iCloud v. portable storage storage

I'm looking to buy a Mac Book Pro w/Retina display, but do not know how much storage internal that I really need on this subject.  Looking to store photos, music and home and online classes work.

What is your internet access?  You can store 2 TB of data in iCloud with a monthly subscription, but the local storage is preferable. Long term monthly fee for storage and network downloads from iCloud add up to the price of a drive over internal SSD. local storage will be much faster to access to and you will not be dependent on the internet for access to your documents and data. Also, make a backup of your documents and data on an internal local drive will be easy to make a backup of your data and documents in iCloud.

iCloud is great, if you want to keep the documents synchronized across multiple devices. I use iCloud for identical libraries of Photos and iTunes Libraries on all my Macs. But I use it only for synchronization and keep all documents and data locally for faster access.

If you do not need icloud to keep synchronized devices, an internal drive more will be better, IMHO.

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