How to Setup Plex with WD MyCloud Home NAS

This video shows you how to setup a NAS device (WD My Cloud Home) as a Plex Media Server.

Why do this?
Listen to your music, watch your videos, view your photos anywhere from a tablet, phone or TV (via Roku).

IMPORTANT NOTE: Not every single NAS device on the market will work with PLEX. Please see the following links for more info:

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[wildwestunlimited]

I have a PLEX Account and two WD My Cloud NAS storages. One is 8TB and the other is 12TB. I do a lot of video editing and can edit using the My Cloud NAS on the NAS itself. I just updated my PLEX version on my NAS. It was EASY and it all runs VERY well! I can make a video, put the MP4 in the path that PLEX recognizes as "Shared" and go watch it on my TV. I'm a rather private person so ALL my data is protected by my router and my firewall. Love my technologies when they ALL work together. They usually do and IF they don't, there's a logical reason why. Great video!!

[thethirdman]

The rubber doesn't hit the road until about 4:00 in.

[mikeloveskimbo]

Many thanks Caroline. Ive been using My Cloud for a while but wasn't quite sure about Plex setup, followed your video and its working great! Mike

[davewhite]

Thank you for this! Setting this up has been a mystery for some My Cloud owners, and so far, this is the best tutorial on how to do it.

[mzshan]

Thanks for explaining this. I use to have a seagate central until it popped out on me, I was using it with a 5 year old tv, which natively picked up the HD on LGs WebOS and there was no need to have any additional software, similarly fairly easy to use and transfer files.

Buying this WD cloud I was expecting something similar of a setup however with a bit more technicality.

I was hoping to use the WD cloud as a backup sync to my final image and home video files along with music backups, not so much for movies.

Along with backup I had also hoped to have these available around the house from any of the devices or TVs.

I had no idea about Plex and it was a bit of a curveball and signing up for another solution that wasn’t natively supported.

Other challenge I hoped to have sorted and hopefully a solution is out there was the backup sync would be the main source of content and the Plex folder was only links to the sync folder so there aren’t two copied of the same content,

Please advise if anyone has any info to confirm this.

[XistoFilm]

Hi Caroline Thanks for the video, because of it I bought my Mycloud home WD. But unfortunately the Plex do not showing the server setup. I need to do any setup in my network or in the NAS itself to show server setup? Thanks in advance from Brazil!

[shandip]

Thank you for a great video. I did have on question about migrating metadata. I am planning on getting a WD My Cloud 16 tb and migrating everything from videos to music there from my two external hard drives. Plex is directed to the specific volumes on the drive (E: D: etc...) and finds the music. It does a poor job at tagging my music automatically and I do the tagging manually. have a a huge collection now at over 1000 albums and can I preserve the metadata when transferring from my external drives to the My Cloud Home or will I have to do everything all over again? I will be using the same server and account info for Plex. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you !!!

[madmax]

It seems to me that when you connect this unit to your network, you don't get the option to map a drive to it directly. It seems that when you transfer a file from your computer to this NAS, it has to be uploaded to the internet and then downloaded back to your NAS ie WAN which is Computer --> Internet --> NAS, rather than mapping a drive to it and going directly over your LAN. Correct?

If so, this would take days for me to transfer my media.

Also I wonder if this is how it would move files within the NAS like you showed when moving files to the Plex sub-folders. Does it have to upload to the internet and then download back to the NAS into the new location.

A NAS should be accessible in your home network without a internet connection. If you broke your internet connection (as a test), can you still access the NAS?

[fransvangils]

Zeer fijn helpfilmpje want alles werkt nu zoals ik wil. Dank je wel Caroline.

[JonnMartian]

Your explanation is very clear and easy to understand. Thanks 🙏

[fireball]

live tv with dvr? Does that mean you can digital record onto nas drive your plex without an antenna?

[tarkus]

Thanks for the good explanation! One question: Can the WD MyCloud Home handle 4K movies also? Thank you!

[ABWSKITCHEN]

Hi there, I love all your videos, I try several times to add mycloud to Plex on my Roku TV, but when I put the more options, mycloud doesn't appear as an option, I really don't know what to do.

[gianfrancogosdinski]

IGreat video!! Im thinking of buying a WD My Cloud duo just to store my movies and TV shows. I am not interested in using that device as a plex server. I use my PC as a server. Do you think I will be able to access my 4k hdr files and play them correctly? I have the idea to connect the WD My Cloud duo via USB to my PC. Thank you!

[vssuresh]

Nice Video... Can we setup Western digital my cloud home with use in infuse app?

[pathyiyer]

I have created directory for my photos, videos and music. For Plex access, should I move these to a new Plex directory or can I ask Plex to point to my current folders?

[DJ_AlexP]

Hello, thanks for your video it's great.
I have a question regarding my "problem". First my plex is functioning but the computer is always on because if not the videos in the Nas opens but stops and starts several times so I prefer to have the computer always on...
However my disc space in the cloud Hine 4TB is getting ful and I want to ask you if I can turn a normal disc in example a wd disc of 10TB to the Nas disc. Thanks

[leerogers]

Thanks for being explicit. Not many demonstrators say what the initials mean. Now I know what NAS, Network Attached Storage means. Perhaps I’m too new to this stuff, but is all your owned media being transferred via Ethernet?

[douss]

Can I download de files to my NAS directly from a web browser or I need to download the movie on my pc first and then transfer to my NAS> also can this NAS manage well the 4k movies ( on a 4k movies)

what other WD NAS do you recommend or this is the best one at the moment ?


great video>

[petersonfamily]

Thanks for the info. So based on this video where files would normally go in the My Cloud environment are moved to the Plex folder?