New record shows potential high data throughput with no upgrade for current fiber optic infrastructure

  • Glowstick@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    3.14 petabytes in the whole Netflix catalog

    x 1000 converts to TB

    / 402 TB per second

    = 7.81 seconds

    EDIT oh this is Tb, not TB, so

    x 8 to convert bit to Byte

    = 62.5 seconds

      • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de
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        5 months ago

        You would use a large cluster of servers all stuffed full of enterprise grade SSDs if you need that kind of write speed.