply due to the random reads.

I think this can be fixed by prefetching harder (like 1-2 MB).

100 Netflix streams would be less than 100 MB/s which can be satisfied with a single SATA drive. And some of the Netflix boxes have dozens of SSDs that each do 500 MB/s.