For most people, even the empty bar would be a struggle.
The event was part serious lifting and part promotional showcase of Phison’s game-changing D205V enterprise drives.
The 996-pound “record” isn’t even the heaviest Bjornsson has deadlifted.

In 2020, he set a world record by lifting 1,104 lb at Thor’s Power Gym in Iceland.
They offer sequential read speeds up to 14,600 MB/s and sequential writes up to 3,200 MB/s.
Meanwhile, the random read performance speed is 3,000K 4K IOPS with 35K random write 16K IOPS.