Hey guys for people like me I have a full HTPC running 24/7 with Plex and I was tired of having that bad boy running all the time so I decided to buy a 8tb external hard drive and trying it out with my Nvidia shield. Let me tell you its the best thing ever. First I have a 300mpbs connection at home and I have my Nvidia on hard wire my movies are around 15gb to 22gb on size so they are high quality encodes and Nvidia Shield transcode everything with no issues, I was able to run 3-4 streams at the same time with no problems How great is that!!! also the best thing ever is that when you turn off your TV obviously the Nvidia shuts off or goes in stand by mode but still running the server in the background but the best thing is the hard drive it goes on sleep mode after 35 min. To me this is awesome that way I don’t have my PC running all the time and I just have a great device that is always ready when I need it and when I don’t it just sleeps until I need it.
You have just nailed exactly what I want to do as I’ve got a 16TB G-Raid drive that I want to use for this purpose. Can I check how have you managed to keep the server alive when the Shield sleeps ? Mine just vanishes.
Hey, I want to do this too, can you tell a little more about the external drive you used ?
Do you just unplug the drive and plug it to your pc to move your new movies on it then replug it back to the shield ?
Thanks a lot.
OK well ATM everything worked fine, I bought a 8tb WD mybook it was like $140 on amazon, and I bought a sabrent docking station EC-HDD2 and i have another 5tb on that 2.5tb hard drive on each dock. So the total amount I have is 12tb , like i said everthing runs smooth and the Nvidia shield does transcode very well, also the hard drives after 30-40 min of non use they go to sleep. FYI once you create the server option on Nvidia shield you have to go online on your desktop and login through the web interface and set up your server that way kinda like on your pc but via webpage. I did do up to 3 transcode at the same time on a 300mpbs connection and it played fine, another thing that Im going to do im going to transcode 1 file from wd and another 2 more files from each hard drive on the dock just to see if it could handle it.
I just bought a 4TB USB3 drive specifically to be able to do just this via writing to it from my PC so that I do not need my PC on all the time.
Issue is, I do not have the option in my STV’s setting to be able to make this drive visible from my PC, as PLEX states should be there as an option: “Go to Settings > Device > Storage & reset > Access SHIELD folders on PC.”.
Would I have to format it as internal storage first before this option is available, I would assume that is the only viable option?
I have a TB of stuff on my PC I would transfer over and then continually writing to it and deleting stuff as well.
My PC is hardwired but having a USB3 drive directly attached will be a bonus and omit those very infrequent stream errors I get from my PC.
Cheers!
@Udonitron yes, you cannot share USB drives that are plugged into the Shield with a PC via the “Access SHIELD Folders on PC” function. You can see the drive from your PC, but you will not be able to access it properly. If you adopted the drive to the Shield Id imagine it would work, but I dont think the Shield can adopt large drives without some fiddling.
Oh what really?
Aw man, then there is no point in keeping this drive if it cannot easily be adoptable.
@Udonitron said:
Oh what really?
Aw man, then there is no point in keeping this drive if it cannot easily be adoptable.
Just plug the drive in and see if it offers to adopt it. Im not sure what the size limit is, exactly, I just remember I read a thread somewhere on how to adopt “large” drives and it took more than plugging it in and clicking “adopt” or whatever. Im not sure what they meant by “large” though. could have been ttb, could have been 10tb
Yeah I just read up to 4TB is supported but adoptable is another question.
I would have to remove my SD that is already adopted and reboot I suppose to see if it works.
Time to test it out.
Lame, no dice.
It will not allow me to choose the removable USB as adopted.
Perhaps a 512GB SSD would be a better choice.
Time to take this back.
I read it can only accept one device as the adopted storage. Perhaps it is remembering your SD card yet? If you have another SD card handy, see if it gives the option to adopt that. If it doesnt, you likely need to un-adopt the first SD (if thats possible)
Yeah i removed the SD and rebooted and it did not ask me if I wanted to adopt the USB drive, it just registers it as removable storage.
Will the shield power that drive through USB or is a powerbrick required? Is it just plug and play?
You can use your mobile to set up server as well.
