Bought this storage for the size. It's perfect fit for my small room indoors. I was looking for 5 shelves. All other 5 shelf systems were larger in shelf size, and I don't have the additional space. Quality is excellent. Seems like steel. I put a lot of weight on all shelves. The plastic shelves I had before started to sag in the middle, so these are 1,000 times better. Also, in high temperature indoors, the plastic legs got weak and eventually bent. Nothing like that here. What holds the shelves in place are plastic rings that wrap around the metal support bars. I was skeptical at first because plastic can get compromised in high heat. So far, holding up. I did add another shelf to get to 5. I had to purchase separately from same manufacturer. But that added to total cost of system. Well worth it because I now have a compact 5 shelf system which was original goal.