HOWTO - Plex Media Server on the WD My Passport Wireless

Portable Drives My Passport Wireless
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Hi all!

Here’s a link to my comprehensive HOWTO on setting up Plex Media Server on the WD My Passport Wireless.

HOWTO on the Plex Forums

I hope you’ll enjoy it. Please feel free to post your comments and suggestions here or in the original post on the Plex Forums.

Cheers,

Jürg

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Hello,

Thanks for sharing this with the community, hopefully other users can benefit from this and enjoy it.

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This is interesting stuff! And I love the idea of doing this.

I did your walkthrough with a minimum of fuss, but it simply ain’t a powerful enough beast to manage any but the smallest libraries. :slight_smile:

I have close to 4000 videos on my MPW (about 300 movies and 34 TV series)

The MPW just can’t digest that library without the Plex Media Server process crashing after a few hours.

I’ve tried to nurse it along for the last few days, and it’s still only about 10-20% complete with the metadata collection / import. :slight_smile:

In contrast, I have the same library on my DL4100 and it took only an hour or two to crawl the data.

Have any suggestions to ease the pain?

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Do you have it set to low power mode? Optimised for battery power or something like that? (can’t remember the name of the setting I don’t have mine to hand). I found it didn’t work when I used that.

Also, I’d try adding things in batches rather than all at once

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I think you’re on to something there. I was running in the other mode and switched it to Performance Mode – it seemed to make a huge difference.

After all the troubleshooting and experimenting, I’ve made a huge mess of the database, so I’m probably going to re-organize and start over.

Thanks for the suggestion!

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Glad it helped :slight_smile: