Rice faculty, staff and students can store electronic files in several solutions inside Rice’s physical footprint or outside Rice, in the cloud. The most frequently over-looked space is individual user space with each person’s NetID, called simply “storage.rice.edu.” Undergraduate students get 2GB and faculty, staff and graduate students get 5GB of storage space that can be mapped to a computer as a separate drive.
Each faculty, staff and student gets 30GB of Google Drive space, also associated with their NetID. Undergraduate students manager their email through Rice Gmail, which consumes part of their 30Gb of storage space. Data and files stored in Rice Google Drive spaces are saved off-campus and possibly out of the United States, so Google Drive is not an appropriate location for sensitive and confidential university data.
For additional storage solutions, see the attached PowerPoint slides.
Contact the IT Help Desk at 713.348.4357 or helpdesk@ to discuss specific storage needs for departments and research groups.