not surprising considering you still have your diaper changed for you!

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Just going to plug in my 2c here.
First, you are spending a lot of money on a new machine, spend a tiny bit more and get a full version of windows 10 rather than cheap game out and getting oem version. Why, well you have a perpetual license then, which you can install on any machine/setup. Oem tends to be limited in various ways.
Now, hardware, I have a 500gb ssd with win 10 and a few apps installed, I keep it nice and slim and clean, only install what I need when I need it. All the apps on here point to a data drive (say musicbees library) which is 10tb. External to the computer I then have a raid 5 box with around 12tb space, this is a direct mirror of the internal drive around once a month or sooner if I have created more data. Next I have another raid 5 box external to the house which is a mirror also. Finally I have an older external hdd which is a long way away, fixed timepoint save.
I don't clone out the os, what's the point with a full licence and all my apps ready to restore from external drives, in fact hat a good opportunity (that once in 5 years or so) to start a nice fresh install - those of us using it for many years will likely still be in the habit of re-installing windows every so often as it seems to be impossible for m$ to clean up their own os correctly.

With regards to online storage I do not trust it at all. Both from a point of view of people getting acces to it (don't know if those who used mega ever got their files back?), or from a point of data mining. Your in the us so I don't expect data privacy is even in the dictionary, so bear that in mind.

Final thought, always get a drive/raid or whatever backup a lot bigger than you think you need. Space really fills up quickly what with high quality film/pictures/music, games etc.

I understand you distrust, but still MEGA.nz and Megaupload are not the same company. And no they didn't, those hdd's are most likely rotting somewhere underground in some dark, moist and greeny basement. =)

MEGA is the only cloud company that offers end-to-end- and 2048b encryptions (to my knowledge). Only downside is if you forget the password you loose everything, but that's the same with an encrypted hdd.

You can read more arguments for a good encryption here.

Yeah, good advice. I think that's precisely what I'm going to do. Should end (hopefully) the headaches associated with any later "adjustments" to that rig and getting Microsoft to okay the key code.