Setting up iSCSI on a desktop PC
Posted on 12 Jan 2010 at 13:59
Jon Honeyball walks you through establishing an iSCSI connection on a desktop PC
You can, of course, unwire the drive from the PC again if you wish, and there are many reasons why you might want to do this. For example, if you’re about to do an OS upgrade, you may want to use some of the storage from the iSCSI box temporarily to allow you to take a big backup. Once you disconnect it, your shared data is locked away, so no amount of fiddling around on the local workgroup LAN is going to get that data connected.
This is useful when you want to take snapshots of data and keep them online, or to be doubly sure that your data is safely locked away when you do the upgrade.
There are lots of good reasons to try iSCSI; just having your data stored on a properly cooled, rackmounted centralised store while it appears to your Windows session as a locally mounted hard disk might give you the best of both worlds, and it’s most certainly better than USB (but then what isn’t?).
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