Re: [LM_NET] Hit: Disk Space Allocation

[Debra Gniewek <dgniewek@COMCAST.NET>]

Our Supervisor of Information Technology is considering increasing the amount of 
disk space for students and staff and asked us to inquire as to what the 
standard is for other districts and schools.  

 Currently, everyone is limited to 500 MB, but the IT Supervisor is 
considering 1 GB for students, and 5 GB for staff.

Here are the e-mails I received about disk space allocation:
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We have:
K-8   15mb
9-12  25mb
Staff unlimited 

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I would raise two issues which have come into play here at the end of
the year.  
        1.  How many teachers assign Powerpoint presentations?  They are
real space hogs especially if they include a lot of graphics.
        2.  The way our system works is we have a shared drive where
teachers can set up folders for students to store work so each student
working on a group project has access.  ANYTHING you create and store in
a folder other than your home directory counts against your disk space.
We remind them to clean out old projects from shared folders but still
have those panic moments.

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Yahoo's free email gives 1 GB per user - I'm currently only using 1% of 
it and I have 80 emails sitting in my inbox, and that's not counting 
what I have moved to other folders that I want to be able to access 
from anyway

I never have any problems with storage.

Back when it was 400 MB, I had problems that messages would be bounced 
because it was full.
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Debra Gniewek, Librarian
CRHS South
Holland, PA
vm: 215-944-1175
fax: 215-944-1144
dgniewek@crsd.org
dgniewek@comcast.net
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