ARCHIVED: UITS Service Overview: Scholarly Data Archive (SDA)

Service name: Scholarly Data Archive (SDA)

Role: File storage

Description:

The Indiana University Scholarly Data Archive (SDA) provides extensive capacity (approximately 79 PB of tape overall) for storing and accessing research data. The SDA is a distributed storage service co-located at IU data centers in Bloomington and Indianapolis, providing IU researchers with large-scale archival or near-line data storage, arranged in large files, with two copies of data made by default (for disaster recovery).

Cost: Free of charge under 50 TB quota. When in support of research activities, extensions beyond 50 TB may be granted for a nominal charge. If you need more than 50 TB, submit your request using the SDA Quota Increase Request form.

Further reference:

Adoption process:

For eligibility requirements, see the "Research system accounts (all campuses)" section in Computing accounts at IU.

To request an individual (personal) account on the Indiana University Scholarly Data Archive (SDA), follow the instructions in Get additional IU computing accounts.
If you are eligible to request an SDA account, but the SDA is not listed among the accounts available for you to request, contact your campus Support Center for help.
To request an SDA account for your IU group account, use the SDA Group Account Request form.

After submitting your account request, UITS will notify you via email when your account is ready for use.

Note:

In accordance with standards for access control mandated by the HIPAA Security Rule, you are not permitted to access data containing protected health information (PHI) using a group (or departmental) account. To ensure accountability and maintain appropriate levels of access control, all users must use an individual login for all work involving PHI.

Service contact information: store-admin@iu.edu

Platform restrictions: None

Meets UIPO/UISO guidelines: Yes

Data classification approval: Public, University-internal, Restricted, PHI