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!

  • MisterBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I also work in IT and I hate for old things to go to waste so a lot of my Plex server is ‘salvaged’ hard drives from desktops that were collecting dust after the changeover to thin clients.

    It’s mostly desktop hardware I run, the only thing that’s remotely ‘server grade’ is the Dell Raid card that came out of a decommissioned server also from work.

    Also, if you can then encode your files in MP4 for maximum compatibility across devices and less overhead. Plex is great