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Steve
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I was moving a dell poweredge earlier, and i noticed on the box it was 56kgs, bloody heavy thing.

Anyway whilst i was lugging it along i got thinking as to what the hell is in them that makes it so bloody heavy, a couple of power supplies, maybe a kilo or two each, a motherboard, processor fans etc, all weigh next to nothing!
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It was probablly 5.6kg as you have no muscles you thought it felt like 56kg
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The casing on the Dells it quite substantial we have quite a few poweredges in work. They are a pain to shift into new racks.
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lead lined
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quote:
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It was probablly 5.6kg as you have no muscles you thought it felt like 56kg

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marc your the biggest badger on this site
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No captials again. You really are pathetic.
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i have a dell poweredge 2800
bloody big thing
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should have got a HP
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We have both
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our two power edges are 25kg each (just the baby 1800's)

Most of the weight does seem to be in the case,

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Its UPS's that i hate to have to move.
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We're waiting for a new UPS to be delivered. Apparently it's nearly 5 tonne
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quote:
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We're waiting for a new UPS to be delivered. Apparently it's nearly 5 tonne




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2 batteries each weighing 1.75 tonne plus the actual UPS. All for 30mins emergency power

[Edited on 29-01-2008 by Conway563]
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dells are shitty anyway.
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bit of an open statement Willay, usually the make of server is just personal preference, where I work they prefer HP, but id be perfectly happy sticking a dell in.
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Think hes fishing!
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wont get no bite from me, hes using the wrong bait
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A Mod fishing for an argument.

never!!!!
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They're full of Lead to make you feel like your money is well spent

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quote:
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bit of an open statement Willay, usually the make of server is just personal preference, where I work they prefer HP, but id be perfectly happy sticking a dell in.


HP all over, I love a good old HP DL360

Dells are shitty, end of.
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DL360 G5's are what we use
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In all fairness there really is no comparison between the build quality of Dell and HP servers.

If you think 56kgs is heavy though, you should try moving some enterprise-grade hardware!

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