ITC's systems have quotas which are enforced. The amount of disk space depends on your affiliation with the University when the account was created. To find out more about quotas, pleas see Home Directory Disk Quotas . The Home Directory is backed up daily. Files that you accidentally delete can usually be recovered.
Files are secure in case of hardware failure.
If your personal files are saved to the Home Directory Service and the hard disk on your computer crashes, you will have copies of your work. You can publish Web pages without the need to use a Unix account and you will have easy access to personal Web space through the Home Directory. If you do not have an account, go the the accounts page and create a Unix account, which also gives you access to the Home Directory Service. You do not need to download any software to use Home Directory Service from a Macintosh. It offers RAID level 4, which provides for high reliability and additional capacity in case of disk failure.