Information about additional Network Storage

IT offers a scalable, secure and flexible storage capability which aims to meet the longer storage needs of researchers as well as general filestore for departments.

Service Name	Standard Performance Storage	Fast SSD storage
Network Based Storage Yes/No	Y	Y
Minimum allocation	1 TB	1 TB
Data stored at single location or 2 locations	1 location	1 location
Frequency of data replication between sites	N/A	N/A
Availability level
Snapshot Recovery Period	upto 28 days	upto 28 days
Snapshot capacity restriction	15%	15%
Data immediately accessible (yes/no)	Y	Y
SMB access	Y	Y
NFS v3 access	N	N
NFS v4 access	Y	Y
Kerberised NFS access	Y	Y
Custom permissions (yes/no)	N	N
Self-Encrypting Drives	Y	Y
Minimum commitment period	3 Years	3 years
Life cycle	10 years	10 years
Price	£50 per/TB yr	£600 per TB/yr

Additional options are being worked on as part of the Research IT Strategy.

Payment

The full storage commitment term is due at the start of the commitment period.

Further Details

Accessing files

Storage can be accessed from systems connected to the campus network using the following file-sharing protocols: NFS 4.1, SMB2 and SMB3.
Access to storage can be limited to specific groups or individuals.
You will need to provide your University account credentials to access the storage (most likely the same details that you use to log on to your PC or to access your University email account).

Capacity, Commitment & Payment

The minimum capacity allocation we offer is 1TB.
Provisioning make take slightly longer for storage requests greater than 100TB.
Pricing is calculated on a per-TB-per-year basis.
Refunds cannot be provided for storage that has been paid for.

File Recovery

We store changes you apply to your data in a daily snapshot. This allows us to recover a copy of your data as it looked when the snapshot was taken. Daily snapshots cover up to the last 28 days.

Please Note: We provide extra capacity to store snapshots – limited to an additional 15% of the capacity you requested. If you regularly modify large quantities of data then we contact you to discuss purchasing additional storage capacity.

The Lifecycle of Network Storage

When your storage enters the last 12 months of its funded cycle we will begin to send reminders out at the following intervals.

12 months prior to ends date
9 months prior to end date
6 months prior to end date
3 months prior to end date

Later reminders will be sent to school and faculty management as well as to the requester of the storage. If you have not responded and no agreement has been made to extend the use of your storage before the end of the paid period, then access to the storage will be prevented for 1 month, following this any data on the storage will be permanently and irreversibly deleted; there will be NO possibility of the data being restored or accessed again.

How To Apply

Please fill in the "Network Storage" form found under Related Requests.