[Year 12 IPM] school HDD capacity

[Ed]

Daylesford SC has 600 staff & students, until recently we did everything 
with 160gBytes with no limits, unfortunately I started editing DV on the 
network & my class of 15 MM kids blew all the space away on the first day.

We have purchased a Buffalo Terrabyte NAS to shift a lot off the main 
server and I now edit DV off the sever, alls well again with no limits.

Ed

Jim Bunn wrote:
>
> 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 this sort of information has been archived somewhere already.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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