Even with price increases, nothing beats external disk storage. One can even tape one to the back of a laptop.
I never used network storage because none of it worked as well as NFS did on ancient Sun pizzabox and lunchbox hardware.
When the kids were visiting, they must have been backing up in the background. The router locked up and the internet vanished. The ISP suggested supersizing my service (meaning monthly bill) to cover one-shot events.
I hate losing control of my own systems, and the alternative is more complex, flakier, harder to use (did you ever have to read a disk drive manual past the setup?) and more costly. Sometimes a nice terabyte drive a month.
