[Year 12 IPM] school HDD capacity

[Donna Benjamin]

Hi folks - saw this article and in light of the recent thread, thought
it may be of interest.

- D.

http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1512318951;fp;16;fpid;0
Sydney school gets serious about storage 
Rodney Gedda - 01/09/2006 12:02:03

"In a sign that storage area networks (SANs) are extending their reach
in to mid-tier enterprises, a Sydney high school has deployed 10TB of
capacity for its data management and disaster recovery requirements.

This is serious storage for a high school and is evidence of the more
complex deployments taking place in the education sector."

....

On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 20:48 +1000, Jim Bunn wrote:
> 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.
> 
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> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jim
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> 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
> 
> 
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> 
> 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? 
> 
>  
> 
> 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
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> 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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