Ah... if your database is large then Shield is going to exhaust the internal storage. Hence my advice up above how Shield is great for small/medium collections, but does not work for large collections.
Thousands of items = fine on Shield
Tens of thousands of items = not so fine on Shield
Hundreds of thousands = definitely will not work on Shield
But as a pathway to a larger system, Shield as Plex Server is fine... and then in the future if you're all-in and have a large collection, you can create a new server elsewhere and repoint your clients and nuke the Shield server.
Yes. It seemed to work ok when I did a test run with a flash drive I had lying around but not enough motivation to replace my current server which is more powerful.
Ah... if your database is large then Shield is going to exhaust the internal storage. Hence my advice up above how Shield is great for small/medium collections, but does not work for large collections.
Thousands of items = fine on Shield
Tens of thousands of items = not so fine on Shield
Hundreds of thousands = definitely will not work on Shield
But as a pathway to a larger system, Shield as Plex Server is fine... and then in the future if you're all-in and have a large collection, you can create a new server elsewhere and repoint your clients and nuke the Shield server.