Storage

Research Computing offers a range of storage services depending on your needs and requirements. It is important to understand that not all storage locations are backed up and certain disk locations are formatted regularly.

Storage With Backups

Primary storage - excellent for important data that has to be backed up.

- - - - NetApp - 165 TB dedicated to research computing
        Network Volumes - I:\\Research (Windows), smb://share.research.pdx.edu (Mac)
        NFS volumes: /vol/share , /home , /vol/apps to computational systems
        Off-site backups - daily **
        Snapshots - hourly, daily, weekly, quarterly, yearly **

- - - - For more on snapshots, refer to here.

Storage WITHOUT Backups

Scratch volume - temporary storage location for computational work

- - - - 470TB+ available
        70TB+ /workspace
        Coeus HPC cluster - /scratch (170 TB)
        Gaia HPC cluster - /data (84 TB)
        No backups. No quota. First in, First out deletion rules.

Network Data Storage and Research Shares

- - RC offers research or storage shares to PSU faculty and researchers. Up to 2 TB of storage is free for each researcher/research group. More than 2TB is available a charge.
  - The default share size is 500GB. Additional storage up to 2TB can be granted upon request, however storage requests over 500GB must be reviewed.
  - A new share can be requested by completing the I Drive Request Form.
  - There are other storage options available to PSU students, faculty, staff.