[Year 12 IPM] school HDD capacity

[Andrew Sutton]

Our school with about 30 teachers and 270 students has a server with 8x250gb
disks that are raided. We use a couple Maxtor external drives for backup,
and when we get them up and running our old servers will kick in and take
some capacity as well. That gives us around 675gb total user space. 
At the moment we have about 550gb free so we are not worried about user
spaces but If we see them getting to big we tell the kids to put it on CD as
it means the backups may not be finished to a Maxtor overnight because of
the 100mpbs network card.  At the moment all is fine but with our schools
likely move to doing digital portfolios will mean a move to videos which
will start to chew up hard drive space.  And most of that could be
duplicated ie. (Movies may have a Raw file, compressed movie file,
powerpoint file.)  Is anyone else out there doing videos in digital
portfolios and if they are how big can we expect them to grow? To be honest
I am also quite worried about the ability of our networks bandwidth to keep
up with large amounts of digital video.  We are probably foolish for even
considering having digital video on our network.      

Andrew Sutton
IT Teacher
St Arnaud Secondary College





-----Original Message-----
From: ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au] On
Behalf Of fiona at balmoralhs.vic.edu.au
Sent: Wednesday, 9 August 2006 9:26 AM
To: ipm at edulists.com.au
Subject: Re: [Year 12 IPM] school HDD capacity

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,
> 
>  
> 
> 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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