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Can I get my external hard drive Plex ready?
I was tired of having 3 external hard drives with movies connected to my laptop to have a nice entertainment center. My brother-in-law told me about ReadyNAS and I bought a Netgear ReadyNAS 300 Series...
DJDOC wrote: In my excited anticipation I thought I could prepare the external hard drives with Plex before the ReadyNAS arrives.
I assume that you have three external drives filled with media files, plus at least one new empty hard drive to put into the NAS.
The NAS will initialize every drive by erasing it, so there's no point in copying any data to the new drives now. If you really feel the need to do something, though, you could test the new drives by attaching them to your PC and running a diagnostic program like Seagate's Seatools. In the unlikely event that one of the drives is faulty, you won't have to wait for the NAS to tell you.
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