# Large Raspberry Pi Library Completely Local Files **URL:** \ **Category:** Plex Media Server\ **Tags:** server-linux, server-linux-arm\ **Created:** [December 23, 2024, 7:58pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/large-raspberry-pi-library-completely-local-files/899739 "2024-12-23T19:58:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![pshanew](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/pshanew/32/160555_2.png) [@pshanew](https://forums.plex.tv/u/pshanew)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2024, 8:29pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/large-raspberry-pi-library-completely-local-files/899739/2 "2024-12-23T20:29:08Z")
Are you using external USB drives for your media? If not, what are you using for media, the above-mentioned NVME drive? If using external drives, make sure you have static mounts for them (don’t allow the OS to mount them dynamically). There’s information in this guide describing how to do that: > [@Linux Tips](https://forums.plex.tv/t/linux-tips/276247/2): > > Using other hard drives (Windows or Linux) with PMS This How-To is written to help with Internal and External drives. It also is written to demonstrate how to cope with NTFS and EXT4 formatted drives. By logical extension, any format supported by Linux can be handled using the technique shown here. In all cases, the goal is to give user plex permission to read your media files which Linux doesn’t allow by default due to its strict security model. We will walk through the steps needed … --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.plex.tv/t/large-raspberry-pi-library-completely-local-files/899739)._