There is value to having off-premises replicated storage on something more durable than home-user targeted drives. Google cloud nearline costs $0.12 per gigaby

There is value to having off-premises replicated storage on something more durable than home-user targeted drives. Google cloud nearline costs $0.12 per gigabyte-year with prices that will continue to fall. For a typical 500g hard drive that saw perhaps 700g of unique data, that's $84/year to have an outside-the-house replicated backup using something like Arq.