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Retriever Research Storage (RRStor)
The RRStor system is comprised of 24 CEPH nodes that compromises 2.4PiB in hard drive storage and 110TiB in NVMe storage.
Default Allocations
A PI may request a default allocation of 10TiB of space, or 25TiB if the PI belongs to COEIT.
Enhanced Allocations
MOUs
Storage Volume Auditing
A yearly audit of a PIs research allocation may be conducted.
Cloud Storage
New faculty members will receive 25GB of storage on each of the following services: Google Storage, OneDrive, and Box
New students will receive 5GB of storage on each of the following services: Google Storage, OneDrive, and Box
If you were an employee or a student before January 2025 please see the following page: https://doit.umbc.edu/cloud-storage-changes/
The RCD team also manages university AWS accounts where we can negotiate a monthly fee for additional storage
Gemini, AWS S3, AWS Glacier
Calculators
Direct all questions to research-computing@umbc.edu