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=== Upgrading storage space ===
 
=== Upgrading storage space ===
 
* Storage space may be upgraded at R 1,000 per TB per year in the following steps:
 
* Storage space may be upgraded at R 1,000 per TB per year in the following steps:
** Add 5 TB
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** 5 TB total (add 4)
** Add 10 TB
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** 10 TB
** Add 20 TB or more
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** 20 TB or more

Revision as of 18:17, 6 May 2018

Pricing

The price of a basic account is R 1,500 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://trin.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 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