[Year 12 IPM] school HDD capacity

[Jim Bunn]

Many thanks to those who replied to my query. I've passed on the results to
our Network Manager. Hopefully there will be some changes. It seems we are
all feeling the pain of trying to keep up with the demand that the digital
age requires.

 

Cheers,

Jim

 

 

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

8795 9400

bunn.jim.c at edumail.vic.gov.au 

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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sort of information has been archived somewhere already.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

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

 

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