Thoughts on switching from Windows Server to Shield

[Lazarus_Long]

I’ve been running a Plex server on Windows for over 5 years now…I’ve never really had any problems with it but last night the SSD I run the OS on decided to die so I will need to rebuild it.

I’m still going to keep the server running Windows (for other purposes), but was thinking that maybe I should get an NVIDIA Shield and use that for streaming and hosting my content.

My old Windows server has decent enough horsepower (an older i5, 28GB of RAM, etc.) but for transcoding it has to use CPU just due to not having a decent video card.

My content is on a couple of external drives (USB and network drive) so accessing them from the Shield shouldn’t be an issue. Any big advantages/disadvantage to either solution?

Thanks!

[OttoKerner]

Switching from PC to Shield Server

I currently keep my content on a Synology NAS. This NAS is not powerful enough to run the Plex Server locally. I have i7-6700K w/1070 Ti PC Running my Server while it connects to my NAS over SMB for the content. This setup works great for me. No Streaming issue locally or remotely. I was looking into switching my Server over to my NVIDIA Shield TV to cut down on power usage and let my PC sleep more often(at all). By switching my server to the Shield are there any benefits I will be losing over…

[natemac]

Thanks @OttoKerner for sharing my post, I made the switch a week ago and haven’t noticed a difference, so I guess that’s saying something going from a high-end PC to a Shield TV.