Update: i-drive service was discontinued in December 2001. NACS now offers WebFiles as a web disk space service.
i-drive is a commercial outfit that offers free web-accessible storage space to UCI students, faculty and staff. Using your UCInetID and password, you can store and retrieve up to 50 megabytes of files all through a Web browser.
Network & Academic Computing Services (NACS) is sponsoring a campus assessment of the capabilities of this service, its ease of use, and its value to the campus community through the 2000/1 academic year.
The i-drive user interface provides download and upload capabilities, file sharing, and web publishing. These are some of the primary features we are interested in testing and comparing with other companies that are emerging.
Other California universities running similar projects include UC Berkeley, UC Davis, and Stanford.
UCI’s i-drive site [was] located at http://idrive.uci.edu. Please share your experience and assessment with us at nacs@uci.edu.