@kyle I've long since reconciled myself to keeping my stuff in the cloud. I keep the important stuff in both Dropbox and Google Drive, so if one fails I have a backup. With a 256 GB SSD as my local storage, I just can't keep everything on my laptop (and before anyone goes on about how I should have a NAS, I will if you buy me one). Anything truly sensitive stays local and goes onto a USB thumb drive as a backup, but most of my crap just ain't that sensitive. Anyone who really wants to see my vacation photos and class notes from 2002 is welcome to them.
I also figure that Google/OneDrive/Dropbox is going to do a better job of backing up than I ever will, and while I've lost locally stored stuff due to HD failure, I've never lost anything that was in the cloud.
It may not be perfect, but it works for me.
// @matigo