Accessing Shield from PC = NAS solution?

by ghostyroasty

So with the added ability to access storage from the Shield, could we now use this as a nas solution? I currently have a Pi 2 hooked up to two external drives as a nas using openmediavault. It's primary job is to serve media and store some backups. I did have one of these drives hooked into my router at one point, but it never went to sleep, and the s.m.a.r.t. tests started revealing issues and eventually led to getting a replacement. If we use the Shield as a nas, do the drives sleep properly? The reason why I ask this is because while streaming from my Pi2 nas last night to the Shield and Chromecast, I encountered stutters. I assume this is because of the 10/100 networking limitation on the Pi.

Edit: Just noticed that you still cannot write to the external storage, so no dice.

Killbom

It works very badly for me. I have a 3 TB external drive connected.

Accessing files are OK but trying to upload to the driver does not work. I get all kind of funny errors. I had to go back and reconnect it to my router.

Also it seems like the file sharing is disabled (sometimes) when the Shield TV restarts.

JimboLodisC

I was able to map the internal storage of the Shield as a network drive on my Win10 machine. It's a 128GB USB flash drive that's been adopted as internal. I've been shuffling files around no problem.

ManticoreX

You actually can kind of use the external (non-adopted storage) with some write access. Basically if you want to write through smb you can only do it to the \Android\data\com.plexapp.mediaserver.smb\ folder. I have mapped this as a drive on my machine(s) and it seems to work as expected. Basically if you're ok with, for NAS usage, using this as the root folder, it works.