Re-using an old hard drive in an F4-210 for Plex

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Re-using an old hard drive in an F4-210 for Plex

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Is it possible to take a perfectly good hard drive, full of media(movies, shows, music,etc.), put it in one of the expansion bays of the f4-210 and access it to add the media to the Plex library?

Or, is it possible to point Plex to another NAS on the same network and use it’s media?
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Re: Re-using an old hard drive in an F4-210 for Plex

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Please advise where this drive was used before? Was it used in TNAS ? The data will be erased during the initialization.
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Re: Re-using an old hard drive in an F4-210 for Plex

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It’s in a WD MyCloud NAS. It’s formatted to ext4 and fully loaded with 3TB worth of media I want to use with the Plex server running on the Terra-Master.
Can I put it in the TNAS and just access the files directly(like an HD dock) or can I map the WD MyCloud NAS(on the local network) so Plex can access it from the TNAS?
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Re: Re-using an old hard drive in an F4-210 for Plex

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I'm sorry to tell you that the hard drives which installed with other NAS' systemwill be initialized and formatted after inserted to our NAS, the data will be erased completely.
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