Academic Research Storage
The academic research storage drive is used to provide centrally managed storage to house unrestricted data for active research projects. Up to 10 TB of storage may be granted with basic justification upon request from a Stony Brook University or Stony Brook Medicine professor. Requests for more than 10TB will require more detail and, if granted, will likely only be satisfied for a specific period of time.
Research Computing
A Stony Brook professor should submit a request to the IACS ticketing system and select the " Request RPX CIFS Share(RPX ONLY)" help topic. Your request should include the following information: A) amount of storage requested B) duration of the storage C) the names and NetIDs of all members of your research group who should have access to this storage.
Once the storage folder has been created, please see this page for instructions on using the Common Internet File System (CIFS) protocol to access it.
The data located in your Academic Research Storage drive is NOT backed up. Backing up the data and ensuring its integrity is the sole responsibility of the user. This storage has NOT been approved for HIPAA data or any data associated with privacy or liability concerns. Consequently, use of this system to process ePHI or other data that falls under the purview of HIPAA and privacy guidelines is in violation of the act.
Example Use Case
A Professor In Biochemistry & Cell Biology has collected genomic data from an experiment and needs a collaborative space to house the data while their team analyzes it prior to publication. Note that due to the high cost of enterprise storage, we discourage use of this storage system as an archive.