Drobo How-To Guide
Creating a Home Media Server with Plex and Drobo Storage
drobo.com | Creating a Home Media Server with Plex and Drobo Storage
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Plex is a media management system that takes your entire collection of movies, music,
and photos making them available to all media devices in the connected home. With
support for streaming music, high definition video, and photo sharing, Plex is an
excellent way to centralize and share all of your rich media content on a Drobo. This not
only provides significantly increased throughput supporting multiple simultaneous
streams, but also ensures that data is stored in a redundant manner protecting content
from data loss due to a potential hard drive failure.
Like a Drobo, Plex does not require advanced IT knowledge to configure and interface with the devices. Utilizing
standards based DLNA technology; Plex offers out of the box support by nearly all network enabled televisions and
media devices. On the go, MyPlex offers access to all content stored on the Drobo streaming to mobile (iOS and
Android) devices using a standard broadband internet connections.
NOTE -
Plex supports multiple video, audio, and photo formats for full details please visit their website. There are
features that Plex offers that we will not be covered in this guide.
Topics
Provisioning Drobo Storage
Configuring Plex Media Manager
Accessing Plex Content Locally
Accessing Plex Content from DLNA enabled devices
What You Will Need
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Drobo NAS (FS/5N/B800FS) or DAS (Mini/5D)
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The Latest Drobo Dashboard management software
http://www.drobo.com/support/updates.php
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OS X 10.7/10.8 or Windows 7/8
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Latest version of Plex Media Center
http://www.plexapp.com/download/plex-media-center.php
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Latest version of Plex Media Server
http://www.plexapp.com/getplex/index.php
