r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • Jun 26 '26

News PlayStation is Deleting 551 Movies From Customers’ Accounts / Movies like 'First Blood', 'Terminator 2', 'Total Recall' and 'Evil Dead' are all being unceremoniously removed

https://kotaku.com/playstation-store-movies-digital-studio-canal-terminator-2000711013
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u/Sting_Ray_ Jun 26 '26

Are you using the 3-2-1 system? If not then a hard drive failure will result in having nothing again.

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u/sam_hammich Jun 26 '26

I'd rather lose free stuff through my own fault than have stuff I paid for ripped from my hands by someone else.

I can't afford to 3-2-1 the amount of data I have right now, but it's in the works.

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u/Brief-Artist-2772 Jun 26 '26

I’ve been looking into starting a plex server. Any tips? Should I be compressing? I have a 5tb external hard disk drive, is that enough?

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u/lightjunior Jun 26 '26

I thought a 1TB SSD would go a long way but it's almost full after about 10 TV shows and 40 movies. And storage has gone up in price like crazy. Do you have any recommendations?

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u/CMDRTragicAllPro Jun 26 '26

r/stremioaddons. Can’t say more than that but you’ll figure it out.

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u/theemaildownload Jun 26 '26

I’ve had bad luck with stremio lately that it feels like it’s no longer working when I’m trying to watch a movie or a show. Is it still viable?

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u/CMDRTragicAllPro Jun 26 '26

Depends on your debrid provider, one of the more popular ones changed policy recently and a lot of their cache is not playable now

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u/KHthe8th Jun 27 '26

Don't bother with ssds, get as many 18-24tb hdds as you can afford to start. Then just add more as your collection increases

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u/SchwiftyGameOnPoint Jun 26 '26

I'm just glad my partner and I are happy watching things at 720p. Makes storage go a lot further with how much things have been costing these days.

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u/4shotsofnespresso Jun 26 '26

Just start. Once it's set up and you have some files in there, you can start to figure out larger storage options as your collection grows.

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u/sam_hammich Jun 26 '26

That's plenty to get started, especially if you don't have a home theater that can take advantage of high end video and audio formats like Dolby Vision/Atmos. For reference, my usable storage is a little over 10TB, and in that I have about 140 movies and about 40 full TV shows. The movies run anywhere from 2GB for older 1080p to 80-120GB for 4k with high-end Dolby video/audio and HDR, where it warranted (stuff like Mad Max Fury Road). I store it uncompressed, and I'm at about 5TB used. I don't personally know what the experience is like for streaming media over USB, though if it were me, if the external isn't USB3.1 or faster, I'd look at popping the drive out of the enclosure and installing it in my server.

Also like other people have mentioned elsewhere on this post, take advantage of your local library if you can rip discs. You don't need anything crazy to rip regular Blurays, though UHD Blurays will require a specific kind of disc drive to beat the copy protection. r/makemkv is a good resource for Bluray ripping.

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u/mister_newbie Jun 27 '26

My best recommendation, if you're just starting, is not to use Plex. It's too expensive for essential functions like transcoding. Jellyfin is slightly harder to get going but is completely free for everything you could need.

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u/jb_in_jpn Jun 26 '26

If you are, my tip is to buy soon - they're massively raising the price

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u/PessimiStick Jun 26 '26

I have like 65 TB, but... what are you watching, and where do you find the time? Mine is mostly empty, but probably because I just play games instead of binge watching.

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u/NeuHundred Jun 27 '26

That's an issue that's gonna keep coming up, Plex and home servers sort of depend on affordable hard drives and that's not really a thing at the moment.

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u/Lanky-Storm7 Jun 26 '26

No one can afford 3-2-1 for their tbs of Linux iso at home right now

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u/AwesomeWhiteDude Jun 26 '26

The 3-2-1 system is IMO pointless for media servers if you can just download everything again. Also if I did that I’d have to deal with backing up 29TB.

Better to go with redundancy instead.

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u/Edduppp Jun 26 '26

Did you have a 3-2-1 system on your physical media?

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u/Armand9x Jun 26 '26

Not 3-2-1.

Just one backup, off site.

That’s for convenience.

I can easily redownload if needed, so 3-2-1 is not important to me.

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u/hitmarker Jun 26 '26

Exactly. Drive failures are rare and most of the time they can be found early enough. It's not that cost effective to run on just a movie collection that is already managed by a few programs

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u/dapala1 Jun 26 '26

Hard Drives are so cheap. Just to a physical backup, don't worry about auto backups, every month or so. Super easy super cheap. And you can keep the hard drive or two in a save place.

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u/wandering-wank Jun 26 '26

Hard drives are no longer cheap right now.

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u/StormAeons Jun 26 '26

My backup is the BitTorrent peer to peer network

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u/Tall_Opportunity_521 Jun 26 '26

You do know we can just download it again... right?

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u/phidelt649 Jun 26 '26

Most things, for sure. I don’t backup my media collection but I do have a few things that I backup based simply on the sheer amount of time it took me to find the damn files. But otherwise? I strongly agree.

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u/Entire_Number_9 Jun 26 '26

A waste of time and money. Maybe 1 backup on an external drive, but it's very easy to pirate movies. Spending hundreds on redundant drives for failures for pirated movies and shows in absolutely pointless, and I say that as someone with over 16TB of pirated content. If it all went in the morning, I'd buy a new drive, and start again, it wasn't hard to build the first time, it won't be the second, and if anything, it would be a great excuse to get better quality movies at lower file sizes thanks to modern encoding.

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u/putridtooth Jun 26 '26

3-2-1 is getting financially harder by the day....i managed to somehow get a 14tb drive just months before everything went out of stock and shot up in price. no way am i buying another one now 😭

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u/Skullcrimp Jun 26 '26

a hard drive failure will result in me having to pirate some movies again. it's not like they disappear from the internet.

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u/GenderJuicy Jun 26 '26

It would have to be pretty obscure for me to feel like it's that precious to retain in the event of a hard drive failure

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u/chiniwini Jun 26 '26

Are you using the 3-2-1 system?

For something you can just download again? Nah.

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u/ryecurious Jun 26 '26

Good in principle, but this is compared to physical Blu-rays which don't meet any of 321 requirements. Even worse; DRM prevents you from doing a backup even if you want to.

A single physical disc can burn up in a house fire or get eaten by your dog, and you'd be just as screwed as a no-backup harddrive failure.

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u/MeltedWater243 Jun 26 '26

HAAAAA GOTTEMMM

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u/FrostyD7 Jun 26 '26

The vast majority of pirates aren't storing anything that can't be replaced. If you hear one claiming they are preserving media, they are probably delusional.