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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.
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It's a good idea to keep your important data where privacy matters separate from all the other stuff you collect. E.g. keep your documents and private photos and their backups on separate (smaller, cheaper to replace) devices. In worst case you can sacrifice.
Keep the less important data that needs all the space (erm. those Linux ISOs) on the larger expensive disks. If you send those in, in case a replacement is required, then it probably won't matter too much if someone must snoop over it (unless it's too much of the dirty Linux ISOs) :)
Aka have clear device-level separations between any sort of media collections and your critical data.