What are the advantages of saving data to my Z: drive?
Your Z: drive is a “mapped drive” to a hard disk on one of the campus’ servers. In other words, any files that you save to your Z: drive is actually saved onto a server–not the local computer. There are two main advantages to saving data onto this drive. First, you can access the Z: drive from any networked computer on campus (except the Macintosh computers) by logging in under your account. Secondly, the server which holds the data in your Z: drive is backed up daily. So, if it ever goes down (which is not likely to begin with) then we have a backup copy of all your data and will be able to restore it.
