But why buy from a dealer if you can make one yourself? If you have a decent thumb drive, you already have all the equipment you need to convert any computer into a DIY Kodi box. Here you will get a default user and pass to use.The average “fully loaded” Kodi box sells for about $150 USD. I also copy data directly to my adopted storage drive over the network by enabling 'Transfer files over local network' under storage device preferences on shield. Here you can mount a folder from your desktop PC or maybe a NAS or a backup drive you have connected to your router. That can be configured to access a network share on your local network. And can't copy/move from adopted to microsd. Though I don't think I can delete or move off files from microsd for some reason.

I'm also able to copy files from the microsd to the adopted drive via the Kodi file manager. The adopted drive will show up as external storage under 'Add videos > Browse”, however it's better if you go to Settings > Media > Videos > (pick drive) > (highlight folder) > (context menu) > Set content. This I can take to my PC and copy videos on to and it bring back to the shield.īoth are listed by default in Kodi videos and Kodi file manager. This drive can be used for new apps and android data and can contain videos as well which Kodi can scan and add meta data for.Īdditionally I have a microsd card plugged in which is considered removable storage. The shield had to format it for use on my Shield specifically. Because it's adopted, I can't just unplug it and take it to a PC to copy data onto it. Meaning I can use it for apps and additional 'internal' device storage.

I use a Samsung T5 500gb SSD external drive on my Shield 2015 16Gb model.

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