NI Raptor Data Share

Note: please only use raptor for animal research conducted via NI at Mellon Institute. All Human Subjects research data should be stored in the designated Google Share Drive. If you do not know which Google Share Drive to use, consult Doug about it as it may be appropriate to create a new Share Drive depending on the project.

The raptor data share is a drive on a computer connected to the ni.cmu.edu network (raptor.ni.cmu.edu), which we can use to securely store experimental data upon collection. The name of the shared data drive is NMLShare. In order to easily access this drive, you can mount it on your local computer as a drive (for example, on Windows, one of the unused drive letters such as R:). By consistently saving our data in a shared location, we can facilitate the deployment and future use of processing pipelines or databases that make accessing the relevant experimental endpoints a more seamless experience.

If you are accessing the Raptor from off-campus, make sure that you are logged into the VPN using Cisco AnyConnect before mapping the drives.

Caution!

It is not a good practice to set raptor as a direct file-save location while acquiring data! Doing so will hamper the ability of most acquisition systems to write data onto the disk location quickly enough to avoid having a "back-log" of data accumulate in whatever memory buffer is created at the beginning of a recording session. It is a better idea to save data directly to a local disk, then transfer the data as soon as the recording/experiment has ended.