As a TV, Movie, Video, and retro-games media center though, the Shield TV and an external hard drive are the best possible option out there

You can plug-and-play an external hard drive, and transfer files to and from other computers and drives on your network

This was caused by a slow USB thumb drive

I have attached two eight-terabyte hard drives to its twin USB-3 ports which it accesses and plays full HD content without any lags, dropped frames, or pixelation

The remote control doesn't work with external hard drives

And of the best part is the adding of an external portable hard drive

It has all the features I required from a media center: Kodi with HEVC/x265 compatibility, seamless integration of 1 TB external hard drive, full HDMI CEC support for the TV's original remote control, Netflix, Youtube and more

When you connect a usb hard drive the remote lag goes up

Even Saturn, GameCube, and Wii is for the most part can be emulated on the Shield.2) Game streaming is nice.3) Switched to a NAS after the external hard drive fiasco

And of the best part is the adding of an external portable hard drive

No more fans, no more spinny drives, no more overheating

I really want to make this to work as plex media server, but it is only intalls the server to work on the hard drive hook up to the

I connected it to an external hard drive to increase my space