The Data Depot is a high-capacity, fast, reliable and secure data storage service designed, configured and operated for the needs of Purdue researchers in any field and shareable with both on-campus and off-campus collaborators. Depot does not require HPC allocations but data on Depot can be mounted on all campus clusters if desired. Find out more at https://www.rcac.purdue.edu/storage/depot/
| Platform | File system |
|---|---|
| Primary Use | Storage and services, including data transfer, file structure, and tools. Group oriented. |
| Who Owns the Data | Purdue/Research group lead faculty. |
| Commercial Entity | No |
| Design Target (its goals) | Optimized for data transfer, volume, and reliability on HPC systems and beyond. |
| Price | 100 GB free trial option; Purchase in TB increments, currently $ 75 per TB per year |
| Available storage | No upper limit; Total storage capacity: 2.25 PB. |
| Privacy | Data Depot + community clusters have been used by research covered by EAR. |
| Accessible from HPC systems | Depot is mounted directly on HPC clusters using GPFS. Data to and from Depot can use Globus for transfer. Personal and lab computers on campus can also transfer files with SCP/SFTP, CIFS, NFS from anywhere. |
| Back-ups | Replicated across campus. Nightly snapshots to protect against accidental deletion. |
| Data retention | Data is not purged. |
| Shared account/support for collaboration | Set up to allow research lab wide access. Files/directories can be shared with collaborators. |
| Permissions | Can be set based on Project Team’s preferences. |
| Access after you leave Purdue | Lose access, but data is retained as long as a Purdue affiliated person is the project manager. |
| Data management plan | None. |
| Publication of datasets | No |
| Assigns DOIs | No |
| Preserve datasets | No purging. Not a preservation archive. |
| Trusted repository | No |
| Metadata | No |
| Dataset preview and edit from the platform | An app accessible from home directory. |
| Data security | Secured through Purdue authentication. Campus firewall. |
| Treatment of sensitive data |
FERPA data allowed. Human subjects data allowed with IRB approved text. |
