[Dylan16807]

> It sucks having to maintain the drives, prevent the bit rot, restoring them from backup when the drive(s) fail

It fits on one drive, so you can do all that with a few minutes of effort once every two or three years. Or just when you change drives, even less often.

> paying for, installing, maintaining the technology black hole that you fall down into trying to mitigate all of the above from happening in the first place.

Is that more than having a backup? You'd better be doing that anyway.

You could go fancy and set up Z-RAID but if you're really inclined to do that you'd probably already have it set up for your main files and then dumping the music on top is near zero effort.