Linux (Home Directories):    

• •  /home/<your-username-here> 

    • • Individual home directories for central Linux systems.   

      • Accessed using SSH. (Secure Shell)

      • Software alias' and custom account configurations 

      • /home common to most central research Linux systems

      • Some systems, such as Coeus and Gaia HPC cluster home directories use separate /home directories

      • 10 Gb storage default.  Not intended for large data storage.

Research network shares

OIT-hosted research network folders (shares) are an excellent way to store and share active data - data that is being used in active compute, needs to be accessed from OIT hosted compute servers and/or desktop systems, and needs to be shared with users with Odin IDs.

• • • • Data back-up to Cloud available (default unless no backups requested.)

      • Shared by members of the same [POSIX] group.

      • Up to 2 TB storage with backups available (per researcher).

      • More storage available with or without backups for a fee.  Rates can be found here.

      • A share can be requested by completing the Research share Request Form.

Locations:  Each of these paths can point to the same storage area.

• • • • OIT Linux Compute:    /vol/share/sharename

      • Windows:                      I:\\Research\Shares\sharename

        • • Can be mounted on other drive letters to \\share.research.pdx.edu\sharename. FAQ: Windows Map a Network Drive 

      • OSX:                                smb://share.research.pdx.edu/sharename

Cloud-based Share for Archival and Off-campus document and data sharing:

PSU Google Drive and  Google Team Drive 

Free Google cloud-based storage for PSU accounts that is useful for archiving or sharing documents and data.  This is an excellent resource for storing copies of important documents, code, and data.

• • • • Unlimited storage

      • Files can be shared with collaborators on and off campus.  

      • Built in access control and revision history features.

      • Not intended for computational/active data storage due to high network latency;  your data is stored remotely "in the Cloud."

      • High degree of reliability and availability (%99.978 or almost 4  9's reliability)

      • Google Team Drive is recommend for Teams and Groups, since there is shared ownership of files (in case group member leaves)

      • No cost for data access/egress

Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud storage 

AWS offers a number of cloud-based storage options.  Options can be found here: Amazon S3 Storage Classes.  In particular Glacier and Deep Glacier are excellent ways to store "ice cold" data that must be kept, but is unlikely to be or rarely accessed. 

• • • • Ongoing costs for the storage used can be billed to research grant/departmental index or personal credit card, on a monthly basis.  

      • Data input is free.  There are egress charges for pulling data from AWS.

      • S3 buckets are very useful if you are using AWS Cloud compute resources.

      • Glacier and Deep Glacier storage is charged as S3 bucket if pulled down before 90 days.

      • Unlimited storage based on what you can pay.

      • Extremely high degree of reliability and availability (%99.999999999, 11  9's reliability)