I do both to cloud and we also have a network storage device configured as RAID.

Just means that it has two large drives in it configured to back each other up so if either one fails all the data is still on the other.

We see only one drive, the RAID box doaes all the work in the background.

You're unlikely to lose both drives at once. But if that did happen then cloud to the rescue I guess.

We don't store any data files on our laptops at all, its all on the RAID drive which is accessible by any device on our home network.

So pretty good backups I guess, just in case.

If a laptop fails then we would have to go thru all the setup stuff again but all our ebay photos and data such as this stuff is pretty safe.

We also store a whole bunch of kids movies on it too and can then stream those directly to our TV. Much simpler than DVDs.