Windows 7 Home Premiun and iSCSI

[benwood]

I have a HTPC running Windows 7 Home Premium x64 and I'm using Windows Media Center to record TV shows. I'm running out of hard drive space on the HTPC and adding more drives or swapping in larger drives isn't an option. But I have another PC running Windows 7 Home Premium x64 that I use as a media server. It holds all my music, DVD and Bluray rips. It has plenty of hard drive space.

Unfortunately WMC won't allow recording to mapped drives or via UNC paths. It will allow recording to another computer via iSCSI however. So I was thinking of using that instead. But while Win 7 Home Premium does come with a iSCSI Initiator built in it doesn't come with a iSCSI Target. And from what I've been able to determine the iSCSI Target Microsoft offers for download is for Windows Server only not for plain old Windows 7. Does anyone know of a (preferably free) iSCSI Taget for Windows 7?

 

[Z15CAM]

What's your TV-Capture Card and give us a hint about your Hardware Platform?

 

[benwood]

My HTPC has a 3.2 ghz 2500k Sandy Bridge CPU, Intel motherboard, 8 GB of memory. My caprure cards are as follows: One Ceton 4 tuner PCIe CableCard, one Silicon Dust 3 tuner CableCard Ethernet and four OTA (Over The Air) Silicon Dust tuner Dual Ethernet. My media server has a 3.8 ghz AMD A10-5800k Quad Core APU on a MSI FM2-A85XA-G65 motherboard with 8 gb of memory.

 

[ultimatebob]

Starwind Virtual SAN seems to be the most popular iSCSI server software for Windows. They say that they do not officially support Windows 7 (It's supposed to run on Server 2008 or higher), but I've run it on Windows 7 without any problems.

I'd recommend adding a USB hard drive to your system before dealing with home network storage, but it should do what you want it to do if you have a reliable network connection. I wouldn't try it over WiFi, anyway.