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I recently bought a used 10tb hard drive for $190.
It's decently affordable, look it up.
and you won't have a backup when it suddenly fails. if it starts reporting bad blocks, you may not even have enough time to copy everything off of it before it fails. you should at least run something that notifies you if it starts to fail, if you don't yet have it.
at 10 TB read speeds are still roughly at most 120 MB/s, which means roughly a full day of continuous copying. sometimes drives fail faster under that stress.
all I want to say, is be careful.
Having a backup is always essential, especially for things that cannot simply be redownloaded.
Currently, I have irrecoverable info stored elsewhere (outside my home), and I plan on getting a second 10tb drive just to have a full copy.