Storage Quotas and Charges
From Centre for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Pricing
The price of a basic account is R 2,000 per year (to be confirmed soon).
Checking storage quotas
- A web-based system for checking the different user and group storage quotas and charges is available at http://storageadmin.bi.up.ac.za.
- Home directory quotas can be checked with:
To be confirmed
- nLustre quotas can be checked with:
> lfs quota -u username /nlustre
Storage
A basic account (R 2,000 per year) provides:
- 512 GB of storage space in /home/user
- 1 TB of storage space in /nlustre/user and /nlustre/scratch/user
- 512 GB of storage space in Galaxy
- Unlimited computational usage
Upgrading storage space
- Storage space may be upgraded at R 1,000 per TB per year in the following steps:
- 5 TB total (add 4)
- 10 TB
- 20 TB or more