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WiFi-Connected Hard Drive Fits a Plex Server In Your Pocket (engadget.com)
An anonymous reader cites an Engadget report:Over the years we've seen Plex's media software run across a number of different devices, from PCs to game consoles to NAS and cellphones. Now, it's teamed up with Western Digital for what it says is the first portable Plex Media Server. The hardware is handled by the My Passport Wireless Pro, a battery-powered portable hard drive that can run standalone for 10 hours, charge mobile devices, and back up data via SD or USB 3.0. The all-in-one box can even create a WiFi network to sync with mobile devices or stream media to any device running Plex. The 2TB version is ready to take your stuff on the go for $230, and upgrading to 3TB only costs an extra $20.
"Is that a file server in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?"
My first program:
Hell Segmentation fault
My question, which TFA doesn't address, is can it transcode? My guess is no, but if it did it would be totally worth it.
Plex user here. Literally none of those things are true.
For starters, the free version is ridiculously feature rich. Second, you only have to use the DLNA server if that's all your frontend can support. Last but not least all that online database stuff can be turned off in settings.
Linux, you magnificent bastard, I read the fucking manual!
Sounds cool. Does it run one of those embedded tomato/wrt linuxes?
I already have a couple of 2.5" USB drive enclosures, so connecting them to the home LAN is all I need to create a file server and my wifi/adsl router doesn't have a USB port.
Great post, except for the fact that the story is missing "(competing product)", "(bad attribute)", "(link to store)", and the part about "buying now, etc".
/. editors are actively trying to convince you to buy this thing? Maybe it is just a cool new device that fills an interesting niche. Maybe the submitter or editor thinks it would strike up some interesting dialogue in the comments about the pros and cons of such a technology. Maybe they really are getting paid (as Whipslash so wonderfully put it) a truckload to post said story.
Seriously, I can't understand why you people can't just move on when you see a post that contains $PRODUCT. Yeah, maybe it slightly resembles an advertisement, and yeah, maybe it is something that might be targeted at "nerds", but do you seriously think that the
WHO. CARES.
These things are hardly posted regularly, and if you don't like their content, you can easily hide said stories from view (or just ignore them). Why always bring this up? Why always complain about "slashvertisements"? Why can't you guys contribute to a topic like this without throwing it out as some sinister plot to undermine our wonderful commune with the heinous threat of capitalism?
I'm also using a Fire stick and my plex server is temporarily using a wifi dongle rather than ethernet, but I don't see these issues. It does transcode, but that's to be expected.
Plex worked pretty well for me last weekend, streaming to a Chromecast connected to hotel WiFi through a travel router. It was a bit choppy at first when it tried to send video as-is, but after I told it to transcode down to 720 kbps, it ran like a champ. Either it's not auto-negotiating for available bandwidth or that part of it is failing to work properly, but that's easily fixed.
20 January 2017: the End of an Error.