[Year 12 IPM] school HDD capacity

Wed Aug 9 08:13:47 EST 2006

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Russell Curr
Network Manager
Avila College
Ph: 9831-9645
Fax: 03-9888-1202
email: russell at avila.vic.edu.au
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>>> digby.stephen.p at edumail.vic.gov.au 08/09/06 7:44 am >>>
My questions are these:

1.	How much home drive space do other schools allow for students and
staff?    Students 50Mb with exceptions for special courses  (e.g. graphics)
Staff 200 Mb and continuing to reduce (100Mb next year). 

2.	What is your school's total hard disk capacity?   all servers approx
1000 Gb PLUS NAS backup in another building of 800 Mb  

3.	Are teachers in your school encouraged to backup their school files
on the school network, or are they asked to use their own personal
equipment?   Since most staff have notebooks with burners, we do not support
them backing up onto the network.  They backup onto CD at their leisure.
When they contribute materials to the "common weal"  i.e. shared intranet
they know that they are secureed by our network backup systems.  Another
incentive to minimise the personal (and sometimes too personal) and maximise
the shared resources.

At Avila:

We provide students with 100 Mb with extra when needed (for Graphics classes)
Staff initially get 100 Mb but can have more if required.

We have 550gig on main server plus another 780 gig on a second volume

All home areas are backed up however all users are still responsible for making their own backups.

cheers
Russell

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From: ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au] On
Behalf Of Jim Bunn
Sent: 09 August 2006 01:10 AM
To: IPM mailing list
Subject: [Year 12 IPM] school HDD capacity

Hi all,

Sorry about the cross posts. I know this has been a recent thread, but as
I'm not the network administrator I sort of ignored it all. The reason I'm
raising it now is that its just become an issue at our school. Our school's
hard disk capacity for over 1300 staff and students is 200 GByte. Students
have been allocated 10 Mg, and staff 100 Mg. Previous to this, staff had
virtually unlimited space and students had the space to store lots of
personal music as well as games. Needless to say, the school's hard disk was
full and our network hardly worked at all. This student practice has
recently been stopped.

200 GByte seems pretty small for over 1300 people, especially when we are
trying to encourage the use of new technologies and teach in an "ICT rich"
environment. And for the same reason, the maximum disk space allowed seems
far too small as well. My students continually have to delete things in
order for them to be able to save their work; teachers the same. A lot of
people are unhappy.

I'd appreciate some feedback for our network administrator. Perhaps this
sort of information has been archived somewhere already.

Thanks very much,

Jim

Jim Bunn
CCNA CCAI ITE1
Technology Coordinator
Hampton Park Secondary College
Victoria  Australia

8795 9400

 <mailto:bunn.jim.c at edumail.vic.gov.au> bunn.jim.c at edumail.vic.gov.au 

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