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1. #HOW TO INCREASE STEAM DOWNLOAD SPEED 2015 HOW TO#
2. #HOW TO INCREASE STEAM DOWNLOAD SPEED 2015 INSTALL#

This flexibility is great for small businesses because many programs cannot run over shared networks, even if you’re using mapped drive letters iSCSI works around that issue.įor some workloads, iSCSI may also offer better performance. As mentioned above, an iSCSI network target appears to a system as a local drive therefore, not only can you format the iSCSI target with the host OS’s file system, but you can also run applications that require local storage from the iSCSI volume instead. I’ve already touched on some of the benefits of using iSCSI. Any system running Windows will do when paired with a NAS that supports iSCSI (such as the excellent Iomega StorCenter PX6-300d).

#HOW TO INCREASE STEAM DOWNLOAD SPEED 2015 HOW TO#

To show you how to use iSCSI, we’re using a two-drive Thecus N2200XXX NAS server, which runs a custom version of Linux with iSCSI support, and a desktop system running Windows 7 Ultimate.

#HOW TO INCREASE STEAM DOWNLOAD SPEED 2015 INSTALL#

You can download and install Microsoft’s iSCSI initiator on all previous versions of Windows from 2000 on up, too.įor this project, we chose a two-bay Thecus N2200XXX NAS server with a pair of Western Digital 2TB RE4 hard drives installed, running in a RAID 1 configuration for data redundancy.

If you own a NAS drive attached to a Windows PC (or if you have managed to make your own NAS), you probably have everything you need virtually all NAS ( network-attached storage) servers offer the ability to configure iSCSI targets, and Microsoft has included an iSCSI initiator tool with every version of Windows since Vista.