Individuals can only guard their belongings so much against the general chaos of living a life of work and play. One downside to storing files in a thumb drive or hard drive is that hardware can be misplaced, stolen, or damaged. This is why using some form of network storage can really help you save your career and keep your work safe. Most file servers, like the ones we run here at Academic Computing, are backed up regularly to ensure your files’ safekeeping. Here our technicians work to provide Evergreen students and Academic Programs with a reliable, universally accessible way of storing their work on our file server called the Orca. It is also important to note that as of now we only reserve 100 MB for each student on the server, making it equally crucial to use both hard storage devices – thumb drives for most documents and external hard drives for larger items – and your storage folders on the network. We also have a file server called Nimrod, which is reserved for multimedia art students. It should be noted that Nimrod is not accessible off campus and is not backed up regularly – this server is best used for temporary storage and transferring works in progress from one computer to another.
Visit our File Space wiki to learn more about access to the Orca or Nimrod.
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