[Year 12 IPM] school HDD capacity

[RILEY, Bruce]

Hi Jim,

Most students get 50 Mb while VCE Art kids get 200 Mb. If necessary we
increase this. Media is an interesting issue. We have created a
partition on the local hard drive which only they can see to write their
files too. These are then backed up to an external HD or burnt to a
CD/DVD. Total capacity on our other servers is approx about a terabyte
but we are looking to increase this via a SAN solution.

For teachers with notebooks, backup is there own responsibility. We
don't have the capacity at the moment to do this. We used to use iFolder
and may do so again when we increase our storage capacity.

Bruce

 

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From: ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au]
On Behalf Of Jim Bunn
Sent: Wednesday, 9 August 2006 1:10 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.

 

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? 

 

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sort of information has been archived somewhere already.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

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

 

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