RDSF Costs

Principal Investigators and academic data stewards are allocated up to 5 
Terabytes (TB) of storage on the RDSF. 

You can purchase additional data storage if you research project requires more than 
5TB.

The cost of 1TB of additional data storage in 2025 is £131.46 per year and can only be 
cost recovered for the duration of your research project.

It is important you include the cost of this data storage in your grant application.

By including data storage costs into your grant applications, you will support essential cost recovery, helping to sustain and enhance this critical service for research and teaching.

How to add your RDSF costs in Worktribe (PDF)

Purchasing additional data storage 

To purchase additional research data storage, please email rdsf-help@bristol.ac.uk. You can also request additional RDSF data storage via the IT service desk system Halo. 

What you will need to let the RDSF team know: 

• How much additional data storage you would like to purchase
• The grant code that will cover the cost 
• The start and end date of your increased data storge

RDSF will then allocate the requested research data storage to your research project 
and organise for the costs to be paid for via your research grant.

Get answers to your questions

Please contact your finance costing specialist if you have any questions related to costing research data storage into your grant application.

For general enquiries please email grp-acrc-facilitators@groups.bristol.ac.uk.