Guys,

Photo is like one of the most important data. You can't get those moment again especially photo of your baby. How do you keep those photo in safe place?

Server.

1)as backup
2)can share with everybody and everywhere
3)able to upload anytime anywhere
4)can view using anything.

Use google photo. Free and easiest way.

google photo

my suggest - Google Photo, unlimited storage (with reduced quality)...
it will help organize (based on date, face,etc)
it alsi will create an animated image, video, etc...

after all, its free and unlimited...

1st copy on my computer primary HDD for post processing.

2nd copy on my computer secondary HDD.

3rd and 4th copy on separate portable HDD.... as I do not own NAS/RAID storage

Once post processed, 5th copy (jpeg only) on flickr/google drive.

I am considering Amazon Glacier storage instead of having too many backups.

Dropbox

- Full res photos on Time Machine (backup my whole Lightroom catalogue)
- max 16mp Edited photos on Google Photos

M-Disc.
Claims to last for 1,000 years.
Con : DVD restricted to 4.7GB.

Me : 2 primary HDD, 2 external HDD, normal DVDs, very special images in M-Disc.
Cloud : low res images.

Why? the painful experience of losing digital assets. Gone now, gone forever.

You will get out of handling when size getting bigger.

It is not reliable. And troublesome.

The disc is very much depend on how you store. I have some disc that cannot be read anymore after 10yrs or less. Some can see the reflective coat get corroded.

Close shop how ?

Online: Flickr, full JPEG quality with 1 TB free storage. But I normally resize to 2048 px
Offline: Two HDD, mirror each other, one put in office one put in home.

Some friends use NAS Box.

wont close over night.. they'll give notice so you move to other storage location lor

Somehow you might miss the notice.

Actually it is not main concern.

I would like pretty much use the cloud. But some con that make me against it.

1) I can't share the pic with family and friend. I want them just simply open the apps in the phone and view my pic/video. Don't need everytime ask me post/FB my pic/video.
2) Troublesome to upload/download video with big size. Specially video.
3) Once you go terabyte, it is not cheap to maintain the cloud. Paying such fee every yrs, can makan roti. I have 1+TB of file.

Two backup in my different hard disk. For me it takes a lot of time to sync to cloud consider the internet speed ....

I use google drive. Create folder and upload photos on it

Multiple NAS. I use synology boxes.

More than 100,000 photos and videos.

Here's my own experience, rather than factor #3. I think cloud storage is very reliable.

1. You can make a shareable link on Google drive and share it with almost anyone. I'm sure you have group chats for your family member. Just post them there?
2. With the current internet speed with have, I have no problem to upload a video of a size of 6-8gb. And my customer has no trouble on downloading them.
3. Yes it is not cheap. But worth it. You won't risk losing your data and you can access them with your smartphone and laptop or anything connected to the internet.

google photo is the best way