Overview
A comparison list of file services
Details
| Box | OneDrive | Home Folders | AFS | |
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Primary recommendation for new use cases |
Usage not recommended for Staff or Institionial usage | Availability, capabilities and recommendation varies by business unit | Deprecated, not recommended for new use cases | |
| Initial Disk Space | 50GB | 50GB | depends | 250MB |
| Max Disk Space | Unlimited | 1TB | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Max file size | 5GB | 50GB | none | 24GB |
| Recommended for | ||||
| Student use | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Faculty and Staff use | Yes | Yes | ||
| Department use | Yes | No | Yes | |
| "Shared" Workspaces for institutional use | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Can sync with multiple computers or phones | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Large file performance | Slow | Slow | Fast | Medium |
| What happens when a student leaves RPI? | Can request to have RPI Box account migrated to personal Box account – Max 50 gb - free | Expires with RCS Account | Expires with RCS Account | Expires with RCS Account |
| Charge | No | No | Yes | Yes |
References:
Information Classification Policy (requires connection to RPI network to access)
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