Service Description
- Storage system (commonly referred to as Isilon) is an area of storage allocated to your research project which is accessible by you and your research staff/students. Commonly referred to as a storage share.
- Storage accessible from desktop and laptop machines on campus and may also be accessed from on-campus research computing systems.
- Off-campus access is available through the VPN.
- Secure file storage with files corrupted or accidentally deleted available for recovery for up to 35 days. Please note, files are not encrypted by the RDS system.
- The RDS is the storage platform recommended by the Research Data Management Service.
- As part of RDM and using RDS you will need to be familiar with the Information security classification, ownership and secure information handling SOP.
Further details, including FAQs can be found on the RDS- Research Data Storage website.
Charging Model
Researchers can receive up to 8TB of free storage for each RCODE, which applies to externally funded projects. However, RCODES can only be used once and must be linked to the budget holder of the project. The business owner of the share should be the budget holder. Other code types, such as P and AA, cannot be used to set up free shares.
Further storage is charged for, current rates can be found on the RDS-Charges page.
Contact
Requests for Research Data Storage must be made through RDS request form on Connect. You can also use this form if you have a general query about research data storage.
Students (including PhD candidates) should not apply for storage directly but instead should speak to their supervisor.