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[PJs]

I'm Agreed with Olderdan and TM51. Hard Personal Storage is cheap...flash drives, microSD's and for gosh sakes you can get a 4Tb drive for ~$100 now (2.5mo. of Photobucket). Not only can you store a SWad of files but even 30-40mb hi-res DSLR pics or vids as most every vid is in MP4 now. I keep all my old HD's and have 5 USB hard drives (350mb-1Tb) and a 1Tb firewire/usb, I use for Backups. For the older drives I use the BlacX Thermaltake and has worked perfectly for a few years now. I have a bag full of thumb drives and SD's from 500mb-64Gb explicitly for handy use. Overall and I haven't added all up I would bet I'm somewhere around 50Tb beyond what I have on my computers. The important thing to me is labeling them. Seems like years ago I use to use a file list command and prntscreen it (I Know, Right 250mb Seagate ST251s bed shakers but they are worth $200 eBay now). Now I organize the modern drives by Info Types with a sublist and dates. Even so it only takes a minute to load and search. One day when I'm richer I will invest in a larger NAS so I can lock it down and back it up with mirroring.

My graphic box is probably my most important and has 2.5Tb internal and most of my pics and All of my graphic files which represents a kazillion hours of my time. Adobe Premier files can get quite large as well as the export (burn) files for DVD/BR...So Regular backups and when they get older than about 2 years, off they go to a spare drive...if I need a file so as not to reinvent the wheel I just pop it in and get it. When my Box gets out of date old drives come out and process starts again.

I've never cottoned to the idea of Cloud services because of reliability, privacy, and most importantly as Jon points out Trust! No way in my lifetime will I trust my graphic stuff, CAD files or personal info to the cloud, unless I publish it somewhere...or pay for a service.

I was a bit confused by the term "Hosting site" as it has multiple connotations, but Long story short I see no reason for them as a cloud service unless you need to share them with the world on social media along with your Geolocation.