Originally Posted by GUNNER

What if you went with Phil's suggestion, but bought an 18 TB hard drive to back up to? In other words, you had two 18s (36) in his external (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08FSRG9W3...ing=UTF8&psc=1)
and then you used an 18TB WD as an off-site back-up copy. https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-easy...&ref=212&loc=1
Or am I over-complicating it?