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Pokemon is driving me to want a Plex Server. (lemmygrad.ml)
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My 2.5 year old loves watching classic Pokemon. I'll be honest, so do I. But have you tried doing that? It's fucking insane.

  • The first half of S1 is on Netflix
  • The second half is on Amazon but you need an extra subscription to watch it.
  • The theird season (johto) is also Amazon.
  • The 4th is no where but Archive.org of all places... Which is called Johto Champions, so it really feels like the end of the season but it's another 52 episodes!

You would think pokemon.com would have all this (they have a lot, and it's all free) but they don't!

Seeing S4 (is that even right?) On Archive.org is really pushing me to want to build a Plex server. Having all this content in one place would be very nice.

I do IT work by day, and I have some older 2TB platter drives from a retired camera server laying around. What's the easiest way to get my foot in the door? Do I save up some $$ for a Synology box?

Love to get your input!

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[-] jargoggles@kbin.social 4 points 3 years ago

100% agreed on the advice to just start going with it on your current setup. That's exactly how I started out with Plex and it worked really well.

I've since made upgrades, but it's all been incremental based on what has been helpful at the time. For instance, I got an Nvidia Shield Pro and started running Plex on that, which has been nice since I don't need to keep my desktop on all the time. I also use it for streaming games from my desktop to the TV, so it's not purely just for Plex.

After building up a lot of media, I got a bit concerned about having a single point of failure in my single HDD, so that's when I got a Synology NAS box and I have their RAID setup going for redundancy. I could also just run Plex from the NAS box and I've been considering it, but I've been really happy with how things are working right now, so I'm not messing with it.

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