RStore Drive

An onsite research storage solution available to researchers and research groups looking to collaborate and share folders and data files over the network that require high-speed performance storage.  

• Research use only. 
• Access to storage requires faculty sponsorship and TTS approval. 
• High-speed storage for individual or collaborative use on the Tufts network. 
• 90-day snapshots 
• Usage dashboard available for PIs and approvers
• Networked storage space starts at 50 GB.  
• Additional storage is available to faculty researchers based on their research-specific computational and data needs.  
• July 1, 2024 to July 1, 2026:  
  • Tufts faculty/research groups can be allocated up to a maximum of 5 TB across both RStore Drive and HPC Cluster storage per research group per year at no cost, 
  • On 8/1/2024 Tufts faculty/research group’s storage quotas will be reduced to a maximum of 5TB above storage usage as of 7/1/2024. 
  • Tufts faculty/research groups with need for greater than 5TB per year growth rate will need to engage individually with TTS to address their needs. 
• July 1, 2026: 
  • Tufts faculty/research groups can be allotted up to a maximum 10 TB quota at no cost across both RStore and HPC Storage. 
  • $85 per TB per year beyond 10 TB quota billed monthly to PI. 

Please see the Data Storage Finder for detailed features, policies, costs, requirements, and storage requests.