File and Data Storage Matrix

Last updated March 7th 2023
  On-Premise Solutions Hybrid Cloud Service Solutions
Engineering IT Storage Research Storage as a Service (RSaaS) Taiga & Granite Nightingale Illinois Data Bank Open Storage Network Azure Storage
(Microsoft)
Amazon S3
(AWS)
OneDrive for Business (Office 365) U of I Box Google Apps @ Illinois
Service Information EngrIT Storage
or
Server Hosting
RSaaS NCSA's
Taiga & Granite
NCSA's
Nightingale
Illinois Data Bank The Open Storage Network Introduction to Azure Storage AWS @ Illinois OneDrive for Business U of I Box Google Apps @ Illinois
Where to get help engrit-help@illinois.edu help@ncsa.illinois.edu researchdata@library.illinois.edu OSN's Slack Network azure-support@illinois.edu aws-support@illinois.edu Tech Services Help Desk
Amount of storage provided per person $49/TB/Year $56.04/TB/Year
(Billed monthly, and chargeable to grants)
Taiga: $30.48/TB/year
Granite: $15.62/TB/year
(External user pricing available)
Nightingale:$10.54/TB/month 2 TB/year 1-50TB (Get an Allocation) Azure has a pricing calculator available Amazon S3 has tiered pricing for their storage OneDrive at Illinois provides unlimited storage for individuals Terms of service with Box are currently in flux, unlimited storage is suspected to change.  Terms of service with Google have changed, unlimited storage changing soon. 
Amount of storage provided per team (group) Storage allotments can scale based on needs of the research group N/A Determined by team that receives an allocation Storage allotments can scale based on needs of the research group OneDrive is part of Microsoft Teams and provides unlimited storage for teams Terms of service with Box are currently in flux, unlimited storage is suspected to change.  Terms of service with Google have changed, unlimited storage changing soon. 
Maximum size for a single file Dependent on OS and File System N/A Taiga has a 1TB per 1.5Million inode limit N/A 15 GB
(can ingest via Box)
5TB Upper limit depends on the Azure solution, their Blob Storage has a file size limit of 200 TB 5 TB
(AWS Multipart Upload)
10 GB
maximum of 20,000 files per subfolder
150 GB
maximum of 15,000 files per subfolder
5 TB
maximum of 400,000 files per subfolder
Approved for storing FERPA data COMPLIANT COMPLIANT COMPLIANT NOT COMPLIANT NOT COMPLIANT NOT COMPLIANT NOT COMPLIANT NOT COMPLIANT  NOT COMPLIANT COMPLIANT NOT COMPLIANT
Approved for storing HIPAA data NOT COMPLIANT NOT COMPLIANT NOT COMPLIANT COMPLIANT NOT COMPLIANT NOT COMPLIANT NOT COMPLIANT NOT COMPLIANT NOT COMPLIANT COMPLIANT FOLDERS ARE AVAILABLE NOT COMPLIANT
Approved for storing CUI data NOT COMPLIANT NOT COMPLIANT NOT COMPLIANT COMPLIANT NOT  COMPLIANT NOT COMPLIANT NOT COMPLIANT NOT COMPLIANT NOT COMPLIANT NOT COMPLIANT NOT COMPLIANT
Web Access N/A Web access and file transfer available through Globus N/A OSN Portal Microsoft Azure AWS @ Illinois OneDrive for Business U of I Box Google Drive
Mobile Access N/A Mobile access available through Globus Responsive design works on  most devices 3rd party apps supporting S3 Azure Mobile App AWS Console Mobile App OneDrive for Business app Box Apps  Google Drive Mobile App
Desktop Access Can be mounted to Operating Systems via NFS or SMB API available Cyberduck Download Many storage solutions through Azure has ability to mount via NFS or SMB Creating a File Share for S3 OneDrive for Business Sync software Download the Box Drive software from the Box website Google Drive desktop software
Backup & Recovery $53/TB/Year RSaaS Disaster Recovery (DR) Service
$3.00/TB/Year
Disaster Recovery software available on request N/A N/A Cloud services are often replicated to different sites; where those sites are located is worth consideration when working with sensitive data.