After writing some 8,000 articles in almost 11 years, I've amassed quite a file collection. I have many gigabytes worth of photos, video libraries, documents, and everything in between. Storing this in the cloud makes sense in a way, because of the low cost and easy access. But in practical terms, it's easier to use a local storage drive in my office. If I stored this info on Dropbox, I'd have to tweak my settings constantly to make sure I'm not downloading a 15GB video file on every computer I own. More importantly, I don't really need easy access to most of these files. Plus many storage drives let you access the archive remotely anyway, which is more like a reverse cloud.