[Year 12 IPM] school HDD capacity

[fiona at balmoralhs.vic.edu.au]

I think my responses might have you running and screaming to your network co-ordinator.

Our students have 25mb each with the exclusion of VCE Visual Communication who have a special folder and unlimited storage.  Our teachers have unlimited storage. We have 3 x 70gb on our main server (with mirror image shared between) but have just bought a server to act as a virtual drive with 3 x 200gb drives. 

The reason for the screaming - we have under 80 students and 15 teaching staff.


Fiona Bain
Balmoral High School


"Jim Bunn" <bunn.jim.c at edumail.vic.gov.au> on Wed, 9 Aug 2006 01:10:11 +1000 wrote:
> Hi all,
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> 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.
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> My questions are these:
> 
> 1.	How much home drive space do other schools allow for students and
> staff?
> 2.	What is your school's total hard disk capacity? 
> 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? 
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> 
> 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.
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> 
> I'd appreciate some feedback for our network administrator. Perhaps this
> sort of information has been archived somewhere already.
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> Thanks very much,
> 
> Jim
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> 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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