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I need to sit down and have a serious thought about redundancy and what I want to keep long term. I want to leave little portable drives with an encrypted backup of my family photos with all my relatives so I can restore them in the case of a catastrophic failure that includes all local backups (like a huge fire, an earthquake, war, famine, see etc.). Essentially like sending duplicate or triplicate physical photos to relatives in the old days so they can send a copy back if needed. This is addition to a normal backup. Essentially in case the US falls apart.
Like you, I've also been collecting other media of interest to me. I would have plenty of space for Atari games, but I can't imagine spending the drive space to archive every game in my Steam and GoG libraries or every GameCube game. If you have a generous 60 TB of space, that becomes 30TB really quick with redundancy. With a single offsite backup, that becomes 20TB and with 2 backups and redundancy that's only 15TB or usable space. Granted I'm not factoring in compression, but at today's prices buying 3 extra gigs for every usable gig practically requires a mortgage. If we could have $14-15/TB again I would probably buy another 2-6 drives right off the bat just to complete my build and be somewhat future proofed.
I'm also concerned about things that need updated. I need working images and copies of my systems and programs that I can restore to if the internet goes down or gets locked away.