What I'm after doing:
Moving a 3TB raid 5 setup from my main box to a "server" box, plumbing the 2 together with a pair of cheap infiniband cards, direct cable linking them and getting as close as possible to the original bandwidth and "feel" of the drives over the infiniband link.
I've seen the starwind iSCSI target and initiator products mentioned in a few places that deal with this sort of setup but reading around on here I'll be limited to 128GB with the free versions of the 2.
What do I likely need to achieve:
300MB+ from a box running windows home server (and storage that can do 300MB+ it's a perc 5/i) to a box running windows 7.
If possible I'd like to have the same raid array available via the standard onboard Gb port on the server machine as a standard windows network share.
I believe the iSCSI target idea has the drive mounted as an image rather than directly talking to the partitions on the disk. Would this just mean I needed the Starwind target software on the host machine too so it would see it as local disks?
As you can see I have about half the story here so a little explaining would be much appreciated. I know the setups probably a little overkill for home use but I've got my reasons for it
