USB HDD access

Hi,
Bit of a strange question but any help would be great. I currently have a Samsung smart TV and I use an installed app 'Plex' to watch movies, This TV is connected via ethernet to my BT Homehub 3 and in turn my Homehub is connected via homepugs to my desktop PC upstairs which contains all my movies so I can stream movies from the Desktop PC to my smart TV fine with no problems.
My question is, I have recently purchased a 3TB external HDD, now can I plug this external HDD into my Homehubs USB socket and somehow configure plex to see the HDD movies on the external HDD so I did not have to have my PC turned on to watch my movies. I currently have a 16GB memory stick plugged into the Homehubs USB socket which has documents & music on & this can be seen by the desktop PC & any other networked devices. But is there a way to configure Plex to see the contents of this external HDD movies?
I realise that I may be better off asking this question on a Plex dedicated forum https://plexapp.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/categories/200007567-Plex-Media-Server but just wondered if any BT Infinity users have had this situation? Thanks

I guess that plugging the external HDD into the TV USB socket would work and would mean not having the Desktop PC on, the downside to this would be that nobody else would be able to view my Plex library as I have several friends who access my Plex movie library online.
Oh well, I guess as Keith Beddoe says Smart TV apps are not designed to work from network shares.

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