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GroupFolder (S:) Drive storage is allocated a 200GB quota as default for collaborative use. You are able to procure additional quota space when needed.
Departments can purchase additional shared group storage at a cost of £0.15 per GB. This payment covers the use of the purchased storage for 3 years. The smallest amount of storage a department can purchase at any one time is 100GB, i.e. £15.00.
It is possible to retain purchased storage for more than 3 years. You will need to submit a renewal request to extend the use of any purchased storage, for another 3 years. We’ll send out a reminder to the original requestor (or another identified party) prior to the expiration of each 3-year period.
By default, an upper limit of 50TB can be allocated to a shared storage group. If a shared group requires more than 50TB of storage then an assessment of the best storage solution will be undertaken. This is to ensure that the storage provided is in an optimal format to meet the departments/shared groups requirements.
What you receive as part of the shared storage service
- Self-Restore – Hourly data snapshots for the current day. Which can be used to recover data from earlier that day
- Self-Restore – Daily Snapshots, which can be used to recover data within 90 days
- Daily full data backups
- Anti-virus and malware scans
- Infrastructure resilience, i.e. the Filestore @ UCL on the S: Drive operates in both the on- and off- site datacentres
- Assistance to recover data stored on Filestore @ UCL on the S: Drive service if/when needed
How to purchase additional storage
- Fill out the filestore request form
Departments will need to include the relevant Journal/Finance code to cover the cost of the requested additional filestore in order for us to process your request.
Need further assistance?
Contact the ISD IT Services.