As someone who ran their plex server on the shield for a year, don't plan on keeping it there if you want get serious with it and/or want to open up it up to ex

As someone who ran their plex server on the shield for a year, don't plan on keeping it there if you want get serious with it and/or want to open up it up to external users. As your library grows, it will start to struggle and I had to rebuild my library two or three times. A $100 SFF or micro computer off ebay with an 8th+ gen intel cpu will serve as a much better plex server, with plenty of room for other things like HomeAssistant etc. The iGPU will do 15-20+ simultaneous 1080p transcodes, and my machine idles at around 10w. The shield can serve up 1 or 2. The shield pro is hard to beat as a plex client, though.