{"id":401,"date":"2011-09-28T10:55:58","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T17:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/?p=401"},"modified":"2025-12-11T13:57:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T21:57:28","slug":"sean-has-a-new-friend-his-name-is-guido","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/sean-has-a-new-friend-his-name-is-guido\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Has a New Friend. His Name Is Guido."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/blog-guido.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-HQPxuO4P\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-409\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/blog-guido.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/blog-guido.jpg 550w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/blog-guido-300x153.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"bzdropcap\">A single Backblaze <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/cloud-storage\/resources\/storage-pod\">Storage Pod<\/a> weighs nearly 150 lbs and takes two people to rack it. Each time Sean has gone to the data center to rack new Pods (which happens every two weeks) he needed to bring another person for assistance. In the interest of giving Sean a hand, we bought him a friend. His name is Guido.<\/p>\n<p>Guido is a $10k <a href=\"http:\/\/serverlift.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">server lift<\/a> and he works like a charm. He can lift the servers onto the very top rack and even has a special extender for the very bottom rack. Sean can now deploy Storage Pods without any help.<\/p>\n<p>Meet Guido:<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/blog-guido-lift.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-HQPxuO4P\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-411\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/blog-guido-lift.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"624\" srcset=\"https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/blog-guido-lift.jpg 560w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/blog-guido-lift-269x300.jpg 269w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sean working with Guido:<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/blog-sean-lift-datacenter-1.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-HQPxuO4P\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-404\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/blog-sean-lift-datacenter-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/blog-sean-lift-datacenter-1.jpg 560w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/blog-sean-lift-datacenter-1-300x246.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/blog-sean-lift-datacenter-2.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-HQPxuO4P\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-405\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/blog-sean-lift-datacenter-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/blog-sean-lift-datacenter-2.jpg 560w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/blog-sean-lift-datacenter-2-300x246.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/blog-sean-lift-datacenter-3.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-HQPxuO4P\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-406\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/blog-sean-lift-datacenter-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/blog-sean-lift-datacenter-3.jpg 560w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/blog-sean-lift-datacenter-3-300x246.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And a three second video of Guido doing the heavy lifting:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Backblaze new lift\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wJc02wQHVrc?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A single Backblaze Storage Pod weighs nearly 150 lbs and takes two people to rack it. Each time Sean has gone to the data center to rack new Pods (which happens every two weeks) he needed to bring another person for assistance. In the interest of giving Sean a hand, we bought him a friend.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/sean-has-a-new-friend-his-name-is-guido\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sean Has a New Friend. 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