@soupynj said:
@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?
Exactly. It will be the same way as if you installed Plex Media player on your PC right now and used that to watch your movies… ie. Playback and server on the same device.
@KarlDag said:
@soupynj said:
@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?
Exactly. It will be the same way as if you installed Plex Media player on your PC right now and used that to watch your movies… ie. Playback and server on the same device.
thanks for the reply, this looks promising but I wish the shield had nhl/nfl apps sick of using kodi.
@soupynj said:
thanks for the reply, this looks promising but I wish the shield had nhl/nfl apps sick of using kodi.
No NFL or NHL in the near future, but ESPN is coming with the 3.2 update.
@MasterChiefmas said:
@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…
faster refresh when scrolling through tv/movies ect, I get the folder picture instantly
Since I have the 16gb version the nvidia shield and I will be using my nas as my media container. What type of external storage should I use for my plex database, external SSD or MicroSD ?
@StebbiSkuli said:
Since I have the 16gb version the nvidia shield and I will be using my nas as my media container. What type of external storage should I use for my plex database, external SSD or MicroSD ?
I wonder how much it matters…microsd may still internally be connected over USB anyway. An external SSD may have an advantage just in that they are generally going to be made to be faster because the usage pattern of primary storage of a computer is probably a little different then what flash memory storage is made for. But USB still could be your limiting factor in either case. If a USB performance is your bottleneck, it really doesn’t matter other then relative access times, but I don’t know how much most people would notice the difference as long as you have decent flash memory. That’s more the performance, people buy cheap flash memory and expect it to perform like an SSD. It won’t. Expensive flash memory will get closed to an SSD, but still likely won’t catch it, but then your back to bus limitations.
tldr; I wouldn’t over think it, I wouldn’t be surprised if it doesn’t matter. SSD does have the advantage of having larger capacities available.
