Network Help: What are the Network Drives?

Questions about our network drives come up periodically and I thought I would address this with a little infomercial to the School. We have 3 drive areas that make up our primary data areas for the School of Nursing.

V Drive - Home Share The 'Home' area - is also our V drive. This area is intended for individual use only and not to share data between users. Use it to store or backup files or data. If you put things here from one computer, then log on to another computer - you can access and only you will have access to these files.

K Drive - Group Share The 'Group' area - is our K drive. This area is intended for sharing files or data between members of specific groups. Use it to store, backup or share files between group members. Non-group members will have no access to these folders or directories.

O Drive - Share area The 'Share' area - is our O drive. This area is used to share data or files between all School of Nursing network users. Use it to share data that all users are allowed to see, that is do not place data here that is confidential or should be.

Police your data or files: As with all of our computing resources they are each improved with a little care and upkeep. In this sense, as you are working with your data or files - remove the ones you are certain you no longer need. If you need to backup your data from your PC, try to avoid copying Windows, Office or other applications - focus on copying just the data files. Applications can be reinstalled and in fact do not compress as easily as data files do - and take more space on our backup tape. Following these tips will help reduce the clutter on our network drives.

Thanks and let us know if there are questions.