CSC Fairdata IDA
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CSC Fairdata IDA (Finland) — quota granted per CSC project, funded from the home organisation's national TB pool Storage
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| Free tier | No flat per-user number; the quota is a slice of your organisation's allocation. Published national pool (last updated 2025-02-28): University of Helsinki 1,500 TB, Aalto 480 TB, University of Oulu 465 TB, University of Turku 427 TB, Tampere universities 361.7 TB, Åbo Akademi 150 TB, and so on. You apply for a number of GiB in MyCSC and your organisation's IDA contact person approves it, 'usually within a few working days'. unit TB; metered on unstated |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Per-object cap | not stated |
| Retention | not stated |
| Egress | Free; IDA is a CSC national service and 'The use of Fairdata IDA doesn't consume Billing Units.' |
| Identity | institution derived from the record's prose, not from an identity field, and no signup was executed: ocation. Published national pool (last updated 2025-02-28): University of Helsinki 1,500 TB, Aalto 480 TB, University of Oulu 465 TB, University of Turku 427 TB, Tampere universities 361.7 T |
| Limits |
per-object-cap: not published. Retention: 'Data can be stored for a duration at least as long as the allocation grant period' (DeiC analogue); IDA requires an active CSC project and 'The validity of your CSC account can be extended by logging in to CSC's services'. request-rate: not published. Gate: CSC account (Haka/Virtu) + institutional quota owner approval — two gates, one of them human. |
| Binding | write-gated the write is a queue with a person or a rule in it, so the upload rate is set by somebody else |
| Interface | rest rest |
| Tooling | IDA web UI plus official command-line tools ('or use IDA's command line tools'); publication path is Qvain + download through the Fairdata download service. |
| Composes with | Quota is per project and drawn from an institutional pool, and a CSC project 'does not have to correspond to a specific research project, and it can have only one member'. So many small projects each drawing a quota slice, each approved by the same institutional contact. The 1.5 PB Helsinki pool is the real ceiling. |
| Reliability | Second gate is a human approver at your home organisation; a lapsed CSC account or project takes the storage with it. |
| Notes | No flat per-user number; the quota is a slice of your organisation's allocation. Published national pool (last updated 2025-02-28): University of Helsinki 1,500 TB, Aalto 480 TB, University of Oulu 465 TB, University of Turku 427 TB, Tampere universities 361.7 TB, Åbo Akademi 150 TB, and so on. You apply for a number of GiB in MyCSC and your organisation's IDA contact person approves it, 'usually within a few working days'. |
| Evidence rung | reported One page read moves it to documented. |
| Checked | 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04 |
Evidence (3)
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | www.fairdata.fi/en/ida-quotas-by-organisation/ | 'Last updated: 2025-02-28'; 'University of Helsinki | 1500', 'Aalto University | 480', 'University of Oulu | 465' (terabytes) |
| 2026-10-21 | www.fairdata.fi/en/ida/apply-for-ida-storage-space/ | captured 2026-06-08: 'A CSC project is a group of users, meaning it does not have to correspond to a specific research project, and it can have only one member'; quota chosen 'by entering a number only in gibibytes (GiB)'; 'approved ... usually within a few working days' |
| 2026-10-21 | docs.csc.fi/accounts/billing/ | 'The use of Fairdata IDA doesn't consume Billing Units.' |
Unknown or withheld values (5)
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