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Originally Posted by klmmc13
While I'd LOVE to have Triple-redundant storage, right now, other than dvd copies, that is a bit beyond my pocket money limits.
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Of course I don't know where you are, and how much you have to spend, but here's an option.
If your collection is nog gargantuan, three 32GB USB3 Sticks will do to get triple redundancy. Over here, they cost around €12 a piece. To give you an idea, my Calibre library is 4.6GB, containing 739 books, in both EPUB and AZW3 format.
So, that is +/- 2.3GB for the EPUB's only, or roughly, 3.2 MB per book.
I would be able to stash over 10.000 books onto one 32GB USB stick.
Please note that my library contains 56 Delphi Classic Collections, which are omnibuses, sometimes containing 25 or more books, with large illustrations. They can be over 100MB a piece, which greatly increases the average size of my books.
Normally, an EPUB is easily smaller than 1MB (maybe 2MB if it has a large cover and maps, in case of fantasy and sci-fi), so you can count on being able to stash 20-30K books onto one stick.
In short, you'll probably be long dead before you stand a chance of filling up that USB stick as long as you don't put audio books and graphic novels on them. If so, get three 2.5 inch hard drives of 500GB. (Over here, they cost €38 a piece.)