Jeff,
We're doing a crawfish boil for my church in a couple months. If you make a donation equal to what the winning bidders pay, you're welcome to join us...of course, you'll have to drive up to southern pa for it.
I believe part of what the writers were going for initially was that the "bad guys" had reasons for you to root for them, and the "good guys" all have reasons for you to dislike them. Blurring the lines, as it were.
how much data are you looking to store? A usb connected mirrored pair/raid1 of 4tb drives is reasonably cheap, and could back up a faster array of smaller drives in a tb case pretty easily