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3000 lb sounds like a secondary concern until you consider the wages and benefits of facilities folks. Some will see this as a strong argument for workers' rig
by uoaei 3y ago
3000 lb sounds like a secondary concern until you consider the wages and benefits of facilities folks.
Some will see this as a strong argument for workers' rights, some will see it as a strong argument for robotic workers. Some will ignore the issues with the servers' physical characteristics because they don't have experience working in server rooms.
The meta-point then would seem to be that material conditions dictate the unfolding of reality. It is the offering of opportunities and the economic conditions by which they become available that determines the destiny of every agent participating in said economy.
- Kipters 3y agoProbably a stupid question, but wouldn't this be assembled in loco? I guess 3000 lb is the weight of the full system with all the blades in place and disk bays full, not the weight of the empty rack.
- steveklabnik 3y agoIt is not assembled on site.
- Animats 3y agoUse the right tool for the job.[1] There are battery-powered tugs for moving server racks around. With a 3000lb 9 foot tall rack, this is not optional. Next problem is earthquake resistance. Any load that top-heavy needs to be secured to some strong column or wall. And four little casters for a 3000 pound load? Those are far too small for a load heavier than many cars. Have they shipped this thing, or is that just a render? No cables are attached, so it's not in operation. It's certainly possible to make this work, but they have to get serious about floors, ramps, access, and structural support. [1] https://www.phswest.com/product/4000sxhd-motorized-server-rack-tug/ https://www.phswest.com/product/4000sxhd-motorized-server-ra...
- wilted-iris 3y agoNot sure if that's a render, but from what I understand the cables are integrated into the rack.
- steveklabnik 3y agoIf you want to see some video of the product, https://twitter.com/storagereview/status/1734799168441356344 https://twitter.com/storagereview/status/1734799168441356344 Video of the back is about halfway through.
- jclulow 3y agoI promise that we have shipped several of them around. We have one parked in a cage in the south bay, and I believe aside from getting the crate on and off the truck, it was almost certainly rolled into the DC on its castors. I have personally helped push one or two of them into the crates we use, which is something of a production but doable. I also occasionally have to shunt a few of them around the office, which I have been able to do on the castors there as well; the floor is relatively flat concrete.
- pjc50 3y agoNo sane person is going to ship these assembled, surely? You can't easily get a forklift into the data center.
- rbanffy 3y agoMy guess is that the 2u sleds are shipped in separate boxes, but that's a guess.
- growse 3y agoNo. part of the whole value prop is that you take it out of its box and plug it in, then it works.
- PreInternet01 3y agoShipping populated server racks in crates and carting them into place in a data center happens everywhere, everyday. You might enjoy https://www.phswest.com/product/4000sxhd-motorized-server-rack-tug/ https://www.phswest.com/product/4000sxhd-motorized-server-ra...
- galaxyLogic 3y agoServers with wheels!
- panick21_ 3y agoThey do. There is a whole podcast about them shipping the rack, including a whole bunch of talk about the design of the pallet they they ship it on. You can find a picture of them packaging it on twitter somewhere.
- steveklabnik 3y agoHere's the "on twitter somewhere" https://twitter.com/oxidecomputer/status/1674901883130114048 https://twitter.com/oxidecomputer/status/1674901883130114048