The College offers three data storage options.
Nasuni – Your Home drives. 25GB limit, files are backed up nightly and easily restored if issues arise.
Google Drive – Unlimited storage, off-campus so can be slow depending on file size. Files are also restore-able.
Big data – Generally used for Research data. Anything over 100GB that you need access to fast would best be served here. Files are backed up and easily restore-able.
CATS suggested storage locations
| Recommended Usage: | Internal Drive | External Drive | Google Drive | Nasuni, Smith H: or S: Drives | Equallogic Big Data Storage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sharing with Colleagues |  |  | | | |
| Sharing with Students | | | | | |
| Sharing controlled by YOU | | | |  | |
| Sharing controlled by CATS/ITS | | | | | |
| Live Collaborative Work | | | | | |
| Active Research Data Sets < 25GB | | | | | |
| Active Research Data Sets > 1TB | | | | | |
| PII/Sensitive Data |  | | | | |
| Client Backup* | | | | | |
Chart Key
| = Yes | | = No |
| = Maybe | | = Caution |
Data Management Plan
Data Visualization
Live Data
Pond http://pond.smith.edu/index.html
MacLeish http://macleish.smith.edu/index.html
Physics Weather
Building OS
Restoring versions of your data
You are able to restore your own data via all supported storage solutions.
- Nasuni/NAS – On a Windows computer you can right click on the folder or the file and restore a previous version of that file. If the file was completely deleted you will need to contact ITS to have the file/folder restored. Mac users, you need to use a Windows computer to do this.
- Google – you can open the file and go to File > revision history. More in-depth instructions are available here: https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2409045?hl=en