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Re: [SAGE] shipping rack servers




--- 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?" :-)