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 When spending money usually ask yourself "i can but should i"? ;]
Few people are storage performance sensitive, i do compute 24/7 and don't bother. 
 good financial advice. but im a data hoarder that saves things as if the internet might turn off tomorrow (because it could). got about 2 exabytes of warez from the last few decades. full backup of near everything important we could ever need post collapse.  anyone who has the means should do the same. the internet is becoming more and more empty. should backup all rare things you see, especially dissident stuff and books and videos that teach skills. you might be the one in the future that has the only copy of something important. you might be the only one who has the data when all is lost. keep backups on optical media, and lead line hdd racks. carrington event with ruin both ssd and hdd without hardening. 
 I fear we're heading towards a Book of Eli future. 
 Very valuable, stick to it. We will need all the porn we can get our hands on post collapse. 
 porn? no brother we will not save that. you must purge these thoughts you focus upon. what you reflect is what is in your heart. come away from your goon, brother. no more goon, only moom.

https://i.poastcdn.org/cd224f83956e68f648576df60715961e7dae2de405bf53ae04718e2c4bc0fd14.jpg 
 But seriously, how detailed did you get in archiving survival? Details as chemistry and medicine included or more broad strokes? 
 full backup of archive.org and sci-hub/library genesis. deep hyperspecialization books. 
 I'll ask you about all that sometime.