Storage Pod 6.0: Building a 60 Drive 480TB Storage Server
So a hard drive weighs about 1.5 pounds, so 60 of them in a pod is about 100 pounds before you even include the pod itself. That doesn't sound particularly pleasant for the technician to install the first time...You put 10 of those in a rack and now we're up to 1000 pounds. At what point does this become challenging for the floor?