It might be the most “valuable” deadlift of all time.
Strongman Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson is also an actor known from the Game of Thrones series. image stock
The weight of a single small external hard drive is not that bad. However, the situation is different if they are gathered together by the thousands. In this case, only the strongest man in the world can succeed in lifting the storage media into the air.
Tom’s Hardware and PC Gamer say that the layout is not theoretical. Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, who was crowned the strongest powerlifter in the world, lifted a total of 996 pounds, or about 452 kilograms, of external hard plates in the deadlift.
Icelander Björnsson is known not only for his records in the deadlift Game of Thrones from the series. In seasons 4–8 of the series, he performed violently and suddenly Gregor “The Mountain” Clegane.
Björnsson picked up the hard drives at the Supercomputing 24 event in Atlanta, USA. You can watch the performance of the video below as an embed or from this Youtube link.
The hard drives were manufactured by the Taiwanese company Phison, and each of them can hold as much as 128 terabytes of data. The drag racing was mainly intended to promote the marketing of the devices.
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A single Phison 128TB external hard drive costs PC Gamer quoted Techradar review including about $14,000. Due to their high price, Phison has intended them mainly for use by data centers instead of ordinary citizens.
According to estimates, a total of 2,303 hard drives left the country. In total, they had a storage space of 282.64 petabytes, or 282 million gigabytes. According to Tom’s Hardware’s calculations, they could hold more than 70 million DVDs of data.
This also means that Björnsson had as much as 32 million dollars worth of goods in his hands for a moment. Even though deadlifts with even bigger weights have been seen in the world, nowhere near as expensive a load has been used.
PC Gamer jokes that, for example, Samsung or Solidigm could hire Eddie Hall to raise an even bigger mass memory. Hall and Björnsson have previously fought in the boxing ring, and Hall also once held the title of the world’s strongest man.