Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product DRDS4A21 Univex
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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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 .
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.
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.
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.
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