I understand that but... you can't beat the independence from your broadband connection tho.

We also store all our ebay listing pictures on there and we are randomly accessing those day in day out. They are accessible from any computer in the household at the speed of the ethernet network, 100MBPS. Almost as quick as an internal HDD.

We tried a cloud service to do this but it was so painfully slow to upload/download over a broadband connection it became too frustrating to work with. To upload a pic to ebay, first it had to download from the cloud store (at the broadband speed) then upload (again at the broadband speed) it back to the ebay servers. Just too clumsy and time consuming.

Having it all stored on a fast ethernet connection in-house is far more convenient, much faster and far less stressful.