Digital photo storage - Mac or cloud?

[RRH]

Chaps,

My digital photo storage is getting stupid.

My iPhone has loads of pics on, the wife’s has so many on its grinding to a halt, and between my home Mac mini and NAS I reckon I have maybe 30k photos.

I reckon the true number is maybe 1/3 of that as there have been so many duplicates created over the years.

The question is twofold..

1) Do I fire everything in to my Flickr or Google photos account? I think Flickr has some de-duping ability, I don’t think google does though. I’ve already cleared both phones to google pics but should have local copies. And another copy in Dropbox...

2) ultimately, do I keep them ALL in a cloud solution with a backup, or use the photos app on the (newish but really slow) Mac mini?

I want to be able to access them all from phones and my mba, and am usually on Wi-fi although we have reasonable data allowances, so cloud storage doesn’t bother me.

It’s been bugging me for a long time now, how do you guys handle it?

Thanks muchly
Simon

[RRH]

I’m not too bothered about working on them, tbh I’m pretty crap and would probably destroy them. Due to the sheer number I just want to keep them safe and one day I might get round to putting them in folders or something.

[RRH]

Ok, I’ll sport a quid. Thanks for that 👍🏻

[RRH]

That’s the problem lol, too many backups of the same bloody pics!

Thanks for your help everyone, maybe apples offering is the way forward as everything is apple anyway!