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Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:

> But you can't upload 500 GB of photos to iCloud and not have them on any
> of your devices because iCloud isn't an alternate generic cloud storage
> solution you can use in that manner.

Of course you can.  You dump those files into iCloud and let iOS/macOS
evict them from local storage over time (or you can do this yourself). 
They don’t have to take up space anywhere else.