Research Data Storage Facility
Store your research data securely over the long term.
The RDSF (Research Data Storage Facility) allows you to securely store your University research data in the medium to long-term.
Each Principal Investigator / academic data steward at the University of Bristol can store up to 5 Terabytes (TB) of data on the RDSF. You can use your data storage allocation to store data from multiple research projects.
Storage above 5 TB of data
You can purchase additional data storage if you need to store more than 5TB of data.
The cost of 1TB of data storage is £131.46 per year. This cost can only be applied to research grant applications within the lifetime of the research project.
If you need RDSF data storage for multiple research projects, you need to create an separate RDSF project for each of your research projects.
The £131.46 cost per TB of storage is a TRAC (Transparent Approach to Costing) rate which you can add to your grant applications within the Research Facilities area of Worktribe.
Where is the Research Data Storage Facility?
The RDSF is a set of disks and servers housed in two separate data centres on the University of Bristol campus, with regular back ups to tape storage both on and off site.
You can access your RDSF data from Windows, Mac or Linux.
The ACRC's HPC (High Performance Computing) systems also include the ability to keep your research data while it is needed for computation, but this data storage is not backed up and so we recommend you use the RDSF to keep a secure copy of research data which you cannot easily recreate.
For information about other data storage options at the University please see the main IT services pages about all the University filestores available to researchers.
Email rdsf-help@bristol.ac.uk for support.