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Re: [SAGE] shipping rack servers
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- Subject: Re: [SAGE] shipping rack servers
- From: Stuart Krivis <stuartk-eml@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:58:53 -0700 (PDT)
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--- Brad Knowles <brad@shub-internet.org> wrote:
> At 9:46 AM -0700 4/20/07, Dan Rich wrote:
>
> > One thing to check if you're going to move full
> racks -- we recently
> > found out that our data center floor isn't rated
> for the rolling weight
> > of a loaded rack (in our case just shy of 2000
> pounds with 39 machines,
> > PDUs, network switch, and a console server).
>
> I'm confused. If your datacenter floor isn't rated
> for the rolling
> weight of a fully loaded rack, then how can you have
> fully loaded
> racks in your datacenter? Isn't the rolling weight
> exactly the same
> as the stationary weight, and wouldn't that mean
> that the racks would
> tend to sink through the floor tiles?
So they would then be "sunk costs?" :-)