Researchers need reliable, collaborative, high-capacity and affordable storage solutions to manage their data. In order to provide appropriate solutions that meet the requirements of researchers, RCP offers two storage services:
- RCP-NAS : collaborative storage
This service provides multi-site, snapshotted (ransomware-resistant), multi-protocol (Mac, Linux, Windows) storage for labs, schools, and platforms. 10 PB are currently available in the RCP system. The service description provides more details on this offer.
- High-performance storage subsystem.
This service offers a vendor-based (i.e., with support guarantees) storage solution for medium capacity, high-performance solutions. This storage is only accessible from the computing environment to be used as a scratch storage.
Collaboration and Archive Storage Systems offered at EPFL
| Storage Type/Specifications | NASRCP | NAS2023 | Object Storage (S3) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Replication | * | * | * |
| Snapshots | * | * | * |
| Protocols | NFS, SMB | CIFS, SMB | S3 |
| Offered Quota | None | 1 TB | None |
| Backup service | No | Yes | No |
| Performance | **** | **** | ** |
| Eligible for confidential Data | * | * | * |
| Typical Use | Active Research Data | Active Administrative data | Backups, Archives, Cold Data – Both administrative and Research |
| Operator | VPA-RCP | VPO-SI | VPO-SI |
| Price | 20,75 CHF/TB /year(U1) | TBD | 29 CHF/TB/year |
