We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.
If you don't need it to be on your network and you don't need it to be on 24/7 and you don't need any running server services why not use a larger external enclosure? You could even get a 10 bay.
I like my SFF paired with externals for a not-always-powered-on archive and backup. I don't think I'll build a big tower PC ever again.
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