Can I get my external hard drive Plex ready?

Again, thank you for your help in this matter! To answer your question I will be storing 6TB of media in the ReadyNAS. I chose this particular ReadyNAS beacause it has 6 bays with the option for expansion for a few more bays. Right now I am doing as you suggested. I had about a TB of media in one Seagate 4TB Backup Plus which I am transferring to a WD Passport. It is transferring at a rate of about 110 MB/s and states it will be done in 2.5 hours for now. Both external HD are the same product and have USB 3.0 but also can be used with Thunderbolt technology and Firewire 800 using the proper adapters. I'm guessing that makes it a bit faster. I'm just reading the product description page. I remember in the 90's I had an WD external HD that fell on the floor damaging the shell and the areas of the power/USB plug-ins. Experimenting I took the HD out and put it in a PC tower. I don't remember if I had to format it but it did work in the end. I guess that's why I'm willing to experiment on at least one external HD now and see how it goes. I don't know the actual model number of the hard drive in the external case I have because I haven't opened it yet. As new media comes out and the hard drives fill up I will continue to purchase more HDs. The ReadyNAS product description states that the maximum capacity is 24TB with the option to expand to 44TB with optional EDA500 chassis.

I did see the Seagate STBD4000400 on the New Egg website and I saved it to my favorites! Thanks! I could not find the RN31600-100NAS Hardware Compatibility List online. If anyone can share a link to this information I'd appreciate it. I'm guessing that a list will accompany the product in the box. We'll see.

I did see the video of how to get Plex for the ReadyNAS here on www.readynas.com. I did have Plex on my HP envy m4 which has Intel(R) Core !7@2.20GHz @.20GHz, 8GB RAM, 64bit OS, x64 based processor. The TVs, computers, and XBOX 360's are connected via ethernet and I found it to still be a bit slow. I hope this ReadyNAS speeds up the Plex experience.

Thanks again for your answers to my questions. I really do appreciate it! Take care and God bless!

DJ DOC