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 $$ for a Synology box?
Love to get your input!
I think I salvaged like 6 of them. I’d have to dig them out of a box for a good count.
With that many disks, I’d compare what it would cost to build a desktop PC to hold all the drives, compared to a commercial NAS. When I pulled the trigger on my Synology, the thing that really sold me was the hot-swappable drive bays. I use mine to back VMware storage, so if I had a drive fail, I didn’t want to have to take down all my VMs to offline the storage and swap a disk.
Another thing you might look at is used hard drives. I know you’ve got some, but they’re pretty small, and drives have gotten pretty cheap. NASes with more than 4-5 drive bays get pretty $$$. I just bought an 8TB HGST Ultrastar “refurb” drive for $75. Lots of options, but the bottom line is, I think you’ll love having your own media.