Still - I would say that pi4 is very good device for file sharing needs, I was considering to get new NAS since my Synology DS116 is maxed out on storage, but now I think that I can postpone that purchase since pi4 + powered HDD works very good as file server.

Video playback is not as good, and it has no emby client available. I was planning to possibly replace Nvidia as media playback box (I use it to access and playback media files on emby server on NAS)Īfter testing pi4 I must admit that it's not suitable for that, at least not yet. I have both (Nvidia Shield TV and pi4 4GB)

The Shield is based on Tegra X1 which is quad A57 at 1.9GHz (plus quad A53 for low power which I'm not counting) and Pi4 is quad A72 at 1.5GHz. The Shield has had a reputation pretty much since launch as a top choice for a box and that's what I've been using for my setup but I also have a Pi 3B for a lightweight NAS and I'm wondering about consolidating the two roles onto a single Pi4-4GB. Has anyone done, or has anyone come across, any benchmarks of how the new Pi4-4GB compares performance-wise with the nVidia Shield TV (henceforth 'Shield')? If anything is still offensive or inappropriate about the post below please tell me.

For safety I removed what I hoped was a useful link to a Wikipedia article (maybe I'm too much of a newbie to be allowed to post links) and removed a reference to a piece of software that some people seem to think always implies illegality. My last post seems to have disappeared and I got no message from mods to say what rules I might have breached so I'm re-posting it.

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