Hi all,
I have recently got my AV set up pretty much how I want it and am now running a ZGemma for free to air satellite, Now TV for Broadband, the Plex client and the free to air Digital TV and a Plex server running through a PC on my network that I use for back ups. The actual films that are stored are on a WD 4Tb Network HDD and all of it is hard wired together using TP Link 1Tb mains line adaptors.
It all works exactly as I want it to BUT, none of the equipment that I have can stream 4K movies. If I try to run a 4K movie through Plex via the NowTV box it just dies which comes as no surprise as it is not rated for it.
I do have a solution in mind but not yet a way to implement it, this is where I hope you can help. My TV has an inbuilt media player that can and does happily play 4K films from any Hard drive that is directly connected to it via USB. The pain with this is that if I want to watch a "new" film I have to download it onto my network, unplug my TV USB HDD, transfer the film to that USB HDD and then plug it back in to the TV.
What I would ideally like is a Hard Drive that can stay permanently plugged in to my TV via USB but that can also be seen as a Network Drive by my PC so that I can download films directly to it. I.E. it is a permanently connected Network Drive and a USB drive simultaneously. I have a hard wired Network point for the HDD at my TV location.
I thought this would be easy but it is not! My WD MyCloud just will not do it (the USB port on it is for connecting another external HDD only), I have an old Iomega NAS that is either / or but not both and every time I Google it I just cant seem to get a definitive answer. I don't want to order one only to find out it will not do what I want.
Hopefully one of you guys has come across this before and can point me in the right direction.
Thanks in advance.
Dave
I have recently got my AV set up pretty much how I want it and am now running a ZGemma for free to air satellite, Now TV for Broadband, the Plex client and the free to air Digital TV and a Plex server running through a PC on my network that I use for back ups. The actual films that are stored are on a WD 4Tb Network HDD and all of it is hard wired together using TP Link 1Tb mains line adaptors.
It all works exactly as I want it to BUT, none of the equipment that I have can stream 4K movies. If I try to run a 4K movie through Plex via the NowTV box it just dies which comes as no surprise as it is not rated for it.
I do have a solution in mind but not yet a way to implement it, this is where I hope you can help. My TV has an inbuilt media player that can and does happily play 4K films from any Hard drive that is directly connected to it via USB. The pain with this is that if I want to watch a "new" film I have to download it onto my network, unplug my TV USB HDD, transfer the film to that USB HDD and then plug it back in to the TV.
What I would ideally like is a Hard Drive that can stay permanently plugged in to my TV via USB but that can also be seen as a Network Drive by my PC so that I can download films directly to it. I.E. it is a permanently connected Network Drive and a USB drive simultaneously. I have a hard wired Network point for the HDD at my TV location.
I thought this would be easy but it is not! My WD MyCloud just will not do it (the USB port on it is for connecting another external HDD only), I have an old Iomega NAS that is either / or but not both and every time I Google it I just cant seem to get a definitive answer. I don't want to order one only to find out it will not do what I want.
Hopefully one of you guys has come across this before and can point me in the right direction.
Thanks in advance.
Dave