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Really sorry for the slow reply. Cats are cute n all but I wish they'd stop trying to kill me.
I use absolutely zero AV and the only time I've gotten a virus was when I planned to troll a mate with a virus, left it for a year and forgot what the file was for and tried running it... I don't want to end up on a list so just know it's somewhere you've been or something you've done that has got you infected. No blackhat will specifically target you, you're not worth it.
So unless you've been targeted by a government the chances are that the virus is just embedded in to the host OS. If you don't boot into that OS, you can plug in those drives anywhere grab the data and go as there's nothing telling the virus to execute.
If it's bootsector and connected via USB though then you might as well consider it lost unless you don't mind paying top dollar for recovery or spending time you don't have. Hopefully obviously BIOS level infections are machine specific as they're firmware level attacks.
From the sounds of things they will all be IDE or SATA, I'm assuming you're not talking about NVMe. The IDE and SATA diff, if mix and match might be a nuisance so a desktop might be easier unless that spare laptop (which will 99.99999% be fine) has connectors for to those drives, so it all comes down to how badly you want the data.
Yeah head crash is near game over. I once jerry rigged two desktops together and knocked an empty bottle onto my primary music drive... Gone. Lesson there, don't party with your mates when you have an open jerry rigged machine and wanna listen to music. Lol.
NAS: I have snapshots locally and do not need your use case outside of dev work. There will be better solutions but first thought you could just host git on the NAS, but at that point you might as well just use GitHub.com and although as a trunk based dev this kills me to say, use branches. It's free and you can store blobs (so images / music). Doing pirated stuff though risks you being banned. Local set up is piss easy though on a NAS and you just need to git good hehe.
From your last couple.of paragraphs it sounds like you don't need my level of setup and if you drop the multiple versions requirement you could just buy an external storage device and do a bit of scripting to grab all the data (or just manually do it). It'll save you time and money.
I hope I covered everything but it's a weird hour and need to go back to bed โค๏ธ
(feel free to ask anything)