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 | Standard Performance Storage Plus | Fast SSD storage |
Network Based Storage Yes/No | Y | Y | Y |
Minimum allocation | 1 TB | 1 TB | 1 TB |
Data stored at single location or 2 locations | 1 location | 2 locations | 1 location |
Frequency of data replication between sites | N/A | Once every 24 hours | N/A |
Availability level | |||
Snapshot Recovery Period | upto 28 days | upto 28 days | upto 28 days |
Snapshot capacity restriction | 15% | 15% | 15% |
Data immediately accessible (yes/no) | Y | Y | Y |
SMB access | Y | Y | Y |
NFS v3 access | N | Y | N |
NFS v4 access | Y | Y | Y |
Kerberised NFS access | Y | Y | Y |
Custom permissions (yes/no) | N | Y | N |
Self-Encrypting Drives | Y | N | Y |
Minimum commitment period | 3 Years | 3 Years | 3 years |
Life cycle | 10 years | 10 years | |
Price | £50 per/TB yr | £200 per TB/yr | £600 per TB/yr |
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.
When your storage enters the last 12 months of its funded cycle we will begin to send reminders out at the following intervals.
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.
Please fill in the "Network Storage" form found under Related Requests.