One thing that is definitely not computer related, so probably not a good advice, is to not design a video game, but a card game or boardgame.
That can take month (hell, mine has been in the works for a couple years now), but you get to learn to design mechanics, systems, rules, crappy placeholder art, and so many things, which can then be used latter as experience for game design.
I'd recommend doing a simple card game that people can print with paper (Print n Play games are quite common on the Internet).
Take a mechanic, mood, or simple idea:
- A game where player are together trying to solve a murder mystery (cards with plots, Clues, interrogation, maybe something inspired by Clues but updated,...).
- a game where player compete to build a small fortified city, and then send armies to each other to pillage resources and money.
I have 2 500GB SSDs in RAID1 for important data, truenas apps etc..., then 32TB total in RAIDZ1 for large Dataset that won't need speed (movies, TV show, music, pictures, archives,...)
If I have a complete NAS failure, a remote backup (via rsync to a friend's NAS Weekly) of the SSD and bootable drive can be used in a new system, and my torrent app has the list and magnet of all torrents stored on the SSD so it can re-download them.