USS Storage

What is Universal Scale Storage?

The SDSC Research Data Services team offers a large-scale high-performance storage cluster to campus users, members of the UC community, and UC affiliates. Universal Scale Storage is often combined with the compute services at SDSC because of its ease of mounting and high connection speed, making it the preferred storage choice of many researchers who work with Big Data.

The SDSC Universal Scale Storage service provides a secure storage platform offering transparent data protection. File system permissions and secure authentication establish a familiar set of access controls to enable multiuser collaboration while restricting unauthorized access. If a user account or client system is compromised, the data stored on USS will remain protected by an automated snapshot policy that schedules daily snapshots and maintains the last 30 as read-only copies of the entire dataset. Extreme scenarios involving ransomware can be quickly resolved by restoring the last snapshot. Security extends to the underlying hardware, which is physically monitored 24/7 and protected with two factor authentication at the SDSC datacenter.

If you're interested in learning more about the Universal Scale Storage service please email services@sdsc.edu for information.

Using your USS Allocation:

The storage can be accessed with the following protocols:

• SMB

• NFS

• S3 API

What is the difference between USS S3 and SDSC Cloud Storage?

Please see the FAQ answer on the What is the difference between SDSC Cloud Storage S3 and USS S3 Access? page.

Support

Issues and support requests may be submitted to support@sdsc.edu. Status of the Universal Scale Storage service will be posted to http://status.sdsc.edu.