Macbook air running out of storage

I am relatively new to the mac world. I have a macbook air 128g and am running out of storage space. I am wondering if I can use icloud as a primary storage for my media files (Photos, music, video, etc). Then I could potentially remove from hard drive to free up space. I am concerned if this is possible and what the cons would be. I am thinking that Itunes library and photos would not be as quickly accesible as it would be using the hard drive. Please help...

Winston Churchill wrote:
Welcome to the Apple Community.
iCloud can't be used for storage in that way. I believe sugarsync allows you to keep files online without having to have them on your hard drive.
A slightly fuller explanation here, you can keep files without having them on your hard drive by using SugarSync's 'Web Archive' Storing them in any other SugarSync location will cause them to be synchronized with your computer, a bad thing if you want to delete them from the the local storage.

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