I work in film and produce about 300-700 GB per shoot, that's the reason for the huge amounts of data. RAW video is extremely space hungry. Projects are in constant flux and I may be "working on" 5-7 projects simultaneously, which means I need immediate access to all my stuff. iCloud is not a solution because it's very slow compared to a hard drive, you can't directly edit and grade video through the cloud. Maybe in 10 years but not today. I don't make enough money to hire people or to buy more hardware — two 3TB drives every 6 months is about as much as I can afford. I'm a beginner and not making any money from it yet.
