Having photos on my own external hard drive is an enormous liability. Even ignoring the risk of a fire / theft / loss (not to mention the hassle itself of backing them up locally), drives fail.
> have a pretty big downloading task ahead of you to get all these images and move them elsewhere
I would say instead you have an enormous uploading task ahead of you to move 2 Tb of photos from your HDD into the cloud somewhere.
Plus, the main reason I have photos is to share them with other people. If I'm going to end up uploading them somewhere else, it's just easier.
I know opinions differ on privacy, but I honestly could not care less who sees my vacation photos.
> have a pretty big downloading task ahead of you to get all these images and move them elsewhere
I would say instead you have an enormous uploading task ahead of you to move 2 Tb of photos from your HDD into the cloud somewhere.
Plus, the main reason I have photos is to share them with other people. If I'm going to end up uploading them somewhere else, it's just easier.
I know opinions differ on privacy, but I honestly could not care less who sees my vacation photos.