Gee, that's a lot of homework.
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The cheapest medium is tape. It is by far the lowest price per terabyte. The tradeoff is that the drives are pricey, even the used ones, and it's a huge pain to read the data back out (but in a recovery scenario, that's tolerable).
4-bay DAS with a handful of big HDDs in RAIDZ1. Load it up, then store it in your office at work or at a friend or family member's house. Retrieve, update, and scrub somewhere between once every few weeks to once every few months, depending on how often your critical data is changing.
3 Ironwolf Pros for £1,200, before the AI bs ruins their prices too