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Research Data Management (old April 2019): UoS Storage

Guidance and support to staff, researchers and students at the University of Southampton

University Provision

It is not a requirement that all research data must be held within the University, it is recommended that you keep copies of your data on the university's networked storage. 

If your research data contains personal information from living individuals, you must store you data securely within the University's systems - see Research Data & GDPR for more information.

There are different types of networked storage:

Home Filestore

  • Also known as My Documents or H drive on windows machines
  • Backed up every 2 hours (kept for 30 days)
  • Four hourly snapshots (kept for 90 days)
  • To access network storage from Linux machines see http://linuxdesktops.soton.ac.uk/mount.html

OneDrive through Office 365

  • Cloud based storage
  • 1TB of Storage, max file size 10GB
  • Restrictions on filenames
  • All data held in secure centres which are within the EEA
  • Do NOT use personal OneDrive

Shared Departmental Filestore

  • The J:\ drive is a shared resource for work-related data and files that do not need to be held as private and confidential to the individual.

Research Filestore

iSolutions do provide secure storage for active research data in Research Filestore. If you would like to request research filestore please contact ServiceLine in the first instance.  Please note that requests greater than 1TB will require a business case and allocations will be made on a case by case basis

High Performance Computing (HPC)

Any researcher who is limited by the computing capability of their desktop PC may find HPC beneficial. Contact your BRM or email serviceline if you think you may need to use this facility.

Related University Policies

 

University of Southampton Research Data Management Policy

Research Data Storage (University of Southampton Service Statement) - available from iSolutions KnowledgeBase