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photos
This mainly. I have them on various memory cards & a portable drive backup, and Google photos, although big gaps pre smartphone despite other phone cameras priorto that...
Partner has been asking for shared house drive to save stuff from all devices on & it's a good time to sort this with backup too perhaps.
offsite backups
Google for now, possibly not the best option.
rhb
Yup. You might be running an old version of motioneyeos right now but that probably isn't important to you. If the Pi explodes and you replace it you might as well instlal the latest, greatest and get things working with that. For that you need your script etc.
I have a Pi that amongst other things is my UniFi controller. I can reinstall the controller software so I just keep a copy of the settings backup file produced by it. It is also a TV headend tuner for which I backup nothing because I could just reinstall it.
On storage would you be sad if you lost data when a drive fails? If it is full of CD rips you could rip again perhaps not. If it has photos you can't recreate then probably.
RAID 0 will give you one big disk and all the drive space you buy but no redundancy. 2x 4TB drives = 8TB of storage.
With a pair of drives and RAID 1 you can have a drive fail and still keep all your data it is written to both drives. 2x 4TB drives = 4TB of storage.
RAID 5 does cunning things with parity data to allow you to use more data. 3x 4TB drives = 8TB of storage.
Of course you should still have offsite backups for really important stuff for when your home is eaten by an enormous, destructive, prehistoric sea monster awakened and empowered by nuclear radiation.