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I'm getting 28 Mbps when moving files. It says to move my entire movie library will take 28 hours.
Problems are spiraling out of control on the Shield for me now, as I outlined on the other thread. I have four 16-18 hour days in this. It was just perfect until 6pm tonight when the misadventures in local file storage came up.

@Powerhouse made some suggestions about moving folders. I have NO clue how to do this. Please talk me through this like I was an 8 year old. I have a mostly-working installation of Krypton 17.0 on my Windows 7 box. I have a now-totally-messed-up and non-bootable instance of Krypton 17.1 on my Shield. That is the sum total of my knowledge of how this works. Period. I don't want to use Plex or any other apps to do anything else. Kodi will be the ONLY thing that I ever intend to run on the Shield. I need this to be bulletproof.

Then you should attach the drive to your PC and stream to the Shield. You are not going to get much better write speeds than that since the Shield is not a PC and there are limitations with Android. You'll do much better having your drive attached to the PC so you can manage the files there and then stream to the Shield.

I'm also going to post your reply from the Nvidia forum here so I don't have to keep going back and forth.

The idea is I play them only on the Shield and they're stored entirely on the Shield. The only time they ever see another PC is when I'm ripping or otherwise copying the media to the Shield. It's far easier for me to work on a PC, but I only watch content in the home theater.

Kodi has now crashed at least a dozen times since I first powered up the Shield. It's currently unusable and the only way I know if to get it back is to uninstall and reinstall, which is tomorrow's job. Killing the process from within the Shield or even rebooting the Shield doesn't fix it. I'm very close to sending this back for a full refund. It's far, FAR more problematic than the Windows 7 machine it replaced, and that had regularly-crashing OS problems on a weekly basis.

In 2017 you'd think it would be dirt simple to have a locked-down-tight Kodi with just 4 folders of media on one drive. But apparently that's too much to ask. I simply don't know what I'm doing wrong and that's the most frustrating part.

I still can't even get a single PC to ***FIND*** the Shield on the network. I can only access is with the UNC path. Every other PC, Mac and Linux-based NAS in the house shows instantly, the shield does not. I would frankly pay a very handsome sum to have this set up properly and locked down tight, backed up and saved so that when is screws up again it's a 10 minute fix. I'm not a computer person, and I don't want to be a system administrator just to watch TV and movies.

If you're having issues with Kodi then you need to post a Debug log (wiki) <<click the link.

The Shield is a Android device not a PC and you can't treat it like a PC. It also means there is a learning curve that comes with it's use. If you aren't aware of it's limitations and what you need to do to make things work then it's going to be frustrating because what you think you should be able to do isn't always straight forward. This is not the specific fault of the Shield, it's because of Android is designed for mobile and even though Android TV is developed for TVs, it's still Android underneath.

But if you're willing to learn what you can and can't do and what best practices are to get things running, then there are plenty of people here that will help. The first thing to do though is to figure out why you are having issues with Kodi, which is not normal, and that starts with a Debug log (wiki).

EDIT: By the way, do you have ES File Explorer installed? If you do then that is going to cause you issues (some of which you may be experiencing) and you should uninstall it before you do anything else.