Before I had a home server or a home NAS, I used external hard drives for backup storage while keeping the most essential, need-to-have-access files in the cloud. Then I moved to mostly cloud storage ...

Katherine Peach is a well-caffeinated, Brooklyn-based writer, who focuses on all things coffee for CNET. Peach's reviews and writing have appeared in Tasting Table, Mashed, LAist, Yahoo Life, MSN and ...