Large Scale Storage (LSS)

Available to
Faculty,
Researchers,
Departments

Large Scale Storage (LSS) is a cost-effective and scalable storage solution available to all University of Iowa faculty, researchers, and departments.  

LSS is useful for:

  • backups
  • archives
  • storing large files (e.g. videos and images)
  • HPC workloads that demand high bandwidth and storage

Please visit the Data Classification Guide to IT Services for a list of data types LSS is approved for.

Benefits of LSS

  • 1TB-100TB+ shared space
  • Optimized for HPC workloads that demand high bandwidth and storage
  • Daily backups and snapshots help recover a deleted file (or a different version of a file) as far back as 30 days, unless other increments are needed
  • Replication copies files to a remote site for disaster recovery (optional)
  • Access from off-campus is available through VPN (UI Anywhere) or Virtual Desktop

LSS does not support complex nested permissions inside a single file share.

No cost storage for faculty

For faculty, a single 5TB share with backups is available upon request at no cost on either LSS or the Research Data Storage Service. Additional space may be purchased at the standard rate.

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Fees

Shared storage (standard LSS usage)

Storage space is available at a cost of $35 per terabyte/year (billed monthly at $2.92/TB) per copy of data.

For researchers with a faculty appointment, a single 5TB share with backups is available upon request at no cost on either LSS or the Research Data Storage Service. Additional space may be purchased at the standard rate.

Dedicated storage nodes

​If a Researchers meets certain criteria they can purchase can an entire LSS server which Research Services will administrates similarly to Shared LSS.

Dedicated storage nodes incur an up-front cost of $2500 per node to secure 5 years of maintenance & support from ITS-Research Services staff.

Dedicated storage nodes which are more than 5 years old may continue to be used up to 7 years at a cost of $2500 per year under some conditions.

For more information, please contact the ITS-Research Services team at research-computing@uiowa.edu

Contact

Support for LSS is available 8am-5pm Monday through Friday. Please email research-computing@uiowa.edu.