Network Drives
Network drives are accessible once you are connected to the Colorado College network. Students, Faculty, Staff, and various departments may have network drives to facilitate the storing and sharing of information with other network users.
Though storage space is a little limited on your CC network drives, they are the best place to store your important information (space is limited because the infrastructure is set up to be high quality, redundant, backed up, and always available). We have been expanding that storage gradually over time, and would rather advocate for more resources to expand it further if necessary than have campus community members experience data loss. If you get a message that you are over your allocated storage space, let us know and we can most likely increase that for you.
H drives – your personal network storage
All faculty, students, and staff have access to at least one network drive which we call the H: drive – this drive is intended for important files that you cannot easily reproduce (a draft of a thesis is an example of what to store on your H: drive, whereas pictures from your recent trip or your favorite music are examples of what you should not store on your H: drive).
Information saved to your H: drive is backed up daily and resides securely on Colorado College’s servers – this means that we can restore it to the state it was in yesterday, last week, or even several months ago. It also means it is accessible from all your devices, cannot be stolen by a thief, and is a more private location than cloud data storage such as dropbox or skydrive.
I drives – network storage for your department or office
All faculty and staff also have access to a shared network drive which we call the I: drive – this drive is similar in many ways to the H: drive, though instead of being intended for a single person’s data, it is intended for important data to a group of people such as a department or office (a contact list of phone numbers is a good example of what to store on an I: drive, whereas cat pictures or an installer for a program you use are examples of what you should not store on the I: drive).
Information saved to the I: drive is backed up daily and resides securely on Colorado College’s servers – this means that we can restore it to the state it was in yesterday, last week, or even several months ago. It also means it is accessible from all your devices, cannot be stolen by a thief, and is a more private location than cloud data storage such as dropbox or skydrive.
For instructions on mapping to your network drive(s), see the links on the left and choose the one appropriate to your operating system.
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