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Where do I temporarily store large amounts of data?

April 26, 2017amounts Data large store temporarily

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Where do I temporarily store large amounts of data?

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Not in your home directory! Every user has a separate scratch directory (typically 500GB) for these purposes. Furthermore, there is 340GB of shared scratch space (/scratch). Like your own scratch partition, this is not backed up, but at least you have the security that it is located on the RAID and hence relatively well protected against hardware failure.