Best external drives for NVIDIA Shield TV Pro 2024

The NVIDIA Shield TV Pro is one of the best Android TV boxes, and the fact that it's still on sale today is a testament to how far ahead of its time it really was. Most TVs today come with Google TV built-in, so you don't really need an external streaming box, but they don't all necessarily offer a smooth interface and fluid experience. This is where the NVIDIA Shield TV Pro stands out. 

It comes with a beefy Tegra X1+ chipset, 3GB of RAM, and can output 4K video with Dolby Vision HDR. Sadly, the internal storage is limited to 16GB only, out of which, some is used by the OS which leaves you with even lesser space. Thankfully, the Shield TV Pro has two USB 3.0 (Type-A) ports, which you can use to connect a flash drive or external hard drive and make it the best streaming device. Here are our top choices for external drives for your NVIDIA Shield TV Pro.

Expand your storage with the best external drives for the Shield TV Pro

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Choosing between the best external drives for the Shield TV Pro

The NVIDIA Shield TV and Shield TV Pro

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Whether you plan to use them to replace the Shield's 16GB hard drive or to download content from your PC files to your living room TV, these are all excellent NVIDIA Shield TV Pro drives. However, if you're looking to max out your internal storage, we'd recommend the 5TB Seagate Portable External Hard Drive. For what you finally pay for up to 5TB of storage, it is an absolute steal.

Note that if you decide to mount and use a USB drive as internal storage for your NVIDIA Shield, it will format the drive and wipe it clean, and you will need to reformat it again to use it with a different device. Alternatively, NVIDIA recommends selecting the "removable storage" option if you're using the drive for transferring or watching media content. We'd also recommend the SanDisk Extreme Pro USB 3.2 Solid State Flash Drive because it's one of the few external storage options actually recommended by NVIDIA.

After you've found the best external drives for the Shield TV Pro, make sure you go and grab the best gaming controller for the Shield TV. The best Android TV box coupled with plenty of storage and a proper controller will give you the ultimate home theater and gaming system.

Andrew Myrick
Senior Editor - Chromebooks, tablets, and wearables

Andrew Myrick is a Senior Editor at Android Central. He enjoys everything to do with technology, including tablets, smartphones, and everything in between. Perhaps his favorite past-time is collecting different headphones, even if they all end up in the same drawer.

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