Since posting here the last time, I've replicated my storage to 3 (!) backup HDDs (one at the office because I occasionally pull the old photos out to use them) and the cloud. Two of the HDDs are at home (one 2TB, the new primary one, and one 1TB) and I'm pretty much mirroring them because once I'm done sorting the photos for every given day, I'm copying them to the second HDD AND the cloud. The third one is a little trickier to update but I'm doing this at times.
I'd love to get a SSD instead of one HDD but it's still a little too costly for now.
I'd love to get a SSD instead of one HDD but it's still a little too costly for now.