Computers in Public Xport

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Sat Jun 22 03:03:32 2002

I wrote:
>> It is. It's not uncommon for a fully loaded one to weigh over 250 kg.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> And you think I don't :-) :-)...
>
> Anyway, the original comment was over the height IIRC. Given that the
> H960 is what I thoguth it was, I will carry on claiming to be the same
> size as one (in all directions).

OK, I'll take your word for that.

Just because this made me curious, I looked up the specs on the H960.
The H960 is a family of racks that can vary quite a bit based on the
suffix. The individual components that make up an H960 have H95x-xx part
numbers. The basic rack frame is an H950-AA. It has the four EIA-drilled
vertical rails, the base with casters, and the top with provision for two
fans. It does not include doors, side panels, mounting frames,
stabilizers, logo panels, blank panels, kick plates, fans, power
controllers, etc.

The H950-AA weighs 78.5 kg. H950-BA or -CA full-height doors weigh
13.6 kg each. H952-AA side panels weigh 14.5 kg each. And don't forget
the H950-LA or -LB logo panels at 0.68 kg or 0.11 kg, respectively. :-)
Of course, there's lots of other options including hinged mounting
frames.

So an "empty" H960 would weigh more depending on what other hardware
is attached.

The H960 is rated for up to 272 kg of load.

So a full H960 with panels and doors could potentially weigh more than
407 kg.

And I'm pretty sure I've seen some that were well over the rated capacity,
but naturally that's unsupported. (In more than one sense, if your floor
isn't sufficiently robust!)

At my last place of employment, we built really huge routers. Our
only competitor that had a product somewhat comparable to ours (and no,
it wasn't Cisco or Juniper) somehow managed to make their box so heavy
that it exceeded the NEBS standard for floor loading. They had to
reinforce the floor at their field test sites. Fortunately our product
was within the NEBS limits.
Received on Sat Jun 22 2002 - 03:03:32 BST