StarPort Windows iSCSI Initiator 3.0.4

StarPort is a complete iSCSI initiator, RAM disk and virtual DVD emulator implementation for Windows.
It enables practically everybody to benefit from extremely low cost IP network storage solutions. Hue amounts of installed RAM and hard disk space converted into virtualized hardware.
Utilizing state of the art iSCSI protocol, StarPort enhances Windows sharing of storage subsystem over an existing IP network dealing as client software pairing iSCSI targets. Also it does excellent job in adding features not available to Windows out-of-box (RAM disk and virtual DVD emulation).
This software package combined with StarWind working as server allows you to:
- share CD/DVD burners over the network and use your favorite CD/DVD burning application (we hope its our Grab & Burn) to burn CD/DVD remotely,
- share tape drives over the network and use your favorite tape backup application (we hope its our StarTape) to backup to tape drive remotely
- share hard disk drives over the network for fast storing large amounts of data (replication) at block-level rather then doing this at file-level
- backup whole server storage subsystem over the network w/o putting machine down
- work with the virtual volumes, dynamic volume snapshots, incremental backups
- create extremely fast RAM disk drives for temporary data storing
- mount standard ISO and MDS images into created Virtual DVD drives
Main features:
- All SCSI devices (actually any devices with SCSI-like drivers: Serial and Parallel ATA and SCSI, Fibre Channel, USB and FireWire) are supported for sharing (hard disk, CD/DVD, tape, processor etc)
- iSCSI draft 20 used to talk to remote machine (interoperability allows to mix different operating systems at both sides)
- Extremely high speed, nearly no difference between local and remote SCSI device (if supported by network hardware, GbE is strongly recommended however 100 megabits networks work fine most of tasks)
- Local RAM disks have very powerful backup capabilities
- Fast DVD drives mapped to ISO or MDS image files
Version restrictions:
- FREE FOR NON COMMERCIAL USE