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Univex DRDS4A21 - page 1
Drobo How - To Guid e Creating a Home Medi a Server wi th Plex and Drobo Stor age drobo.com | Creati ng a Home Medi a Server with Plex and Drobo Storage 1 Plex is a media management system that takes your entire col lection of movies, music, and photos making them av ailable t o all media devices in t he connected home. With support for str eaming ...
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Drobo How - To Guid e Creating a Home Medi a Server wi th Plex and Drobo Stor age drobo.com | Creati ng a Home Medi a Server with Plex and Drobo Storage 2 P rerequisite s This document assumes that the Drobo to be utilized with P lex h as been installed and i s accessibl e from the host computer. If t he initial configuration has not been complet e ...
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Drobo How - To Guid e Creating a Home Medi a Server wi th Plex and Drobo Stor age drobo.com | Creati ng a Home Medi a Server with Plex and Drobo Storage 3 As both the NAS and DAS Drobos are compatible with Plex, the next steps are split between connectivity types. • If the Drobo has been previously formatted/initialized, move to step #4 • For D ...
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Drobo How - To Guid e Creating a Home Medi a Server wi th Plex and Drobo Stor age drobo.com | Creati ng a Home Medi a Server with Plex and Drobo Storage 4 STEP 2B To take advantage of thin provisioning and instant expandability features o f BeyondRAID, it i s recommended that a 16TB thinly provis ion ed volume be created. Click Next to cont inue. S ...
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Univex DRDS4A21 - page 5
Drobo How - To Guid e Creating a Home Medi a Server wi th Plex and Drobo Stor age drobo.com | Creati ng a Home Medi a Server with Plex and Drobo Storage 5 STEP 3A Whil e a de dic ate d s hare i s not required for Plex, it is recommended. Click the Sha res link on the left pane to access the share list. STEP 3B If no adm inistrator username and pass ...
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Drobo How - To Guid e Creating a Home Medi a Server wi th Plex and Drobo Stor age drobo.com | Creati ng a Home Medi a Server with Plex and Drobo Storage 6 STEP 3C Enter an admini strato r username and password that will be u sed to manage the Drobo. Enter a U sername and P assword and click OK to save the account settings. NOTE – Make a not e of ...
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Drobo How - To Guid e Creating a Home Medi a Server wi th Plex and Drobo Stor age drobo.com | Creati ng a Home Medi a Server with Plex and Drobo Storage 7 STEP 3E Once the share has been added, click to have it mapped to the host . NOTE – On Windo ws hosts the Dashboard will prompt for a drive let ter. Any avail able drive lett er can be selected ...
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Univex DRDS4A21 - page 8
Drobo How - To Guid e Creating a Home Medi a Server wi th Plex and Drobo Stor age drobo.com | Creati ng a Home Medi a Server with Plex and Drobo Storage 8 STEP 2 The default web brow s er will be automatically launch ed and the Media Manager applicati on loaded. STEP 3 To add a f older t o the Media Serv er, cl ick the + button in the My Libr ary s ...
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Univex DRDS4A21 - page 9
Drobo How - To Guid e Creating a Home Medi a Server wi th Plex and Drobo Stor age drobo.com | Creati ng a Home Medi a Server with Plex and Drobo Storage 9 STEP 4 For this example, a directory c ontaining movies wi ll be a dded to Plex. Click the Mo vies icon. STEP 5 In the Name field, enter a name that descri bes the content being added. Click the ...
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Drobo How - To Guid e Creating a Home Medi a Server wi th Plex and Drobo Stor age drobo.com | Creati ng a Home Medi a Server with Plex and Drobo Storage 10 STEP 8 Continue to navigat e to the content di rectory. Highli ght t he di rector y and click Add Folder . In this exam ple the fo lder HD located on the Drobo 5D contains videos that will be ad ...
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Drobo How - To Guid e Creating a Home Medi a Server wi th Plex and Drobo Stor age drobo.com | Creati ng a Home Medi a Server with Plex and Drobo Storage 11 STEP 10 Once the scan is complete, icons for t he media typ e add ed wi ll now be available. Click on the Movies i con and verify that conte nt is now available i n the Media Manager. Plex is no ...
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Drobo How - To Guid e Creating a Home Medi a Server wi th Plex and Drobo Stor age drobo.com | Creati ng a Home Medi a Server with Plex and Drobo Storage 12 STEP 2 Once Pl ex Media Cente r has loaded, use t he arrow keys to navigate through the menu system. Navigate to Movies and press Retur n . STEP 3 Select All Movi es to display a l ist o f all v ...
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Drobo How - To Guid e Creating a Home Medi a Server wi th Plex and Drobo Stor age drobo.com | Creati ng a Home Medi a Server with Plex and Drobo Storage 13 STEP 4 Select a movie and pr ess Return to begin playing the mov ie. NOTE – When new content is added to a source folder on the Drobo, Plex wi ll automatically add it to the media management s ...
