Hey guys, New to this forum. here is my first question.
I recently purchased the WD My Cloud Home and so far I have no complaints regarding Plex. Was just wondering and hoping, is there a way to use USB storage for Plex Media at all. Only options available by default in the web ui is copy to and copy from USB.
Thank you
Not entirely sure I understand what you’re talking about when you say USB to USB so I’ll tell you how I did it when I got a MyCloud Home for Christmas this year to replace the laptop I had been using as my media server.
After I got the MyCloud attached to my network and switched to using my desktop for all this instead, it saw the MyCloud NAS as an external drive so all I had to do was simply copy/paste all my existing media from my laptop to the individual MyCloud folders (Shared Movies, Shared Music, etc.), then went into the Plex web UI on my desktop to “populate” my separate libraries. Now all I have to do with new media is simply drop it in the appropriate NAS folder from my desktop, then tell Plex to “scan libraries” to add the new stuff to the web UI.
I understand that part. I had that running sulince day 1.
What i want to know is, can i add a secondary USB drive with files to be included into plex. For example. My WD Home Cloud is 2TB. I would like to add an additional 2TB Usb drive to expand the storage of Plex
WD are quite restrictive when it comes to that. While you can have tons of different libraries pointing to even more folders, the Plex server on the MyCloud is basically limited to see nothing but the “Shared XXX” folders for each library type.
Edit:
If you want to further expand this, you might want to look into using the My Cloud Home as storage for a dedicated Plex Media Server (e.g. the Nvidia Shield or some mini PC like a NUC etc.).
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