
The BlacX dock will remain in use whichever server I'm using. I went back to my small fanless Windows box (FitPC3) after upgrading it to Win10 but there remain some issues with that device's limited ability to work with Win10 I may go back to the Pi4. I recently built an rPi4 with PiCorePlayer and tested it with the BlacX dock and it worked perfectly for my entire library. The Plex Home Media Server allows you to keep all your media files in one place and access them from any and all of your other devices. Clients can access the media files from the Plex Server. Media players are the clients running on the client devices like mobile, computer etc. I use the older USB2 version for the server, as I don't need more speed in that context. Here we are using Raspberry Pi as Plex Server. More recently I've used one as the music source drive for my music server. I make backups to 2.5" drives for important files and store these offsite (bank safety deposit box). My original use was with my primary desktop computer. They're reasonably priced and offer much flexibility, not to mention the ability to choose the actual drive for the characteristics you want. Other models can accept two drives, very useful for copying or cloning. open the Plex Media After creating the bootable media, connect the USB drive to your old. The ones I have (an older USB2 dock and a newer USB3) accommodate a single drive, either a 2.5" (laptop type) or 3.5" (desktop type). Click on the wrench After youve installed Plex Media Server. I quite like the docks, as they are meant to be used with raw internal drives, no enclosure necessary. I use one of these BlacX docks from Thermaltake with a 3.5" 2tb WD Blue drive for my music collection, attached to a dedicated server.
