[geeks] Rate These Racks...

[Phil Stracchino]

On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 04:44:01PM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 09:19:01PM +0000, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> > I was wondering if anyone here has any advice on using either the 68" 
> > Storage Cabinet or the 72" Mass Storage Cabinet as server racks (i.e. 
> > assumed 19" std. racks, but can they take heavy equipment, etc.)?
> 
> I think the only difference between the Sun racks and "normal" racks is
> depth.
> 
> As for "heavy equipment" - have you weighed a loaded E4K or A5000 drive
> array lately? :)  E3Ks can weigh 200 lbs.  A5000s can weigh 100-150
> easily.  I've seen 68" Mass Storage Cabinets with two Exx00 servers and
> two A5Ks in them.


Oh.  THOOOOOOSE cabinets.  I'd love to get my hands on one of those.
They are majorly nice.


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