Here's the problem:

I would like to keep lots of home made videos. Of course, they are subject to being lost, or somebody could steal the the computer, or water or fire could destroy them.

Secondly, I have to plug in my hard drive every time I want to watch something, which I find slow and cumbersome.

I was thinking that perhaps I could upload the videos to Youtube with the privacy set to invite only and then delete the video from the hard drive automatically. Could this be done?