Hi, will be getting my Nvidia Shield 16 gb any day. I was wondering since my plex database is big and it’s larger than 16 gb. I know I can access my media through shares but havent found anything about my plex database.
Will you be hosting plex on the shield? If not it will just read from your server like any database lookup
@Night - did you see that last blog entry where they indicate the Nvidia Shield will be able to act as a Plex Server as well as a client? I believe that is what OP is inquiring about.
@drinehart said:
@Night - did you see that last blog entry where they indicate the Nvidia Shield will be able to act as a Plex Server as well as a client? I believe that is what OP is inquiring about.
ohh sorry did not catch that update, but by the looks of hardware on Shiled it is quite simple to swap out harddrive.
At this point in time there is not much experience with how the server in the Shield behaves.
There was some talk about expanding the internal storage with USB-attached hard disks, but this is theoretical. I’d not rely on it to be available, just now.
Of course if you’re getting the Shield anyway, I’d be interested to hear the outcome of your experiments with that big library.
@OttoKerner said:
At this point in time there is not much experience with how the server in the Shield behaves.
There was some talk about expanding the internal storage with USB-attached hard disks, but this is theoretical. I’d not rely on it to be available, just now.
Of course if you’re getting the Shield anyway, I’d be interested to hear the outcome of your experiments with that big library.
I’m kind of side tracking, but my end question will be related…
I’m on Windows, I assume that is the Media folder in the Plex AppData that you guys are talking about? I just noticed that mine is rather large as well. Based on what I’ve read, I’m probably interested in going the Shield as server route as well, however, I was hoping to SSD/flash store as much as possible for performance reasons. In fact, this is why I was looking at my disk space just now, to see how large of a disk I’d need. I was surprised how much space was in use.
So I’m curious, what is in that folder, and, is it helpful to have it stored in fast access media? I assume the 500GB Shield is probably not SSD based, and is probably not a particularly fast HD either. But even on my Windows box I’m now curious if moving to SSD would provide benefits to Plex at all?
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/202529153-Why-is-my-Plex-Media-Server-directory-so-large-
If you have a large library, which is accessed with varied client types, yes SSD is beneficial for the speed of browsing libraries. Not so much for playback as such.
see also https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/comment/851746/#Comment_851746
For follow-up questions, open a new thread please.
@Night said:
Will you be hosting plex on the shield? If not it will just read from your server like any database lookup
I was hoping to be able to host it on the shield.
@drinehart said:
@Night - did you see that last blog entry where they indicate the Nvidia Shield will be able to act as a Plex Server as well as a client? I believe that is what OP is inquiring about.
I did see that I can use the shield as a plex server,
@OttoKerner said:
At this point in time there is not much experience with how the server in the Shield behaves.
There was some talk about expanding the internal storage with USB-attached hard disks, but this is theoretical. I’d not rely on it to be available, just now.
Of course if you’re getting the Shield anyway, I’d be interested to hear the outcome of your experiments with that big library.
Otto I will let you know how it works.
@MasterChiefmas said:
@OttoKerner said:
At this point in time there is not much experience with how the server in the Shield behaves.
There was some talk about expanding the internal storage with USB-attached hard disks, but this is theoretical. I’d not rely on it to be available, just now.
Of course if you’re getting the Shield anyway, I’d be interested to hear the outcome of your experiments with that big library.I’m kind of side tracking, but my end question will be related…
I’m on Windows, I assume that is the Media folder in the Plex AppData that you guys are talking about? I just noticed that mine is rather large as well. Based on what I’ve read, I’m probably interested in going the Shield as server route as well, however, I was hoping to SSD/flash store as much as possible for performance reasons. In fact, this is why I was looking at my disk space just now, to see how large of a disk I’d need. I was surprised how much space was in use.
So I’m curious, what is in that folder, and, is it helpful to have it stored in fast access media? I assume the 500GB Shield is probably not SSD based, and is probably not a particularly fast HD either. But even on my Windows box I’m now curious if moving to SSD would provide benefits to Plex at all?
I saw a huge difference after moving my database to SSD. I marked this post as answered , by mistake 
Is the shield able to share the connected hard drives over the network?
@Heciruam said:
Is the shield able to share the connected hard drives over the network?
The Shield will be able to mount network shares, if that’s what you mean. It will have access to any media on your network, and then serve the media just like a PC or NAS Plex server would.
No personal experience. But the 3.2 update lists samba as a new feature. So it will show up as a shared device. The question is will that include the external storage
I presume for the database we could attach a USB3 ssd, and then set the database location in the server to that location, same as on all other server versions, this is what I will be doing if possible, with the server accessing my NAS over the network.
@kegobeer-plex said:
@Heciruam said:
Is the shield able to share the connected hard drives over the network?The Shield will be able to mount network shares, if that’s what you mean. It will have access to any media on your network, and then serve the media just like a PC or NAS Plex server would.
No I mean it the other way around. Will I have to disconnect the drives and go to my computer to add more media to the drive or will I be able to do that over the network?
@Heciruam said:
No I mean it the other way around. Will I have to disconnect the drives and go to my computer to add more media to the drive or will I be able to do that over the network?
scroll to almost the bottom.
This seems to imply that you can activate a SAMBA server and access the external hard disk over the network.
@Heciruam said:
Is the shield able to share the connected hard drives over the network?
it can and works, still tuning the system
@StebbiSkuli said:
I saw a huge difference after moving my database to SSD. I marked this post as answered , by mistake
Could you elaborate? I don’t think of my system as particularly slow now, but maybe it’s because I’m not aware of the spots that are slow…
@kegobeer-plex said:
@Heciruam said:
Is the shield able to share the connected hard drives over the network?The Shield will be able to mount network shares, if that’s what you mean. It will have access to any media on your network, and then serve the media just like a PC or NAS Plex server would.
Question regarding this, I could use my pc for all my video storage and have still be able to view it on the sheild even if it’s 4k and your pc isn’t 4k ready how will that work on the sheild since it’s own server now I assume the pc would be nothing more than a storage device?
