Heh, I'm in a similar, though somewhat milder situation. Always one hard drive failure away from losing some (albeit non-essential) files. As a first low-budge

Heh, I'm in a similar, though somewhat milder situation. Always one hard drive failure away from losing some (albeit non-essential) files. As a first low-budget bandaid I got a single 16TB enterprise HDD (Toshiba MG08ACA16TE) in an external dock that is plugged in to a Prodesk 400 G6. I regularly snapshot and sync all my btrfs drives with btrbk (all my linux devices and several of my external drives are btrfs). The Toshiba is being deduped with bees to not make this too inefficient. For important files I have syncthing folders that continuously synchronize between my devices, as well as above solution. For some dead media I use blurays. Still looking for a solution for Windows, though there I at least have OneDrive. It's a mess to be honest. Eventually I want to have big enough RAID for file centralization, restic cloud backups, network shares and so on. A crucial piece I'm still missing is a synchronization, hosting and backup classification/policy for the various file types I have... This may well be the more difficult thing compared to just getting any redundancy.