Re: data center loading (was:Re: rack power question)

2008-03-26 Thread Robert Boyle
At 10:15 AM 3/26/2008, Lamar Owen wrote: One thing I haven't seen discussed, though, is the other big issue with high-density equipment, and that is weight. Those raised floors have a weight limit. In our case, our floors, built out in the early 90's, have a 1500 lb per square inch point load

data center loading (was:Re: rack power question)

2008-03-26 Thread Lamar Owen
On Monday 24 March 2008, Deepak Jain wrote: > While I enjoy hand waving as much as the next guy... reading over this > thread, there are several definitions of sq ft (ft^2) here and folks are > interchanging their uses whether aware of it or not. [snip] > A 30KW cabinet while one sounds lovely, a