# external drive on a Mac for VOD content

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/external-drive-on-a-mac-for-vod-content/48848>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [May 26, 2017, 2:10pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/external-drive-on-a-mac-for-vod-content/48848 "2017-05-26T14:10:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Brad\_Stapleton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d2c977/32.png) [@Brad\_Stapleton](https://community.wowza.com/u/Brad_Stapleton)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2017, 2:10pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/external-drive-on-a-mac-for-vod-content/48848/1 "2017-05-26T14:10:58Z")

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I am running Wowza on a new MacPro. I want to store all the content in an external drive connected by thunderbolt2. Everything works fine if the content folder exists on the internal drive. The external drive is named “videos”. I put an alias of this drive in the content folder and then changed the directory to -content/Volumes/videos. but it does not recognize the drive. Permissions are all good ( I think).

has anyone used an external drive for content on a Mac?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Alex\_C](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Alex\_C](https://community.wowza.com/u/Alex_C)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2017, 6:30am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/external-drive-on-a-mac-for-vod-content/48848/2 "2017-05-27T06:30:39Z")

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Hello,

You can use Media Cache to scale the VOD streaming from your Wowza Engine. To do this, you can define a Media Cache source that will point to the location for the external drive. You can get more details about configuring Media Cache [here](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-scale-video-on-demand-streaming-with-media-cache).

Regards,

Alex C

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**Author:** ![Brad\_Stapleton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d2c977/32.png) [@Brad\_Stapleton](https://community.wowza.com/u/Brad_Stapleton)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2017, 7:11pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/external-drive-on-a-mac-for-vod-content/48848/3 "2017-05-30T19:11:02Z")

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Thanks Alex. I was able to solve the problem. I had tried using an alias of the drive to get it to connect and that doesn’t work. I had a Linux guy take a look and he was able to fix it.

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**Author:** ![Anhtu\_Vu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4491bb/32.png) [@Anhtu\_Vu](https://community.wowza.com/u/Anhtu_Vu)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2021, 4:12pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/external-drive-on-a-mac-for-vod-content/48848/4 "2021-10-29T16:12:28Z")

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Hi Brad,

I’m trying to do the exact same thing as you, VOD content on an external thunderbolt RAID on my Mac. How did you manage to connect to it ?

Thanks