The Research Data Storage Service (RDSS) is useful for backups, archiving, and storing research data files.

Benefits

• CIFS/SMB and NFS shares are available
• Auditing can be turned on for ​CIFS/SMB, which allows for Level III data to be stored
• Snapshots help recover a deleted file (or a different version of a file) within 30 days
• Replication copies files to a remote site every four hours for disaster recovery

Approved Data Classification Levels

RDSS is approved for the following data classification levels:

• Public
• Internal
• Restricted*
• HIPAA* (SMB/CIFS only)
• Export-Controlled (Please contact research-computing@uiowa.edu before putting Export-Controlled data on RDSS)

* If you intend to share/store data that originated in Iowa Health Care (e.g. patient, employee, finance, student, etc), outside of the Health Care Covered Entity (RDSS is considered outside of the Health Care Covered Entity), you are responsible for obtaining approval from the UI Health Care Data Governance group.  Please submit a request by navigating to the UI Health Care Data Governance Request Form.

Cost

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

Researchers who are not eligible for the no-cost 5TB may purchase storage space at the standard rate of $270 per TB per year (billed monthly at $22.50 per TB per month).

How to Subscribe

To subscribe to this service, complete the RDSS Request Form.