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Plex is a media management system that organizes your entire collection of movies, music, and photos making them available to all media devices in the connected home and remotely accessible by Internet connected devices.

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 stored 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 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 connection.

While the Plex Media Server core application is compatible with all Drobos, it previously required a host computer. With the introduction of Plex for Drobo Apps, connected devices can now stream directly from the Drobo 5N.

NOTE - Plex supports multiple video, audio, and photo formats. For full details on supported formats, visit their website. There are additional features that Plex offers that will not be covered in this guide.

Topics'

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 Plex Media Center

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Plex Media Center

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