i'd rather just use a plain ol' laptop/desktop/compute stick with local storage and a crashplan subscription.

We're still just repeating a cycle of store local, store remote (mainframe), store local (desktop), store remote (cloud - god i hate that term), ... All it will take is one incident and the shift will be towards pushing NAS or some variation on that more. Especially when 8/10tb start becoming cheaper and more readily available.