Yeah my testing didn’t go too good after a while … I will wait for the next official release before I fire up the server on the Shield again.
Which part doesn’t work?
So I try to move my database to an SD card via the settings in the Plex server on Nvidia shield to external storage ie an SD card but it just times out it never actually moves the data , I’ve even tried from a fresh install to change the location of the backup but it doesn’t work
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Works for me with adopted USB storage, the recent Shield lacks the SD support.
I’ve seen this thread before , would you recommend adopting the storage as internal or leave it as external in case of a full reset ? I just want to have my watched and continue watching and deck stay the same after a reset basically I’ve had so many issues with the plex server on shield that a way to restore all that would be great , restoring is there an easy way to do that ?
I’ve the 2015 500gb version so I can use SD card save on usb slots , how do you find adapted storage just as fast as internal storage ?
Have you managed to do a restore yet ?
What I can recommend is if you are going for an SD Card as the external storage for your Plex Data, to be sure it is a very fast and quality sd card. SD cards typically don’t last very long, specially the cheaper ones. You could get a good 3.0 USB Stick for cheaper than a good SD Card.
If you have the 500GB Shield you can also keep using it’s internal storage for the Plex Data, just moving it to the user accessible space.
If you have big libraries the moving process can take a lot of time, be prepared to wait a very long time for it to complete. You could also reset PMS to its defaults, losing all your libraries and move the data location with a fresh configuration, it would be a lot faster,.
I did not need to restore yet.
I kept to the guide of nvidia and bought one of the super-fast SanDisc USB3.0 Sticks, so speed is good. But I also have the 16 GB version, so storage was a concern right from the beginning.
I can’t advise on whether to adopt or not, but since you have the 500 GB adopting is not necessary for you since you have more than enough space for all your android data.
With the user accessible storage on the 500 gb I’d still like to be able to retire if I did a factory reset on the Nvidia shield would that be possible ? Getting a usb usb 3.0 stick sounds good would you recommend any ?
If you move the PMS Data to the user accessible storage on the inernal 500GB drive you can access those files via the Shield SMB Share, an USB cable to your pc or third party apps, so, you can backup that data at any time.
If you still want to use an usb stick, which is not needed but you would have the advantages of a dedicated separate device, I would very much recommend Sandisk Extreme or at least Sandisk Ultra.
Since you have the 500GB version I don’t recommend you format the usb stick as adopted storage, because it may hurt the overall performance of the device, instead use it as removable storage, with the traditional benefit of being able to unplug the stick and read the data on another device. Just don’t unplug it while PMS is running.
Edit: You can also opt for an external SSD drive if you have the money for it, with much greater performance than an USB stick.
Thanks very much for the advice in terms of restoring from a back up how would I do that ?
The first like I sent you was with a guide on how to restore the database, the rest of the data is just the case of restoring it to the same location it was.
Perfect thanks , just looking at usb sticks would a 32gb 130mbs write speed be ok ? It’s a SanDisk
I got a Sandisk 128GB Extreme Go USB 3.1, not cheap but probably worth the money in terms of speed.
The advertised speed is very misleading. There are flash memory sticks with 100+ peak transfer rate that are plain garbage. Stick with at least the ultra line from sandisk or something equivelant.
Its size depende on how much and what kond of metadata you are storing, and the size of your library.
My sandisk is also what Nvidia advised.
I’m not familiar with the “go” line so I can’t personally recommend it but I would say it should be good as it is listed as a recommendation from Nvidia.
nVidia’s recommendation is for a cheap storage option if you’re planning to run android apps (read: games) off the external storage (and so need very high random-access performance, as well as strong sustained performance when reading lots of small files). IIUC, plex’s use of the storage is relatively limited (assuming you only have the plex database on there and not actual media files). Slowness on the external drive would manifest in lag when loading e.g. posters or opening a library after the external drive has gone idle. Though I think even the slowest USB 3 drive these days should have good enough sustained-read performance to stream media too (the highest bandwidth media file I have is 60Mbps, which is pretty slow… USB2.0 had a nominal transfer rate of 480Mbps).
FWIW, I’ve put a 2tb Firecuda 2.5" drive in a genericish external harddrive enclosure (the Vantec NexStar Gx, if you care). The benefit of having a large drive (for me) is that I want to have full thumbnails for movie chapters and seeking. From what I’ve heard, this takes ~25MB per hour of video content… with a couple hundred movies and thousands of TV episodes, this adds up quick (and would easily blow out the built in 16GB storage on the basic shield). With a 2TB drive I can index ~80k hours of video content (which would vastly exceed my NAS storage :)).
If you want the no-compromise apps-and-storage, you could put a large SSD in an external 2.5" hdd enclosure 
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