About the author: Rakesh Dogra holds a Master of Computing Science, Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering, 7+ Years experience sailing as Marine Engineer and is a Freelance Consultant and Writer.
The floor of a data center is an important parameter of the overall design. Basically there are two types of floors used in data centers namely raised flooring as well as solid flooring. Each of these have their own set of advantages and drawbacks and careful consideration is required on the part of a design engineer to find out which one is better suited for a particular requirement. From the perspective of load requirements, the solid type of floor certainly offers better load carrying capacity than their raised counterparts. This is an important observation since with the increasing technological developments, the data center equipments are getting denser by the day, meaning thereby that they are putting increasing pressure on the floors, and this needs to be taken into consideration. For example a typical equipment rack could easily weight nearly a thousand kilos. It may not be a big problem if this were a fixed weight but many times it may be required to relocate these equipment racks within the data center. This certainly calls for a very strong floor design, especially if it is of the raised floor type. In the absence of proper reinforcements in such a case, it may lead to bending and buckling of the floors with a potential to damage the costly equipment which might be worth millions of dollars in cost, not to mention the indirect cost of downtime due to such a damage which might be several times more than this. Read more...DATACENTER
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