Piratedrive Storage Support

Overview

Piratedrive is a campus network attached storage folder available to users, departments and groups to store ECU data. Each folder is password-protected, secure and backed up nightly. Piratedrive is approved for storage of sensitive ECU information,* such as FERPA or research data. ECU data should not be saved to your computer’s hard drive.

• Personal. A 5GB folder is created for each new student, staff and faculty when the PirateID account is established.
• Department/group. Departments and groups can request a Piratedrive folder for shared information. A primary admin plus a secondary backup are required to manage user access and permissions. Capacity is determined on a case-by-case basis. 

Activities using Piratedrive must conform to the ECU Academic Computer Use Policy and the University Student and Employee Computer Use Regulation. Commercial or for-profit use prohibited. 

Submit to request a department/group Piratedrive folder or to request assistance with your existing folder. 

*Appropriate data steward approval required.

Available To

Faculty, Staff, Students, Departments, Groups

Get Started

Access

• On-campus users click the \\piratedrive (U:) drive for their personal Piratedrive folder. Map a drive (create a shortcut) for a department piratedrive.
• Off-campus users can establish a secure connection using ECU’s Virtual Private Network (VPN), then open the mapped (U:) drive.
• Access all Piratedrive folders for which you have access permissions through PiratePort. 
• Drag and drop files using an FTP program like FileZilla or Fetch. SFTP setting is also supported:
  • Host – piratedrive.intra.ecu.edu
  • Username – intra\Your-PirateID
  • Connect using – FTP (or SFTP)
  • Password – Your ECU password

Collaboration

Share files by granting access and permissions to another user through the “U” drive or a mapped drive. See the IT Knowledge Base article, Article - Process - Piratedrive Folder Administration.

Related Policies and Guidelines

• ECU Academic Computer Use Policy
• University Student and Employee Computer Use Regulation

Learn More

See the Related Articles section on this page for tutorials and more support information. 

Fees

There are no fees associated with this service.