Published on October 3, 2008

This week, Penn State Information Technology Services (ITS) will significantly increase the amount of personal storage space available to University community members from the current one gigabyte maximum, to five gigabytes of space for course work, research, Web projects, portfolios, personal blogging, graphics, photos and more. In addition to the increase, users will also be able to take advantage of a new utility that provides the ability to recreate an individual's PASS home folder (or other folders stored in PASS), if these folders are accidentally deleted. For details and instructions related to this feature, please visit the ITS Knowledge Base at http://kb.its.psu.edu/ and search on the criteria, "Recreating PASS Space."

Penn State Access Account Storage Space (PASS) provides universally accessible disk and file-storage space for use by students, faculty, and staff at Penn State. Participants are initially allocated 500 MB of online storage space upon receipt of a Penn State Access Account. Users can increase their storage allocations to five gigabytes via the ITS Secure Server's quota utility at https://www.work.psu.edu/. PASS is also available for departmental and course use.

For additional information about PASS, visit http://its.psu.edu/. Inquiries and requests for assistance should be directed to ITS Help Desk staff at helpdesk@psu.edu.

For more information, please contact Karen M. Hackett (kmh@psu.edu).