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Section Contents
- FAQ
- "Phishing"
- Printing, Photocopying & Scanning
- Remote Connections (NX)
- Secure Shell
- Connecting to the School's file servers from Windows XP
- Connecting to the School's file servers from MacOS X
- Connecting to the School's file servers from Ubuntu
- Windows 7 Managed Desktop FAQ
- EndNote Styles
- Visitor Registration
- Departing and Retiring Staff
- Eclipse FAQ
- Thunderbird FAQ
- Anti Virus Software
- Matlab
- Storage Arrangements
- Buying storage for your research project
- Current basic PC prices
- Guidelines on costing computing in Research Grants
- Texmaker
- OpenOffice F.A.Q.
- GEOS Cluster quickstart
- GEOS Cluster FAQ
- eLearning FAQ
- PHP on Xweb
- Content Control with SVN
- Space Usage on Linux
- Accessing ISO9600 (CD/DVD) Images
- LaTeX template for a UoE PhD Thesis
- Wireless Access Points
- NTFS read/write on Linux
- ArcGIS
- Tidying your Windows Roaming Profile
- LCFG SL6 Desktops
Buying storage for your research project
So, you're about to apply for a grant to allow you to engage in some cutting edge science which requires you to store and/or process huge volumes of data.
What do you need to put in your FEC-aware grant proposal?
The way we (the School) usually do our storage (and backup) is by using paired servers with onboard RAID arays, with the two servers located in different buildings to provide a measure of disaster protection.
Another alternative now available is to use storage provided as part of the ECDF (Edinburgh Compute and Data Facility). They are able to realise economies of scale to allow them to provide storage cheaper than the School can - as of March 2011 charges are £290 per TB per year(plus an additional £220 per TB per year in you want it backed up) for storage on the ECDF NAS service.If your needs are more modest (e.g. you need a hundred GBs of space), we may be able to arrange for you to purchase space on the School's servers. Exact prices will vary depending on exactly how much space you require, how much the data changes, and how long you need to keep it - but is likely to be on the order of a pound per GB of backed up space, per year that you need to keep the data.