kingbyu's Journal: University Account Quotas

So with Gmail offering 1GB storage, Yahoo: 100MB, and HoTMaiL offering 250MB, what kind of storage solutions do universities offer their students? Typical for BYU seems to be in the range of 100MB, but that isn't just for email, that is the quota for all computer storage.

Hard drives now cost less than 1 dollar a GB. Even considering that you want to have the drives RAIDed, offering more storage for students is still fairly inexpensive. Giving away 500 MB storage would cost less than $5 per student. This assumes that students would fill all 500 MB, which they wouldn't, so in actuality, it would cost much less.