H Drive Forum Recap

Forum held June 16, 2008, 7-8 pm, TAY 120

 

Focus of Forum: Discussing the reasons for the removal of the Student Home Directories (Jupiter web drives) from all campus computers.

 

Main Points of Discussion

• Students will no longer be able to add files to their H Drives beginning August 1, 2008. They will be ‘read only' after that date. Students will still be able to download files from their H Drives onto personal storage devices.
• All H Drives will be completely erased on October 31, 2008.
• Campus-wide storage will no longer be provided to students after Oct. 31, 2008.

 

Pros of Action

• Student storage needs will be met through personal storage devices (i.e. thumb drives, personal pc's, laptops).
• Costs will be cut tremendously, and the saving will go towards improving the bandwidth on campus.
• Students will have better access to personal data by using personal storage devices.

 

Cons of Action

• No back up for documents saved on personal storage devices.
• Students may lose data initially by not being aware of the H Drive removal.
• Faculty will no longer be able to save class work on the Jupiter network.

 

Side notes

• H Drives are also known as Webshare when accessing your personal student account.
• Students are encouraged to begin downloading their needed files to personal storage devices by the end of the semester.
• Incoming freshman for the Fall will not be given H Drives.