Plex Server on Synology and want to add a folder to library on a DIFFERENT synology

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I have a Synology NAS running Plex Media Server and it has been great but I am now out of space. I want to add another folder to the library. How do I get the Media Server Library to browse and see the folder on ANOTHER machine either another Synology array or just a PC or another file server. I want to only have a single instance of PMS running.

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Using FileStation, Mount the “Remote Folder” (under tools)

Once mounted, you can then access as if local.

Recommend NFS (make sure to turn it on in Control Panel) to minimize all the file permission problems inherent to CIFS

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That worked great as a test!!! Thank you.

If I stood up a second synology server would there be a lot of network congestion by pulling movies from one synology using the second as the server and then sending to the client?

Or am I better splitting my library and standing up two standalong PMS?

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Share the media. keep two servers. PMS doesn’t split across hosts.
If you’re worried about network traffic,
and have multiple adapters, try this:

  1. eth0 = address on main LAN
  2. eth1 — Direct to eth1 on other Syno

Configuring:

  1. Each machine’s eth0 is as always (e.g. 192.168.x.x)

  2. Create a new private subnet on each eth1
    a. First syno gets 10.0.0.1 Netmask /30 (255.255.255.252), MTU 9000
    b. Second syno gets 10.0.0.2 Netmask /30 (255.255.255.252) MTU 9000

  3. Now mount the shared folders between each other using this direct gigabit link between hosts using NFS. It will run at full gigabit to read media. It will be very efficient becauser, as point-to-point, MTU is increased to 9000 (6x less overhead)

PS: I do with with a 10 GbE link between ESXi host and QNAP using a secondary 10 GbE in the QNAP

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