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You think you can get the media again if need be.
Depending on how large your collection is, would you remember every item in it? How much effort did you put into organizing it?
IME it's far more of an inconvenience and expense rebuilding data from scratch than properly backing it up. And the peace of mind from a robust, tried and true DR process is golden.
Well that's my usual approach however we now live in the world of censored tv shows by netflix meaning some of the new media you may get might not be the original thing. :(