Thoughts on best way to proceed; erase or migrate

Cross-platform migrations are not impossible but can be tricky – especially on devices like the Shield where you don’t have immediate/easy access to the server data directory.

In theory you can setup your new server on the Shield and configure it to move the server data directory to your external drive. Once this is done, stop the server and copy the old data directory over.
e.g. like this:

Here’s a bunch of guides for the Shield

https://support.plex.tv/articles/categories/plex-media-server/nvidia-shield/

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