Hi, At our last meeting we discussed getting some disk space for UG projects that would be visible to jobs running on the condor pool. This afternoon Julia and I discussed this with Kenny and while we all agreed that it was a good idea we felt that it was a little bit of a chicken and egg situation. People wouldn't use immediately because they weren't used to using it and so it would take to become useful. If physics paid several £k for a server with (say) 40TB of usable space now it would already be close to being obsolete by the time people were really starting to use it in 3 or 4 years time and so most of the value would be wasted. So instead we thought that a having a smaller unit that people can start to use but expecting it to be upgraded to to a full server when usage took off. So what we are looking for is something with a few TB of disc space, machine managed by ICT content managed by physics. At a very basic level this could be a machine with just 2 x 4TB disk with RAID 1 ... however I think that ICT should suggest a cost effective solution as we are asking them to manage it. This would provide a testbed for projects and would be replaced by a larger server as usage grew. What do others (especially ICT) think about this suggestion? Best, david