Advice for accurately monitoring the position of 224 PWM motors

Or store the last position moved to in FRAM. Fast to write to, nonvolatile like EEPRPOM.
10 trillion write capability. 10,000,000,000,000.

The 28byj-48 are nice & quiet.
Here is one running from a TPIC6B595

Could take a while to acquire 224 of them. I had to order from several sources on Amazon to eventually get 96 of them.
Here are 16 running from a Mega and ULN2003s