It will start working if I restart my laptop, or put it to sleep and wake it up, but then the same thing happens. Then, the mapped drive will just stop connecting. When I first turn on my laptop, I can move files to the Nvidia external drive no problem, for about 20-30 minutes. Plus my desktop is almost 15 years old.Įverything works fine except one thing, the mapped drive I make to move my files onto the attached Plex Server hard drive. Probably cheaper to run, and need to get a bigger external drive as well and need to move all my files. I now have a Nvidia Shield Pro, and wanted to set that up as a Plex server instead. Once you've got everything set up, your NVIDIA Shield will act as a Plex Media Server and let you stream content from your library to other streaming boxes, computers, or mobile devices that have the Plex app installed.I have had a desktop Plex server for about 7 years now, or maybe more. Plex has a solid guide for setting up a media server on the NVIDIA Shield TV (opens in new tab), which explains how to transfer files over to your Shield's internal storage and then how to set up the Media Server.īecause the new NVIDIA Shield TV Pro only has 16GB of storage, you might want to invest in an external drive that can add up to 5TB of storage space, or make use of the microSD card slot to transfer over your media collection.

Setting up a Plex media server requires you to set up a Plex account and then go through the setup process in the Plex app.

Simply put, Plex is one of the most powerful and beautifully-designed media players you can use, and the NVIDIA Shield TV Pro has offered great support for Plex users including pre-installed Plex Media Server software.

That's still plenty for more casual use cases, but if you've got a massive media collection that you want instant access to in your home theatre setup - as well as across your other streaming devices - you really ought to set up your NVIDIA Shield as a Plex Media Server. The older Pro model offered 500GB of internal storage but here you only get 16GB. The only downgrade for the Shield TV Pro (2019) comes in the storage department.

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