Comparison of File Storage Services
- Heaton, Brian
- Grosshandler, Mike
- Lyons, Andrew H
UAlbany Service | Available To | Purpose | Storage Space | Can Share with UAlbany NetID Holders | Can Share with Others Outside UAlbany3 | Creation | Files are Web Accessible from Anywhere | Can be Mapped as a Drive in Windows1 | Can be synced with OneDrive Sync Client (Windows or macOS) | Can be Mounted as a File System in macOS1 | Can be Mounted as a File System in Linux1 | Android App | iPhone/iPad App | Secure FTP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Faculty, Staff, and Students | Individual use & Shared use | 1TB | Automatic | 2 | 2 |  |  | |||||||
Faculty, Staff, and Students | Shared use | 1TB | By user | Â | Â | Â | Â | |||||||
Faculty and Staff | Individual use | 5GB (expandable to 25GB) | Â | Â | Automatic | Â | 1 | Â | 1 | 1 | Â | Â | ||
Faculty, Staff, and Students | Individual use | 100MB (with optional increases by request) | Â | Â | Automatic | Â | 1 | Â | 1 | 1 | Â | |||
Faculty, Staff, Emeriti, Volunteers, Student Employees | Shared use | Varies by Division | Â | By request | Â | 1 | Â | 1 | 1 | Â | Â | |||
Researchers | Research-related files and data | 10TB |
| Â | By request | Â | 1 | Â | 1 | 1 | Â | Â | Â |
1 Drive mappings are available from within the UAlbany network or from outside the UAlbany network if a VPN connection is made. Note that the drive mapping (as opposed to Web access) allows you to save directly from any app on your workstation directly to the storage space.
2 Requires an app.
3 Defined as anyone that does not have a UAlbany NetID.
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