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Looked up some specs.

* A typical rack is rated for somewhere between 450 and 900 kg (your mileage may vary).

* A disk is about 720g.

* A 4U quanta enclosure is 36 kg empty.

* With 10 enclosures of 60 disks, that's a total of 792 kg inside the rack.

You will want to check what rack you have exactly and weight things up.

The rack itself is another 100 to 200 kg. You will want to double check whether the floor was designed to carry 1 ton per square meter. It might not be.

My personal tip. Definitely do NOT put a row of that in an improvised room in a average office building. You might have a bad surprise with the floor. ;)

Anyway. The project will probably be abandoned after the OP tries to assemble the first enclosure (80kg fully loaded) and realize he's not going to move that.




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