CompSci friends. I was asked this past week if my professional work data is ‘safe’.
I am a nas ascientist. Before that I was a Columbia University scientist - I retain that Columbia status as an adjunct.
And thus, the google ‘unlimited drive’ offer which I could use with any collaborator was particularly attractive. And I’ve made good use of it. Like 4 TB worth. (That’s easy to attain with doing ensembles of simulations of real*8 X (resolution of atmosphere & ocean) X (sub-daily temporal resolution to resolve storms) X (~150 tracers to diagnose where water and energy go during storms).
I might not be the most prolific publisher of my group— but because I handle nearly all the past climate simulations (long, complicated, etc.), my usage is ~⅓ of my entire lab’s.
Unfortunately, last summer, Google changed its TOS, and said we only get 100 GB.
So, my ‘to do’ list this spring included migrating all the output of all my climate simulations (that I’ve shared and published with many colleagues) back to Box or OneDrive, where my plan was to beg for an exception.
My fail-safe plan was to pay google out of my own pocket. Or maybe deep storage AWS. Or see if there are any old-school tape archive type services.
But ESPECIALLY today February 2025, I don’t know what to do.
Does anyone have advice? (And if this is the second time you are telling me, please be patient and I’ll thank you in advance for being kind and explaining it again.)
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