[quote=spdrun]You can’t afford 1TB of drive space? Really?

As far as business expenses, you’re ass-u-me-ing that credit card statements translate nicely and immediately into deductions. Generally, there’s a bunch of math that needs to be done. i.e., one order for two different clients, taxable in different counties.

I use Flickr and Facebook as well. For things that I actually wish to have public, not anything else.[/quote]
I have a 1.5TB drive and a 1TB back up. But I still like to have an external backup of my photos and videos.

Again, I have no need to keep track of deductions. So, your needs doesn’t apply to me. If I do, I’ll probably do something like you and have my own server that store all those data. I’d go further and have it spread between several different locations. Those all would be a business expense, so, I wouldn’t worry too much about maintaining it in my house. I would find some secure services for both data and location.

The need to keep track of deductions can be done by 10 years old computer running any of the OSes that were made 10 years ago. There’s no need to get the latest and greatest to do some excel. The newer computers, OSes, ecosystem are the solution for a different problem. Your problem have been solved many years ago and there’s no need to look for new solutions when the solution 10 years ago are still working perfectly fine.

I would do what flu does and keep around an old computer that’s completely offline to do these business related stuff. That way, it can’t be hacked.