There are many reasons to pay for the reliability, rich feature set, and fail-over capabilities of our NetApp. The NetApp is an excellent product. However, there is also a significant amount of data at Thayer that just doesn’t need all the advanced features. For instance, we have research groups with multi-Terabyte data sets that just want their data easily accessible. If it were unavailable occasionally it wouldn’t be a huge deal. Other features such as [snip...]
Almost from the day our NetApp (ThayerFS) was powered up, we’ve been on the hunt for a cheaper file server alternative. We’re very pleased with the functionality of the NetApp, but dollar per gigabyte and several seemingly arbitrary limitations left us curious of alternative options.
The cost of our NetApp storage is a little fuzzy. Over the years, we’ve come up with calculations from around 2.50 – 12 dollars per gigabyte. But if you head over to NewEgg and buy a stand-alone 2 [snip...]
We’ve bumped the default ThayerFS disk quota from 512 MB up to 1 GB. We also doubled the, “no questions asked”, maximum quota for undergraduates to 2 GB.
The “no questions asked” maximum quotas for graduate students remains at 5GB and 10GB for faculty and staff. As always, if you have reasonable case for needing more space, just let us know.
Full details about ThayerFS quotas are here.
In between keeping all things computing running at Thayer, we always have several projects in the works. Here’s a quick overview of projects we’re currently working on or planning. In no particular order…
Dartmouth’s Council on Computing has constituted a task force to determine Dartmouth’s requirements for future email and collaboration tools. Thayer School’s Director of Computing Services is on the task force and seeks your thoughts on the subject.
We are a “belt and suspenders” computing staff. To [snip...]
On Saturday, December 15, 2007, Thayer Computing Services will be upgrading the physical infrastructure of our ThayerFS file server. This new system will provide larger and more cost-effective storage capacity.
In order to perform this upgrade, ThayerFS will be taken offline and will be unavailable from 8:00am until 2:00pm on December 15th. Our hope is that the upgrade will be completed in less time than this, but it may take the full six hours. Once the system is back online, we will send e-mail to the [snip...]
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