Storage at UNIGE

UNIGE offers three different but complementary storage solutions for your data, each with its own advantages.

Local hard drive	Academic NAS	Cloud (OneDrive)	Magnetic tapes
Personal computer Lab equipments	Institutional file servers	File servers	Storage on tapes
Not easily shared	Easily shared	Easily shared	Not easily shared
Personal access	Access management for UNIGE members	Access management for UNIGE, and non-UNIGE members	Personal access
Security and backups to manage by one-self	Security and backups managed by IT-staff	Automatic security and backups, need to be parameterized	Security and backups in collaboration with IT-staff
	50 GB free 75 chf / To / year	5 Tb free for the collaborators 100 Gb free for the students	Less than 500TB : 25 CHF/TB/year 500TB to 1 PB : 20 CHF/TB/year 1 PB to 1.5 PB : 15 CHF/TB/year 1.5 PB and more : 10 CHF/TB/year
	https://catalogue-si.unige.ch/stockage-recherche https://catalogue-si.unige.ch/stockage-bureautique	https://plone.unige.ch/distic/pub/logiciels/onedrive/comment-installer-onedrive	https://catalogue-si.unige.ch/tape

Where large volumes of data need to be stored and do not need to be changed or accessed regularly, tape storage is inexpensive (max CHF 25/TB/year) and environmentally responsible thanks to its offline feature which minimises power consumption.

Requests for space can be made using the form : catalogue-si.unige.ch/stockage-recherche