The following support article will show you the various options available to both students and employees for file storage.
Physical Storage
Physical storage, also known as local storage, is the most basic type of storage that most people use and think about. This method involves storing your data on hard disk drives, solid state drives, external hard drives, or USB flash drives. Essentially it is data being stored on a physical item that you directly own and control. The pros to this type of storage is that you have direct control over it and can access it at any time. The downside is that it is stored locally so if you accidentally spill a drink on your device, or lose it, there is no backup of the data.
Microsoft OneDrive
Microsoft OneDrive is a cloud storage service that allows you to save your files online. Every active EKU student and employee is granted access to use Microsoft OneDrive through their EKU email address. To access the site, go to https://onedrive.live.com/login/ and login using your full EKU email address and EKU email password. Each active EKU account is granted 1 TB of space in OneDrive. The benefit of cloud storage is that it allows you to safely backup and store your files securely online, making them accessible from any device with an internet connection. You can edit, share, and even sync up your files to make working on multiple devices much simpler.
Google Drive
Google Drive is another cloud storage option, much like OneDrive. It offers almost identical services and once again is available for free for any active EKU student or employee by using your EKU email address to login at https://workspace.google.com/products/drive/. The storage capacity for an EKU user on Google Drive is 100 GB. The pros and cons of using Google Drive are going to be the same as OneDrive since they are both cloud based and nearly identical except for the branding.
Network Drives
Network Drives act very similar to the normal hard drives found in personal computers. You can save items on your network drive in the same way you could your local disk drives. Network drives are shared storage areas that are created by IT. Different network drives are used to do different things, some save files like cloud storage and others allow you to share files between different authorized members of your department. The network drives should automatically appear for employees with EKU-issued Windows PCs or for students logging in to computer lab PCs. EKU employees each have a personal network drive (designated as U: drive) that they can access and store personal files on with a capacity of 10 GB. If this drive is not automatically showing up on your EKU issued laptop, you can reach it by copying and pasting \\facultystaff.eku.edu\filesrv\user\%username% into a File Explorer address bar. You can find more detailed information about the different individual network drives and how to manually map them HERE.