raspberry pi 3 plex media server performance

We need to have our media drive to be mounted on startup so that we can access its contents. You are going to need to know the name of your drive and the format of your drive in the following steps so it is probably a good idea to write them down somewhere. In red I have circled the format of the drive which we will need in the next step.

I know this because where I have circled in green says that the drive /dev/sda has 1000 GB which is the size of my drive. In the picture I have circled the name of my drive in white. What this does is it shows use important information about the drives that are connected to our raspberry pi. Once you have done this we need to go back to putty or whatever SSH client you are using and type in: sudo fdisk -l Make sure you plug it into the powered USB hub and not directly into the raspberry pi because sometimes that can cause problems. To do this the first thing we need to do is plug in our media drive.

So what we are going to do is make it so that our media hard drive is mounted on start-up.

Before we can start our media server we need some media of course.

Raspberry pi 3 plex media server performance